DNS Contract Job Trends in England

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 111 132
Rank change year-on-year -23 +21 -8
Contract jobs citing DNS 750 586 674
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.00% 2.41% 1.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.05% 18.16% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 409 448
10th Percentile £263 £250 £200
25th Percentile £400 £390 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £465
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.91% -11.43%
75th Percentile £612 £603 £575
90th Percentile £688 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 24
10th Percentile £13.35 £17.26 £20.98
25th Percentile £21.25 £23.59 £25.00
Median hourly rate £45.71 £80.68 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.34% +101.69% -13.24%
75th Percentile £74.26 £81.35 £42.19
90th Percentile £76.05 £82.48 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £45.71 £54.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -16.12% +36.25% -18.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,740 3,226 5,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.96% 13.29% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,395 2,011 3,161
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £381 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £492 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +0.41% +3.16% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 119 374
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.83 £13.90
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £39.50 £36.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.22% -8.75% +110.53%
75th Percentile £66.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.08 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.00% +7.69% +69.71%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

DNS job vacancy trend in England

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in England over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in England

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DNS

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS in England over the 6 months to 26 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in England

DNS
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 26 March 2026. 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
London -33 240 £500 -1.04% 81
North of England -1 212 £447 -5.95% 68
South East +5 156 £525 -4.55% 80
North West +20 138 £475 +11.76% 37
Midlands +20 107 £400 -27.93% 45
West Midlands +22 97 £400 -19.40% 29
Yorkshire -26 76 £443 -19.55% 22
South West -42 49 £693 +26.37% 33
East of England -32 39 £475 -5.00% 24
East Midlands -36 9 £375 -33.92% 16
North East -22 4 £200 -42.86% 11
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 88 (11.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (5.47%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.53%) Skype for Business
4 14 (1.87%) Confluence
5 12 (1.60%) nginx
6 7 (0.93%) IIS
7 5 (0.67%) Apache
8 3 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.27%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Portal
9 2 (0.27%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 25 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SystmOne
2 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 266 (35.47%) Azure
2 148 (19.73%) AWS
3 128 (17.07%) Entra ID
4 118 (15.73%) Microsoft 365
5 79 (10.53%) GCP
6 60 (8.00%) GitHub
7 44 (5.87%) IaaS
8 36 (4.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 35 (4.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (4.53%) Serverless
11 32 (4.27%) Amazon S3
12 30 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
12 30 (4.00%) Route 53
13 29 (3.87%) PaaS
14 28 (3.73%) OpenShift
15 27 (3.60%) SaaS
16 25 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
17 23 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 22 (2.93%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 321 (42.80%) DHCP
2 239 (31.87%) Firewall
3 199 (26.53%) TCP/IP
4 179 (23.87%) VPN
5 102 (13.60%) WAN
6 92 (12.27%) LAN
7 79 (10.53%) Network Security
8 74 (9.87%) BGP
8 74 (9.87%) SSL
9 72 (9.60%) VLAN
10 71 (9.47%) BIG-IP
11 67 (8.93%) HTTP
12 53 (7.07%) Wi-Fi
13 49 (6.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 44 (5.87%) OSPF
15 40 (5.33%) Wireshark
16 37 (4.93%) DMZ
17 36 (4.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 34 (4.53%) Kerberos
18 34 (4.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.20%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (1.73%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.93%) DynamoDB
6 6 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.80%) MongoDB
6 6 (0.80%) MySQL
6 6 (0.80%) Redis
7 5 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.67%) Data Hub
8 4 (0.53%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.53%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.53%) Power BI
8 4 (0.53%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.40%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.13%) CouchDB
10 1 (0.13%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 62 (8.27%) Jenkins
2 37 (4.93%) JIRA
3 30 (4.00%) Fiddler
3 30 (4.00%) GitLab
4 29 (3.87%) Git
5 8 (1.07%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.80%) Browser DevTools
7 6 (0.80%) Chocolatey
8 5 (0.67%) Terragrunt
9 4 (0.53%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.27%) Introscope
10 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.13%) Subversion
11 1 (0.13%) Travis CI
General
1 184 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 87 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (9.33%) Banking
4 61 (8.13%) Finance
5 47 (6.27%) Public Sector
6 46 (6.13%) Documentation Skills
7 45 (6.00%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.93%) Legal
9 16 (2.13%) Military
10 14 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 10 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.93%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.67%) Law
14 5 (0.67%) Local Government
15 4 (0.53%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.40%) Aerospace
16 3 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.27%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 134 (17.87%) Network Engineer
2 118 (15.73%) Architect
3 68 (9.07%) Analyst
4 67 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 65 (8.67%) Senior
6 52 (6.93%) Support Engineer
7 50 (6.67%) Security Engineer
8 49 (6.53%) Web Engineer
9 36 (4.80%) IT Support
10 30 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
11 29 (3.87%) IT Engineer
12 28 (3.73%) Cisco Engineer
12 28 (3.73%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 28 (3.73%) Lead
12 28 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
14 23 (3.07%) Data Engineer
14 23 (3.07%) Data Network Engineer
15 22 (2.93%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 22 (2.93%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (8.53%) LDAP
2 43 (5.73%) SAML
3 37 (4.93%) OAuth
4 29 (3.87%) OpenID
5 28 (3.73%) 802.1X
6 23 (3.07%) OpenTelemetry
7 20 (2.67%) OAuth2
8 10 (1.33%) Kafka
9 8 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (1.07%) REST
10 7 (0.93%) ARM Templates
10 7 (0.93%) XMPP
11 6 (0.80%) JSON
11 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.67%) Middleware
12 5 (0.67%) RESTful
13 4 (0.53%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.53%) JPA
13 4 (0.53%) Spring
13 4 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.53%) Data Centre
2 61 (8.13%) PKI
3 47 (6.27%) Cloud Native
3 47 (6.27%) Replication
4 34 (4.53%) Management Information System
5 32 (4.27%) Clustering
6 29 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 29 (3.87%) Public Cloud
7 25 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (2.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 18 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
11 15 (2.00%) Cyberattack
11 15 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
12 14 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.60%) NHS
14 12 (1.60%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.47%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 325 (43.33%) Windows
2 181 (24.13%) Windows Server
3 100 (13.33%) Linux
4 45 (6.00%) Windows 10
5 25 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (2.40%) Android
7 16 (2.13%) Unix
8 15 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (1.60%) Apple iOS
11 11 (1.47%) Windows 7
11 11 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (1.07%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.67%) VMS
15 4 (0.53%) CatOS
16 3 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.40%) CentOS
16 3 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (23.60%) Load Balancing
2 174 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (15.47%) Migration
4 108 (14.40%) CI/CD
5 107 (14.27%) DevOps
6 104 (13.87%) High Availability
7 98 (13.07%) ITIL
8 97 (12.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 89 (11.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 75 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
11 72 (9.60%) Disaster Recovery
12 65 (8.67%) RBAC
13 64 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
14 59 (7.87%) Observability
15 57 (7.60%) ITSM
16 54 (7.20%) Incident Response
17 53 (7.07%) Containerisation
18 52 (6.93%) Agile
19 51 (6.80%) Roadmaps
20 50 (6.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 202 (26.93%) PowerShell
2 133 (17.73%) Python
3 69 (9.20%) Bash
4 39 (5.20%) SQL
5 13 (1.73%) Bicep
5 13 (1.73%) JavaScript
5 13 (1.73%) VBScript
6 11 (1.47%) Java
7 9 (1.20%) Ruby
7 9 (1.20%) VB
8 8 (1.07%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.93%) Go
10 6 (0.80%) Lisp
11 4 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.53%) Perl
12 2 (0.27%) C
12 2 (0.27%) C#
12 2 (0.27%) Jython
12 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 247 (32.93%) Security Cleared
2 162 (21.60%) SC Cleared
3 86 (11.47%) DV Cleared
4 65 (8.67%) Cisco Certification
5 45 (6.00%) Degree
6 42 (5.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (5.33%) CCNP
8 26 (3.47%) Azure Certification
9 23 (3.07%) CCNA
10 16 (2.13%) AWS Certification
10 16 (2.13%) CompTIA Security+
11 14 (1.87%) CISSP
12 13 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
13 10 (1.33%) JNCIA
13 10 (1.33%) JNCIS
14 9 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (1.20%) CCIE
14 9 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
14 9 (1.20%) JNCIP
15 8 (1.07%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.73%) GDPR
2 21 (2.80%) NIST
2 21 (2.80%) SLA
3 20 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (1.07%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.93%) NCSC
7 6 (0.80%) QA
8 3 (0.40%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.27%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.27%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) COBIT
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 313 (41.73%) Active Directory
2 164 (21.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (8.00%) VMware NSX
4 58 (7.73%) Hyper-V
5 54 (7.20%) Docker
6 46 (6.13%) vSphere
7 29 (3.87%) Firmware
8 22 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
9 19 (2.53%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (2.27%) BitLocker
11 14 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (1.20%) Squid
13 7 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
14 5 (0.67%) NFS
14 5 (0.67%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.40%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.40%) Postfix
15 3 (0.40%) Sendmail
15 3 (0.40%) Varnish
16 2 (0.27%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 145 (19.33%) Terraform
2 115 (15.33%) Ansible
3 88 (11.73%) Kubernetes
4 85 (11.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 69 (9.20%) Single Sign-On
6 63 (8.40%) SCCM
7 57 (7.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 43 (5.73%) FortiGate
9 41 (5.47%) vCenter Server
10 39 (5.20%) Grafana
11 27 (3.60%) Argo
12 22 (2.93%) Prometheus
13 14 (1.87%) SCOM
14 11 (1.47%) WSUS
15 9 (1.20%) Puppet
16 8 (1.07%) HAProxy
17 7 (0.93%) Consul
17 7 (0.93%) vMotion
18 6 (0.80%) Nagios
18 6 (0.80%) Nessus
Vendors
1 263 (35.07%) Microsoft
2 210 (28.00%) VMware
3 137 (18.27%) F5
4 116 (15.47%) Cisco
5 67 (8.93%) Splunk
6 62 (8.27%) ServiceNow
7 42 (5.60%) Citrix
7 42 (5.60%) SolarWinds
8 40 (5.33%) Blue Coat
9 39 (5.20%) Red Hat
10 36 (4.80%) Juniper
11 35 (4.67%) McAfee
12 33 (4.40%) Palo Alto
13 30 (4.00%) Google
14 28 (3.73%) NetApp
15 27 (3.60%) Infoblox
16 24 (3.20%) Pure Storage
17 20 (2.67%) Extreme Networks
18 18 (2.40%) Fortinet
19 17 (2.27%) CheckPoint
306 DNS jobs in England