DNS Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 11 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 2.78% 4.44% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.76% 10.53% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - £271 -
25th Percentile £413 £303 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £363 -
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% - -
75th Percentile £438 £428 -
90th Percentile - £464 -
Central London median daily rate £513 £545 £530
% change year-on-year -5.96% +2.83% -3.64%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 17 19 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 23.61% 42.22% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 6
10th Percentile - £263 -
25th Percentile £405 £394 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £484
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -6.98% -21.02%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £563
90th Percentile £650 £668 £575
Central London median daily rate £538 £543 £510
% change year-on-year -0.92% +6.37% -7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £44.11 -
% change year-on-year +2.02% - -

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

DNS job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing DNS

DNS
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 8 August 2026. 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
Westminster -10 1 £425 +17.24% 1
DNS
Central London

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Istio
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google