DNS Contracts in the East of England

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 40 105 75
Rank change year-on-year +65 -30 -16
Contract jobs citing DNS 42 7 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.48% 0.37% 2.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.09% 2.36% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 6 32
10th Percentile £225 - £401
25th Percentile £243 £290 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £345 £538
Median % change year-on-year +44.93% -35.81% +26.47%
75th Percentile £609 £453 £700
90th Percentile £625 £469 -
England median daily rate £548 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +12.41% -7.14% +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £80.34 - -
25th Percentile £80.59 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - £17.47
75th Percentile £81.91 - -
90th Percentile £83.05 - -
England median hourly rate £80.68 £40.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year +101.69% -23.27% +89.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 296 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 23.45% 15.51% 17.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 147 199
10th Percentile £225 £199 £202
25th Percentile £344 £261 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £415 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £556 £494 £661
90th Percentile £625 £575 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 103 43
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.22 -
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 - £74.35
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the East of England

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for DNS in the East of England

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire +47 24 £588 +102.59% 18
Cambridgeshire +16 7 £500 +17.65% 16
Suffolk - 7 £225 - 1
Essex - 4 £245 - 14
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.76%) CMS
4 1 (2.38%) Apache
4 1 (2.38%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (9.52%) AWS
2 4 (9.52%) OneDrive
3 3 (7.14%) Cloudflare
3 3 (7.14%) Cohesity
4 2 (4.76%) Azure
4 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.38%) Akamai
5 1 (2.38%) Mimecast
5 1 (2.38%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 16 (38.10%) HTTP
1 16 (38.10%) SSL
2 15 (35.71%) FTP
2 15 (35.71%) SMTP
3 13 (30.95%) Network Security
3 13 (30.95%) VPN
4 12 (28.57%) TCP/IP
5 8 (19.05%) DHCP
6 7 (16.67%) Firewall
7 4 (9.52%) LAN
7 4 (9.52%) WAN
8 3 (7.14%) VLAN
8 3 (7.14%) VoIP
8 3 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (4.76%) SAN
9 2 (4.76%) Skype
9 2 (4.76%) SNMP
10 1 (2.38%) DMVPN
10 1 (2.38%) GLBP
10 1 (2.38%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Git
1 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 17 (40.48%) Social Skills
2 16 (38.10%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Law
4 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.38%) Aviation
4 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Analyst
2 13 (30.95%) SOC Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Senior
4 6 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Network Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Service Analyst
6 4 (9.52%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Desktop Support
7 3 (7.14%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Security Analyst
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Desktop Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Desktop Support
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Senior Support Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (35.71%) LDAP
2 1 (2.38%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.38%) HTML
2 1 (2.38%) Redfish
2 1 (2.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (35.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 13 (30.95%) Cyberattack
3 11 (26.19%) Security Operations Centre
4 10 (23.81%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (19.05%) CSOC
6 7 (16.67%) Management Information System
7 6 (14.29%) Driving Licence
8 2 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (4.76%) Smartcard
8 2 (4.76%) YARA
8 2 (4.76%) YubiKey
9 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
9 1 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (2.38%) FMCG
9 1 (2.38%) PKI
9 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (42.86%) Windows
2 6 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.52%) Linux
4 3 (7.14%) Windows 10
5 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (28.57%) Threat Detection
3 11 (26.19%) Network Packet Capture
4 10 (23.81%) Information Management
4 10 (23.81%) Information Security
4 10 (23.81%) Security Operations
5 9 (21.43%) SIEM
6 8 (19.05%) Incident Response
6 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (16.67%) Analytics
7 7 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (16.67%) Behavioural Analytics
7 7 (16.67%) ITIL
7 7 (16.67%) ITSM
7 7 (16.67%) Machine Learning
8 5 (11.90%) Zero Trust
9 4 (9.52%) Break/Fix
10 3 (7.14%) Customer Service
10 3 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
10 3 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.38%) Bash
2 1 (2.38%) C-shell
2 1 (2.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (59.52%) Security Cleared
2 19 (45.24%) SC Cleared
3 15 (35.71%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.14%) CCNA
5 3 (7.14%) CCNP
6 2 (4.76%) Degree
7 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.38%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.38%) Docker
4 1 (2.38%) Firmware
4 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.38%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (16.67%) SCCM
2 5 (11.90%) Ansible
3 4 (9.52%) WSUS
4 3 (7.14%) AppManager
5 2 (4.76%) Avamar
5 2 (4.76%) Nessus
5 2 (4.76%) VxRail
6 1 (2.38%) HAProxy
6 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.38%) Nagios
6 1 (2.38%) Puppet
6 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.38%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) ServiceNow
3 7 (16.67%) VMware
4 5 (11.90%) Cisco
5 4 (9.52%) Splunk
6 3 (7.14%) CheckPoint
6 3 (7.14%) Dell
6 3 (7.14%) Ivanti
6 3 (7.14%) LogRhythm
6 3 (7.14%) Tenable
7 2 (4.76%) Darktrace
7 2 (4.76%) FireEye
7 2 (4.76%) IronPort
7 2 (4.76%) NetApp
7 2 (4.76%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
7 2 (4.76%) Symantec
8 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.38%) F5
8 1 (2.38%) Riverbed