DNS Contract Job Trends in Bracknell

Domain Name System (DNS)
Berkshire > Bracknell

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bracknell requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 20 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing DNS 7 3 8
As % of all contract jobs in Bracknell 6.60% 2.86% 4.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 41.18% 15.00% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £375
75th Percentile £588 - £388
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £605
% change year-on-year - -17.36% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £49.24 - -
25th Percentile £50.72 - -
Median hourly rate £54.88 - -
75th Percentile £57.47 - -
90th Percentile £58.01 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.50 - £19.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bracknell

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 Bracknell.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 17 20 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell 16.04% 19.05% 23.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 10
10th Percentile - £520 £251
25th Percentile £563 £550 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +35.29% +21.43%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £497
90th Percentile - - £519
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.13 - -
Median hourly rate £46.88 - -
75th Percentile £55.66 - -
90th Percentile £57.29 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.50 £72.50 £83.77
% change year-on-year -55.17% -13.45% +26.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bracknell

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bracknell.

DNS job vacancy trend in Bracknell

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Bracknell

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing DNS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Bracknell

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bracknell citing DNS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bracknell by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IBM HTTP Server
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle HTTP Server
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere Application Server
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere Portal
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) BGP
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (42.86%) EIGRP
2 3 (42.86%) OSPF
2 3 (42.86%) SD-WAN
2 3 (42.86%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 2 (28.57%) SNMP
3 2 (28.57%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (28.57%) SSL
3 2 (28.57%) TACACS
3 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) WLAN
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Introscope
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Middleware Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Middleware Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JDBC
1 2 (28.57%) JMS
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
1 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (28.57%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
1 2 (28.57%) CMDB
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (28.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) Incident Management
2 3 (42.86%) Network Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) OSINT
3 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Security Management
3 2 (28.57%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Bash
1 2 (28.57%) Jython
1 2 (28.57%) Perl
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCNA
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Nagios
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) CA Wily
2 2 (28.57%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Meraki
1 3 (42.86%) SevOne
1 3 (42.86%) SolarWinds
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) AppDynamics
2 2 (28.57%) IBM
2 2 (28.57%) LogRhythm
2 2 (28.57%) NetScout
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow