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

 6 months to
21 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 111 142
Rank change year-on-year -23 +31 -8
Contract jobs citing DNS 795 590 611
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.93% 2.44% 1.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.41% 18.75% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 414 418
10th Percentile £287 £250 £249
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +12.82% -7.14%
75th Percentile £580 £607 £600
90th Percentile £639 £661 £675
UK median daily rate £485 £549 £475
% change year-on-year -11.66% +15.58% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 9 23
10th Percentile £17.72 £26.10 £18.80
25th Percentile £25.15 £45.75 £23.53
Median hourly rate £37.50 £80.68 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.52% +101.69% -18.56%
75th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 -
90th Percentile £74.56 £82.48 £51.27
UK median hourly rate £40.10 £80.68 £40.00
% change year-on-year -50.29% +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 3,895 3,147 4,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 13.00% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,421 1,959 2,889
10th Percentile £263 £220 £210
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 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £497 £485 £490
% change year-on-year +2.51% -1.02% -5.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 117 388
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £36.50 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% -18.75% +122.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.15 £70.20
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +116.22%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -39 251 £500 -4.76% 61
North of England +6 225 £446 -6.21% 57
South East 0 160 £525 -4.55% 93
North West +39 152 £446 +4.82% 32
Midlands +21 109 £406 -26.14% 33
West Midlands +23 96 £400 - 19
Yorkshire -27 67 £447 -18.77% 21
South West -32 57 £500 -15.79% 33
East of England -44 40 £450 -18.18% 27
East Midlands -28 12 £394 -30.62% 14
North East -29 6 £306 -12.50% 7
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 (10.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.76%) nginx
4 13 (1.64%) Confluence
5 11 (1.38%) IIS
6 8 (1.01%) Apache
7 4 (0.50%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.25%) IBM HTTP Server
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.25%) WebSphere Portal
9 1 (0.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 16 (2.01%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.13%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 273 (34.34%) Azure
2 147 (18.49%) AWS
3 127 (15.97%) Entra ID
4 104 (13.08%) Microsoft 365
5 90 (11.32%) GCP
6 61 (7.67%) GitHub
7 45 (5.66%) IaaS
8 36 (4.53%) PaaS
8 36 (4.53%) SaaS
9 33 (4.15%) Serverless
10 32 (4.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 29 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (3.52%) Amazon S3
14 27 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
15 26 (3.27%) Route 53
16 20 (2.52%) OpenShift
17 19 (2.39%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 341 (42.89%) DHCP
2 241 (30.31%) Firewall
3 200 (25.16%) VPN
4 185 (23.27%) TCP/IP
5 105 (13.21%) WAN
6 96 (12.08%) LAN
7 88 (11.07%) Network Security
8 85 (10.69%) SSL
9 81 (10.19%) BIG-IP
10 80 (10.06%) BGP
11 78 (9.81%) VLAN
12 73 (9.18%) HTTP
13 45 (5.66%) OSPF
13 45 (5.66%) Wireless
14 44 (5.53%) Wi-Fi
15 41 (5.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 40 (5.03%) SAN
17 39 (4.91%) Wireshark
18 38 (4.78%) DMZ
18 38 (4.78%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.90%) SQL Server
2 18 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (1.01%) Power BI
6 6 (0.75%) MySQL
7 5 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.63%) DynamoDB
7 5 (0.63%) MongoDB
8 4 (0.50%) DocumentDB
8 4 (0.50%) NoSQL
8 4 (0.50%) Redis
9 2 (0.25%) Data Hub
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.13%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.13%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 52 (6.54%) Jenkins
2 49 (6.16%) JIRA
3 29 (3.65%) Git
4 27 (3.40%) Fiddler
4 27 (3.40%) GitLab
5 9 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
6 7 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.88%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.75%) Chocolatey
8 4 (0.50%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.50%) 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%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.13%) Travis CI
General
1 160 (20.13%) Social Skills
2 77 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (8.81%) Banking
4 65 (8.18%) Finance
5 50 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 40 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (4.65%) Investment Banking
8 19 (2.39%) Legal
9 17 (2.14%) Military
10 15 (1.89%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.13%) Law
12 8 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 6 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.63%) Police
15 4 (0.50%) Local Government
16 3 (0.38%) Advertising
16 3 (0.38%) Manufacturing
17 2 (0.25%) Aerospace
17 2 (0.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 152 (19.12%) Network Engineer
2 107 (13.46%) Architect
3 97 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 67 (8.43%) Analyst
5 62 (7.80%) Security Engineer
6 52 (6.54%) Senior
7 50 (6.29%) Web Engineer
8 46 (5.79%) Support Engineer
9 42 (5.28%) Network Security Engineer
10 34 (4.28%) Cisco Engineer
10 34 (4.28%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 33 (4.15%) Data Engineer
