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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 114 149
Rank change year-on-year -18 +35 -5
Contract jobs citing DNS 840 601 604
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.97% 2.44% 1.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.79% 19.02% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 418 410
10th Percentile £300 £263 £224
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +12.82% -7.14%
75th Percentile £576 £606 £600
90th Percentile £638 £654 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.79% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 14 25
10th Percentile £18.08 - £19.10
25th Percentile £22.19 £29.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £56.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.96% +40.00% -23.27%
75th Percentile £67.14 £81.27 -
90th Percentile £74.08 £81.88 £50.64
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £56.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -41.96% +40.00% -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 4,040 3,160 4,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.46% 12.85% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,501 1,969 2,875
10th Percentile £263 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £607
90th Percentile £675 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 125 387
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.40 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £17.28
Median hourly rate £30.77 £39.32 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -1.70% +117.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.80 £72.66
UK median hourly rate £27.69 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.07% +10.00% +110.53%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -27 280 £500 - 68
North of England +10 234 £447 -5.89% 48
South East +2 170 £525 -4.55% 97
North West +40 151 £450 +0.67% 33
Midlands +4 107 £444 -6.58% 37
West Midlands +10 95 £444 +1.43% 23
Yorkshire -23 77 £447 -18.73% 10
South West -18 62 £500 -18.70% 35
East of England -55 34 £450 -18.18% 32
East Midlands -21 11 £413 -27.31% 14
North East -40 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 (9.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 50 (5.95%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.79%) nginx
4 14 (1.67%) Confluence
5 13 (1.55%) IIS
6 11 (1.31%) Apache
7 6 (0.71%) 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%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.12%) Traefik
Applications
1 18 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.31%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.12%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 299 (35.60%) Azure
2 157 (18.69%) AWS
3 140 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 113 (13.45%) Microsoft 365
5 94 (11.19%) GCP
6 65 (7.74%) GitHub
7 53 (6.31%) IaaS
8 37 (4.40%) PaaS
9 36 (4.29%) SaaS
10 31 (3.69%) Serverless
11 28 (3.33%) OneDrive
11 28 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 27 (3.21%) AWS CloudFormation
13 26 (3.10%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (3.10%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (3.10%) Amazon S3
13 26 (3.10%) Route 53
14 25 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
15 23 (2.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 371 (44.17%) DHCP
2 258 (30.71%) Firewall
3 203 (24.17%) VPN
4 196 (23.33%) TCP/IP
5 115 (13.69%) WAN
6 98 (11.67%) LAN
7 90 (10.71%) Network Security
8 89 (10.60%) SSL
9 86 (10.24%) BIG-IP
10 82 (9.76%) BGP
11 80 (9.52%) VLAN
12 66 (7.86%) HTTP
13 49 (5.83%) Wireless
14 46 (5.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 46 (5.48%) Wi-Fi
15 44 (5.24%) OSPF
16 42 (5.00%) SAN
17 37 (4.40%) DMZ
18 36 (4.29%) Kerberos
19 34 (4.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (1.07%) Power BI
7 8 (0.95%) MySQL
8 6 (0.71%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.60%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.60%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.48%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.48%) DocumentDB
10 4 (0.48%) Redis
11 2 (0.24%) Big Data
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.12%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.12%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 59 (7.02%) Jenkins
1 59 (7.02%) JIRA
2 28 (3.33%) Git
3 26 (3.10%) GitLab
4 24 (2.86%) Fiddler
5 9 (1.07%) Browser DevTools
6 7 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.83%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.71%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.36%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.24%) Introscope
9 2 (0.24%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 171 (20.36%) Social Skills
2 72 (8.57%) Banking
3 70 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (8.10%) Finance
5 51 (6.07%) Public Sector
6 36 (4.29%) Investment Banking
7 35 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 19 (2.26%) Legal
9 16 (1.90%) Military
10 13 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 8 (0.95%) Law
11 8 (0.95%) Local Government
12 7 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.71%) Publishing
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
Job Titles
1 159 (18.93%) Network Engineer
2 117 (13.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 110 (13.10%) Architect
4 59 (7.02%) Analyst
5 58 (6.90%) Security Engineer
5 58 (6.90%) Senior
5 58 (6.90%) Support Engineer
6 47 (5.60%) Web Engineer
7 43 (5.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 41 (4.88%) Network Security Engineer
9 38 (4.52%) IT Support
10 37 (4.40%) Cisco Engineer
11 35 (4.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 33 (3.93%) Administrator
