DNSSEC Contract Job Trends in England

Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring DNSSEC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 594 496 553
Rank change year-on-year -98 +57 +75
Contract jobs citing DNSSEC 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.009% 0.004% 0.008%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.098% 0.031% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £440 - £436
25th Percentile £474 - £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £550
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile £593 - -
UK median daily rate £538 - £550

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

DNSSEC 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 4,096 3,205 4,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.48% 12.87% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,546 1,996 2,882
10th Percentile £250 £227 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.46% -0.46% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 129 394
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.59 £13.61
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £29.52 £39.32 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.92% -5.25% +121.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £64.69
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.50 £73.14
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.91% +12.50% +110.53%

DNSSEC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNSSEC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

DNSSEC job vacancy trend in England

DNSSEC
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DNSSEC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DNSSEC

DNSSEC
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNSSEC in England over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNSSEC in England

DNSSEC
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 DNSSEC within the England region over the 6 months to 20 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
South East - 3 £581 - 4
North West - 1 £417 -
North of England - 1 £417 -
DNSSEC
UK

DNSSEC
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (75.00%) Route 53
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Network Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
2 3 (75.00%) High Availability
2 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Google