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 7 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 117 153
Rank change year-on-year -8 +36 -12
Contract jobs citing DNS 909 634 598
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.05% 2.39% 1.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.54% 18.85% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 430 402
10th Percentile £300 £263 £256
25th Percentile £401 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +8.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £584 £602 £597
90th Percentile £638 £657 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £488
% change year-on-year -6.98% +10.26% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 25
10th Percentile £18.89 - £19.10
25th Percentile £23.13 £29.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.69% +3.75% -4.48%
75th Percentile £67.55 £81.18 -
90th Percentile £74.05 £82.48 £50.64
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £41.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -21.69% +3.75% -8.57%

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 4,221 3,364 4,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.51% 12.66% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,603 2,081 2,866
10th Percentile £250 £235 £214
25th Percentile £400 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 146 390
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.38 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.66 £40.50 £45.44
Median % change year-on-year -34.17% -10.87% +89.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £74.10
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% - +80.00%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -44 307 £500 -1.96% 87
North of England +26 245 £450 -10.00% 49
South East +4 187 £530 -3.73% 113
North West +48 163 £458 +2.35% 22
Midlands +1 119 £450 -5.26% 53
West Midlands -3 102 £444 -6.58% 35
Yorkshire -15 76 £447 -18.73% 20
South West -18 66 £480 -21.63% 56
East of England -50 36 £475 -13.64% 35
East Midlands -12 15 £450 -10.00% 18
North East -42 6 £413 - 12
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 (9.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (6.38%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.76%) nginx
4 15 (1.65%) Confluence
5 12 (1.32%) IIS
6 11 (1.21%) Apache
7 6 (0.66%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.44%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.22%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Portal
10 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.11%) Traefik
Applications
1 20 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.11%) Houdini
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 5 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.11%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 326 (35.86%) Azure
2 169 (18.59%) AWS
3 151 (16.61%) Entra ID
4 125 (13.75%) Microsoft 365
5 96 (10.56%) GCP
6 61 (6.71%) GitHub
7 53 (5.83%) IaaS
8 41 (4.51%) SaaS
9 39 (4.29%) PaaS
10 34 (3.74%) OneDrive
11 33 (3.63%) Route 53
12 29 (3.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 28 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 27 (2.97%) Serverless
15 26 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (2.75%) OpenShift
17 23 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
18 22 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
18 22 (2.42%) Amazon S3
18 22 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 403 (44.33%) DHCP
2 298 (32.78%) Firewall
3 237 (26.07%) VPN
4 229 (25.19%) TCP/IP
5 132 (14.52%) WAN
6 113 (12.43%) LAN
7 109 (11.99%) Network Security
8 96 (10.56%) BGP
8 96 (10.56%) VLAN
9 88 (9.68%) BIG-IP
9 88 (9.68%) SSL
10 66 (7.26%) HTTP
11 58 (6.38%) Wireless
12 54 (5.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 54 (5.94%) OSPF
13 53 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
14 49 (5.39%) SAN
15 46 (5.06%) DMZ
16 39 (4.29%) Kerberos
17 38 (4.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.18%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.21%) Power BI
4 10 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (0.66%) MySQL
8 4 (0.44%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.33%) Big Data
9 3 (0.33%) Db2
9 3 (0.33%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.22%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.11%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.11%) DocumentDB
11 1 (0.11%) KDB
11 1 (0.11%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.11%) Redis
11 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.11%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 63 (6.93%) JIRA
2 51 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.64%) Git
4 22 (2.42%) Fiddler
5 17 (1.87%) GitLab
6 10 (1.10%) Browser DevTools
7 8 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.77%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.66%) Chocolatey
10 5 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.22%) Introscope
11 2 (0.22%) Spinnaker
12 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.11%) MSI
12 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 206 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 84 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (8.25%) Finance
4 68 (7.48%) Banking
5 59 (6.49%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (3.96%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.98%) Legal
8 18 (1.98%) Military
8 18 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.10%) Local Government
9 10 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (0.88%) Police
12 6 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.66%) Publishing
13 5 (0.55%) Law
14 4 (0.44%) Advertising
14 4 (0.44%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.44%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 171 (18.81%) Network Engineer
2 127 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 119 (13.09%) Architect
4 74 (8.14%) Support Engineer
5 65 (7.15%) Senior
6 60 (6.60%) Security Engineer
7 59 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (5.72%) Analyst
9 46 (5.06%) Web Engineer
10 44 (4.84%) Network Security Engineer
