DNS Contracts in Cardiff

Domain Name System (DNS)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cardiff 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 23 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs citing DNS 7 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 4.38% - 2.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.82% - 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 8
10th Percentile £405 - £309
25th Percentile £425 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £431
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.11%
75th Percentile £468 - £616
90th Percentile £475 - £670
South Wales median daily rate £450 £425 £538
% change year-on-year +5.88% -20.93% +25.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 22 23 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 13.75% 10.85% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 26
10th Percentile £206 £182 £188
25th Percentile £213 £199 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £220 £431
Median % change year-on-year +93.18% -48.99% +1.47%
75th Percentile £458 £588 £575
90th Percentile £475 £667 £625
South Wales median daily rate £313 £220 £513
% change year-on-year +42.05% -57.07% +13.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Cardiff

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Cardiff

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Cardiff

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 3 (42.86%) Wireless
3 2 (28.57%) BGP
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (28.57%) IPv4
3 2 (28.57%) OSPF
3 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) HTTP
4 1 (14.29%) VoIP
4 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Migration Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) NHS
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
1 3 (42.86%) CCNP
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CCIE
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
1 3 (42.86%) Ekahau
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Aerohive Networks