DNS Contracts in Gloucestershire

Domain Name System (DNS)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 56 35
Rank change year-on-year +44 -21 +19
Contract jobs citing DNS 33 2 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 12.04% 0.47% 5.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 61.11% 3.23% 32.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 2 24
10th Percentile £537 £253 -
25th Percentile £547 £354 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £533 £513
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% +3.90% +3.80%
75th Percentile £623 £714 £600
90th Percentile £775 £818 -
South West median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +22.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 54 62 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 19.71% 14.45% 18.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 40 68
10th Percentile £300 £342 £296
25th Percentile £494 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £575 £460
Median % change year-on-year -4.70% +25.00% +2.22%
75th Percentile £623 £694 £600
90th Percentile £730 £776 £700
South West median daily rate £548 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
% change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Gloucestershire

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Gloucestershire

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cheltenham +28 21 £548 +2.91% 11
Gloucester - 4 £615 - 9
DNS
South West

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) IIS
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) Azure
2 15 (45.45%) AWS
2 15 (45.45%) OpenShift
3 2 (6.06%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (51.52%) DHCP
2 15 (45.45%) HTTP
2 15 (45.45%) TCP/IP
3 14 (42.42%) Firewall
4 13 (39.39%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) JIRA
General
1 10 (30.30%) Aerospace
2 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Architect
2 12 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (15.15%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Active Directory Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Administrator
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (3.03%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) VMWare Administrator
5 1 (3.03%) Wintel Administrator
5 1 (3.03%) Wintel Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (42.42%) PKI
2 13 (39.39%) Data Centre
2 13 (39.39%) Replication
3 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (54.55%) Windows
2 17 (51.52%) Windows Server
3 15 (45.45%) Linux
3 15 (45.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.03%) Android
5 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.03%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Containerisation
2 13 (39.39%) RBAC
3 12 (36.36%) Service Management
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) Incident Management
5 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (6.06%) Agile
7 2 (6.06%) Analytics
7 2 (6.06%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (6.06%) Migration
7 2 (6.06%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Architecture
8 1 (3.03%) GAP Analysis
8 1 (3.03%) Identity Management
8 1 (3.03%) Release Management
8 1 (3.03%) Resource Management
8 1 (3.03%) Test Scripting
8 1 (3.03%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 16 (48.48%) PowerShell
2 15 (45.45%) Bash
2 15 (45.45%) Java
2 15 (45.45%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) SQL
3 1 (3.03%) VB
3 1 (3.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (84.85%) Security Cleared
2 17 (51.52%) SC Cleared
3 12 (36.36%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) MCP
4 1 (3.03%) MCSA
4 1 (3.03%) MCSE
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) NCSC
1 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (51.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (48.48%) Hyper-V
3 15 (45.45%) Docker
4 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
5 1 (3.03%) BitLocker
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (48.48%) Terraform
2 15 (45.45%) Ansible
2 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 15 (45.45%) Puppet
3 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.03%) NetApp OnCommand
3 1 (3.03%) SCCM
3 1 (3.03%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.03%) vMotion
3 1 (3.03%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) VMware
2 15 (45.45%) Red Hat
3 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.03%) McAfee
4 1 (3.03%) Symantec