DNS Contracts in Berkshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 53 66
Rank change year-on-year -28 +13 +14
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DNS 14 54 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.19% 3.20% 2.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.41% 17.94% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 36 29
10th Percentile £350 £413 £293
25th Percentile £366 £603 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +10.00% +7.84%
75th Percentile £519 £608 £675
90th Percentile £575 - £700
South East median daily rate £550 £515 £513
% change year-on-year +6.80% +0.49% +11.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £19.00
75th Percentile - £19.50 £22.50
90th Percentile - - £24.30
South East median hourly rate £89.63 £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +371.74% -24.00% +13.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 189 301 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.00% 17.81% 22.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 124 205
10th Percentile £293 £247 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +13.89% -1.68%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £588
90th Percentile £600 £638 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £457
% change year-on-year - +9.36% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 17
10th Percentile £58.25 £56.25 £16.70
25th Percentile £63.13 £71.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £83.50 £72.84
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% +14.64% +273.51%
75th Percentile £83.13 £87.46 £75.67
90th Percentile £88.75 - £76.46
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.91
% change year-on-year -4.10% -2.64% +31.63%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Berkshire

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Berkshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Berkshire

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing DNS

DNS
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham -13 5 £350 - 4
Bracknell 0 3 - - 1
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SAS
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) DHCP
2 5 (35.71%) BGP
2 5 (35.71%) OSPF
2 5 (35.71%) Spanning Tree
2 5 (35.71%) TACACS
3 4 (28.57%) Ethernet VPN
3 4 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (28.57%) IPv6
3 4 (28.57%) SAN
3 4 (28.57%) VSAN
4 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
5 2 (14.29%) HTTP
5 2 (14.29%) SD-WAN
6 1 (7.14%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (7.14%) EIGRP
6 1 (7.14%) Firewall
6 1 (7.14%) FTP
6 1 (7.14%) Network Security
6 1 (7.14%) Telnet
6 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Power Query
1 1 (7.14%) Sisense
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 2 (14.29%) French Language
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) German Language
3 1 (7.14%) Italian Language
3 1 (7.14%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Coordinator
3 2 (14.29%) Project Coordinator
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Coordinator
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Project Coordinator
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Support
3 2 (14.29%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Power BI Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Rollout Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) YAML
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 1 (7.14%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (7.14%) Life Science
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (28.57%) Runbook
2 3 (21.43%) Analytics
2 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) Budget Management
3 2 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 2 (14.29%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) Server Virtualisation
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (7.14%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Bicep
1 1 (7.14%) C#
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
1 1 (7.14%) VB
1 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) Ceph
3 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (7.14%) NFS
4 1 (7.14%) Samba
4 1 (7.14%) Terminal Services
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Argo
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.14%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) SCOM
2 1 (7.14%) WSUS
2 1 (7.14%) yum
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco
1 5 (35.71%) Dell
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
4 2 (14.29%) Intel
5 1 (7.14%) 3PAR
5 1 (7.14%) HP
5 1 (7.14%) Meraki
5 1 (7.14%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle
5 1 (7.14%) Veritas