DNS Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 54 48
Rank change year-on-year +16 -6 -16
Contract jobs citing DNS 7 1 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.54% 0.20% 1.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.59% 1.37% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £427 - £313
25th Percentile - £388 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile - £463 -
90th Percentile £575 - -
East of England median daily rate £500 £345 £538
% change year-on-year +44.93% -35.81% +26.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.47
East of England median hourly rate £81.35 - £17.47

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 73 73 96
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 26.45% 14.75% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 22 42
10th Percentile £363 £203 £278
25th Percentile £414 £235 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £500
90th Percentile £581 £583 £533
East of England median daily rate £475 £415 £475
% change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 48 21
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £15.85 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.44 £18.84 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.02% +21.52% -
75th Percentile £20.17 £21.39 £16.77
90th Percentile £21.46 £63.75 £52.50
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Cambridgeshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Cambridgeshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Cambridgeshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridge - 6 £500 - 17
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 1
DNS
East of England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Cloudflare
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
2 1 (14.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Zero Trust
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
5 1 (14.29%) Break/Fix
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) ITSM
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
5 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Server Building
5 1 (14.29%) Server Management
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
5 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) C-shell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Avamar
1 2 (28.57%) VxRail
2 1 (14.29%) HAProxy
2 1 (14.29%) Nagios
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
2 1 (14.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Dell
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
2 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) LogRhythm
3 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Sun