DNS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 165 133 168
Rank change year-on-year -32 +35 -10
Contract jobs citing DNS 187 465 720
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.24% 1.85% 1.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.93% 16.12% 16.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 323 504
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £350 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% +8.00% +6.10%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £652
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 20
10th Percentile £19.45 £42.25 -
25th Percentile £20.88 £68.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £82.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.52% +230.00% -56.52%
75th Percentile £24.25 £87.50 £51.44
90th Percentile £24.55 £100.00 £66.15
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,567 2,884 4,286
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.39% 11.50% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 1,907 2,899
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.10 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

DNS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DNS trend for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DNS.

DNS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DNS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

DNS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DNS.

DNS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 30 (16.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (8.02%) Confluence
2 15 (8.02%) IIS
3 7 (3.74%) nginx
4 5 (2.67%) Apache
5 4 (2.14%) Apache Solr
5 4 (2.14%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.60%) JBoss
6 3 (1.60%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.53%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 90 (48.13%) Azure
2 50 (26.74%) Entra ID
3 43 (22.99%) AWS
3 43 (22.99%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (11.23%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (11.23%) GCP
4 21 (11.23%) IaaS
5 16 (8.56%) Azure Storage
6 13 (6.95%) PaaS
7 10 (5.35%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (5.35%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (4.81%) GitHub
9 8 (4.28%) SaaS
10 7 (3.74%) Akamai
10 7 (3.74%) Nutanix
10 7 (3.74%) Rubrik
10 7 (3.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.67%) CloudFront
13 4 (2.14%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 97 (51.87%) DHCP
2 83 (44.39%) Firewall
3 43 (22.99%) TCP/IP
4 38 (20.32%) VPN
5 34 (18.18%) Network Security
6 20 (10.70%) VLAN
7 18 (9.63%) BGP
8 14 (7.49%) SAN
9 12 (6.42%) HTTP
9 12 (6.42%) OSPF
10 11 (5.88%) SNMP
10 11 (5.88%) WAN
11 10 (5.35%) LAN
12 9 (4.81%) IPsec
12 9 (4.81%) NAS
13 8 (4.28%) SSL
14 7 (3.74%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (3.74%) Kerberos
14 7 (3.74%) MPLS
14 7 (3.74%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.49%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.21%) MySQL
3 6 (3.21%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.67%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.14%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.14%) Power BI
5 4 (2.14%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.60%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (1.60%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.53%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.53%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (10.16%) JIRA
2 16 (8.56%) Git
3 14 (7.49%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.74%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.67%) GitLab
5 5 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.60%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.60%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.60%) Snyk
6 3 (1.60%) Travis CI
7 2 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.07%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.53%) Darcs
8 1 (0.53%) Gradle
8 1 (0.53%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.53%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.53%) Postman
8 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 56 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 41 (21.93%) Finance
3 14 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.95%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.35%) Retail
6 9 (4.81%) Banking
7 8 (4.28%) Public Sector
8 7 (3.74%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.67%) Legal
10 4 (2.14%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.60%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.07%) Front Office
13 1 (0.53%) Advertising
13 1 (0.53%) Electronics
13 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.53%) Marketing
13 1 (0.53%) Military
13 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (17.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (14.44%) Network Engineer
3 18 (9.63%) Senior
4 16 (8.56%) Active Directory Support
4 16 (8.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (8.02%) Security Engineer
6 14 (7.49%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (7.49%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (7.49%) Support Specialist
7 13 (6.95%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (6.95%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.88%) Support Engineer
9 10 (5.35%) Analyst
10 7 (3.74%) Server Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Architect
11 6 (3.21%) IT Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Lead
11 6 (3.21%) Security Analyst
12 5 (2.67%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.30%) ARM Templates