11 33 (4.15%) Data Network Engineer
11 33 (4.15%) IT Support
12 32 (4.03%) Cisco Security Engineer
13 30 (3.77%) Administrator
13 30 (3.77%) IT Engineer
14 29 (3.65%) Cloud Engineer
15 28 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
16 27 (3.40%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (8.68%) LDAP
2 44 (5.53%) SAML
3 37 (4.65%) OAuth
4 36 (4.53%) 802.1X
5 24 (3.02%) OpenID
6 20 (2.52%) OpenTelemetry
7 10 (1.26%) ARM Templates
7 10 (1.26%) JSON
8 9 (1.13%) Kafka
8 9 (1.13%) OAuth2
8 9 (1.13%) REST
9 8 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.63%) XMPP
11 4 (0.50%) Hibernate
11 4 (0.50%) JPA
11 4 (0.50%) RESTful
11 4 (0.50%) Spring
11 4 (0.50%) Spring Cloud
11 4 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 79 (9.94%) Data Centre
2 54 (6.79%) PKI
3 49 (6.16%) Cloud Native
4 40 (5.03%) Onboarding
5 39 (4.91%) Replication
6 38 (4.78%) Management Information System
7 37 (4.65%) Clustering
8 35 (4.40%) Public Cloud
9 25 (3.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 25 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
11 16 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
11 16 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
12 15 (1.89%) Cyberattack
12 15 (1.89%) Enterprise Cloud
13 12 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.38%) Enterprise Storage
14 11 (1.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 322 (40.50%) Windows
2 190 (23.90%) Windows Server
3 99 (12.45%) Linux
4 43 (5.41%) Windows 10
5 33 (4.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (2.89%) Unix
7 18 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (2.01%) Mac OS
9 15 (1.89%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (1.51%) Android
10 12 (1.51%) Apple iOS
11 8 (1.01%) Windows Server 2003
12 7 (0.88%) CentOS
12 7 (0.88%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.88%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.50%) CatOS
13 4 (0.50%) VMS
14 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.25%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
2 162 (20.38%) Load Balancing
3 133 (16.73%) Migration
4 131 (16.48%) High Availability
5 123 (15.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 109 (13.71%) DevOps
7 103 (12.96%) CI/CD
8 102 (12.83%) Infrastructure as Code
9 100 (12.58%) ITIL
10 74 (9.31%) Observability
11 70 (8.81%) Disaster Recovery
12 67 (8.43%) Identity Access Management
12 67 (8.43%) ITSM
13 64 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
14 60 (7.55%) Agile
15 53 (6.67%) Project Delivery
16 50 (6.29%) Change Management
16 50 (6.29%) RBAC
17 49 (6.16%) Containerisation
18 48 (6.04%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 153 (19.25%) PowerShell
2 120 (15.09%) Python
3 68 (8.55%) Bash
4 41 (5.16%) SQL
5 21 (2.64%) JavaScript
6 19 (2.39%) Bicep
7 12 (1.51%) Go
7 12 (1.51%) Java
8 11 (1.38%) Shell Script
9 8 (1.01%) Ruby
10 7 (0.88%) VBA
11 6 (0.75%) VBScript
12 4 (0.50%) Groovy
12 4 (0.50%) Perl
12 4 (0.50%) VB
13 3 (0.38%) C
14 2 (0.25%) Jython
14 2 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.13%) ActionScript
15 1 (0.13%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 266 (33.46%) Security Cleared
2 173 (21.76%) SC Cleared
3 86 (10.82%) DV Cleared
4 74 (9.31%) Cisco Certification
5 49 (6.16%) Degree
6 44 (5.53%) CCNP
7 36 (4.53%) CCNA
8 24 (3.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.89%) Network+ Certification
10 22 (2.77%) Azure Certification
11 18 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
12 13 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.51%) Server+ Certification
14 10 (1.26%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (1.26%) JNCIA
14 10 (1.26%) JNCIS
15 8 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 8 (1.01%) JNCIP
16 7 (0.88%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.77%) SLA
2 21 (2.64%) GDPR
3 20 (2.52%) NIST
4 16 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.88%) QA
7 6 (0.75%) NCSC
8 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
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
1 315 (39.62%) Active Directory
2 178 (22.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 80 (10.06%) Hyper-V
4 53 (6.67%) VMware NSX
5 44 (5.53%) vSphere
6 40 (5.03%) Docker
7 34 (4.28%) Virtual Machines
8 33 (4.15%) VMware ESXi
9 24 (3.02%) Firmware
10 22 (2.77%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (1.76%) BitLocker
12 12 (1.51%) NFS
13 11 (1.38%) Squid
14 10 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
15 7 (0.88%) Postfix
15 7 (0.88%) vCloud
15 7 (0.88%) VMware Workstation
16 6 (0.75%) Varnish
17 5 (0.63%) Sendmail
18 3 (0.38%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 133 (16.73%) Terraform
2 98 (12.33%) Ansible
3 89 (11.19%) Kubernetes
4 72 (9.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 69 (8.68%) Single Sign-On
6 49 (6.16%) SCCM
7 47 (5.91%) Grafana
8 43 (5.41%) FortiGate
9 42 (5.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 41 (5.16%) vCenter Server
11 30 (3.77%) Prometheus
12 25 (3.14%) WSUS
13 20 (2.52%) Argo
14 16 (2.01%) SCOM
15 11 (1.38%) HAProxy
15 11 (1.38%) Nessus
15 11 (1.38%) Puppet
16 9 (1.13%) vMotion
17 8 (1.01%) Consul
18 7 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 248 (31.19%) Microsoft
2 217 (27.30%) VMware
3 145 (18.24%) Cisco
4 144 (18.11%) F5
5 71 (8.93%) ServiceNow
6 70 (8.81%) Splunk
7 49 (6.16%) Citrix
8 48 (6.04%) Infoblox
9 46 (5.79%) SolarWinds
10 43 (5.41%) Juniper
11 41 (5.16%) Google
12 37 (4.65%) Red Hat
13 36 (4.53%) Blue Coat
14 32 (4.03%) NetApp
15 30 (3.77%) McAfee
16 29 (3.65%) Palo Alto
17 27 (3.40%) Dynatrace
18 24 (3.02%) CheckPoint
19 22 (2.77%) Extreme Networks
20 18 (2.26%) AppDynamics
282 DNS jobs in England