DNS Contracts in Basingstoke

Domain Name System (DNS)
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 45 32
Rank change year-on-year +38 -13 +13
Contract jobs citing DNS 23 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 17.04% 1.87% 2.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 41.07% 4.71% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 4 3
10th Percentile £465 - £300
25th Percentile £513 £513 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +34.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £425
90th Percentile £630 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £531 £563
% change year-on-year +8.24% -5.56% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
Hampshire median hourly rate - - £43.75
% change year-on-year - - +103.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Basingstoke

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 requiring communications or computer networking skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 56 170 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 41.48% 39.72% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 63 22
10th Percentile £456 - £228
25th Percentile £500 £425 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +15.00% +0.72%
75th Percentile £618 £638 £584
90th Percentile £638 - £650
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +1.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £18.33
25th Percentile - £27.50 £22.56
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £29.88
Median % change year-on-year - +29.71% -8.08%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £36.94
90th Percentile - - £41.03
Hampshire median hourly rate £59.13 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.10% -4.42% +166.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Basingstoke

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Basingstoke

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Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Basingstoke

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Basingstoke

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Basingstoke

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 11 (47.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (13.04%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 3 (13.04%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (13.04%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
1 8 (34.78%) GCP
1 8 (34.78%) IaaS
1 8 (34.78%) OpenShift
1 8 (34.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (78.26%) DHCP
2 11 (47.83%) VPN
3 8 (34.78%) Firewall
3 8 (34.78%) SMTP
4 7 (30.43%) SAN
5 4 (17.39%) iSCSI
5 4 (17.39%) VLAN
6 3 (13.04%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (13.04%) DDNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (34.78%) Big Data
1 8 (34.78%) Elasticsearch
General
1 16 (69.57%) Public Sector
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Electronics
3 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
3 3 (13.04%) Marketing
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Support Engineer
2 10 (43.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 10 (43.48%) 3rd Line Support
2 10 (43.48%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Designer
4 3 (13.04%) Exchange Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Exchange Support
4 3 (13.04%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Project Office Support
6 1 (4.35%) Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Clustering
1 8 (34.78%) Data Centre
1 8 (34.78%) PKI
2 4 (17.39%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (13.04%) Replication
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Windows
2 11 (47.83%) Linux
3 8 (34.78%) Windows Server
4 6 (26.09%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) DevOps
1 8 (34.78%) Machine Learning
1 8 (34.78%) Software Deployment
2 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (26.09%) ITIL
4 4 (17.39%) RBAC
5 3 (13.04%) Architectural Design
5 3 (13.04%) Content Management
5 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (13.04%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Content Management
5 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Search
5 3 (13.04%) High Availability
5 3 (13.04%) OSINT
5 3 (13.04%) Programme Management
5 3 (13.04%) SIEM
5 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (8.70%) Data Conversion
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) Bash
2 3 (13.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (69.57%) DV Cleared
3 8 (34.78%) Degree
4 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) Active Directory
2 8 (34.78%) BitLocker
2 8 (34.78%) Docker
2 8 (34.78%) Hyper-V
2 8 (34.78%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (34.78%) Terminal Services
2 8 (34.78%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (17.39%) vSphere
4 3 (13.04%) Brightmail
4 3 (13.04%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Ansible
2 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 8 (34.78%) Nagios
2 8 (34.78%) Puppet
2 8 (34.78%) vCenter Server
2 8 (34.78%) vMotion
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (34.78%) Citrix
2 8 (34.78%) Google
2 8 (34.78%) HP
2 8 (34.78%) Symantec
2 8 (34.78%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco
3 3 (13.04%) F5
3 3 (13.04%) LogRhythm
3 3 (13.04%) SAP
4 2 (8.70%) Fujitsu