2 11 (5.88%) .NET
3 10 (5.35%) JSON
4 9 (4.81%) YAML
5 8 (4.28%) LDAP
6 6 (3.21%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.21%) SAML
7 5 (2.67%) OAuth
7 5 (2.67%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.14%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.14%) LEMP Stack
8 4 (2.14%) XML
9 3 (1.60%) CSS
9 3 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (1.60%) GraphQL
9 3 (1.60%) IBM Integration Bus
9 3 (1.60%) Kafka
9 3 (1.60%) Middleware
10 2 (1.07%) .NET Core
10 2 (1.07%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 29 (15.51%) PKI
2 19 (10.16%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (7.49%) Clustering
4 11 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 9 (4.81%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.81%) Replication
6 7 (3.74%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.07%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.07%) NHS
11 1 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.53%) IoT
11 1 (0.53%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (48.66%) Windows
2 62 (33.16%) Windows Server
3 57 (30.48%) Linux
4 24 (12.83%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (11.23%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (9.63%) Windows 10
7 12 (6.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (4.81%) Unix
10 8 (4.28%) Solaris
11 7 (3.74%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (3.74%) VMS
11 7 (3.74%) Windows 7
12 6 (3.21%) CentOS
13 4 (2.14%) Ubuntu
13 4 (2.14%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (2.14%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.53%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.34%) DevOps
2 51 (27.27%) Agile
3 40 (21.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (18.72%) CI/CD
4 35 (18.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (17.11%) ITIL
5 32 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (14.44%) Migration
7 24 (12.83%) RBAC
8 22 (11.76%) Release Management
9 20 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (10.70%) Service Management
9 20 (10.70%) Vulnerability Management
10 18 (9.63%) Identity Management
11 17 (9.09%) Analytics
11 17 (9.09%) High Availability
11 17 (9.09%) Information Security
11 17 (9.09%) Load Balancing
11 17 (9.09%) Log Analytics
11 17 (9.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 70 (37.43%) PowerShell
2 31 (16.58%) Python
3 20 (10.70%) VB
3 20 (10.70%) VBScript
4 18 (9.63%) Bash
4 18 (9.63%) Bicep
4 18 (9.63%) C#
5 12 (6.42%) Java
6 8 (4.28%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.74%) PHP
7 7 (3.74%) SQL
8 6 (3.21%) Go
9 4 (2.14%) C++
9 4 (2.14%) Perl
10 3 (1.60%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.07%) ActionScript
11 2 (1.07%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.07%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.53%) Rust
12 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (21.93%) Degree
2 35 (18.72%) Security Cleared
3 29 (15.51%) SC Cleared
4 23 (12.30%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (11.23%) DV Cleared
6 17 (9.09%) CCNP
7 16 (8.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 13 (6.95%) CCNA
8 13 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (4.28%) CCDP
10 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (2.67%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.67%) CISSP
12 4 (2.14%) APMP
12 4 (2.14%) CEH
12 4 (2.14%) CISM
12 4 (2.14%) PMP
13 3 (1.60%) CCIE
13 3 (1.60%) CCIP
13 3 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.09%) GDPR
2 10 (5.35%) QA
3 9 (4.81%) NIST
4 7 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.14%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.14%) SLA
6 3 (1.60%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.07%) ISO 9001
7 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.53%) COPPA
8 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 106 (56.68%) Active Directory
2 33 (17.65%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (17.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (11.23%) Docker
5 18 (9.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (4.81%) XenApp
7 8 (4.28%) Hyper-V
7 8 (4.28%) VMware ESXi
7 8 (4.28%) vSphere
8 5 (2.67%) XenDesktop
9 3 (1.60%) Firmware
9 3 (1.60%) VMware NSX
10 2 (1.07%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.53%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.53%) KVM
11 1 (0.53%) PowerDNS
11 1 (0.53%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.53%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.53%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.53%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 41 (21.93%) SCCM
2 37 (19.79%) Kubernetes
3 28 (14.97%) Ansible
4 26 (13.90%) Terraform
5 22 (11.76%) WSUS
6 19 (10.16%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (9.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (9.63%) SCOM
8 9 (4.81%) Kibana
8 9 (4.81%) vCenter Server
9 7 (3.74%) EMC NetWorker
9 7 (3.74%) Netcool
9 7 (3.74%) Tivoli
9 7 (3.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 6 (3.21%) Grafana
10 6 (3.21%) Prometheus
11 5 (2.67%) logstash
11 5 (2.67%) Puppet
12 4 (2.14%) Progress Chef
13 2 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 68 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 42 (22.46%) VMware
3 27 (14.44%) Cisco
4 16 (8.56%) Qualys
5 15 (8.02%) Splunk
6 13 (6.95%) Palo Alto
7 12 (6.42%) Citrix
7 12 (6.42%) Dell
7 12 (6.42%) F5
7 12 (6.42%) IBM
7 12 (6.42%) Oracle
7 12 (6.42%) ServiceNow
8 11 (5.88%) HP
9 9 (4.81%) CA
10 8 (4.28%) Arista
11 7 (3.74%) CyberArk
11 7 (3.74%) EMC
11 7 (3.74%) Isilon
11 7 (3.74%) Serena
12 6 (3.21%) Aruba