DNS Contracts in Central London

Domain Name System (DNS)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 101 113
Rank change year-on-year +20 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing DNS 45 33 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.31% 1.37% 1.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.06% 13.58% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 24 41
10th Percentile £255 £385 £313
25th Percentile £263 £396 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £591 £675
90th Percentile £674 £788 £700
London median daily rate £525 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +16.67% -18.18% +1.34%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 204 243 386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.48% 10.05% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 166 271
10th Percentile £250 £206 £185
25th Percentile £387 £341 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £444 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.13% -19.32% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £599 £663
90th Percentile £704 £719 £738
London median daily rate £500 £500 £563
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile £23.75 £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate £24.50 £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.48% -35.71% -40.00%
75th Percentile £25.25 £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
London median hourly rate £37.50 £22.75 £36.27
% change year-on-year +64.84% -37.28% +24.55%

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 21 May 2025.

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 21 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
City of London +18 41 £586 +23.37% 39
West End of London - 2 £415 - 15
Camden - 1 £580 -
City of Westminster - 1 £250 - 1
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 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.44%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 9 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 9 (20.00%) GitHub
3 9 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (17.78%) AWS
5 5 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (8.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (6.67%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.67%) IaaS
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (4.44%) Google Workspace
8 2 (4.44%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 23 (51.11%) Firewall
2 19 (42.22%) DHCP
3 16 (35.56%) VPN
4 11 (24.44%) TCP/IP
5 7 (15.56%) NGFW
6 4 (8.89%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (6.67%) HTTP
7 3 (6.67%) MPLS
7 3 (6.67%) VLAN
8 2 (4.44%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (4.44%) FTP
8 2 (4.44%) LAN
8 2 (4.44%) Network Security
8 2 (4.44%) SMTP
8 2 (4.44%) SSL
9 1 (2.22%) BGP
9 1 (2.22%) BIG-IP
9 1 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (2.22%) WAN
9 1 (2.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 3 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (4.44%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
3 1 (2.22%) Subversion
3 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (28.89%) Finance
2 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.22%) Advertising
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 9 (20.00%) Network Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Network Support
4 7 (15.56%) Network Support Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Analyst
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) IT Support
6 3 (6.67%) Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Support Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) Desktop Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Documentation Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (4.44%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) IT Support Analyst
7 2 (4.44%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) ADO
2 3 (6.67%) Kafka
2 3 (6.67%) NumPy
2 3 (6.67%) OAuth
2 3 (6.67%) OAuth2
2 3 (6.67%) OpenID
2 3 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (6.67%) Pandas
2 3 (6.67%) REST
3 2 (4.44%) .NET
3 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (4.44%) Node.js
4 1 (2.22%) LDAP
4 1 (2.22%) RESTful
4 1 (2.22%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Anti-Spyware
2 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.67%) Clustering
3 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.44%) Smartphone
4 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (53.33%) Windows
2 10 (22.22%) Linux
3 7 (15.56%) Windows Server
4 6 (13.33%) Unix
4 6 (13.33%) Windows 10
5 5 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 5 (11.11%) Mac OS
6 3 (6.67%) Android
7 2 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (2.22%) Solaris
8 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Agile
2 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (26.67%) Migration
3 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 8 (17.78%) DevOps
5 7 (15.56%) Kalman Filter
6 5 (11.11%) DevSecOps
6 5 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 5 (11.11%) Time Management
7 4 (8.89%) Containerisation
7 4 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (8.89%) High Availability
7 4 (8.89%) Microservices
7 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (6.67%) Customer Service
8 3 (6.67%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (6.67%) Project Delivery
8 3 (6.67%) Quantitative Finance
8 3 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.89%) C#
3 4 (8.89%) Shell Script
4 3 (6.67%) Bash
4 3 (6.67%) Perl
5 2 (4.44%) Java
5 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.44%) VBScript
6 1 (2.22%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) CCNP
4 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (4.44%) VCAP
5 2 (4.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.22%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.89%) Docker
4 1 (2.22%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.22%) Firmware
4 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.22%) NFS
4 1 (2.22%) Veritas File System
4 1 (2.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (37.78%) Terraform
2 8 (17.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (15.56%) Kubernetes
3 7 (15.56%) SCCM
4 4 (8.89%) Progress Chef
4 4 (8.89%) Puppet
5 3 (6.67%) Ansible
6 2 (4.44%) FortiGate
6 2 (4.44%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (2.22%) Control-M
7 1 (2.22%) Netcool
7 1 (2.22%) QRadar
7 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (2.22%) SCOrch
7 1 (2.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) CheckPoint
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 8 (17.78%) Infoblox
3 6 (13.33%) VMware
4 4 (8.89%) Fortinet
5 3 (6.67%) Cisco
5 3 (6.67%) F5
6 2 (4.44%) Atempo
6 2 (4.44%) BeyondTrust
6 2 (4.44%) Citrix
6 2 (4.44%) Databricks
6 2 (4.44%) Google
6 2 (4.44%) Mellanox
6 2 (4.44%) Nexthink
6 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.22%) BMC
7 1 (2.22%) Juniper
7 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.22%) Zscaler