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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 46 62
Rank change year-on-year +27 +16 +9
Contract jobs citing DNS 36 9 12
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 7.32% 1.65% 1.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.71% 8.49% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 3 11
10th Percentile - - £275
25th Percentile £525 - £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £290 £400
Median % change year-on-year +89.66% -27.50% -27.27%
75th Percentile £575 £445 £456
90th Percentile - £538 £475
East of England median daily rate £550 £275 £425
% change year-on-year +100.00% -35.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.26 - -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £55.00 £40.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year +37.50% +150.00% -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 93 106 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 18.90% 19.49% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 50 83
10th Percentile £220 £290 £273
25th Percentile £450 £406 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -7.37%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £684 £600 £738
East of England median daily rate £550 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +22.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 25 45
10th Percentile £41.25 £35.00 -
25th Percentile £45.00 £62.50 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.38%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.50 £73.75
East of England median hourly rate £45.00 £58.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -10.00% +30.00%

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 15 October 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in Hertfordshire

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 15 October 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 +30 33 £550 +89.66% 3
Watford - 1 - - 3
Broxbourne - 1 - -
St Albans - 1 £145 -
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 1 (2.78%) CMS
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 21 (58.33%) Cohesity
2 2 (5.56%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Batch
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (2.78%) IaaS
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (58.33%) SAN
2 12 (33.33%) FTP
2 12 (33.33%) HTTP
2 12 (33.33%) SMTP
2 12 (33.33%) SSL
3 11 (30.56%) Network Security
4 2 (5.56%) DHCP
5 1 (2.78%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (2.78%) Firewall
5 1 (2.78%) iSCSI
5 1 (2.78%) NAS
5 1 (2.78%) Skype
5 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.78%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Redis
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.56%) Law
4 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Analyst
1 12 (33.33%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (2.78%) .NET Developer
3 1 (2.78%) 1st Line Engineer
3 1 (2.78%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (2.78%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 1 (2.78%) Developer
3 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (2.78%) IT Engineer
3 1 (2.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (2.78%) Junior
3 1 (2.78%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (2.78%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (2.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
2 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
2 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.78%) React
2 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (33.33%) Cyberattack
2 9 (25.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 8 (22.22%) CSOC
3 8 (22.22%) Cyber Threat
3 8 (22.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
4 1 (2.78%) Smartcard
4 1 (2.78%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 24 (66.67%) Windows
2 22 (61.11%) Windows Server
3 20 (55.56%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (55.56%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (5.56%) Linux
5 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (80.56%) SIEM
2 20 (55.56%) Build Automation
2 20 (55.56%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (55.56%) Operations Management
3 12 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (30.56%) Network Packet Capture
5 10 (27.78%) Information Security
6 9 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (25.00%) Incident Response
6 9 (25.00%) Security Operations
6 9 (25.00%) Threat Detection
7 8 (22.22%) AI
7 8 (22.22%) Analytics
7 8 (22.22%) Behavioural Analytics
7 8 (22.22%) Information Management
7 8 (22.22%) Machine Learning
7 8 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (22.22%) Runbook
7 8 (22.22%) SOAR
8 7 (19.44%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 29 (80.56%) PowerShell
2 9 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) SQL
4 1 (2.78%) Bash
4 1 (2.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 29 (80.56%) Security Cleared
2 27 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Degree
System Software
1 22 (61.11%) Active Directory
2 21 (58.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (55.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 20 (55.56%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (58.33%) SCCM
1 21 (58.33%) WSUS
2 20 (55.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (2.78%) Nessus
Vendors
1 21 (58.33%) Splunk
1 21 (58.33%) VMware
2 20 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 20 (55.56%) NetApp
3 1 (2.78%) Aruba
3 1 (2.78%) Citrix
3 1 (2.78%) Darktrace
3 1 (2.78%) FireEye
3 1 (2.78%) HP
3 1 (2.78%) IronPort
3 1 (2.78%) LogRhythm
3 1 (2.78%) Symantec
3 1 (2.78%) Tenable
3 1 (2.78%) Veeam