DNS Contracts in Hampshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 41 56 58
Rank change year-on-year +15 +2 +18
Contract jobs citing DNS 28 39 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.75% 2.42% 2.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.28% 8.67% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 22 26
10th Percentile £483 £431 £213
25th Percentile £544 £500 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £531 £563
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% -5.56% +25.00%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £628
90th Percentile £647 £590 £719
South East median daily rate £550 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% +25.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £47.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -50.53% +8.57% +103.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 162 450 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.72% 27.95% 21.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 162 162
10th Percentile £325 £266 £228
25th Percentile £456 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +1.44%
75th Percentile £618 £634 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £694
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 73 38
10th Percentile £51.49 £17.69 £18.25
25th Percentile £55.09 £51.06 £42.44
Median hourly rate £59.13 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.10% -4.42% +166.67%
75th Percentile £63.44 £61.30 £69.69
90th Percentile £69.38 £62.50 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Hampshire

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Hampshire

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Hampshire

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Hampshire

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Hampshire 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
Basingstoke +38 23 £575 +6.98% 17
Winchester +3 3 £616 -
Farnborough -1 1 £765 +27.50% 2
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 11 (39.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (10.71%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (10.71%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (10.71%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (10.71%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (10.71%) Office Communications Server
2 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 3 (10.71%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (10.71%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
1 8 (28.57%) GCP
1 8 (28.57%) IaaS
1 8 (28.57%) OpenShift
1 8 (28.57%) PaaS
2 1 (3.57%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 19 (67.86%) DHCP
2 11 (39.29%) VPN
3 8 (28.57%) Firewall
3 8 (28.57%) SMTP
4 7 (25.00%) SAN
5 4 (14.29%) iSCSI
5 4 (14.29%) VLAN
6 3 (10.71%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (10.71%) DDNS
6 3 (10.71%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (28.57%) Big Data
1 8 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
General
1 17 (60.71%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Electronics
3 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
3 3 (10.71%) Marketing
3 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Support Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 10 (35.71%) 3rd Line Support
2 10 (35.71%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (10.71%) Designer
5 3 (10.71%) Exchange Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Exchange Support
5 3 (10.71%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Project Office Support
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Specialist
7 1 (3.57%) Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Clustering
2 8 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 8 (28.57%) PKI
3 4 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (10.71%) Replication
5 1 (3.57%) Derivative
5 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Windows
2 12 (42.86%) Linux
2 12 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (14.29%) Windows 10
4 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.57%) CentOS
5 1 (3.57%) Fedora
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) DevOps
1 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (28.57%) Machine Learning
1 8 (28.57%) Software Deployment
2 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (21.43%) ITIL
3 4 (14.29%) RBAC
4 3 (10.71%) Architectural Design
4 3 (10.71%) Content Management
4 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (10.71%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Content Management
4 3 (10.71%) Enterprise Search
4 3 (10.71%) High Availability
4 3 (10.71%) OSINT
4 3 (10.71%) Power Management
4 3 (10.71%) Programme Management
4 3 (10.71%) SIEM
4 3 (10.71%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 4 (14.29%) Bash
3 3 (10.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 28 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (60.71%) DV Cleared
3 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
4 8 (28.57%) Degree
System Software
1 18 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 11 (39.29%) Hyper-V
3 9 (32.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (28.57%) BitLocker
4 8 (28.57%) Docker
4 8 (28.57%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (28.57%) Terminal Services
4 8 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (25.00%) vSphere
6 3 (10.71%) Brightmail
6 3 (10.71%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Ansible
2 11 (39.29%) vCenter Server
3 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 8 (28.57%) Nagios
3 8 (28.57%) Puppet
3 8 (28.57%) vMotion
4 3 (10.71%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (10.71%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (10.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) VMware
2 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (39.29%) Symantec
3 8 (28.57%) Citrix
3 8 (28.57%) Google
3 8 (28.57%) HP
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco
4 3 (10.71%) F5
4 3 (10.71%) Juniper
4 3 (10.71%) LogRhythm
4 3 (10.71%) NETGEAR
4 3 (10.71%) SAP
4 3 (10.71%) SolarWinds
4 3 (10.71%) TP-LINK
5 2 (7.14%) Fujitsu
6 1 (3.57%) Red Hat