DNS Contracts in England

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 152 137
Rank change year-on-year +32 -15 +6
Contract jobs citing DNS 622 596 898
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.38% 1.59% 1.90%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.74% 12.33% 14.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 406 615
10th Percentile £263 £249 £216
25th Percentile £400 £375 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £488 £520
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -6.25% +4.00%
75th Percentile £603 £592 £638
90th Percentile £655 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £537 £475 £520
% change year-on-year +13.05% -8.65% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 15
10th Percentile - £19.10 £18.50
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.80 £23.63
Median hourly rate £41.50 £40.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -8.57% +47.06%
75th Percentile £81.18 - £81.50
90th Percentile £82.48 £50.64 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £40.00 £47.94
% change year-on-year +3.75% -16.56% +65.31%

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 3,319 4,832 6,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.71% 12.93% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,046 2,882 3,916
10th Percentile £235 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.19% +1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 391 392
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.79 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £62.55
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £45.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +114.29% -27.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in England.

Daily rate trend for DNS in England

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in England

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in England.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in England

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS in England over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +50 266 £510 +13.33% 304
North of England +37 89 £500 +5.26% 127
South East -9 82 £550 +4.76% 162
East of England +73 68 £550 +89.66% 59
South West +31 51 £613 +13.95% 90
Midlands -17 45 £475 -7.09% 77
Yorkshire +19 41 £550 - 52
North West +13 37 £447 -0.67% 67
West Midlands -19 33 £475 -13.64% 46
East Midlands -2 12 £500 +33.33% 31
North East +10 11 £413 -26.67% 12
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 73 (11.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (6.59%) Confluence
2 41 (6.59%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.89%) IIS
4 16 (2.57%) Skype for Business
5 14 (2.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 11 (1.77%) Apache
6 11 (1.77%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2003
7 6 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2007
7 6 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2010
7 6 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2013
7 6 (0.96%) Office Communications Server
7 6 (0.96%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.32%) CMS
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 69 (11.09%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 192 (30.87%) Azure
2 156 (25.08%) AWS
3 87 (13.99%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (9.97%) Entra ID
5 43 (6.91%) GitHub
6 38 (6.11%) GCP
7 37 (5.95%) IaaS
8 32 (5.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 31 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (3.86%) PaaS
10 24 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 23 (3.70%) Cohesity
12 22 (3.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 21 (3.38%) OpenShift
14 19 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (2.89%) Amazon S3
16 17 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
16 17 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (2.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 308 (49.52%) DHCP
2 240 (38.59%) Firewall
3 165 (26.53%) VPN
4 153 (24.60%) TCP/IP
5 87 (13.99%) WAN
6 72 (11.58%) LAN
6 72 (11.58%) Network Security
7 68 (10.93%) VLAN
8 60 (9.65%) SAN
9 55 (8.84%) HTTP
9 55 (8.84%) Wireless
10 54 (8.68%) SMTP
10 54 (8.68%) SSL
11 50 (8.04%) BGP
12 41 (6.59%) OSPF
13 36 (5.79%) SD-WAN
14 29 (4.66%) IPsec
15 28 (4.50%) Wi-Fi
16 26 (4.18%) FTP
17 25 (4.02%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.43%) Amazon RDS
2 24 (3.86%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.57%) Oracle Database
4 12 (1.93%) Big Data
4 12 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
5 8 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (0.96%) DynamoDB
6 6 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 4 (0.64%) Power BI
8 3 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.48%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.32%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.32%) MariaDB
9 2 (0.32%) MySQL
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.16%) Sisense
10 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (9.00%) JIRA
2 49 (7.88%) Jenkins
3 35 (5.63%) Git
4 23 (3.70%) GitLab
5 15 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (2.25%) TeamCity
7 7 (1.13%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.13%) Subversion
8 6 (0.96%) Vagrant
9 4 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.48%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.48%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.48%) Vite
10 3 (0.48%) webpack
11 2 (0.32%) Maven
12 1 (0.16%) Fiddler
12 1 (0.16%) Postman
12 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 161 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 76 (12.22%) Finance
3 55 (8.84%) Public Sector
4 50 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.54%) Banking
6 19 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (2.89%) Manufacturing
7 18 (2.89%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (1.93%) Legal
10 10 (1.61%) Law
11 7 (1.13%) Local Government
11 7 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (0.96%) French Language
12 6 (0.96%) Marketing
13 5 (0.80%) Military
13 5 (0.80%) Spanish Language
14 4 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.64%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 111 (17.85%) Network Engineer
2 94 (15.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 83 (13.34%) Support Engineer
