DNS Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Domain Name System (DNS)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 18 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing DNS 4 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 2.33% 2.20% 3.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.76% 18.18% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £249 - £408
25th Percentile £293 £575 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £600 £438
Median % change year-on-year -37.92% +37.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £458 £625 £488
90th Percentile £506 - £510
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - +17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
75th Percentile - - £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 - £27.00
% change year-on-year - - +80.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 34 11 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 19.77% 12.09% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 22
10th Percentile £253 £164 £360
25th Percentile £269 £178 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -5.88% +65.05%
75th Percentile £521 £425 £494
90th Percentile £549 £465 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £418 £505 £400
% change year-on-year -17.33% +26.25% -9.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
75th Percentile - - £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +13.40%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Coventry

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Coventry over the 6 months to 3 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Coventry

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing DNS

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) BGP
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (50.00%) IPv4
3 2 (50.00%) IPv6
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) MPLS
3 2 (50.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
3 2 (50.00%) WLAN
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (25.00%) NGFW
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Network Design
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCIE
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE Security
2 2 (50.00%) CCSP
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIE
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
1 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Meraki
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Forcepoint
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft