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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 63 49
Rank change year-on-year +52 -14 +19
Contract jobs citing DNS 39 8 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 10.26% 0.96% 3.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.82% 6.78% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 5 14
10th Percentile £518 - £283
25th Percentile £525 - £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £290 £450
Median % change year-on-year +89.66% -35.56% -15.29%
75th Percentile £575 - £538
90th Percentile £603 £476 £564
East of England median daily rate £550 £290 £525
% change year-on-year +89.66% -44.76% +23.53%
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 £81.01 - £16.00
% change year-on-year - - -2.85%

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 112 118 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.47% 14.22% 22.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 53 96
10th Percentile £404 £238 £256
25th Percentile £461 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £700
90th Percentile £613 - £714
East of England median daily rate £475 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +18.75% -15.79% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 41 25
10th Percentile £41.25 - £55.50
25th Percentile £56.00 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £81.01 - £73.75
90th Percentile £84.35 - -
East of England median hourly rate £62.00 £27.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +125.45% -57.69% +306.63%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 32 £550 +89.66% 16
Watford - 3 £550 - 3
Welwyn Garden City - 2 £675 -
Broxbourne - 1 - - 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 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 23 (58.97%) Cohesity
2 3 (7.69%) Azure
3 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.56%) Akamai
4 1 (2.56%) AWS
4 1 (2.56%) IaaS
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (56.41%) SAN
2 10 (25.64%) HTTP
2 10 (25.64%) SSL
3 9 (23.08%) FTP
3 9 (23.08%) SMTP
4 8 (20.51%) Network Security
5 5 (12.82%) DHCP
6 4 (10.26%) Firewall
6 4 (10.26%) TCP/IP
7 3 (7.69%) Skype
8 1 (2.56%) DMVPN
8 1 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (2.56%) GLBP
8 1 (2.56%) IGRP
8 1 (2.56%) IPsec
8 1 (2.56%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.56%) Multicast
8 1 (2.56%) NAS
8 1 (2.56%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.56%) VLAN
General
1 6 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.56%) Aviation
3 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Analyst
2 7 (17.95%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) Network Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (2.56%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (2.56%) IT Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Junior
5 1 (2.56%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (2.56%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (2.56%) Security Analyst
5 1 (2.56%) Security Specialist
5 1 (2.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Senior IT Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) SOC Specialist
5 1 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.08%) LDAP
2 1 (2.56%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.56%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Cyberattack
2 7 (17.95%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (12.82%) CSOC
3 5 (12.82%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 3 (7.69%) Smartcard
4 3 (7.69%) YubiKey
5 2 (5.13%) YARA
6 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.56%) FMCG
6 1 (2.56%) PKI
6 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (69.23%) Windows
2 25 (64.10%) Windows Server
3 21 (53.85%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (53.85%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (5.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (61.54%) SIEM
2 20 (51.28%) Build Automation
2 20 (51.28%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (51.28%) Operations Management
3 8 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (17.95%) Threat Detection
5 6 (15.38%) Network Packet Capture
5 6 (15.38%) Security Operations
6 5 (12.82%) Incident Response
6 5 (12.82%) Information Management
6 5 (12.82%) Information Security
6 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (7.69%) Analytics
7 3 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (7.69%) Behavioural Analytics
7 3 (7.69%) Break/Fix
7 3 (7.69%) Machine Learning
8 2 (5.13%) BCP
8 2 (5.13%) Business Continuity
8 2 (5.13%) Business Continuity Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (56.41%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.56%) Bash
2 1 (2.56%) Python
2 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (82.05%) Security Cleared
2 30 (76.92%) DV Cleared
3 9 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.69%) CCNA
5 3 (7.69%) CCNP
5 3 (7.69%) Degree
6 1 (2.56%) CCDP
System Software
1 26 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 22 (56.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (51.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 20 (51.28%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (10.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (61.54%) SCCM
1 24 (61.54%) WSUS
2 21 (53.85%) Ansible
3 3 (7.69%) Nessus
4 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (56.41%) Splunk
1 22 (56.41%) VMware
2 21 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 21 (53.85%) NetApp
3 4 (10.26%) Cisco
3 4 (10.26%) Tenable
4 3 (7.69%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.13%) Citrix
6 1 (2.56%) Aruba
6 1 (2.56%) Blue Coat
6 1 (2.56%) F5
6 1 (2.56%) FireEye
6 1 (2.56%) HP
6 1 (2.56%) IronPort
6 1 (2.56%) Juniper
6 1 (2.56%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.56%) Riverbed
6 1 (2.56%) Symantec
6 1 (2.56%) Twitter
6 1 (2.56%) Veeam