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 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 147 135
Rank change year-on-year +23 -12 +7
Contract jobs citing DNS 639 548 832
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.30% 1.68% 1.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.40% 13.92% 14.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 350 544
10th Percentile £239 £256 £250
25th Percentile £380 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £684
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 3,293 3,936 5,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.86% 12.04% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,057 2,306 3,599
10th Percentile £230 £242 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £619
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 218 280
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.47 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.84 £24.03
Median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%
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% +36.12%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +62 267 £500 -1.48% 82
Midlands +6 98 £463 +2.78% 64
West Midlands +21 92 £475 -9.52% 32
South East -11 88 £513 -0.24% 114
North of England +2 82 £447 -8.31% 85
East of England +34 60 £550 +100.00% 38
North West -5 49 £449 -10.30% 45
South West +22 46 £550 +1.38% 45
Yorkshire -14 30 £500 -2.44% 30
North East +4 10 £340 +142.86% 13
East Midlands -28 6 £450 +20.00% 31
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 (10.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 51 (7.98%) SharePoint
3 48 (7.51%) Confluence
4 20 (3.13%) Skype for Business
5 15 (2.35%) 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 (10.95%) 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 (27.70%) AWS
2 162 (25.35%) Azure
3 108 (16.90%) Microsoft 365
4 64 (10.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 59 (9.23%) Amazon EC2
6 54 (8.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 52 (8.14%) Amazon S3
8 49 (7.67%) Entra ID
9 41 (6.42%) Amazon ELB
10 39 (6.10%) GCP
11 32 (5.01%) GitHub
12 30 (4.69%) IaaS
13 28 (4.38%) AWS KMS
14 27 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (3.91%) SaaS
16 22 (3.44%) PaaS
17 21 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
17 21 (3.29%) Cohesity
18 18 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
19 17 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 293 (45.85%) DHCP
2 253 (39.59%) Firewall
3 191 (29.89%) TCP/IP
4 187 (29.26%) VPN
5 93 (14.55%) Network Security
6 88 (13.77%) SSL
7 82 (12.83%) WAN
8 78 (12.21%) VLAN
9 74 (11.58%) LAN
10 69 (10.80%) HTTP
10 69 (10.80%) SAN
11 68 (10.64%) SMTP
12 63 (9.86%) Wireless
13 49 (7.67%) BGP
14 41 (6.42%) FTP
15 40 (6.26%) OSPF
16 36 (5.63%) IPsec
17 32 (5.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
18 29 (4.54%) Wi-Fi
19 25 (3.91%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (7.67%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (2.35%) Big Data
4 15 (2.35%) 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 (13.15%) Jenkins
2 70 (10.95%) JIRA
3 67 (10.49%) Git
4 45 (7.04%) 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
1 193 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 89 (13.93%) Public Sector
3 77 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (10.49%) Finance
5 23 (3.60%) Banking
5 23 (3.60%) 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 (15.02%) Support Engineer
2 90 (14.08%) Network Engineer
3 80 (12.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 60 (9.39%) Senior
5 55 (8.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 53 (8.29%) Analyst
7 42 (6.57%) Architect
8 36 (5.63%) IT Support
9 35 (5.48%) Administrator
10 33 (5.16%) AWS Engineer
11 30 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
12 27 (4.23%) AWS DevOps
12 27 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
13 25 (3.91%) Security Engineer
14 24 (3.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 23 (3.60%) 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 27 (4.23%) LDAP
2 15 (2.35%) Elastic Stack
2 15 (2.35%) 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 (1.10%) ADO
8 7 (1.10%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.78%) Flask
9 5 (0.78%) HTML5
9 5 (0.78%) Kafka
9 5 (0.78%) React Native
9 5 (0.78%) Sass
9 5 (0.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.92%) PKI
2 53 (8.29%) Replication
3 48 (7.51%) Data Centre
4 40 (6.26%) Management Information System
5 19 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (2.50%) Clustering
6 16 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (2.35%) 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
1 329 (51.49%) Windows
2 147 (23.00%) Linux
3 121 (18.94%) Windows Server
4 59 (9.23%) Windows 10
5 42 (6.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 39 (6.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (4.54%) VMS
8 28 (4.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 24 (3.76%) Windows Server 2003
10 23 (3.60%) Mac OS
10 23 (3.60%) Unix
11 22 (3.44%) Amazon Linux
12 21 (3.29%) Ubuntu
13 19 (2.97%) 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 (20.34%) DevOps
2 111 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
3 108 (16.90%) ITIL
4 98 (15.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 95 (14.87%) CI/CD
6 84 (13.15%) High Availability
7 83 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 67 (10.49%) Migration
9 59 (9.23%) Agile
10 57 (8.92%) Change Management
11 54 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
12 49 (7.67%) Load Balancing
12 49 (7.67%) SIEM
13 47 (7.36%) Computer Science
14 45 (7.04%) Service Management
15 42 (6.57%) Containerisation
16 41 (6.42%) Patch Management
17 40 (6.26%) Cloud Security
17 40 (6.26%) Configuration Management
18 39 (6.10%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 154 (24.10%) PowerShell
2 145 (22.69%) Python
3 68 (10.64%) Bash
4 41 (6.42%) SQL
5 28 (4.38%) 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 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (1.10%) 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
1 226 (35.37%) Security Cleared
2 153 (23.94%) SC Cleared
3 94 (14.71%) Degree
4 92 (14.40%) Cisco Certification
5 70 (10.95%) DV Cleared
6 66 (10.33%) CCNP
7 42 (6.57%) CCNA
8 36 (5.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (3.91%) AWS Certification
11 23 (3.60%) Azure Certification
12 15 (2.35%) 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 19 (2.97%) GDPR
3 10 (1.56%) NIST
4 9 (1.41%) NCSC
4 9 (1.41%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
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
1 265 (41.47%) Active Directory
2 152 (23.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (13.62%) Docker
4 57 (8.92%) Hyper-V
5 35 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
6 28 (4.38%) Virtual Servers
7 27 (4.23%) DFS Replication
7 27 (4.23%) Virtual Machines
7 27 (4.23%) vSphere
8 25 (3.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 20 (3.13%) Terminal Services
10 18 (2.82%) Microsoft App-V
10 18 (2.82%) 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 (18.78%) Ansible
2 113 (17.68%) Terraform
3 73 (11.42%) SCCM
4 55 (8.61%) Kubernetes
5 48 (7.51%) Grafana
6 46 (7.20%) Prometheus
7 40 (6.26%) WSUS
8 36 (5.63%) vCenter Server
9 30 (4.69%) Puppet
10 26 (4.07%) 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 10 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 10 (1.56%) FortiGate
15 10 (1.56%) Packer
15 10 (1.56%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 231 (36.15%) Microsoft
2 185 (28.95%) VMware
3 141 (22.07%) Cisco
4 76 (11.89%) F5
5 68 (10.64%) ServiceNow
6 59 (9.23%) CheckPoint
7 52 (8.14%) Splunk
8 45 (7.04%) Citrix
9 41 (6.42%) Palo Alto
10 36 (5.63%) SolarWinds
11 34 (5.32%) Google
12 32 (5.01%) NetApp
13 28 (4.38%) Juniper
13 28 (4.38%) Red Hat
14 27 (4.23%) Dell
15 24 (3.76%) Veeam
16 18 (2.82%) Fortinet
16 18 (2.82%) Infoblox
16 18 (2.82%) Meraki
17 16 (2.50%) HP