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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
9 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 115 136
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 -7
Contract jobs citing DNS 791 586 636
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.94% 2.41% 1.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.47% 18.32% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 415 428
10th Percentile £268 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £547 £485
Median % change year-on-year -12.25% +12.90% -7.71%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £640 £667 £675
UK median daily rate £478 £539 £475
% change year-on-year -11.41% +13.47% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 9 24
10th Percentile £15.08 £26.10 £18.95
25th Percentile £22.23 £45.75 £23.66
Median hourly rate £52.11 £80.68 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.41% +148.23% -33.83%
75th Percentile £74.20 £81.35 £40.00
90th Percentile £76.05 £82.48 £50.96
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £80.68 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.92% +101.69% -23.27%

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 3,864 3,199 4,863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.48% 13.16% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,418 1,982 2,938
10th Percentile £250 £220 £206
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £489 £495
% change year-on-year +1.28% -1.26% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 120 394
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.90
Median hourly rate £41.94 £29.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.40% -25.85% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +24.74% -18.75% +111.92%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -42 257 £500 -2.98% 72
North of England +3 217 £425 -10.53% 66
South East -6 158 £525 -4.55% 91
North West +36 146 £425 -2.86% 36
Midlands +22 115 £400 -27.93% 32
West Midlands +28 101 £390 -16.58% 21
Yorkshire -35 66 £447 -18.82% 24
South West -45 51 £508 -13.62% 35
East of England -42 42 £450 -14.29% 29
East Midlands -32 13 £394 -30.62% 11
North East -23 6 £306 -11.23% 8
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 86 (10.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (4.80%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.64%) nginx
4 12 (1.52%) Confluence
5 11 (1.39%) IIS
6 9 (1.14%) Apache
7 4 (0.51%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
9 2 (0.25%) WordPress
10 1 (0.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 19 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
1 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 271 (34.26%) Azure
2 139 (17.57%) AWS
3 133 (16.81%) Entra ID
4 106 (13.40%) Microsoft 365
5 85 (10.75%) GCP
6 59 (7.46%) GitHub
7 45 (5.69%) IaaS
8 38 (4.80%) SaaS
9 36 (4.55%) PaaS
10 33 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 33 (4.17%) Serverless
11 29 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (3.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 28 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
13 27 (3.41%) Amazon S3
13 27 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
14 26 (3.29%) Route 53
15 21 (2.65%) OpenShift
16 19 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 340 (42.98%) DHCP
2 238 (30.09%) Firewall
3 195 (24.65%) VPN
4 188 (23.77%) TCP/IP
5 99 (12.52%) WAN
6 94 (11.88%) LAN
7 84 (10.62%) Network Security
8 81 (10.24%) SSL
9 80 (10.11%) BIG-IP
10 78 (9.86%) BGP
11 72 (9.10%) HTTP
12 69 (8.72%) VLAN
13 44 (5.56%) OSPF
14 43 (5.44%) Wi-Fi
15 42 (5.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 40 (5.06%) Wireless
16 40 (5.06%) Wireshark
17 38 (4.80%) DMZ
17 38 (4.80%) Kerberos
18 32 (4.05%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (3.54%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.28%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (1.01%) Power BI
5 5 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (0.63%) DynamoDB
5 5 (0.63%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.63%) MySQL
6 4 (0.51%) DocumentDB
6 4 (0.51%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.51%) Redis
7 3 (0.38%) Data Hub
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.13%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 48 (6.07%) Jenkins
2 44 (5.56%) JIRA
3 28 (3.54%) Fiddler
3 28 (3.54%) Git
4 24 (3.03%) GitLab
5 9 (1.14%) Browser DevTools
6 7 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.76%) Chocolatey
8 4 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.51%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.25%) Introscope
11 1 (0.13%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.13%) Travis CI
General
1 161 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 76 (9.61%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (9.10%) Banking
4 63 (7.96%) Finance
5 52 (6.57%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
6 39 (4.93%) Investment Banking
7 20 (2.53%) Legal
8 17 (2.15%) Military
8 17 (2.15%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.26%) Law
10 9 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (0.76%) Financial Institution
11 6 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.63%) Police
13 4 (0.51%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.51%) Local Government
14 3 (0.38%) Advertising
14 3 (0.38%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 149 (18.84%) Network Engineer
2 103 (13.02%) Architect
3 95 (12.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 72 (9.10%) Analyst
5 63 (7.96%) Senior
6 61 (7.71%) Security Engineer
7 51 (6.45%) Web Engineer
8 42 (5.31%) Network Security Engineer
8 42 (5.31%) Support Engineer
9 34 (4.30%) Cisco Engineer
9 34 (4.30%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 33 (4.17%) Data Engineer
10 33 (4.17%) Data Network Engineer