11 41 (4.51%) Cisco Engineer
12 40 (4.40%) IT Engineer
12 40 (4.40%) IT Support
13 39 (4.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 36 (3.96%) Azure Engineer
15 35 (3.85%) Administrator
15 35 (3.85%) Data Engineer
15 35 (3.85%) Data Network Engineer
15 35 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
16 34 (3.74%) Cisco Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (6.60%) LDAP
2 45 (4.95%) 802.1X
3 44 (4.84%) SAML
4 32 (3.52%) OAuth
5 24 (2.64%) OpenID
6 18 (1.98%) OpenTelemetry
7 13 (1.43%) ARM Templates
8 11 (1.21%) JSON
9 7 (0.77%) REST
10 5 (0.55%) CSS
10 5 (0.55%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.55%) Middleware
10 5 (0.55%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.55%) YAML
11 4 (0.44%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.44%) Kafka
11 4 (0.44%) Web Services
12 3 (0.33%) Node.js
12 3 (0.33%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (0.33%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 114 (12.54%) Data Centre
2 74 (8.14%) PKI
3 57 (6.27%) Cloud Native
4 47 (5.17%) Onboarding
5 43 (4.73%) Replication
6 42 (4.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 42 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
7 41 (4.51%) Clustering
7 41 (4.51%) Management Information System
8 29 (3.19%) Public Cloud
9 19 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
11 16 (1.76%) Security Posture
12 12 (1.32%) Cyber Threat
12 12 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.10%) Product Ownership
14 9 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 380 (41.80%) Windows
2 216 (23.76%) Windows Server
3 125 (13.75%) Linux
4 45 (4.95%) Windows 10
5 34 (3.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 33 (3.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 26 (2.86%) Mac OS
7 26 (2.86%) Unix
8 19 (2.09%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (1.65%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.54%) Apple iOS
11 13 (1.43%) CentOS
12 12 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
13 11 (1.21%) Android
14 7 (0.77%) VMS
14 7 (0.77%) Windows 7
15 6 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.44%) Rocky
17 3 (0.33%) AIX
18 2 (0.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
2 184 (20.24%) Load Balancing
3 169 (18.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 155 (17.05%) Migration
5 152 (16.72%) High Availability
6 130 (14.30%) ITIL
7 122 (13.42%) DevOps
8 118 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 112 (12.32%) CI/CD
10 86 (9.46%) ITSM
11 80 (8.80%) Observability
12 73 (8.03%) Agile
13 72 (7.92%) Disaster Recovery
13 72 (7.92%) Identity Access Management
14 71 (7.81%) Project Delivery
15 62 (6.82%) RBAC
16 60 (6.60%) Continuous Improvement
16 60 (6.60%) Cybersecurity
17 55 (6.05%) Containerisation
17 55 (6.05%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 178 (19.58%) PowerShell
2 141 (15.51%) Python
3 84 (9.24%) Bash
4 44 (4.84%) SQL
5 25 (2.75%) Bicep
6 23 (2.53%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.21%) Go
8 9 (0.99%) ActionScript
8 9 (0.99%) Shell Script
8 9 (0.99%) VBA
9 8 (0.88%) Perl
10 6 (0.66%) Java
10 6 (0.66%) VBScript
11 5 (0.55%) C
11 5 (0.55%) Groovy
11 5 (0.55%) Ruby
12 4 (0.44%) VB
13 3 (0.33%) Lisp
14 2 (0.22%) Jython
14 2 (0.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 316 (34.76%) Security Cleared
2 196 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 107 (11.77%) DV Cleared
4 94 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
5 68 (7.48%) Degree
6 63 (6.93%) CCNP
7 48 (5.28%) CCNA
8 36 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
9 30 (3.30%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.75%) Network+ Certification
11 16 (1.76%) CCIE
12 15 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.65%) Server+ Certification
13 14 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (1.32%) AWS Certification
14 12 (1.32%) MCSA
14 12 (1.32%) MCSE
15 11 (1.21%) CISSP
16 10 (1.10%) JNCIA
16 10 (1.10%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.75%) SLA
2 23 (2.53%) NIST
3 19 (2.09%) GDPR
4 14 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (1.54%) NCSC
5 13 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.77%) QA
7 4 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.44%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.33%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.22%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.22%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.11%) COBIT
10 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.11%) RMADS
System Software
1 368 (40.48%) Active Directory
2 198 (21.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 82 (9.02%) Hyper-V
4 59 (6.49%) VMware ESXi
4 59 (6.49%) VMware NSX
5 56 (6.16%) vSphere
6 41 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
7 37 (4.07%) Virtual Desktop
8 29 (3.19%) Docker
9 26 (2.86%) Firmware
10 18 (1.98%) NFS
11 15 (1.65%) BitLocker
12 13 (1.43%) vCloud
13 12 (1.32%) Squid
14 11 (1.21%) Microsoft App-V
15 10 (1.10%) Postfix
16 8 (0.88%) VMware Workstation
17 7 (0.77%) Varnish
18 5 (0.55%) UAG
19 4 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 155 (17.05%) Terraform
2 106 (11.66%) Ansible
3 89 (9.79%) Kubernetes
4 74 (8.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 71 (7.81%) Single Sign-On
6 57 (6.27%) vCenter Server
7 54 (5.94%) Grafana
8 48 (5.28%) FortiGate
9 46 (5.06%) SCCM
10 40 (4.40%) Prometheus
11 39 (4.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 25 (2.75%) WSUS
13 22 (2.42%) SCOM
14 21 (2.31%) Argo
15 15 (1.65%) Puppet
16 14 (1.54%) HAProxy
16 14 (1.54%) Nessus
17 13 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
18 12 (1.32%) vMotion
19 8 (0.88%) Consul
Vendors
1 306 (33.66%) Microsoft
2 240 (26.40%) VMware
3 174 (19.14%) Cisco
4 153 (16.83%) F5
5 82 (9.02%) ServiceNow
6 68 (7.48%) Splunk
7 66 (7.26%) Infoblox
8 60 (6.60%) Google
9 56 (6.16%) Citrix
10 55 (6.05%) SolarWinds
11 49 (5.39%) Red Hat
12 48 (5.28%) Juniper
13 37 (4.07%) Palo Alto
14 32 (3.52%) Dynatrace
14 32 (3.52%) NetApp
15 29 (3.19%) Blue Coat
16 27 (2.97%) McAfee
17 23 (2.53%) CheckPoint
17 23 (2.53%) Fortinet
18 22 (2.42%) Extreme Networks