DNS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 176 137 162
Rank change year-on-year -39 +25 +6
Contract jobs citing DNS 182 425 749
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.23% 1.78% 1.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.84% 15.25% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 284 544
10th Percentile £309 £327 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +5.65% +5.38%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £588
90th Percentile £676 £700 £655
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 17
10th Percentile £18.98 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £19.69 £42.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £21.25 £80.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.44% +263.64% -32.54%
75th Percentile £22.69 £87.50 £48.58
90th Percentile £23.33 £97.50 £66.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £22.00
% change year-on-year -23.27% +136.95% -30.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

DNS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,537 2,786 4,431
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.41% 11.67% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,006 1,856 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £495 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 98 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.20 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.16 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.61% +19.26% +23.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.19 £63.06
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +113.73% -28.02% +4.00%

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 11 June 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 37 (20.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (9.34%) Confluence
3 9 (4.95%) IIS
4 7 (3.85%) nginx
5 4 (2.20%) Apache Solr
6 3 (1.65%) Apache
6 3 (1.65%) JBoss
6 3 (1.65%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.65%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.55%) Elementor
2 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 83 (45.60%) Azure
2 49 (26.92%) Entra ID
3 47 (25.82%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (24.18%) AWS
5 21 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
5 21 (11.54%) Azure Storage
6 19 (10.44%) GCP
7 14 (7.69%) IaaS
8 10 (5.49%) GitHub
8 10 (5.49%) PaaS
9 9 (4.95%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (3.30%) SaaS
11 6 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.75%) CloudFront
12 5 (2.75%) Nutanix
12 5 (2.75%) Rubrik
13 4 (2.20%) Power Platform
13 4 (2.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 98 (53.85%) DHCP
2 80 (43.96%) Firewall
3 42 (23.08%) TCP/IP
4 37 (20.33%) VPN
5 31 (17.03%) Network Security
6 17 (9.34%) BGP
6 17 (9.34%) VLAN
7 13 (7.14%) HTTP
8 11 (6.04%) SAN
8 11 (6.04%) WAN
9 10 (5.49%) LAN
9 10 (5.49%) OSPF
9 10 (5.49%) SNMP
10 9 (4.95%) IPsec
11 8 (4.40%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (4.40%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (4.40%) SD-WAN
12 7 (3.85%) NAS
13 6 (3.30%) MPLS
13 6 (3.30%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.24%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 6 (3.30%) MySQL
4 5 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.75%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.20%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.20%) Power BI
5 4 (2.20%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.65%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (1.65%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.55%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.55%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.55%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (10.99%) JIRA
2 16 (8.79%) Git
3 13 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.85%) GitLab
5 6 (3.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (2.75%) TeamCity
7 4 (2.20%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.20%) Travis CI
8 3 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (1.65%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.65%) Snyk
9 2 (1.10%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.55%) Darcs
10 1 (0.55%) Gradle
10 1 (0.55%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.55%) Mercurial
10 1 (0.55%) Subversion
General
1 59 (32.42%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.88%) Finance
3 20 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (4.95%) Retail
5 7 (3.85%) Banking
5 7 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.75%) Legal
7 4 (2.20%) Military
8 3 (1.65%) Retail Banking
8 3 (1.65%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.10%) Front Office
10 1 (0.55%) Advertising
10 1 (0.55%) Electronics
10 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.55%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.55%) Local Government
10 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.55%) Marketing
10 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (16.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (13.74%) Network Engineer
3 20 (10.99%) Active Directory Support
4 17 (9.34%) Security Engineer
4 17 (9.34%) Senior
5 15 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (8.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (8.24%) Support Engineer
6 14 (7.69%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (7.69%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (7.69%) Support Specialist
7 12 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (4.95%) Analyst
9 8 (4.40%) Active Directory Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Architect
10 7 (3.85%) Developer
11 6 (3.30%) Active Directory Support Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) IT Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.64%) ARM Templates
