DNS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 99 111
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +22
Contract jobs citing DNS 415 583 707
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.03% 2.49% 2.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.47% 16.67% 17.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 423 502
10th Percentile £203 £213 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +20.59% +3.03%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £540
90th Percentile £675 £688 £637
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 19
10th Percentile - £22.15 £20.00
25th Percentile - £36.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £46.11 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% +114.44% -7.37%
75th Percentile £55.95 £52.13 £31.88
90th Percentile £66.75 £87.50 £47.06
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £30.50
% change year-on-year -23.27% +70.92% -15.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

DNS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,328 3,498 4,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.25% 14.91% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 2,201 2,615
10th Percentile £201 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 321 234
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.01
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +37 167 £500 -9.09% 74
Midlands +30 77 £450 +17.26% 65
West Midlands +27 64 £525 +23.53% 38
North of England -47 64 £475 -9.52% 81
South West -28 57 £575 +4.55% 36
Scotland +38 40 £275 -40.67% 18
North West -54 31 £425 -22.73% 52
Yorkshire +3 30 £515 -1.90% 23
East Midlands +3 12 £325 -13.33% 27
Northern Ireland +4 5 - - 6
East of England -38 5 £290 -44.76% 36
North East +8 3 £600 +100.84% 7
Wales -1 2 £575 +6.98% 6
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 85 (20.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (6.02%) Confluence
2 25 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.17%) nginx
4 6 (1.45%) CMS
5 5 (1.20%) Apache
5 5 (1.20%) IIS
5 5 (1.20%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.96%) Apache Solr
7 3 (0.72%) Drupal
8 2 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.48%) Traefik
8 2 (0.48%) WordPress
9 1 (0.24%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.24%) JBoss
9 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (7.95%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.24%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 117 (28.19%) Azure
2 79 (19.04%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (13.01%) Entra ID
4 41 (9.88%) AWS
5 25 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
6 24 (5.78%) IaaS
7 22 (5.30%) GCP
8 16 (3.86%) Azure Storage
8 16 (3.86%) OCI
9 13 (3.13%) GitHub
10 12 (2.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (2.65%) OneDrive
12 10 (2.41%) PaaS
13 8 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (1.69%) Akamai
14 7 (1.69%) CloudFront
15 6 (1.45%) Apigee
15 6 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.45%) Kong
15 6 (1.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 259 (62.41%) DHCP
2 129 (31.08%) Firewall
3 85 (20.48%) TCP/IP
4 75 (18.07%) VPN
5 58 (13.98%) WAN
6 51 (12.29%) SAN
7 42 (10.12%) LAN
8 29 (6.99%) Network Security
9 28 (6.75%) VLAN
9 28 (6.75%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (5.78%) Wireless
11 18 (4.34%) MPLS
12 17 (4.10%) SD-WAN
13 16 (3.86%) HTTP
14 14 (3.37%) Remote Desktop
14 14 (3.37%) Wireshark
15 12 (2.89%) SMTP
15 12 (2.89%) VoIP
16 10 (2.41%) Internet
16 10 (2.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (5.78%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (2.17%) MySQL
4 6 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.96%) Couchbase
5 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.72%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.48%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 29 (6.99%) JIRA
2 20 (4.82%) Git
3 12 (2.89%) GitLab
4 11 (2.65%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (1.45%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.45%) Travis CI
6 5 (1.20%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.96%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.96%) Subversion
8 3 (0.72%) Selenium
9 1 (0.24%) MSI
9 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 152 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 44 (10.60%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (6.51%) Finance
3 27 (6.51%) Public Sector
4 22 (5.30%) Telecoms
5 17 (4.10%) Military
6 14 (3.37%) Banking
7 12 (2.89%) Retail
8 10 (2.41%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.69%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.45%) Multimedia
10 6 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.20%) Investment Banking
12 4 (0.96%) Legal
13 3 (0.72%) Electronics
13 3 (0.72%) Front Office
13 3 (0.72%) Marketing
14 1 (0.24%) Advertising
14 1 (0.24%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 99 (23.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 44 (10.60%) Network Engineer
3 35 (8.43%) Support Engineer
4 30 (7.23%) Architect
5 27 (6.51%) Senior
6 26 (6.27%) Integration Engineer
7 23 (5.54%) Analyst
8 19 (4.58%) 2nd Line Support
8 19 (4.58%) Support Specialist
9 18 (4.34%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
10 17 (4.10%) Test Engineer
11 16 (3.86%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 16 (3.86%) Active Directory Support
12 15 (3.61%) Test and Integration Engineer
13 14 (3.37%) Active Directory Specialist
13 14 (3.37%) Azure Specialist
13 14 (3.37%) IT Analyst
13 14 (3.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (3.37%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.34%) ARM Templates
2 14 (3.37%) JSON
2 14 (3.37%) YAML
3 11 (2.65%) LDAP
3 11 (2.65%) XML
4 7 (1.69%) SAML
5 6 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
5 6 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (1.45%) Web Services
6 5 (1.20%) .NET
6 5 (1.20%) CSS
6 5 (1.20%) OAuth
6 5 (1.20%) OAuth2
7 4 (0.96%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (0.72%) XMPP
9 2 (0.48%) ADSI
9 2 (0.48%) Django
9 2 (0.48%) HornetQ
9 2 (0.48%) Middleware
9 2 (0.48%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 77 (18.55%) PKI
2 63 (15.18%) Data Centre
3 23 (5.54%) Clustering
4 20 (4.82%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.86%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.61%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 10 (2.41%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.17%) Client/Server
8 9 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.69%) Fat Client
9 7 (1.69%) iPad
9 7 (1.69%) Thin Client
10 6 (1.45%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (0.96%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.96%) Replication
13 3 (0.72%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 245 (59.04%) Windows
2 157 (37.83%) Windows Server
3 104 (25.06%) Linux
4 82 (19.76%) Windows 10
5 65 (15.66%) Windows Server 2012
6 59 (14.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 49 (11.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (6.51%) Unix
8 27 (6.51%) Windows 7
9 18 (4.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (3.61%) Ubuntu
10 15 (3.61%) Windows Server 2008
11 14 (3.37%) Windows XP
12 13 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
13 10 (2.41%) CentOS
14 8 (1.93%) VMS
15 5 (1.20%) Debian
16 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.24%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (25.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 84 (20.24%) ITIL
3 76 (18.31%) Agile
4 59 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
5 47 (11.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 46 (11.08%) DevOps
7 45 (10.84%) Migration
8 42 (10.12%) CI/CD
9 36 (8.67%) Cybersecurity
10 32 (7.71%) Project Management
11 30 (7.23%) Server Management
12 29 (6.99%) Customer Service
13 28 (6.75%) Proactive Monitoring
14 27 (6.51%) Patch Management
15 26 (6.27%) Change Management
15 26 (6.27%) RBAC
16 25 (6.02%) Computer Science
16 25 (6.02%) Project Delivery
16 25 (6.02%) Release Management
17 24 (5.78%) Break/Fix
Programming Languages
1 125 (30.12%) PowerShell
2 30 (7.23%) Python
3 29 (6.99%) SQL
4 26 (6.27%) C#
5 22 (5.30%) VBScript
6 20 (4.82%) Bash
7 18 (4.34%) Bicep
8 17 (4.10%) VB
9 13 (3.13%) Java
10 8 (1.93%) Perl
11 7 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.45%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.96%) Go
13 4 (0.96%) PHP
14 3 (0.72%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.48%) C++
15 2 (0.48%) Ruby
16 1 (0.24%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 162 (39.04%) Security Cleared
2 106 (25.54%) SC Cleared
3 81 (19.52%) Degree
4 80 (19.28%) DV Cleared
5 62 (14.94%) Cisco Certification
6 51 (12.29%) CCNA
7 43 (10.36%) CCNP
8 32 (7.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (6.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 24 (5.78%) MCSE
11 17 (4.10%) MCSA
12 16 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (3.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 13 (3.13%) A+ Certification
14 10 (2.41%) CCIE
15 6 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
16 5 (1.20%) AWS Certification
16 5 (1.20%) CCIE Data Center
17 4 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.96%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (4.34%) QA
2 16 (3.86%) NIST
3 12 (2.89%) GDPR
4 9 (2.17%) ISO 9000
5 8 (1.93%) SLA
6 4 (0.96%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.72%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.48%) NCSC
8 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 247 (59.52%) Active Directory
2 132 (31.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (15.90%) VMware ESXi
4 48 (11.57%) Hyper-V
5 35 (8.43%) Virtual Machines
6 33 (7.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 28 (6.75%) XenApp
8 25 (6.02%) vSphere
9 21 (5.06%) VMware NSX
10 20 (4.82%) Docker
11 17 (4.10%) Virtual Servers
12 15 (3.61%) VMware Workstation
13 14 (3.37%) XenDesktop
14 10 (2.41%) Terminal Services
15 9 (2.17%) BitLocker
16 8 (1.93%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 7 (1.69%) KVM
18 6 (1.45%) Microsoft App-V
19 5 (1.20%) VMware Server
20 4 (0.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 107 (25.78%) SCCM
2 61 (14.70%) vCenter Server
3 56 (13.49%) WSUS
4 38 (9.16%) Kubernetes
5 37 (8.92%) Ansible
6 33 (7.95%) SCOM
7 32 (7.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 27 (6.51%) Terraform
9 25 (6.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (5.30%) NetBackup
11 14 (3.37%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (2.89%) Microsoft Clustering
13 10 (2.41%) Puppet
14 9 (2.17%) Nagios
15 8 (1.93%) Docker Swarm
15 8 (1.93%) Prometheus
16 7 (1.69%) FortiGate
16 7 (1.69%) Kibana
16 7 (1.69%) Progress Chef
16 7 (1.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 192 (46.27%) Microsoft
2 160 (38.55%) VMware
3 83 (20.00%) Cisco
4 38 (9.16%) Citrix
5 34 (8.19%) Palo Alto
6 32 (7.71%) Symantec
6 32 (7.71%) Veeam
7 24 (5.78%) Dell
8 23 (5.54%) Oracle
9 20 (4.82%) HP
9 20 (4.82%) Juniper
10 18 (4.34%) EMC
10 18 (4.34%) NetApp
11 17 (4.10%) F5
12 16 (3.86%) Fortinet
12 16 (3.86%) Ivanti
13 15 (3.61%) SolarWinds
14 14 (3.37%) 3PAR
14 14 (3.37%) Extreme Networks
15 13 (3.13%) Splunk