DNS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 71 81
Rank change year-on-year +31 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing DNS 59 28 31
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 4.50% 1.88% 1.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.78% 10.61% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 12 22
10th Percentile £250 - £275
25th Percentile £521 £213 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £275 £450
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -38.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £279 £475
90th Percentile £609 £389 £691
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 1
10th Percentile £30.25 £32.00 -
25th Percentile £44.11 £35.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% +150.00% -2.85%
75th Percentile £82.26 £45.00 £16.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £48.00 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £47.50
% change year-on-year +86.10% -49.09% +115.91%

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 205 264 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.64% 17.72% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 119 205
10th Percentile £204 £211 £200
25th Percentile £363 £275 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £413 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £588 £675
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 55 58
10th Percentile £14.99 £16.30 £17.43
25th Percentile £22.67 £20.78 £56.56
Median hourly rate £49.75 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -15.38% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £84.64 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -34.61% +1.52% +37.68%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

DNS job vacancy trend in the East of England

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DNS

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 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the East of England

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DNS

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in the East of England

DNS
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 October 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 +27 36 £550 +23.60% 8
Cambridgeshire +17 18 £250 - 12
Bedfordshire -10 3 £41 -81.47% 6
Suffolk - 2 £520 - 4
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (8.47%) OpenStack
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) CMS
3 1 (1.69%) IIS
3 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (35.59%) Cohesity
2 9 (15.25%) AWS
3 8 (13.56%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (8.47%) Azure
4 5 (8.47%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.47%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.69%) GCP
6 1 (1.69%) IaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.69%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (49.15%) SAN
2 16 (27.12%) DHCP
3 13 (22.03%) Network Security
4 12 (20.34%) FTP
4 12 (20.34%) HTTP
4 12 (20.34%) SMTP
4 12 (20.34%) SSL
5 9 (15.25%) Cisco IOS
6 8 (13.56%) Firewall
7 7 (11.86%) PuTTY
8 6 (10.17%) iSCSI
9 5 (8.47%) LAN
10 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
10 4 (6.78%) Wireless
10 4 (6.78%) WLAN
11 3 (5.08%) WAN
11 3 (5.08%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (3.39%) BIG-IP
12 2 (3.39%) Cisco Wireless
12 2 (3.39%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) JIRA
2 8 (13.56%) GitLab
2 8 (13.56%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
4 2 (3.39%) Law
4 2 (3.39%) Local Government
5 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (35.59%) Analyst
2 12 (20.34%) SOC Analyst
3 9 (15.25%) Administrator
4 7 (11.86%) Network Analyst
5 6 (10.17%) Network Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Support Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Systems Administrator
6 5 (8.47%) Linux Administrator
6 5 (8.47%) Network Support
6 5 (8.47%) Network Support Analyst
6 5 (8.47%) Network Support Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.08%) Senior
9 2 (3.39%) Designer
9 2 (3.39%) Network Designer
9 2 (3.39%) Service Analyst
9 2 (3.39%) Service Desk Analyst
10 1 (1.69%) Architect
10 1 (1.69%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (20.34%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Cyberattack
2 9 (15.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (15.25%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (13.56%) CSOC
3 8 (13.56%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (13.56%) Management Information System
4 7 (11.86%) Data Centre
5 5 (8.47%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (8.47%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.39%) Smartphone
6 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.69%) PKI
7 1 (1.69%) Replication
7 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.69%) Smartcard
7 1 (1.69%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 27 (45.76%) Windows
2 24 (40.68%) Windows Server
3 21 (35.59%) Windows Server 2019
4 20 (33.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (13.56%) Linux
6 6 (10.17%) CentOS
6 6 (10.17%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.85%) SIEM
2 20 (33.90%) Build Automation
2 20 (33.90%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (33.90%) Operations Management
3 13 (22.03%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (20.34%) Computer Science
5 11 (18.64%) Network Packet Capture
6 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (16.95%) Incident Response
6 10 (16.95%) Information Security
7 9 (15.25%) Containerisation
7 9 (15.25%) ITSM
7 9 (15.25%) Root Cause Analysis
7 9 (15.25%) Security Operations
7 9 (15.25%) Threat Detection
8 8 (13.56%) Analytics
8 8 (13.56%) Behavioural Analytics
8 8 (13.56%) Machine Learning
8 8 (13.56%) SOAR
8 8 (13.56%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (50.85%) PowerShell
2 18 (30.51%) Python
3 9 (15.25%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.39%) SQL
5 1 (1.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 30 (50.85%) Security Cleared
2 28 (47.46%) DV Cleared
3 13 (22.03%) Degree
4 10 (16.95%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (15.25%) CCNA
6 8 (13.56%) SC Cleared
7 7 (11.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (5.08%) CCNP
9 1 (1.69%) CCIE
9 1 (1.69%) CCIE Security
9 1 (1.69%) CISSP
9 1 (1.69%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (54.24%) Active Directory
2 22 (37.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (33.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 20 (33.90%) Virtual Servers
4 9 (15.25%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (50.85%) Ansible
2 21 (35.59%) SCCM
2 21 (35.59%) WSUS
3 4 (6.78%) Progress Chef
3 4 (6.78%) Puppet
3 4 (6.78%) Salt
3 4 (6.78%) Terraform
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.69%) Nessus
5 1 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 36 (61.02%) Microsoft
2 27 (45.76%) VMware
3 21 (35.59%) Splunk
4 20 (33.90%) NetApp
5 14 (23.73%) ServiceNow
6 11 (18.64%) Cisco
7 2 (3.39%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (3.39%) Dell
7 2 (3.39%) F5
7 2 (3.39%) Meraki
7 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.39%) Peregrine
7 2 (3.39%) Remedy
8 1 (1.69%) Darktrace
8 1 (1.69%) FireEye
8 1 (1.69%) IronPort
8 1 (1.69%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.69%) Tenable
8 1 (1.69%) Veeam
8 1 (1.69%) Zscaler