11 32 (4.05%) Cisco Security Engineer
12 31 (3.92%) IT Support
13 30 (3.79%) IT Engineer
14 27 (3.41%) Administrator
14 27 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
15 25 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
15 25 (3.16%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (8.72%) LDAP
2 45 (5.69%) SAML
3 36 (4.55%) OAuth
4 35 (4.42%) 802.1X
5 25 (3.16%) OpenID
6 21 (2.65%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (1.26%) JSON
7 10 (1.26%) OAuth2
8 9 (1.14%) Kafka
8 9 (1.14%) REST
9 8 (1.01%) ARM Templates
9 8 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.63%) Web Services
10 5 (0.63%) XMPP
11 4 (0.51%) Hibernate
11 4 (0.51%) JPA
11 4 (0.51%) Middleware
11 4 (0.51%) RESTful
11 4 (0.51%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 67 (8.47%) Data Centre
2 62 (7.84%) PKI
3 49 (6.19%) Cloud Native
4 39 (4.93%) Replication
5 38 (4.80%) Clustering
6 37 (4.68%) Onboarding
7 36 (4.55%) Management Information System
8 34 (4.30%) Public Cloud
9 24 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 23 (2.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 18 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (2.02%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.90%) Cyberattack
14 14 (1.77%) Enterprise Cloud
14 14 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
16 12 (1.52%) Virtual Team
17 11 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 334 (42.23%) Windows
2 196 (24.78%) Windows Server
3 100 (12.64%) Linux
4 42 (5.31%) Windows 10
5 30 (3.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (2.78%) Unix
7 18 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
9 15 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (1.64%) Android
11 10 (1.26%) Mac OS
12 9 (1.14%) Apple iOS
13 8 (1.01%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (0.76%) CentOS
14 6 (0.76%) Ubuntu
14 6 (0.76%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.63%) VMS
16 4 (0.51%) CatOS
17 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
17 2 (0.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
2 162 (20.48%) Load Balancing
3 130 (16.43%) Migration
4 129 (16.31%) High Availability
5 120 (15.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 108 (13.65%) DevOps
7 103 (13.02%) CI/CD
8 102 (12.90%) ITIL
9 99 (12.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 70 (8.85%) Disaster Recovery
10 70 (8.85%) Observability
11 69 (8.72%) Identity Access Management
12 66 (8.34%) Cybersecurity
13 65 (8.22%) Agile
14 61 (7.71%) ITSM
15 50 (6.32%) Containerisation
15 50 (6.32%) RBAC
16 49 (6.19%) Project Delivery
17 48 (6.07%) Change Management
18 47 (5.94%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 164 (20.73%) PowerShell
2 119 (15.04%) Python
3 68 (8.60%) Bash
4 41 (5.18%) SQL
5 21 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.77%) Bicep
7 12 (1.52%) Java
8 11 (1.39%) Go
8 11 (1.39%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.14%) Ruby
10 7 (0.88%) VBA
10 7 (0.88%) VBScript
11 4 (0.51%) Perl
11 4 (0.51%) VB
12 3 (0.38%) C
12 3 (0.38%) Groovy
13 2 (0.25%) Jython
13 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.13%) C#
14 1 (0.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 263 (33.25%) Security Cleared
2 174 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 82 (10.37%) DV Cleared
4 69 (8.72%) Cisco Certification
5 44 (5.56%) Degree
6 39 (4.93%) CCNP
7 31 (3.92%) CCNA
8 27 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.91%) Azure Certification
10 19 (2.40%) CompTIA Security+
11 18 (2.28%) Network+ Certification
12 14 (1.77%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
15 10 (1.26%) JNCIA
15 10 (1.26%) JNCIS
16 8 (1.01%) JNCIP
16 8 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 7 (0.88%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.54%) SLA
2 23 (2.91%) GDPR
3 20 (2.53%) NIST
4 18 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.76%) NCSC
6 6 (0.76%) QA
7 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.25%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.13%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.13%) COBIT
10 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.13%) RMADS
10 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 327 (41.34%) Active Directory
2 177 (22.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 81 (10.24%) Hyper-V
4 50 (6.32%) VMware NSX
5 42 (5.31%) Docker
6 40 (5.06%) vSphere
7 31 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
8 28 (3.54%) VMware ESXi
9 25 (3.16%) Firmware
10 19 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (1.77%) BitLocker
12 11 (1.39%) NFS
13 10 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (1.26%) Squid
14 6 (0.76%) Postfix
14 6 (0.76%) Sendmail
14 6 (0.76%) Varnish
15 5 (0.63%) Terminal Services
15 5 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.51%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 132 (16.69%) Terraform
2 99 (12.52%) Ansible
3 92 (11.63%) Kubernetes
4 77 (9.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 70 (8.85%) Single Sign-On
6 58 (7.33%) SCCM
7 44 (5.56%) Grafana
8 43 (5.44%) FortiGate
9 42 (5.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 39 (4.93%) vCenter Server
11 28 (3.54%) Prometheus
12 25 (3.16%) WSUS
13 20 (2.53%) Argo
14 14 (1.77%) SCOM
15 11 (1.39%) Nessus
16 10 (1.26%) HAProxy
16 10 (1.26%) Puppet
17 9 (1.14%) vMotion
18 8 (1.01%) Consul
19 7 (0.88%) Nagios
Vendors
1 248 (31.35%) Microsoft
2 218 (27.56%) VMware
3 143 (18.08%) F5
4 137 (17.32%) Cisco
5 69 (8.72%) Splunk
6 62 (7.84%) ServiceNow
7 51 (6.45%) Citrix
8 46 (5.82%) Infoblox
9 45 (5.69%) SolarWinds
10 39 (4.93%) Google
10 39 (4.93%) Juniper
11 36 (4.55%) Blue Coat
12 34 (4.30%) Red Hat
13 31 (3.92%) McAfee
13 31 (3.92%) NetApp
14 28 (3.54%) Palo Alto
15 25 (3.16%) Dynatrace
16 22 (2.78%) Extreme Networks
17 21 (2.65%) CheckPoint
18 18 (2.28%) Tenable
298 DNS jobs in England