DNS Contracts in the City of London

Domain Name System (DNS)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 90 114 109
Rank change year-on-year +24 -5 -20
Contract jobs citing DNS 35 59 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.59% 1.62% 2.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.43% 16.12% 20.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 77
10th Percentile £385 £343 £464
25th Percentile £413 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £675 £575
90th Percentile £788 £710 £643
Central London median daily rate £450 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -23.40% +11.90% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 213 366 421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.67% 10.06% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 250 323
10th Percentile £215 £248 £313
25th Percentile £350 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.10% +5.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £616 £675 £615
90th Percentile £773 £758 £713
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 9
10th Percentile - £20.46 -
25th Percentile £12.75 £20.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £21.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% -46.84% +125.71%
75th Percentile £16.59 £24.64 £61.75
90th Percentile £17.99 £30.86 £64.35
Central London median hourly rate £16.22 £21.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -22.79% -46.84% +125.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DNS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (11.43%) IIS
3 3 (8.57%) Apache
3 3 (8.57%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (8.57%) IBM Domino
3 3 (8.57%) IBM Notes
4 2 (5.71%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (5.71%) JBoss
4 2 (5.71%) nginx
4 2 (5.71%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.86%) Apache Solr
5 1 (2.86%) Confluence
5 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.86%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.86%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) Azure
2 13 (37.14%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (31.43%) Entra ID
4 6 (17.14%) IaaS
5 4 (11.43%) AWS
5 4 (11.43%) Mimecast
6 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.57%) GitHub
7 2 (5.71%) PaaS
7 2 (5.71%) SaaS
8 1 (2.86%) Akamai
8 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.86%) Datadog
8 1 (2.86%) GCP
8 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.86%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (51.43%) Firewall
2 10 (28.57%) DHCP
3 5 (14.29%) Network Security
4 4 (11.43%) IPv4
4 4 (11.43%) MPLS
4 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
5 3 (8.57%) SMTP
5 3 (8.57%) SSL
5 3 (8.57%) Unified Communications
5 3 (8.57%) VPN
6 2 (5.71%) Internet
7 1 (2.86%) DKIM
7 1 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (2.86%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.86%) NAS
7 1 (2.86%) SAN
7 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
7 1 (2.86%) VLAN
7 1 (2.86%) WAN
7 1 (2.86%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
1 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.71%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (5.71%) MySQL
2 2 (5.71%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.71%) Redis
3 1 (2.86%) CouchDB
3 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.86%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
1 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
2 1 (2.86%) Darcs
2 1 (2.86%) GitLab
2 1 (2.86%) Jaeger
2 1 (2.86%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (2.86%) Mercurial
2 1 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.86%) Travis CI
2 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (11.43%) French Language
5 3 (8.57%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Data Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Market Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Market Data Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Active Directory Consultant
4 3 (8.57%) Administrator
4 3 (8.57%) Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Consultant
4 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (8.57%) Unified Communications Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) IT Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) ARM Templates
1 2 (5.71%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (5.71%) YAML
2 1 (2.86%) .NET
2 1 (2.86%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.86%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.86%) CSS
2 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.86%) HTML
2 1 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) LAMP
2 1 (2.86%) LDAP
2 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.86%) React
2 1 (2.86%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) SAML
2 1 (2.86%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (5.71%) Private Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) CBDC
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.86%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.86%) Digital Currency
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) PKI
3 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.86%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (42.86%) Windows
2 14 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (14.29%) Linux
4 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (8.57%) VMS
5 3 (8.57%) Windows 7
5 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.71%) Unix
6 2 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.86%) OpenVMS
7 1 (2.86%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 7 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (14.29%) Application Packaging
3 5 (14.29%) DevOps
3 5 (14.29%) IT Strategy
3 5 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 5 (14.29%) Migration
3 5 (14.29%) Time Management
4 4 (11.43%) Application Security
4 4 (11.43%) Application Virtualisation
4 4 (11.43%) Batch Scripting
4 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
4 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
4 4 (11.43%) Identity Management
4 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (8.57%) Cloud Security
5 3 (8.57%) RBAC
5 3 (8.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (54.29%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.43%) Python
2 4 (11.43%) VBScript
3 3 (8.57%) SQL
4 2 (5.71%) Go
4 2 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.86%) Bicep
5 1 (2.86%) C
5 1 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (2.86%) C++
5 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.86%) Perl
5 1 (2.86%) Ruby
5 1 (2.86%) Rust
5 1 (2.86%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) NIST
2 1 (2.86%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.86%) Docker
3 1 (2.86%) Firmware
3 1 (2.86%) KVM
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) SCCM
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (14.29%) Terraform
4 4 (11.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 4 (11.43%) Ansible
5 2 (5.71%) Grafana
5 2 (5.71%) Kibana
5 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.71%) logstash
5 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.71%) Puppet
6 1 (2.86%) Check_MK
6 1 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (2.86%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.86%) Packer
6 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.86%) Salt
6 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.86%) WSUS
6 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.86%) VMware
3 6 (17.14%) IBM
4 5 (14.29%) Okta
5 4 (11.43%) Citrix
5 4 (11.43%) Oracle
6 3 (8.57%) Cisco
6 3 (8.57%) Lotus
6 3 (8.57%) Proofpoint
7 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
7 2 (5.71%) ServiceNow
7 2 (5.71%) Temenos
7 2 (5.71%) Veeam
8 1 (2.86%) Adobe
8 1 (2.86%) Google
8 1 (2.86%) ProCurve
8 1 (2.86%) Qualys
8 1 (2.86%) Remedy
8 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 1 (2.86%) Veritas