2 11 (6.04%) JSON
3 10 (5.49%) YAML
4 9 (4.95%) .NET
5 6 (3.30%) LDAP
5 6 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (3.30%) SAML
6 5 (2.75%) CSS
6 5 (2.75%) OAuth
6 5 (2.75%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.75%) XML
7 4 (2.20%) ASP.NET
7 4 (2.20%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.20%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (1.65%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.65%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.65%) HTML
8 3 (1.65%) IBM Integration Bus
8 3 (1.65%) Kafka
8 3 (1.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 34 (18.68%) PKI
2 22 (12.09%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (6.59%) Clustering
3 12 (6.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 11 (6.04%) Cloud Native
5 9 (4.95%) Data Centre
6 8 (4.40%) Management Information System
7 7 (3.85%) Replication
8 5 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (2.20%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (1.10%) NHS
12 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
12 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.55%) IoT
12 1 (0.55%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 91 (50.00%) Windows
2 67 (36.81%) Windows Server
3 52 (28.57%) Linux
4 28 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 25 (13.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (9.34%) Windows 10
7 13 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (5.49%) Unix
9 6 (3.30%) CentOS
9 6 (3.30%) Solaris
10 5 (2.75%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (2.75%) Windows 7
11 4 (2.20%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (2.20%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (1.65%) Ubuntu
12 3 (1.65%) VMS
13 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (31.87%) Agile
2 50 (27.47%) DevOps
3 44 (24.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (23.63%) CI/CD
5 36 (19.78%) ITIL
6 34 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (18.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (14.29%) Release Management
9 24 (13.19%) RBAC
9 24 (13.19%) Service Management
10 23 (12.64%) Identity Management
11 21 (11.54%) Analytics
11 21 (11.54%) Log Analytics
11 21 (11.54%) Migration
11 21 (11.54%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 20 (10.99%) Privileged Identity Management
13 19 (10.44%) Vulnerability Management
14 17 (9.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (9.34%) Information Security
15 15 (8.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 68 (37.36%) PowerShell
2 29 (15.93%) Python
3 24 (13.19%) VB
3 24 (13.19%) VBScript
4 22 (12.09%) Bicep
5 21 (11.54%) C#
6 15 (8.24%) Bash
7 11 (6.04%) Java
8 9 (4.95%) JavaScript
9 8 (4.40%) PHP
10 7 (3.85%) SQL
11 6 (3.30%) Go
12 4 (2.20%) C++
12 4 (2.20%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.65%) ActionScript
14 2 (1.10%) Perl
14 2 (1.10%) TypeScript
14 2 (1.10%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.55%) Rust
15 1 (0.55%) Scala
Qualifications
1 43 (23.63%) Degree
2 40 (21.98%) Security Cleared
3 35 (19.23%) SC Cleared
4 24 (13.19%) DV Cleared
5 23 (12.64%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (10.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 17 (9.34%) CCNP
8 14 (7.69%) CCNA
9 12 (6.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (6.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (3.85%) AWS Certification
11 7 (3.85%) CCDP
11 7 (3.85%) MCSA
11 7 (3.85%) MCSE
12 5 (2.75%) CISSP
13 4 (2.20%) APMP
13 4 (2.20%) CEH
13 4 (2.20%) CISM
13 4 (2.20%) PMP
14 3 (1.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.24%) GDPR
2 9 (4.95%) NIST
2 9 (4.95%) QA
3 7 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.20%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.65%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.65%) SLA
7 2 (1.10%) ISO 9001
7 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.55%) COPPA
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.55%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 104 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 34 (18.68%) Virtual Machines
3 30 (16.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (12.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 21 (11.54%) Docker
6 9 (4.95%) Hyper-V
7 8 (4.40%) vSphere
7 8 (4.40%) XenApp
8 7 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.20%) XenDesktop
10 3 (1.65%) VMware NSX
11 2 (1.10%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (1.10%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.55%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.55%) Firmware
12 1 (0.55%) PowerDNS
12 1 (0.55%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 41 (22.53%) Kubernetes
2 40 (21.98%) SCCM
3 24 (13.19%) Ansible
3 24 (13.19%) Terraform
4 23 (12.64%) WSUS
5 22 (12.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 22 (12.09%) SCOM
6 21 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 9 (4.95%) Kibana
8 7 (3.85%) Grafana
8 7 (3.85%) Prometheus
9 6 (3.30%) logstash
9 6 (3.30%) Puppet
10 5 (2.75%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (2.75%) Netcool
10 5 (2.75%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.75%) Tivoli
10 5 (2.75%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 5 (2.75%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.65%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 72 (39.56%) Microsoft
2 41 (22.53%) VMware
3 27 (14.84%) Cisco
4 16 (8.79%) Qualys
4 16 (8.79%) Splunk
5 13 (7.14%) F5
5 13 (7.14%) Palo Alto
6 10 (5.49%) Citrix
6 10 (5.49%) Dell
6 10 (5.49%) IBM
6 10 (5.49%) Oracle
7 9 (4.95%) CA
7 9 (4.95%) HP
8 8 (4.40%) Arista
8 8 (4.40%) ServiceNow
9 7 (3.85%) Aruba
10 6 (3.30%) CyberArk
10 6 (3.30%) Google
10 6 (3.30%) Red Hat
10 6 (3.30%) Zscaler