DNS Contract Job Trends in Halifax

Domain Name System (DNS)
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Halifax requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 3 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Halifax 8.00% 16.67% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 66.67% 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £325 £425 £390
% change year-on-year -23.53% +8.97% -29.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.30 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £12.30 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Halifax

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 Halifax.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Halifax 12.00% 16.67% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £418 £434
% change year-on-year -1.20% -3.80% +1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £12.30 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £41.00 £15.28
% change year-on-year +21.95% +168.37% -62.96%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Halifax

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Halifax

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Halifax citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Halifax citing DNS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Halifax

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Halifax citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Halifax citing DNS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax 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 1 (50.00%) Akamai
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cyber Defence
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform