DNS Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Domain Name System (DNS)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - 34
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing DNS 11 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 12.09% - 1.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 64.71% - 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £498 - £295
25th Percentile £532 - £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.89%
75th Percentile £649 - £738
90th Percentile £684 - -
South London median daily rate £500 £463 £190
% change year-on-year +8.11% +143.42% -62.93%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 17 10 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 18.68% 8.85% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 32
10th Percentile £414 £365 £380
25th Percentile £494 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £459 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.93% -14.60% -10.42%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £638
90th Percentile £658 £550 £675
South London median daily rate £475 £450 £544
% change year-on-year +5.56% -17.24% +3.57%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Croydon

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Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing DNS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Croydon over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Croydon

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Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing DNS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 10 (90.91%) Confluence
1 10 (90.91%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) Route 53
1 11 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon ECS
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon ELB
2 10 (90.91%) Amazon S3
2 10 (90.91%) AWS KMS
2 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 10 (90.91%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
2 10 (90.91%) FTP
2 10 (90.91%) HTTP
2 10 (90.91%) IMAP
2 10 (90.91%) OpenLDAP
2 10 (90.91%) SMTP
2 10 (90.91%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (90.91%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (90.91%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (90.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (90.91%) Git
1 10 (90.91%) Jenkins
1 10 (90.91%) JIRA
1 10 (90.91%) Vagrant
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 10 (90.91%) Presentation Skills
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 9 (81.82%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (90.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (90.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (90.91%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (90.91%) Linux
1 10 (90.91%) Ubuntu
1 10 (90.91%) VMS
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Patch Management
2 10 (90.91%) Change Management
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 10 (90.91%) Cloud Security
2 10 (90.91%) Configuration Management
2 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (90.91%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Agile
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (9.09%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (9.09%) Process Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Servant Leadership
3 1 (9.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Groovy
1 10 (90.91%) PowerShell
1 10 (90.91%) Python
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 10 (90.91%) Azure Certification
2 10 (90.91%) Degree
2 10 (90.91%) SC Cleared
2 10 (90.91%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) DFS Replication
1 10 (90.91%) Docker
1 10 (90.91%) Dovecot
1 10 (90.91%) Postfix
1 10 (90.91%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Grafana
1 10 (90.91%) Nessus
1 10 (90.91%) Prometheus
1 10 (90.91%) Proxmox
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (90.91%) ServiceNow