DNS Contracts in Cumbria

Domain Name System (DNS)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 39 13
Rank change year-on-year +13 -26 +5
Contract jobs citing DNS 13 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 6.67% 0.39% 7.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.62% 2.17% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £360 - £425
25th Percentile £471 £514 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £426
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% +23.94% +0.24%
75th Percentile £538 £542 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £425 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +6.25% -27.27% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 103 46 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 52.82% 17.76% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 36 10
10th Percentile £363 £463 £424
25th Percentile £425 £515 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +29.73% -3.65%
75th Percentile £588 £667 £487
90th Percentile £638 £672 £543
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £41.23 -
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Cumbria

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in Cumbria.

Daily rate trend for DNS in Cumbria

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Cumbria over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Cumbria

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 3 £465 -
Carlisle - 1 £275 - 5
DNS
North West

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 11 (84.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (53.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (30.77%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
1 8 (61.54%) Entra ID
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) DHCP
2 5 (38.46%) WAN
3 4 (30.77%) LAN
3 4 (30.77%) Skype
3 4 (30.77%) VLAN
3 4 (30.77%) VPN
3 4 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall
4 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (7.69%) Wireless
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Military
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Deployment Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Consultant
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 7 (53.85%) VMS
2 7 (53.85%) Windows Server
3 4 (30.77%) Windows 10
3 4 (30.77%) Windows 7
4 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) ITSM
2 9 (69.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (53.85%) DevOps
3 7 (53.85%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (30.77%) Disk Encryption
4 4 (30.77%) Service Management
5 1 (7.69%) Agile
5 1 (7.69%) Antivirus Management
5 1 (7.69%) Business Continuity
5 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Patch Management
5 1 (7.69%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
1 4 (30.77%) VB
1 4 (30.77%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) BitLocker
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) WSUS
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (30.77%) SCCM
4 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 9 (69.23%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco