Dynamic DNS (DDNS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DDNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DDNS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 - 852
Rank change year-on-year - - -160
Contract jobs citing DDNS 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% - 0.002%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.036% - 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £426
25th Percentile £475 - £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £463
75th Percentile £525 - £503
90th Percentile - - £509
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 - £463
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

DDNS 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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,522 7,324 9,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 12.38% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,303 4,766 6,317
10th Percentile £205 £242 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 475 360
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.87
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%

DDNS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DDNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DDNS in the UK

DDNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DDNS.

Daily rate trend for DDNS in the UK

DDNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DDNS.

Hourly rate trend for DDNS in the UK

DDNS
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DDNS within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 - 2 £500 - 1
England - 2 £500 - 1
UK excluding London - 2 £500 - 1
Work from Home - 1 - -

DDNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) DSL
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (100.00%) FCoE
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) ISDN
1 2 (100.00%) Junos
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) TACACS
1 2 (100.00%) Unified Communications
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Adaptive Security
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Information Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) WAN Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Forcepoint
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds