DNS Contracts in Birmingham

Domain Name System (DNS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 47 38
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 +25
Contract jobs citing DNS 21 12 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.80% 1.66% 4.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.38% 11.11% 22.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 3 27
10th Percentile £290 £356 £293
25th Percentile £401 £365 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £380 £400
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £488 £523 £475
90th Percentile - £608 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -13.64% +29.41% +13.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 74 108 183
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.41% 14.94% 20.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 61 96
10th Percentile £210 - £288
25th Percentile £281 £263 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -12.50% -3.38%
75th Percentile £534 £488 £650
90th Percentile £575 £600 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +11.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £44.35 £13.48 -
25th Percentile £44.88 £13.81 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £14.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +235.71% +7.69% -35.00%
75th Percentile £50.38 £16.44 £16.13
90th Percentile £51.65 £20.83 £17.70
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +114.29% -48.15% +54.29%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Birmingham

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 10 (47.62%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) nginx
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 11 (52.38%) Amazon S3
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (47.62%) Amazon ELB
2 10 (47.62%) AWS KMS
2 10 (47.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 8 (38.10%) Amazon Glacier
4 4 (19.05%) Azure
5 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (9.52%) Route 53
7 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.76%) GCP
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (57.14%) Firewall
2 11 (52.38%) SSH
3 10 (47.62%) FTP
3 10 (47.62%) HTTP
3 10 (47.62%) SMTP
4 7 (33.33%) DHCP
5 3 (14.29%) Network Security
5 3 (14.29%) Wireless
6 2 (9.52%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (9.52%) DMZ
6 2 (9.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (9.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (9.52%) IMAP
6 2 (9.52%) LAN
6 2 (9.52%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
6 2 (9.52%) WAN
7 1 (4.76%) SSL
7 1 (4.76%) VPN
7 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (47.62%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.76%) Big Data
4 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.76%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Git
1 11 (52.38%) Jenkins
1 11 (52.38%) JIRA
2 10 (47.62%) Vagrant
3 1 (4.76%) MLflow
3 1 (4.76%) Poetry
3 1 (4.76%) PyCharm
3 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (23.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Network Support
3 2 (9.52%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Project Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (9.52%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Avro
2 1 (4.76%) Flask
2 1 (4.76%) NumPy
2 1 (4.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Replication
2 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Driving Licence
2 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Windows
2 12 (57.14%) Linux
3 10 (47.62%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (47.62%) VMS
4 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Cloud Security
1 11 (52.38%) DevOps
2 10 (47.62%) Change Management
2 10 (47.62%) Configuration Management
2 10 (47.62%) Patch Management
2 10 (47.62%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 3 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 2 (9.52%) Business Strategy
4 2 (9.52%) Containerisation
4 2 (9.52%) Design Patterns
4 2 (9.52%) High Availability
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (9.52%) ITIL
4 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.76%) Data Protection
5 1 (4.76%) Dependency Management
5 1 (4.76%) Memory Management
5 1 (4.76%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) PowerShell
1 13 (61.90%) Python
2 11 (52.38%) Groovy
3 9 (42.86%) Perl
4 8 (38.10%) Java
5 3 (14.29%) SQL
6 2 (9.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
1 11 (52.38%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 3 (14.29%) CCNA
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) MCP
4 1 (4.76%) MCSA
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 11 (52.38%) Docker
3 10 (47.62%) DFS Replication
4 2 (9.52%) Dovecot
4 2 (9.52%) Postfix
4 2 (9.52%) Squid
4 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Grafana
1 11 (52.38%) Prometheus
2 10 (47.62%) Terraform
3 2 (9.52%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.52%) Nessus
3 2 (9.52%) OpenView
3 2 (9.52%) Proxmox
3 2 (9.52%) SCCM
4 1 (4.76%) Argo
4 1 (4.76%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) ServiceNow
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 2 (9.52%) F5
4 2 (9.52%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) Cloudera
5 1 (4.76%) Commvault
5 1 (4.76%) Juniper
5 1 (4.76%) Veeam