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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 122 148 133
Rank change year-on-year +26 -15 +10
Contract jobs citing DNS 640 549 826
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.30% 1.67% 1.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.50% 13.84% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 351 540
10th Percentile £239 £256 £250
25th Percentile £380 £363 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 10 16
10th Percentile £25.15 £19.85 £20.63
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.28 £25.63
Median hourly rate £45.00 £23.99 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.58% -49.49% +115.91%
75th Percentile £78.18 £28.83 £72.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £48.88 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £23.99 £47.50
% change year-on-year +87.58% -49.49% +115.91%

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 3,282 3,967 5,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.81% 12.04% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,054 2,323 3,578
10th Percentile £227 £242 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £618
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 217 280
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.44 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.75 £24.03
Median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.78
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £76.12
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £50.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.85% -10.60% +34.50%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
London +56 266 £500 -1.48% 80
Midlands +5 98 £463 +2.78% 62
West Midlands +23 92 £475 -9.52% 27
South East -8 91 £500 -2.91% 118
North of England +1 82 £447 -8.31% 83
East of England +33 60 £550 +100.00% 38
North West -5 49 £449 -10.30% 44
South West +25 46 £550 +1.38% 43
Yorkshire -19 30 £500 -2.44% 29
North East +6 10 £340 +142.86% 13
East Midlands -25 6 £450 +20.00% 33
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 69 (10.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (7.97%) SharePoint
3 48 (7.50%) Confluence
4 20 (3.13%) Skype for Business
5 15 (2.34%) SharePoint Server
6 14 (2.19%) Exchange Server 2010
6 14 (2.19%) OpenStack
7 13 (2.03%) Exchange Server 2003
7 13 (2.03%) Exchange Server 2007
7 13 (2.03%) Exchange Server 2013
7 13 (2.03%) Office Communications Server
8 12 (1.88%) IIS
9 11 (1.72%) Apache
10 10 (1.56%) nginx
11 3 (0.47%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.31%) Apache Spark
12 2 (0.31%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.31%) Oracle HTTP Server
12 2 (0.31%) WebLogic
Applications
1 70 (10.94%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.31%) Windchill
6 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.31%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Eikon
3 1 (0.16%) Eze OMS
3 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 177 (27.66%) AWS
2 165 (25.78%) Azure
3 108 (16.88%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (9.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 57 (8.91%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (8.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 50 (7.81%) Amazon S3
7 50 (7.81%) Entra ID
8 41 (6.41%) Amazon ELB
8 41 (6.41%) GCP
9 32 (5.00%) GitHub
10 30 (4.69%) IaaS
11 28 (4.38%) AWS KMS
12 25 (3.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (3.91%) SaaS
13 22 (3.44%) PaaS
14 21 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (3.28%) Cohesity
15 18 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 296 (46.25%) DHCP
2 253 (39.53%) Firewall
3 193 (30.16%) TCP/IP
4 185 (28.91%) VPN
5 93 (14.53%) Network Security
6 88 (13.75%) SSL
7 82 (12.81%) WAN
8 78 (12.19%) VLAN
9 74 (11.56%) LAN
10 69 (10.78%) HTTP
10 69 (10.78%) SAN
11 68 (10.63%) SMTP
12 63 (9.84%) Wireless
13 49 (7.66%) BGP
14 41 (6.41%) FTP
15 40 (6.25%) OSPF
16 36 (5.63%) IPsec
17 32 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 29 (4.53%) Wi-Fi
19 25 (3.91%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (7.34%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (2.34%) Big Data
4 15 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 6 (0.94%) Power BI
8 4 (0.63%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.63%) MySQL
8 4 (0.63%) NoSQL
9 3 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (0.47%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.31%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.31%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.31%) Parquet
11 1 (0.16%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.16%) Power Query
11 1 (0.16%) Sisense
Development Applications
1 84 (13.13%) Jenkins
2 70 (10.94%) JIRA
3 65 (10.16%) Git
4 45 (7.03%) GitLab
5 22 (3.44%) Vagrant
6 12 (1.88%) TeamCity
7 6 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
8 5 (0.78%) Fiddler
8 5 (0.78%) Vite
8 5 (0.78%) webpack
9 4 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.63%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.63%) Subversion
10 3 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.31%) MLflow
11 2 (0.31%) Poetry
11 2 (0.31%) PyCharm
11 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
General
1 194 (30.31%) Social Skills
2 89 (13.91%) Public Sector
3 79 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (10.63%) Finance
5 23 (3.59%) Banking
5 23 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (3.44%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.66%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.19%) Legal
8 14 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.88%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.56%) Law
12 9 (1.41%) Marketing
13 8 (1.25%) Military
14 6 (0.94%) French Language
14 6 (0.94%) Local Government
15 4 (0.63%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.63%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 96 (15.00%) Support Engineer
2 90 (14.06%) Network Engineer
3 80 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 60 (9.38%) Senior
5 55 (8.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 53 (8.28%) Analyst
7 40 (6.25%) Architect
8 36 (5.63%) IT Support
9 35 (5.47%) Administrator
10 33 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
12 27 (4.22%) Azure Engineer
13 25 (3.91%) Security Engineer
14 24 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 23 (3.59%) IT Engineer
16 20 (3.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 20 (3.13%) Infrastructure Support
16 20 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 20 (3.13%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.38%) LDAP
2 15 (2.34%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (2.34%) YAML
3 12 (1.88%) .NET
4 11 (1.72%) Middleware
5 10 (1.56%) 802.1X
6 9 (1.41%) JSON
6 9 (1.41%) React
7 8 (1.25%) CSS
7 8 (1.25%) HTML
7 8 (1.25%) NETCONF
7 8 (1.25%) RESTCONF
8 7 (1.09%) ADO
8 7 (1.09%) AngularJS
9 6 (0.94%) SAML
10 5 (0.78%) Flask
10 5 (0.78%) HTML5
10 5 (0.78%) Kafka
10 5 (0.78%) React Native
10 5 (0.78%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.91%) PKI
2 54 (8.44%) Replication
3 48 (7.50%) Data Centre
4 40 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (2.50%) Clustering
6 16 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.34%) Security Operations Centre
8 13 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
8 13 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.88%) Cyberattack
9 12 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (1.88%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.72%) Cloud Native
10 11 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
11 10 (1.56%) Operational Technology
12 9 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
13 8 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 327 (51.09%) Windows
2 147 (22.97%) Linux
3 121 (18.91%) Windows Server
4 59 (9.22%) Windows 10
5 42 (6.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 39 (6.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (4.53%) VMS
8 28 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 25 (3.91%) Unix
10 24 (3.75%) Windows Server 2003
11 23 (3.59%) Mac OS
11 23 (3.59%) Ubuntu
12 22 (3.44%) Amazon Linux
13 21 (3.28%) CentOS
14 17 (2.66%) Windows Server 2012
15 12 (1.88%) Android
16 8 (1.25%) Windows 7
17 6 (0.94%) Apple iOS
18 4 (0.63%) Solaris
19 3 (0.47%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (20.31%) DevOps
2 112 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
3 108 (16.88%) ITIL
4 98 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 93 (14.53%) CI/CD
6 84 (13.13%) High Availability
7 83 (12.97%) Infrastructure as Code
8 67 (10.47%) Migration
9 59 (9.22%) Agile
10 57 (8.91%) Change Management
11 55 (8.59%) Cybersecurity
12 49 (7.66%) Load Balancing
12 49 (7.66%) SIEM
13 47 (7.34%) Computer Science
14 45 (7.03%) Service Management
15 44 (6.88%) Containerisation
16 42 (6.56%) Configuration Management
17 41 (6.41%) Patch Management
18 40 (6.25%) Cloud Security
19 39 (6.09%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 153 (23.91%) PowerShell
2 145 (22.66%) Python
3 68 (10.63%) Bash
4 41 (6.41%) SQL
5 30 (4.69%) Perl
6 25 (3.91%) Groovy
6 25 (3.91%) Shell Script
7 19 (2.97%) Java
8 12 (1.88%) C#
9 11 (1.72%) Bicep
9 11 (1.72%) JavaScript
10 10 (1.56%) Go
11 7 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (1.09%) VBScript
12 6 (0.94%) C++
12 6 (0.94%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.47%) VB
14 1 (0.16%) C
14 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.16%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 224 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 151 (23.59%) SC Cleared
3 94 (14.69%) Degree
4 92 (14.38%) Cisco Certification
5 70 (10.94%) DV Cleared
6 66 (10.31%) CCNP
7 42 (6.56%) CCNA
8 37 (5.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (3.91%) AWS Certification
11 23 (3.59%) Azure Certification
12 15 (2.34%) CCIE
13 13 (2.03%) CISSP
14 11 (1.72%) A+ Certification
14 11 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
15 10 (1.56%) CCSA
15 10 (1.56%) MCSE
16 9 (1.41%) MCSA
16 9 (1.41%) Server+ Certification
17 8 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.44%) SLA
2 20 (3.13%) GDPR
3 11 (1.72%) NIST
4 9 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.41%) NCSC
4 9 (1.41%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.94%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.78%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.78%) WCAG
8 4 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 266 (41.56%) Active Directory
2 154 (24.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 89 (13.91%) Docker
4 57 (8.91%) Hyper-V
5 35 (5.47%) VMware ESXi
6 28 (4.38%) Virtual Servers
7 27 (4.22%) DFS Replication
7 27 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (4.22%) vSphere
8 25 (3.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 20 (3.13%) Terminal Services
10 18 (2.81%) Microsoft App-V
10 18 (2.81%) VMware NSX
11 16 (2.50%) Dovecot
11 16 (2.50%) Postfix
12 13 (2.03%) Brightmail
12 13 (2.03%) ISA Server
13 12 (1.88%) Firmware
14 10 (1.56%) BitLocker
14 10 (1.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 120 (18.75%) Ansible
2 111 (17.34%) Terraform
3 73 (11.41%) SCCM
4 57 (8.91%) Kubernetes
5 48 (7.50%) Grafana
6 46 (7.19%) Prometheus
7 40 (6.25%) WSUS
8 36 (5.63%) vCenter Server
9 30 (4.69%) Puppet
10 26 (4.06%) Microsoft Intune
11 20 (3.13%) Progress Chef
12 17 (2.66%) Microsoft Clustering
12 17 (2.66%) Nessus
13 14 (2.19%) Nagios
13 14 (2.19%) vMotion
14 13 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
15 11 (1.72%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 10 (1.56%) FortiGate
16 10 (1.56%) Packer
16 10 (1.56%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 232 (36.25%) Microsoft
2 187 (29.22%) VMware
3 141 (22.03%) Cisco
4 76 (11.88%) F5
5 68 (10.63%) ServiceNow
6 59 (9.22%) CheckPoint
7 52 (8.13%) Splunk
8 45 (7.03%) Citrix
9 41 (6.41%) Palo Alto
10 36 (5.63%) SolarWinds
11 34 (5.31%) Google
12 32 (5.00%) NetApp
13 30 (4.69%) Red Hat
14 28 (4.38%) Juniper
15 27 (4.22%) Dell
16 24 (3.75%) Veeam
17 18 (2.81%) Fortinet
17 18 (2.81%) Infoblox
17 18 (2.81%) Meraki
18 16 (2.50%) HP
391 DNS jobs in England