DNS Contracts in Hertfordshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 21 68 53
Rank change year-on-year +47 -15 +2
Contract jobs citing DNS 24 5 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 7.48% 0.60% 2.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.53% 4.10% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 11
10th Percentile £473 - £463
25th Percentile £525 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £290 £525
Median % change year-on-year +102.59% -44.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £625 £425 £563
90th Percentile £634 £455 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £345 £538
% change year-on-year +44.93% -35.81% +26.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £80.34 - -
25th Percentile £80.59 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - -
75th Percentile £81.91 - -
90th Percentile £83.05 - -
East of England median hourly rate £81.35 - £17.47

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 94 122 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.28% 14.63% 22.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 57 106
10th Percentile £446 £290 £261
25th Percentile £463 £350 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -19.05% +27.27%
75th Percentile £613 £480 £700
90th Percentile £635 £588 £714
East of England median daily rate £475 £415 £475
% change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 45 20
10th Percentile £52.00 £57.50 £55.98
25th Percentile £59.00 £61.25 £64.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +118.30%
75th Percentile £81.35 - £73.94
90th Percentile £86.80 - £74.65
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Hertfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Hertfordshire

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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 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
Stevenage +45 18 £600 +106.90% 10
Watford - 3 £550 - 5
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £675 - 1
DNS
East of England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (8.33%) CMS
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) Cohesity
2 2 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (4.17%) Akamai
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (66.67%) HTTP
1 16 (66.67%) SSL
2 15 (62.50%) FTP
2 15 (62.50%) SMTP
3 13 (54.17%) Network Security
4 4 (16.67%) DHCP
5 3 (12.50%) Firewall
5 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.33%) SAN
6 2 (8.33%) Skype
7 1 (4.17%) BGP
7 1 (4.17%) DMVPN
7 1 (4.17%) DWDM
7 1 (4.17%) GLBP
7 1 (4.17%) IGRP
7 1 (4.17%) MPLS
7 1 (4.17%) Multicast
7 1 (4.17%) NetScaler
7 1 (4.17%) OSPF
7 1 (4.17%) VPN
General
1 11 (45.83%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.17%) Aviation
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Analyst
2 13 (54.17%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Security Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Junior
6 1 (4.17%) Junior Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Security Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) SOC Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (62.50%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.17%) HTML
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Cyberattack
2 11 (45.83%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (41.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (41.67%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (33.33%) CSOC
5 7 (29.17%) Management Information System
6 2 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (8.33%) Smartcard
6 2 (8.33%) YARA
6 2 (8.33%) YubiKey
7 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
7 1 (4.17%) FMCG
7 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (50.00%) Threat Detection
3 11 (45.83%) Network Packet Capture
4 10 (41.67%) Information Management
4 10 (41.67%) Information Security
4 10 (41.67%) Security Operations
5 9 (37.50%) SIEM
6 8 (33.33%) Incident Response
7 7 (29.17%) Analytics
7 7 (29.17%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (29.17%) Behavioural Analytics
7 7 (29.17%) Machine Learning
8 3 (12.50%) Break/Fix
8 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
9 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
9 2 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
10 1 (4.17%) Strategic Roadmap
10 1 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
10 1 (4.17%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (70.83%) Security Cleared
2 14 (58.33%) DV Cleared
3 12 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (12.50%) CCNA
5 3 (12.50%) CCNP
6 2 (8.33%) Degree
7 1 (4.17%) CCDP
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) SCCM
1 4 (16.67%) WSUS
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Nessus
3 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Cisco
1 4 (16.67%) Splunk
2 3 (12.50%) CheckPoint
2 3 (12.50%) Tenable
3 2 (8.33%) Darktrace
3 2 (8.33%) FireEye
3 2 (8.33%) IronPort
3 2 (8.33%) LogRhythm
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) NetApp
3 2 (8.33%) Symantec
3 2 (8.33%) VMware
4 1 (4.17%) Arista
4 1 (4.17%) Blue Coat
4 1 (4.17%) Citrix
4 1 (4.17%) F5
4 1 (4.17%) Juniper
4 1 (4.17%) Riverbed
4 1 (4.17%) Twitter
4 1 (4.17%) Zscaler