DNS Contracts in Central London

Domain Name System (DNS)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 109 111
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 -21
Contract jobs citing DNS 39 65 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.59% 1.69% 2.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.92% 16.50% 20.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 44 82
10th Percentile £385 £313 £409
25th Percentile £413 £461 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £588 £525
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £493 £675 £573
90th Percentile £788 £700 £638
London median daily rate £450 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -18.18% +1.85% +22.73%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

DNS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 245 394 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.00% 10.22% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 272 354
10th Percentile £212 £210 £313
25th Percentile £350 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £595 £670 £600
90th Percentile £738 £750 £713
London median daily rate £500 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £16.22 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.79% -46.84% +125.71%
75th Percentile £18.93 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile - £30.86 £64.35
London median hourly rate £22.00 £48.21 £35.00
% change year-on-year -54.37% +37.74% +45.83%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Central London

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Central London

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Central London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Central London

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Central London

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
City of London +24 35 £450 -25.00% 8
DNS
London

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 9 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (12.82%) SharePoint
3 4 (10.26%) IIS
4 3 (7.69%) Apache
4 3 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (7.69%) IBM Domino
4 3 (7.69%) IBM Notes
5 2 (5.13%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (5.13%) JBoss
5 2 (5.13%) nginx
5 2 (5.13%) Tomcat
6 1 (2.56%) Apache Solr
6 1 (2.56%) Confluence
6 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.56%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) Azure
2 17 (43.59%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (30.77%) Entra ID
4 8 (20.51%) AWS
5 6 (15.38%) IaaS
6 4 (10.26%) Mimecast
6 4 (10.26%) OneDrive
7 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.69%) Azure Storage
7 3 (7.69%) GitHub
8 2 (5.13%) PaaS
8 2 (5.13%) SaaS
9 1 (2.56%) Akamai
9 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.56%) Datadog
9 1 (2.56%) GCP
9 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.56%) PowerApps
9 1 (2.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (48.72%) Firewall
2 14 (35.90%) DHCP
3 5 (12.82%) Network Security
4 4 (10.26%) IPv4
4 4 (10.26%) MPLS
4 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
5 3 (7.69%) SMTP
5 3 (7.69%) SSL
5 3 (7.69%) Unified Communications
5 3 (7.69%) VPN
6 2 (5.13%) Internet
6 2 (5.13%) WAN
6 2 (5.13%) Wireless
7 1 (2.56%) DKIM
7 1 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (2.56%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.56%) LAN
7 1 (2.56%) NAS
7 1 (2.56%) SAN
7 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.13%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (5.13%) MySQL
3 2 (5.13%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.13%) Redis
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.56%) CouchDB
4 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Git
1 2 (5.13%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.56%) Darcs
2 1 (2.56%) GitLab
2 1 (2.56%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.56%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (2.56%) Mercurial
2 1 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.56%) Travis CI
2 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (30.77%) Finance
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.26%) French Language
5 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Data Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Market Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Market Data Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Active Directory Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Administrator
5 3 (7.69%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (7.69%) Unified Communications Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.13%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (5.13%) YAML
2 1 (2.56%) .NET
2 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.56%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.56%) CSS
2 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.56%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) JSON
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) LAMP
2 1 (2.56%) LDAP
2 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.56%) React
2 1 (2.56%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) SAML
2 1 (2.56%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.95%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.13%) Private Cloud
2 2 (5.13%) Replication
3 1 (2.56%) CBDC
3 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.56%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.56%) Digital Currency
3 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.56%) PKI
3 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (48.72%) Windows
2 15 (38.46%) Windows Server
3 5 (12.82%) Linux
4 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (7.69%) VMS
5 3 (7.69%) Windows 7
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.13%) Unix
6 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.56%) OpenVMS
7 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (17.95%) Data Loss Prevention
2 7 (17.95%) Project Delivery
3 6 (15.38%) Capacity Management
3 6 (15.38%) IT Strategy
3 6 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (12.82%) Application Packaging
4 5 (12.82%) DevOps
4 5 (12.82%) Load Balancing
4 5 (12.82%) Migration
4 5 (12.82%) Time Management
5 4 (10.26%) Application Security
5 4 (10.26%) Application Virtualisation
5 4 (10.26%) Batch Scripting
5 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
5 4 (10.26%) Configuration Management
5 4 (10.26%) Identity Management
5 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Security
6 3 (7.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (48.72%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.26%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) SQL
2 4 (10.26%) VBScript
3 2 (5.13%) Go
3 2 (5.13%) Java
3 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.56%) Bicep
4 1 (2.56%) C
4 1 (2.56%) C#
4 1 (2.56%) C++
4 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) Perl
4 1 (2.56%) Ruby
4 1 (2.56%) Rust
4 1 (2.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
3 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) NIST
2 1 (2.56%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 10 (25.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.56%) Docker
4 1 (2.56%) Firmware
4 1 (2.56%) KVM
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) SCCM
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (12.82%) Terraform
4 4 (10.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (10.26%) Ansible
5 2 (5.13%) Grafana
5 2 (5.13%) Kibana
5 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.13%) logstash
5 2 (5.13%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.13%) Puppet
6 1 (2.56%) Check_MK
6 1 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (2.56%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.56%) Packer
6 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.56%) Salt
6 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.56%) WSUS
6 1 (2.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) Microsoft
2 12 (30.77%) VMware
3 6 (15.38%) IBM
4 5 (12.82%) Okta
5 4 (10.26%) Citrix
5 4 (10.26%) Oracle
6 3 (7.69%) Cisco
6 3 (7.69%) Lotus
6 3 (7.69%) Proofpoint
7 2 (5.13%) Red Hat
7 2 (5.13%) ServiceNow
7 2 (5.13%) Temenos
7 2 (5.13%) Veeam
8 1 (2.56%) Adobe
8 1 (2.56%) Google
8 1 (2.56%) ProCurve
8 1 (2.56%) Qualys
8 1 (2.56%) Remedy
8 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.56%) Veritas