Domain Name System (DNS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 126 168
Rank change year-on-year -14 +42 +6
Contract jobs citing DNS 737 1,222 1,529
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 2.04% 1.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.12% 16.58% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 874 1,085
10th Percentile £213 £250 £217
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year -8.67% +5.53% +13.71%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -1.90% +23.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 33
10th Percentile £19.40 £21.48 -
25th Percentile £23.80 £36.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.27% +48.94% +7.33%
75th Percentile £44.38 £84.50 £48.58
90th Percentile £63.00 £87.50 £64.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £49.12 £21.50
% change year-on-year -18.56% +128.45% -7.37%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the UK

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in the UK

DNS
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +2 658 £480 -8.67% 410
UK excluding London -1 422 £515 -1.90% 333
London +4 268 £450 -18.18% 100
Work from Home -34 197 £475 -13.64% 162
South East +33 170 £500 -9.09% 85
Midlands +19 75 £523 +39.33% 71
North of England -55 65 £475 -9.52% 83
West Midlands +37 62 £525 +22.81% 47
South West -24 58 £575 +4.55% 29
Scotland +40 41 £525 +15.07% 19
Yorkshire -1 31 £515 -4.19% 25
North West -62 31 £400 -27.27% 52
East Midlands -9 12 £325 -13.33% 24
East of England -24 7 £345 -35.81% 41
Northern Ireland +7 5 - - 7
North East +10 3 £600 +39.53% 8
Wales -3 3 £725 +34.88% 6

DNS
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:

Application Platforms
1 140 (19.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 45 (6.11%) SharePoint
3 44 (5.97%) Confluence
4 27 (3.66%) IIS
5 23 (3.12%) Apache
6 17 (2.31%) nginx
6 17 (2.31%) Tomcat
7 16 (2.17%) Exchange Server 2013
8 15 (2.04%) Exchange Server 2010
9 9 (1.22%) JBoss
10 7 (0.95%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.81%) CMS
11 6 (0.81%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.81%) Skype for Business
12 4 (0.54%) IBM Domino
12 4 (0.54%) IBM Notes
13 3 (0.41%) Drupal
13 3 (0.41%) WordPress
14 2 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
14 2 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 32 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.76%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.22%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 260 (35.28%) Azure
2 164 (22.25%) Microsoft 365
3 145 (19.67%) AWS
4 114 (15.47%) Entra ID
5 51 (6.92%) IaaS
6 49 (6.65%) GCP
7 37 (5.02%) Azure Monitor
8 35 (4.75%) PaaS
9 30 (4.07%) SaaS
10 24 (3.26%) GitHub
11 23 (3.12%) Cloud Computing
12 21 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (2.71%) OCI
14 19 (2.58%) Azure Storage
14 19 (2.58%) OneDrive
14 19 (2.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (2.04%) Akamai
16 15 (2.04%) Nutanix
17 14 (1.90%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 396 (53.73%) DHCP
2 266 (36.09%) Firewall
3 161 (21.85%) TCP/IP
4 131 (17.77%) VPN
5 105 (14.25%) WAN
6 94 (12.75%) LAN
7 70 (9.50%) Network Security
7 70 (9.50%) SAN
8 61 (8.28%) VLAN
9 50 (6.78%) BGP
9 50 (6.78%) MPLS
10 47 (6.38%) Wi-Fi
11 43 (5.83%) HTTP
11 43 (5.83%) Wireless
12 36 (4.88%) OSPF
13 35 (4.75%) Internet
14 34 (4.61%) SSL
15 33 (4.48%) SD-WAN
16 29 (3.93%) Cisco Nexus
16 29 (3.93%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.92%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
3 17 (2.31%) Relational Database
4 16 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (2.17%) MySQL
5 11 (1.49%) RDBMS
6 10 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.22%) NoSQL
8 7 (0.95%) Power BI
9 5 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
9 5 (0.68%) Couchbase
9 5 (0.68%) Redis
10 4 (0.54%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (0.54%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.41%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.41%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.27%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 55 (7.46%) JIRA
2 42 (5.70%) Git
3 27 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 17 (2.31%) GitLab
5 8 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 7 (0.95%) CircleCI
6 7 (0.95%) Travis CI
7 6 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.68%) Artifactory
8 5 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.54%) Snyk
9 4 (0.54%) Subversion
10 3 (0.41%) Postman
10 3 (0.41%) Selenium
11 2 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.14%) Gradle
12 1 (0.14%) Mercurial
General
1 222 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 102 (13.84%) Finance
3 77 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 41 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 24 (3.26%) Banking
7 22 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.58%) Military
9 14 (1.90%) Retail
10 12 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.36%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.09%) Electronics
13 8 (1.09%) Mandarin Language
13 8 (1.09%) Marketing
14 7 (0.95%) Legal
15 6 (0.81%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.68%) French Language
17 4 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.54%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 137 (18.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 87 (11.80%) Network Engineer
3 65 (8.82%) Senior
4 60 (8.14%) Support Engineer
5 55 (7.46%) Architect
6 44 (5.97%) Analyst
7 37 (5.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
9 31 (4.21%) Integration Engineer
10 30 (4.07%) Security Engineer
11 29 (3.93%) Administrator
12 27 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (3.12%) IT Support
14 22 (2.99%) IT Engineer
15 21 (2.85%) 2nd Line Support
15 21 (2.85%) Systems Administrator
16 19 (2.58%) Linux Engineer
16 19 (2.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 19 (2.58%) Support Specialist
16 19 (2.58%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (5.16%) LDAP
2 28 (3.80%) JSON
3 23 (3.12%) ARM Templates
4 22 (2.99%) .NET
5 19 (2.58%) YAML
6 18 (2.44%) SAML
7 16 (2.17%) XML
8 10 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
9 9 (1.22%) IBM Integration Bus
10 8 (1.09%) CSS
10 8 (1.09%) Kafka
10 8 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (1.09%) Web Services
11 7 (0.95%) 802.1X
11 7 (0.95%) Middleware
11 7 (0.95%) OAuth
12 6 (0.81%) Node.js
13 5 (0.68%) OAuth2
13 5 (0.68%) REST
13 5 (0.68%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 108 (14.65%) PKI
2 102 (13.84%) Data Centre
3 43 (5.83%) Clustering
4 30 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
5 26 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 24 (3.26%) Cloud Native
7 23 (3.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 21 (2.85%) Private Cloud
9 20 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (2.31%) Replication
11 14 (1.90%) Client/Server
12 12 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
13 11 (1.49%) Data Structures
13 11 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (1.22%) Fat Client
14 9 (1.22%) iPad
14 9 (1.22%) Public Cloud
14 9 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 9 (1.22%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 393 (53.32%) Windows
2 266 (36.09%) Windows Server
3 166 (22.52%) Linux
4 98 (13.30%) Windows 10
5 93 (12.62%) Windows Server 2012
6 71 (9.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 58 (7.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 45 (6.11%) Unix
9 44 (5.97%) Windows 7
10 37 (5.02%) Windows Server 2008
11 32 (4.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 15 (2.04%) VMS
13 14 (1.90%) Windows Server 2003
14 13 (1.76%) Ubuntu
14 13 (1.76%) Windows XP
