DNS Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Domain Name System (DNS)
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bradford requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 3.36% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.77% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £297 - -
25th Percentile £428 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £534 - -
90th Percentile £596 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -22.73% +15.79% -24.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 10.92% 6.38% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £243 - £256
25th Percentile £331 £625 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £408
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +59.51% +18.55%
75th Percentile £556 £675 £480
90th Percentile £606 - £484
West Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +0.61% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - -
Median hourly rate £22.81 - -
75th Percentile £28.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 - £13.87

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Bradford

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Bradford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Bradford over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Bradford

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Bradford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing DNS

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford 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 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) BGP
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (50.00%) IPsec
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) VoIP
3 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
3 2 (50.00%) WLAN
4 1 (25.00%) PSTN
4 1 (25.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (25.00%) SAN
4 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Police
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Categorisation
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) BMC
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) Samsung
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) VMware