DNS Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 41 49
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing DNS 13 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.85% 2.05% 2.21%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.95% 12.77% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 13
10th Percentile £525 £313 £421
25th Percentile £551 £558 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £583 £465
Median % change year-on-year +5.15% +25.28% -15.46%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £465
90th Percentile £654 £624 £498
South East median daily rate £513 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +10.81% -7.50% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 42 47 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 9.21% 16.04% 19.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 92
10th Percentile £130 £141 £283
25th Percentile £312 £440 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -1.32% +0.96%
75th Percentile £599 £629 £616
90th Percentile £640 £654 £825
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.99% -5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £18.75
25th Percentile - - £23.81
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +76.47%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £56.00 £59.13 £59.50
% change year-on-year -5.29% -0.63% +32.22%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing DNS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Buckinghamshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing DNS

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +2 12 £625 +7.30% 6
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
2 1 (7.69%) DKIM
2 1 (7.69%) DMARC
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
2 7 (53.85%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
4 3 (23.08%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Lead
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Splunk Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Cyberattack
1 7 (53.85%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (30.77%) PKI
3 3 (23.08%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (7.69%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 9 (69.23%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Incident Response
2 9 (69.23%) SIEM
3 7 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (53.85%) Security Operations
4 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) AI
5 3 (23.08%) AI Transformation
5 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
6 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
6 1 (7.69%) SOAR
6 1 (7.69%) Threat Detection
6 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 8 (61.54%) DV Cleared
3 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (30.77%) CompTIA CySA+
4 4 (30.77%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (30.77%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
1 3 (23.08%) Podman
1 3 (23.08%) Proxmox
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Splunk
2 3 (23.08%) Zscaler
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft