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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 112 143
Rank change year-on-year -17 +31 -4
Contract jobs citing DNS 830 593 602
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.99% 2.48% 1.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.77% 19.01% 12.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 412 418
10th Percentile £298 £287 £225
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% -7.14%
75th Percentile £583 £611 £600
90th Percentile £638 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 12 24
10th Percentile £20.37 - £18.95
25th Percentile £25.79 £29.00 £23.66
Median hourly rate £33.86 £69.09 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.99% +112.58% -37.66%
75th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £40.00
90th Percentile £74.33 £82.03 £50.96
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £69.09 £32.50
% change year-on-year -49.02% +112.58% -37.66%

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 3,996 3,119 4,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.58% 13.03% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,471 1,956 2,897
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £697
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 121 389
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.32 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.34% -1.70% +134.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £82.10 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £41.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -29.37% +2.50% +118.16%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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 -42 265 £500 -3.51% 101
North of England +8 236 £447 -5.89% 65
South East 0 167 £525 -4.55% 106
North West +42 156 £450 +5.88% 44
Midlands +15 110 £438 -19.35% 36
West Midlands +8 97 £438 - 21
Yorkshire -27 74 £447 -18.73% 14
South West -31 56 £490 -20.33% 48
East of England -45 41 £450 -18.18% 32
East Midlands -28 12 £394 -30.62% 15
North East -36 6 £306 -12.50% 9
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 81 (9.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.93%) nginx
4 15 (1.81%) Confluence
5 13 (1.57%) IIS
6 11 (1.33%) Apache
7 6 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.48%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.24%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 17 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 291 (35.06%) Azure
2 159 (19.16%) AWS
3 136 (16.39%) Entra ID
4 108 (13.01%) Microsoft 365
5 92 (11.08%) GCP
6 65 (7.83%) GitHub
7 50 (6.02%) IaaS
8 37 (4.46%) PaaS
8 37 (4.46%) SaaS
9 31 (3.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 30 (3.61%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (3.61%) Serverless
11 29 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
11 29 (3.49%) Amazon S3
12 27 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
12 27 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
12 27 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (3.13%) Route 53
14 24 (2.89%) OneDrive
15 20 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 365 (43.98%) DHCP
2 253 (30.48%) Firewall
3 205 (24.70%) VPN
4 195 (23.49%) TCP/IP
5 114 (13.73%) WAN
6 101 (12.17%) LAN
7 94 (11.33%) Network Security
8 91 (10.96%) SSL
9 85 (10.24%) BIG-IP
10 84 (10.12%) BGP
11 83 (10.00%) VLAN
12 71 (8.55%) HTTP
13 50 (6.02%) Wireless
14 48 (5.78%) OSPF
15 45 (5.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 44 (5.30%) Wi-Fi
17 43 (5.18%) SAN
18 38 (4.58%) Kerberos
19 37 (4.46%) DMZ
20 36 (4.34%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (0.96%) MySQL
5 8 (0.96%) Power BI
6 6 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 6 (0.72%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.60%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.60%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (0.48%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.48%) Redis
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.12%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 59 (7.11%) Jenkins
2 58 (6.99%) JIRA
3 29 (3.49%) Git
3 29 (3.49%) GitLab
4 25 (3.01%) Fiddler
5 9 (1.08%) Browser DevTools
6 7 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.84%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.72%) Chocolatey
8 4 (0.48%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.48%) Terragrunt
9 3 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.24%) Introscope
11 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.12%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.12%) Travis CI
General
1 171 (20.60%) Social Skills
2 77 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (8.67%) Banking
4 65 (7.83%) Finance
5 50 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (4.46%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.29%) Legal
9 16 (1.93%) Military
10 14 (1.69%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.08%) Law
12 7 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.60%) Local Government
14 5 (0.60%) Police
15 4 (0.48%) Advertising
15 4 (0.48%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
16 3 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 159 (19.16%) Network Engineer
2 109 (13.13%) Architect
3 108 (13.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 66 (7.95%) Analyst
5 59 (7.11%) Security Engineer
5 59 (7.11%) Senior
6 50 (6.02%) Support Engineer
7 48 (5.78%) Web Engineer
8 41 (4.94%) Network Security Engineer
9 40 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
10 36 (4.34%) Cisco Engineer
11 35 (4.22%) IT Support
12 34 (4.10%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 33 (3.98%) Data Engineer
13 33 (3.98%) Data Network Engineer
14 32 (3.86%) Cisco Security Engineer
15 31 (3.73%) Administrator
15 31 (3.73%) Azure Engineer
16 30 (3.61%) IT Engineer
17 27 (3.25%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (7.95%) LDAP
2 43 (5.18%) SAML
3 40 (4.82%) 802.1X
4 36 (4.34%) OAuth
5 24 (2.89%) OpenID
6 20 (2.41%) OpenTelemetry
7 12 (1.45%) JSON
8 10 (1.20%) ARM Templates
9 9 (1.08%) Kafka
9 9 (1.08%) REST
10 8 (0.96%) OAuth2
11 7 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
12 5 (0.60%) XMPP
12 5 (0.60%) YAML
13 4 (0.48%) Hibernate
13 4 (0.48%) JPA
13 4 (0.48%) Spring
13 4 (0.48%) Spring Boot
13 4 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.96%) Data Centre
2 62 (7.47%) PKI
3 53 (6.39%) Cloud Native
4 46 (5.54%) Onboarding
5 41 (4.94%) Replication
6 39 (4.70%) Management Information System
7 38 (4.58%) Clustering
8 36 (4.34%) Public Cloud
9 29 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 27 (3.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 18 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
12 17 (2.05%) Security Operations Centre
13 16 (1.93%) Enterprise Cloud
13 16 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
14 15 (1.81%) Cyberattack
15 12 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
15 12 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
16 11 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 344 (41.45%) Windows
2 198 (23.86%) Windows Server
3 110 (13.25%) Linux
4 42 (5.06%) Windows 10
5 35 (4.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (3.13%) Unix
7 22 (2.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (2.41%) Mac OS
9 19 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 15 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (1.69%) Apple iOS
12 11 (1.33%) Android
13 9 (1.08%) CentOS
13 9 (1.08%) Ubuntu
14 8 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (0.84%) Windows 7
16 5 (0.60%) VMS
17 3 (0.36%) AIX
17 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
18 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
2 163 (19.64%) Load Balancing
3 142 (17.11%) Migration
4 136 (16.39%) High Availability
4 136 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 116 (13.98%) DevOps
6 109 (13.13%) CI/CD
7 107 (12.89%) ITIL
8 106 (12.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 76 (9.16%) ITSM
10 75 (9.04%) Observability
11 72 (8.67%) Disaster Recovery
12 69 (8.31%) Identity Access Management
13 68 (8.19%) Agile
14 65 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
15 60 (7.23%) Project Delivery
16 54 (6.51%) Root Cause Analysis
17 52 (6.27%) Runbook
18 51 (6.14%) RBAC
19 48 (5.78%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 161 (19.40%) PowerShell
2 129 (15.54%) Python
3 75 (9.04%) Bash
4 45 (5.42%) SQL
5 23 (2.77%) JavaScript
6 20 (2.41%) Bicep
7 14 (1.69%) Java
8 12 (1.45%) Go
9 11 (1.33%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.08%) VBA
11 7 (0.84%) Perl
12 6 (0.72%) ActionScript
12 6 (0.72%) Ruby
12 6 (0.72%) VBScript
13 5 (0.60%) Groovy
14 4 (0.48%) C
14 4 (0.48%) VB
15 3 (0.36%) Lisp
16 2 (0.24%) Jython
16 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 277 (33.37%) Security Cleared
2 176 (21.20%) SC Cleared
3 93 (11.20%) DV Cleared
4 80 (9.64%) Cisco Certification
5 56 (6.75%) Degree
6 50 (6.02%) CCNP
7 40 (4.82%) CCNA
8 25 (3.01%) Network+ Certification
9 23 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (2.65%) Azure Certification
11 17 (2.05%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (1.81%) Server+ Certification
13 12 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (1.20%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.20%) JNCIA
14 10 (1.20%) JNCIS
15 9 (1.08%) CCIE
15 9 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 8 (0.96%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.73%) SLA
2 23 (2.77%) NIST
3 21 (2.53%) GDPR
4 15 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (1.08%) QA
6 6 (0.72%) NCSC
7 4 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.24%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.12%) COBIT
9 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 334 (40.24%) Active Directory
2 183 (22.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (10.12%) Hyper-V
4 53 (6.39%) VMware NSX
5 47 (5.66%) vSphere
6 40 (4.82%) Docker
7 38 (4.58%) VMware ESXi
8 32 (3.86%) Virtual Machines
9 26 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 25 (3.01%) Firmware
11 14 (1.69%) BitLocker
11 14 (1.69%) NFS
12 12 (1.45%) Squid
13 10 (1.20%) Microsoft App-V
13 10 (1.20%) Postfix
14 9 (1.08%) vCloud
15 8 (0.96%) VMware Workstation
16 7 (0.84%) Varnish
17 4 (0.48%) Sendmail
18 3 (0.36%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 138 (16.63%) Terraform
2 105 (12.65%) Ansible
3 89 (10.72%) Kubernetes
4 74 (8.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 69 (8.31%) Single Sign-On
6 48 (5.78%) Grafana
7 46 (5.54%) SCCM
8 44 (5.30%) FortiGate
9 43 (5.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 42 (5.06%) vCenter Server
11 30 (3.61%) Prometheus
12 22 (2.65%) WSUS
13 20 (2.41%) Argo
14 16 (1.93%) SCOM
15 14 (1.69%) HAProxy
16 12 (1.45%) Puppet
17 11 (1.33%) Nessus
18 10 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
19 9 (1.08%) vMotion
20 8 (0.96%) Consul
Vendors
1 261 (31.45%) Microsoft
2 219 (26.39%) VMware
3 155 (18.67%) Cisco
4 147 (17.71%) F5
5 78 (9.40%) ServiceNow
6 71 (8.55%) Splunk
7 50 (6.02%) Infoblox
7 50 (6.02%) SolarWinds
8 48 (5.78%) Citrix
9 44 (5.30%) Juniper
10 41 (4.94%) Google
10 41 (4.94%) Red Hat
11 32 (3.86%) Blue Coat
11 32 (3.86%) NetApp
12 30 (3.61%) Palo Alto
13 27 (3.25%) Dynatrace
13 27 (3.25%) McAfee
14 22 (2.65%) Extreme Networks
15 21 (2.53%) CheckPoint
16 20 (2.41%) Fortinet