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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 52 53
Rank change year-on-year +24 +1 -15
Contract jobs citing DNS 16 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.76% 0.19% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.51% 1.35% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £250 - £262
25th Percentile £314 £388 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile - £463 -
90th Percentile £550 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £345 £538
% change year-on-year +59.42% -35.81% +26.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £81.01 - -

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 78 74 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 28.06% 14.40% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 20 47
10th Percentile £351 £197 £275
25th Percentile £399 £235 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.85% -13.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £500 £491 £497
90th Percentile £616 £588 £551
East of England median daily rate £490 £413 £475
% change year-on-year +18.79% -13.16% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 49 15
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +5.16% -
75th Percentile £16.30 £21.37 £16.77
90th Percentile £31.00 £63.75 £53.25
East of England median hourly rate £55.00 £21.46 £52.50
% change year-on-year +156.29% -59.12% +238.71%

DNS
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 29 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 29 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 - 12 £500 - 18
Peterborough +11 2 - - 19
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 2
DNS
East of England

DNS
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 4 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (18.75%) Cloudflare
4 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) Mimecast
5 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) DHCP
2 4 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 4 (25.00%) SAN
3 3 (18.75%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (18.75%) PuTTY
3 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
3 3 (18.75%) VPN
4 2 (12.50%) LAN
4 2 (12.50%) WAN
4 2 (12.50%) Wireless
4 2 (12.50%) WLAN
5 1 (6.25%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
2 5 (31.25%) GitLab
2 5 (31.25%) TeamCity
3 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Administrator
2 5 (31.25%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (18.75%) Network Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Network Support
6 1 (6.25%) Network Support Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 4 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) CentOS
2 4 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Computer Science
1 7 (43.75%) ITSM
2 6 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 5 (31.25%) Zero Trust
4 4 (25.00%) Data Science
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (12.50%) Change Management
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (12.50%) Process Improvement
6 2 (12.50%) Project Management
6 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
7 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
7 1 (6.25%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) CCNA
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (12.50%) CCNP
3 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) Firmware
3 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Puppet
3 2 (12.50%) Avamar
3 2 (12.50%) Progress Chef
3 2 (12.50%) Salt
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) VxRail
4 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
4 1 (6.25%) Nagios
4 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
4 1 (6.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (56.25%) ServiceNow
3 6 (37.50%) VMware
4 4 (25.00%) Cisco
5 3 (18.75%) Dell
6 2 (12.50%) Peregrine
6 2 (12.50%) Remedy
6 2 (12.50%) SolarWinds
7 1 (6.25%) Atlassian
7 1 (6.25%) HP
7 1 (6.25%) LogRhythm
7 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
7 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
7 1 (6.25%) Sun