DNS Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 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 48 10 63
Rank change year-on-year -38 +53 -13
Contract jobs citing DNS 13 42 7
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.61% 12.07% 0.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 38.18% 6.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 33 4
10th Percentile £159 - -
25th Percentile £425 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £290
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +89.66% -44.76%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £368
90th Percentile £575 £625 £507
East of England median daily rate £450 £550 £290
% change year-on-year -18.18% +89.66% -47.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £81.35 -
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £81.01 -
% change year-on-year -72.23% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 91 110 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 11.28% 31.61% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 67 52
10th Percentile £398 £408 £232
25th Percentile £425 £465 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +29.41% -16.67%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 -
East of England median daily rate £475 £490 £400
% change year-on-year -3.06% +22.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 25 39
10th Percentile - £52.75 -
25th Percentile £57.63 £59.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.35 -
90th Percentile - £86.10 -
East of England median hourly rate £61.76 £62.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year -0.40% +188.91% -62.35%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Hertfordshire

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing DNS

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage -29 7 £450 -18.18% 3
DNS
East of England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Cohesity
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) Skype
2 5 (38.46%) DHCP
3 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
4 2 (15.38%) iSCSI
4 2 (15.38%) NAS
4 2 (15.38%) SAN
5 1 (7.69%) Firewall
5 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Server Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) LDAP
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth
1 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
1 1 (7.69%) OpenID
1 1 (7.69%) REST
1 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Smartcard
1 6 (46.15%) YubiKey
2 1 (7.69%) NHS
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (84.62%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Linux
4 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) Business Continuity
4 1 (7.69%) Business Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps
4 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.69%) Migration
4 1 (7.69%) Patch Management
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) Server Management
4 1 (7.69%) Service Management
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Debt
4 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) DV Cleared
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) Degree
3 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Active Directory
2 8 (61.54%) Hyper-V
3 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) SCCM
2 6 (46.15%) Nessus
2 6 (46.15%) WSUS
3 3 (23.08%) vCenter Server
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) VMware
2 6 (46.15%) Tenable
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (7.69%) Google
4 1 (7.69%) Wyse