4 48 (7.72%) Azure Engineer
5 46 (7.40%) Architect
6 42 (6.75%) Analyst
6 42 (6.75%) Senior
7 38 (6.11%) Administrator
8 32 (5.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 23 (3.70%) Network Support
9 23 (3.70%) Network Support Engineer
10 22 (3.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 20 (3.22%) Lead
12 19 (3.05%) IT Engineer
12 19 (3.05%) IT Support
13 18 (2.89%) 3rd Line Support
13 18 (2.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 18 (2.89%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (2.89%) Consultant
14 17 (2.73%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (2.89%) Elastic Stack
1 18 (2.89%) LDAP
2 17 (2.73%) .NET
3 16 (2.57%) ADO
4 13 (2.09%) YAML
5 11 (1.77%) REST
6 9 (1.45%) OAuth
7 8 (1.29%) NETCONF
7 8 (1.29%) OpenTelemetry
7 8 (1.29%) RESTCONF
8 7 (1.13%) CSS
8 7 (1.13%) HTML
8 7 (1.13%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.13%) OpenID
9 6 (0.96%) JSON
10 5 (0.80%) 802.1X
10 5 (0.80%) ASP.NET
10 5 (0.80%) Kafka
10 5 (0.80%) Node.js
10 5 (0.80%) React
Miscellaneous
1 62 (9.97%) PKI
2 52 (8.36%) Data Centre
3 31 (4.98%) Clustering
4 27 (4.34%) Replication
5 23 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
6 19 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.57%) Anti-Spyware
8 13 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
10 11 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
10 11 (1.77%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.61%) Enterprise Storage
11 10 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.45%) Cloud Native
12 9 (1.45%) Cyberattack
12 9 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.13%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 319 (51.29%) Windows
2 159 (25.56%) Windows Server
3 145 (23.31%) Linux
4 48 (7.72%) Windows 10
5 42 (6.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 39 (6.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 33 (5.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 23 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
9 20 (3.22%) VMS
10 19 (3.05%) CentOS
11 18 (2.89%) Unix
12 15 (2.41%) Mac OS
13 13 (2.09%) Ubuntu
14 12 (1.93%) Windows 7
14 12 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
15 9 (1.45%) Android
16 8 (1.29%) Solaris
17 6 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
17 6 (0.96%) Rocky
18 4 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (20.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 108 (17.36%) DevOps
3 99 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
4 92 (14.79%) Agile
5 82 (13.18%) Infrastructure as Code
5 82 (13.18%) ITIL
6 76 (12.22%) Migration
7 62 (9.97%) CI/CD
8 59 (9.49%) High Availability
9 52 (8.36%) Containerisation
10 49 (7.88%) ITSM
11 43 (6.91%) Cybersecurity
12 40 (6.43%) Computer Science
12 40 (6.43%) SIEM
13 37 (5.95%) Deployment Automation
13 37 (5.95%) Load Balancing
13 37 (5.95%) Service Management
14 30 (4.82%) Change Management
14 30 (4.82%) Project Management
15 29 (4.66%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 161 (25.88%) PowerShell
2 128 (20.58%) Python
3 70 (11.25%) Bash
4 44 (7.07%) Perl
5 40 (6.43%) SQL
6 29 (4.66%) Shell Script
7 22 (3.54%) C#
8 21 (3.38%) Java
9 16 (2.57%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.93%) JavaScript
10 12 (1.93%) VBScript
11 8 (1.29%) Groovy
12 7 (1.13%) VB
13 6 (0.96%) Bicep
13 6 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.80%) Go
15 3 (0.48%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.16%) C
16 1 (0.16%) C++
16 1 (0.16%) PHP
Qualifications
1 214 (34.41%) Security Cleared
2 141 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 118 (18.97%) Cisco Certification
4 79 (12.70%) Degree
5 77 (12.38%) CCNP
6 74 (11.90%) DV Cleared
7 49 (7.88%) CCNA
8 28 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (2.57%) AWS Certification
10 13 (2.09%) CCIE
11 11 (1.77%) CCSA
11 11 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (1.45%) CISSP
13 7 (1.13%) A+ Certification
13 7 (1.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 7 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.13%) JNCIS
13 7 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 6 (0.96%) JNCIA
15 5 (0.80%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.18%) SLA
2 14 (2.25%) GDPR
3 13 (2.09%) PCI DSS
4 10 (1.61%) NIST
5 9 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 8 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.96%) NCSC
7 6 (0.96%) QA
8 5 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.80%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.64%) GRC
10 3 (0.48%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.48%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.48%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 3 (0.48%) WCAG
11 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 267 (42.93%) Active Directory
2 126 (20.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (10.45%) Docker
4 59 (9.49%) Hyper-V
5 42 (6.75%) vSphere
6 41 (6.59%) VMware ESXi
7 28 (4.50%) Virtual Servers
8 26 (4.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 19 (3.05%) Microsoft App-V
10 16 (2.57%) Virtual Machines
11 15 (2.41%) DFS Replication
12 14 (2.25%) BitLocker
13 12 (1.93%) Terminal Services
13 12 (1.93%) VMware NSX
14 10 (1.61%) Firmware
14 10 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
15 9 (1.45%) NFS
15 9 (1.45%) XenApp
16 6 (0.96%) ISA Server
16 6 (0.96%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 132 (21.22%) Ansible
2 108 (17.36%) Terraform
3 67 (10.77%) Kubernetes
4 61 (9.81%) SCCM
5 55 (8.84%) WSUS
6 47 (7.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 47 (7.56%) Puppet
7 29 (4.66%) Grafana
7 29 (4.66%) Prometheus
8 25 (4.02%) Progress Chef
9 24 (3.86%) vCenter Server
10 14 (2.25%) Microsoft Clustering
10 14 (2.25%) Nagios
11 12 (1.93%) vMotion
12 11 (1.77%) FortiGate
12 11 (1.77%) Tivoli
13 9 (1.45%) Red Hat Satellite
14 7 (1.13%) CA Spectrum
15 6 (0.96%) OpenView
16 5 (0.80%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 223 (35.85%) Microsoft
2 181 (29.10%) VMware
3 158 (25.40%) Cisco
4 57 (9.16%) ServiceNow
5 54 (8.68%) CheckPoint
6 53 (8.52%) F5
7 41 (6.59%) Citrix
7 41 (6.59%) Red Hat
7 41 (6.59%) SolarWinds
8 40 (6.43%) Splunk
9 36 (5.79%) Infoblox
10 33 (5.31%) Google
11 28 (4.50%) Palo Alto
12 27 (4.34%) Dell
12 27 (4.34%) Juniper
13 24 (3.86%) HP
13 24 (3.86%) Oracle
14 23 (3.70%) NetApp
15 22 (3.54%) Fortinet
16 18 (2.89%) Meraki