DNS Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 94 111
Rank change year-on-year +18 +17 +2
Contract jobs citing DNS 40 29 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.37% 1.34% 1.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.64% 13.55% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 20 37
10th Percentile £258 £385 £335
25th Percentile £309 £396 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +24.84% -20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £642 £731 £675
90th Percentile £682 £803 £700
Central London median daily rate £565 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +25.56% -25.00% +9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 156 214 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.24% 9.88% 9.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 139 241
10th Percentile £246 £202 £231
25th Percentile £414 £344 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -20.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £622 £675
90th Percentile £741 £739 £750
Central London median daily rate £537 £444 £550
% change year-on-year +20.96% -19.32% +4.76%
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% -31.15%
75th Percentile £25.25 £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +81.48% -35.71% -40.00%

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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 22 May 2025.

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 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (55.00%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 9 (22.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 9 (22.50%) GitHub
4 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (17.50%) AWS
6 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (7.50%) Azure AKS
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (7.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.50%) IaaS
7 3 (7.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (52.50%) Firewall
2 15 (37.50%) DHCP
3 14 (35.00%) VPN
4 11 (27.50%) TCP/IP
5 7 (17.50%) NGFW
6 3 (7.50%) HTTP
6 3 (7.50%) MPLS
7 2 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (5.00%) FTP
7 2 (5.00%) LAN
7 2 (5.00%) Network Security
7 2 (5.00%) SMTP
7 2 (5.00%) SSL
7 2 (5.00%) VLAN
8 1 (2.50%) BGP
8 1 (2.50%) BIG-IP
8 1 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (2.50%) WAN
8 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (7.50%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Subversion
3 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Banking
3 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.50%) Advertising
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (22.50%) Network Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Network Support
4 7 (17.50%) Network Support Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) IT Support
6 3 (7.50%) Lead
6 3 (7.50%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Desktop Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) DevOps Specialist
7 2 (5.00%) Documentation Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) SCCM Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) ADO
2 3 (7.50%) Kafka
2 3 (7.50%) NumPy
2 3 (7.50%) OAuth
2 3 (7.50%) OAuth2
2 3 (7.50%) OpenID
2 3 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (7.50%) Pandas
2 3 (7.50%) REST
3 2 (5.00%) .NET
3 2 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (2.50%) LDAP
4 1 (2.50%) RESTful
4 1 (2.50%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Anti-Spyware
2 4 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.50%) Clustering
3 3 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (5.00%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (47.50%) Windows
2 9 (22.50%) Linux
3 6 (15.00%) Unix
3 6 (15.00%) Windows 10
3 6 (15.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.50%) Apple iOS
4 3 (7.50%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.50%) Android
5 1 (2.50%) Solaris
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Agile
2 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (27.50%) Migration
4 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
5 8 (20.00%) DevOps
6 7 (17.50%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (12.50%) DevSecOps
7 5 (12.50%) Test Automation
7 5 (12.50%) Time Management
8 4 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 4 (10.00%) High Availability
8 4 (10.00%) Microservices
8 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (7.50%) Configuration Management
9 3 (7.50%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (7.50%) Data Loss Prevention
9 3 (7.50%) Performance Testing
9 3 (7.50%) Quantitative Finance
9 3 (7.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.00%) C#
3 4 (10.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (7.50%) Perl
5 2 (5.00%) Bash
5 2 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.00%) VBScript
6 1 (2.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) CCNP
3 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.50%) Degree
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (5.00%) VCAP
4 2 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.00%) Docker
4 1 (2.50%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.50%) NFS
4 1 (2.50%) Veritas File System
4 1 (2.50%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (40.00%) Terraform
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
4 5 (12.50%) SCCM
5 3 (7.50%) Progress Chef
5 3 (7.50%) Puppet
6 2 (5.00%) Ansible
6 2 (5.00%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (2.50%) Control-M
7 1 (2.50%) Netcool
7 1 (2.50%) QRadar
7 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (2.50%) SCOrch
7 1 (2.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) CheckPoint
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.00%) Infoblox
2 8 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 6 (15.00%) VMware
4 4 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (7.50%) Cisco
5 3 (7.50%) F5
6 2 (5.00%) Atempo
6 2 (5.00%) Citrix
6 2 (5.00%) Databricks
6 2 (5.00%) Mellanox
6 2 (5.00%) Nexthink
6 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.50%) Apple
7 1 (2.50%) Arista
7 1 (2.50%) BMC
7 1 (2.50%) Juniper
7 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.50%) Zscaler