12 33 (3.93%) Data Engineer
12 33 (3.93%) Data Network Engineer
13 32 (3.81%) Cisco Security Engineer
13 32 (3.81%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
14 31 (3.69%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (6.79%) LDAP
2 41 (4.88%) SAML
3 40 (4.76%) 802.1X
4 35 (4.17%) OAuth
5 24 (2.86%) OpenID
6 20 (2.38%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (1.31%) ARM Templates
7 11 (1.31%) JSON
8 9 (1.07%) Kafka
8 9 (1.07%) REST
9 8 (0.95%) OAuth2
10 5 (0.60%) CSS
10 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (0.60%) XMPP
11 4 (0.48%) AWS CDK
11 4 (0.48%) gRPC
11 4 (0.48%) Hibernate
11 4 (0.48%) Spring
11 4 (0.48%) Spring Cloud
11 4 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 99 (11.79%) Data Centre
2 62 (7.38%) PKI
3 56 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 47 (5.60%) Onboarding
5 39 (4.64%) Replication
6 38 (4.52%) Clustering
7 35 (4.17%) Management Information System
8 34 (4.05%) Hybrid Cloud
9 33 (3.93%) Public Cloud
10 29 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 16 (1.90%) Enterprise Cloud
11 16 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
13 12 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
13 12 (1.43%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
15 10 (1.19%) Cyberattack
15 10 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
15 10 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 353 (42.02%) Windows
2 203 (24.17%) Windows Server
3 116 (13.81%) Linux
4 41 (4.88%) Windows 10
5 32 (3.81%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (3.21%) Unix
7 25 (2.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 24 (2.86%) Mac OS
9 20 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (1.90%) Apple iOS
11 12 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 11 (1.31%) Android
12 11 (1.31%) Ubuntu
13 9 (1.07%) CentOS
14 7 (0.83%) Windows 7
14 7 (0.83%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.60%) VMS
16 3 (0.36%) AIX
17 2 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
17 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
2 169 (20.12%) Load Balancing
3 148 (17.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 146 (17.38%) Migration
5 137 (16.31%) High Availability
6 124 (14.76%) DevOps
7 110 (13.10%) CI/CD
8 109 (12.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 108 (12.86%) ITIL
10 81 (9.64%) ITSM
11 78 (9.29%) Observability
12 70 (8.33%) Agile
12 70 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 70 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
13 61 (7.26%) Cybersecurity
13 61 (7.26%) Project Delivery
14 54 (6.43%) RBAC
15 52 (6.19%) Containerisation
16 51 (6.07%) Root Cause Analysis
17 49 (5.83%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 159 (18.93%) PowerShell
2 127 (15.12%) Python
3 78 (9.29%) Bash
4 51 (6.07%) SQL
5 23 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 20 (2.38%) Bicep
7 14 (1.67%) Java
8 13 (1.55%) Go
9 12 (1.43%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.07%) VBA
11 8 (0.95%) ActionScript
12 7 (0.83%) Perl
13 6 (0.71%) VBScript
14 5 (0.60%) Groovy
14 5 (0.60%) Ruby
15 4 (0.48%) C
15 4 (0.48%) VB
16 3 (0.36%) Lisp
17 2 (0.24%) Jython
17 2 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 272 (32.38%) Security Cleared
2 167 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 90 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 80 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
5 60 (7.14%) Degree
6 50 (5.95%) CCNP
7 43 (5.12%) CCNA
8 26 (3.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (2.86%) Azure Certification
10 23 (2.74%) Network+ Certification
11 16 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
12 15 (1.79%) Server+ Certification
13 14 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (1.19%) AWS Certification
14 10 (1.19%) CCIE
14 10 (1.19%) JNCIA
14 10 (1.19%) JNCIS
15 9 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
16 8 (0.95%) CISSP
16 8 (0.95%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.81%) SLA
2 23 (2.74%) NIST
3 21 (2.50%) GDPR
4 16 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 9 (1.07%) QA
7 6 (0.71%) NCSC
8 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) COBIT
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 341 (40.60%) Active Directory
2 184 (21.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 54 (6.43%) VMware NSX
5 49 (5.83%) vSphere
6 46 (5.48%) VMware ESXi
7 39 (4.64%) Virtual Machines
8 37 (4.40%) Docker
9 33 (3.93%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (2.86%) Firmware
11 15 (1.79%) BitLocker
12 14 (1.67%) NFS
13 12 (1.43%) Squid
14 11 (1.31%) Microsoft App-V
14 11 (1.31%) vCloud
15 10 (1.19%) Postfix
16 8 (0.95%) VMware Workstation
17 7 (0.83%) Varnish
18 5 (0.60%) Terminal Services
19 4 (0.48%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 140 (16.67%) Terraform
2 106 (12.62%) Ansible
3 92 (10.95%) Kubernetes
4 74 (8.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 68 (8.10%) Single Sign-On
6 52 (6.19%) Grafana
7 46 (5.48%) vCenter Server
8 45 (5.36%) SCCM
9 43 (5.12%) FortiGate
10 40 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 34 (4.05%) Prometheus
12 21 (2.50%) Argo
12 21 (2.50%) WSUS
13 18 (2.14%) SCOM
14 15 (1.79%) Puppet
15 14 (1.67%) HAProxy
16 13 (1.55%) Jamf Pro
17 12 (1.43%) vMotion
18 11 (1.31%) Nessus
19 8 (0.95%) Consul
Vendors
1 275 (32.74%) Microsoft
2 220 (26.19%) VMware
3 154 (18.33%) Cisco
4 146 (17.38%) F5
5 82 (9.76%) ServiceNow
6 73 (8.69%) Splunk
7 53 (6.31%) Infoblox
8 51 (6.07%) Citrix
9 47 (5.60%) SolarWinds
10 46 (5.48%) Google
11 45 (5.36%) Juniper
12 42 (5.00%) Red Hat
13 32 (3.81%) Blue Coat
13 32 (3.81%) Palo Alto
14 30 (3.57%) NetApp
15 29 (3.45%) Dynatrace
16 26 (3.10%) McAfee
17 22 (2.62%) Extreme Networks
18 21 (2.50%) CheckPoint
19 20 (2.38%) Fortinet