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 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 18 50
Rank change year-on-year -26 +32 +13
Contract jobs citing DNS 25 37 7
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.85% 8.15% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.55% 40.22% 6.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 26 2
10th Percentile £372 - £321
25th Percentile £425 £525 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £445
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +23.60% +11.25%
75th Percentile - £575 £523
90th Percentile £623 £640 £569
East of England median daily rate £475 £550 £225
% change year-on-year -13.64% +144.44% -50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 0
Median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% - -
East of England median hourly rate £85.00 £55.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.55% +37.50% +150.00%

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 116 92 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 13.21% 20.26% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 44 39
10th Percentile £389 £328 £303
25th Percentile £425 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £696 -
East of England median daily rate £495 £525 £413
% change year-on-year -5.71% +27.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 36 27
10th Percentile - £41.25 -
25th Percentile £57.63 £45.00 £61.25
Median hourly rate £68.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile £89.75 £85.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £44.28
% change year-on-year +5.69% +38.89% -31.88%

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 September 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 September 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 -21 16 £600 +9.09% 7
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £675 - 2
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 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Cohesity
2 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (44.00%) Firewall
2 8 (32.00%) VLAN
3 7 (28.00%) DHCP
3 7 (28.00%) SAN
4 5 (20.00%) Skype
4 5 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (12.00%) FTP
5 3 (12.00%) HTTP
5 3 (12.00%) Network Security
5 3 (12.00%) SMTP
5 3 (12.00%) SSL
6 2 (8.00%) iSCSI
6 2 (8.00%) NAS
6 2 (8.00%) VPN
7 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (4.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) Backup Specialist
3 5 (20.00%) NetApp Specialist
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Technical Specialist
3 5 (20.00%) Senior Unix Technical Specialist
3 5 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
4 3 (12.00%) Administrator
4 3 (12.00%) Automation Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Monitoring Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Project Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) SOC Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Backup Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) LDAP
2 1 (4.00%) OAuth
2 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.00%) OpenID
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) SAML
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Replication
1 5 (20.00%) Smartcard
1 5 (20.00%) YubiKey
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (12.00%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (12.00%) Cyberattack
2 3 (12.00%) YARA
3 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) NHS
4 1 (4.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 20 (80.00%) Windows
2 18 (72.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (36.00%) Linux
4 6 (24.00%) CentOS
4 6 (24.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (24.00%) Rocky
5 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (20.00%) ITIL
3 4 (16.00%) Analytics
4 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (12.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (12.00%) Information Security
4 3 (12.00%) Network Packet Capture
4 3 (12.00%) Service Management
4 3 (12.00%) Threat Detection
5 2 (8.00%) AI
5 2 (8.00%) Behavioural Analytics
5 2 (8.00%) High Availability
5 2 (8.00%) Information Management
5 2 (8.00%) ITSM
5 2 (8.00%) Log Analytics
5 2 (8.00%) Performance Management
5 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (8.00%) Project Management
5 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (84.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (52.00%) DV Cleared
2 13 (52.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (8.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (48.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (28.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (8.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Ansible
1 8 (32.00%) SCCM
2 6 (24.00%) NetBackup
3 5 (20.00%) Nessus
3 5 (20.00%) WSUS
4 4 (16.00%) vCenter Server
5 2 (8.00%) SCOM
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) VMware
2 8 (32.00%) NetApp
2 8 (32.00%) Veeam
3 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (20.00%) Tenable
5 2 (8.00%) Remedy
6 1 (4.00%) Citrix
6 1 (4.00%) Google
6 1 (4.00%) Wyse