15 10 (1.36%) CentOS
16 9 (1.22%) Solaris
17 8 (1.09%) Oracle Linux
18 6 (0.81%) Debian
19 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (21.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 119 (16.15%) Agile
3 108 (14.65%) ITIL
4 106 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (14.11%) DevOps
6 103 (13.98%) Migration
7 75 (10.18%) Infrastructure as Code
8 63 (8.55%) CI/CD
9 58 (7.87%) Load Balancing
10 57 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
11 50 (6.78%) Disaster Recovery
12 49 (6.65%) Computer Science
13 48 (6.51%) Customer Service
13 48 (6.51%) Server Management
14 42 (5.70%) High Availability
14 42 (5.70%) Project Delivery
14 42 (5.70%) RBAC
15 40 (5.43%) Project Management
16 38 (5.16%) Proactive Monitoring
17 36 (4.88%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 205 (27.82%) PowerShell
2 98 (13.30%) Python
3 49 (6.65%) SQL
4 38 (5.16%) Bash
5 36 (4.88%) Java
6 34 (4.61%) C#
7 26 (3.53%) VBScript
8 21 (2.85%) VB
9 19 (2.58%) Bicep
9 19 (2.58%) Go
10 17 (2.31%) Shell Script
11 16 (2.17%) JavaScript
12 11 (1.49%) Perl
12 11 (1.49%) PHP
13 8 (1.09%) Ruby
14 6 (0.81%) TypeScript
15 5 (0.68%) C
16 4 (0.54%) C++
17 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
18 2 (0.27%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 210 (28.49%) Security Cleared
2 125 (16.96%) SC Cleared
3 111 (15.06%) Degree
4 102 (13.84%) Cisco Certification
5 92 (12.48%) DV Cleared
6 72 (9.77%) CCNP
7 71 (9.63%) CCNA
8 50 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (3.66%) MCSE
11 26 (3.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 20 (2.71%) MCSA
13 16 (2.17%) Azure Certification
13 16 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 13 (1.76%) AWS Certification
14 13 (1.76%) CCIE
15 11 (1.49%) CISSP
16 8 (1.09%) CCDP
16 8 (1.09%) CISM
17 7 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.12%) QA
2 21 (2.85%) GDPR
2 21 (2.85%) NIST
3 13 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.76%) SLA
4 10 (1.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (1.22%) ISO 9000
6 6 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.68%) NCSC
8 4 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 1 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.14%) COPPA
11 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 399 (54.14%) Active Directory
2 183 (24.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (9.50%) VMware ESXi
4 66 (8.96%) Hyper-V
5 53 (7.19%) Virtual Machines
6 46 (6.24%) Docker
7 38 (5.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 36 (4.88%) vSphere
9 29 (3.93%) XenApp
10 24 (3.26%) VMware NSX
11 21 (2.85%) Virtual Servers
12 16 (2.17%) VMware Workstation
13 14 (1.90%) XenDesktop
14 12 (1.63%) BitLocker
14 12 (1.63%) Terminal Services
15 9 (1.22%) NFS
16 8 (1.09%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 8 (1.09%) Firmware
16 8 (1.09%) KVM
16 8 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 128 (17.37%) SCCM
2 71 (9.63%) Terraform
3 70 (9.50%) Ansible
4 68 (9.23%) Kubernetes
5 63 (8.55%) WSUS
6 62 (8.41%) vCenter Server
7 52 (7.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 47 (6.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 45 (6.11%) SCOM
10 24 (3.26%) NetBackup
11 23 (3.12%) Puppet
12 21 (2.85%) EMC NetWorker
13 16 (2.17%) FortiGate
14 15 (2.04%) Grafana
15 14 (1.90%) Microsoft Clustering
15 14 (1.90%) Progress Chef
15 14 (1.90%) Prometheus
16 13 (1.76%) Kibana
17 12 (1.63%) Nagios
18 11 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 297 (40.30%) Microsoft
2 234 (31.75%) VMware
3 143 (19.40%) Cisco
4 62 (8.41%) Palo Alto
5 58 (7.87%) Citrix
6 50 (6.78%) F5
7 46 (6.24%) Dell
8 42 (5.70%) Oracle
9 38 (5.16%) Veeam
10 37 (5.02%) SolarWinds
11 34 (4.61%) HP
12 32 (4.34%) Juniper
12 32 (4.34%) Symantec
13 30 (4.07%) Splunk
14 28 (3.80%) EMC
15 24 (3.26%) CheckPoint
15 24 (3.26%) Infoblox
15 24 (3.26%) Red Hat
16 23 (3.12%) ServiceNow
17 22 (2.99%) IBM