DNS Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Domain Name System (DNS)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 1 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.41% 1.41% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.35% 18.75% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% - -
South Wales median daily rate £550 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +29.41% -29.17% +50.00%

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 23 16 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 9.35% 7.51% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 17
10th Percentile £187 £211 £212
25th Percentile £253 £217 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £381 £340
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% +12.13% -22.29%
75th Percentile £296 £452 £395
90th Percentile £312 £478 £588
South Wales median daily rate £290 £275 £340
% change year-on-year +5.45% -19.12% -24.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
South Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year +68.42% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Cardiff

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Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing DNS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing DNS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 1st Line Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow