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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 52 63
Rank change year-on-year +33 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing DNS 36 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 8.00% 1.15% 1.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.00% 7.37% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 2 11
10th Percentile - £321 £275
25th Percentile £525 £368 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year +23.60% +11.25% -27.27%
75th Percentile £575 £523 £456
90th Percentile £638 £569 £475
East of England median daily rate £550 £225 £450
% change year-on-year +144.44% -50.00% +5.88%
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 90 95 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 20.00% 15.57% 21.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 38 88
10th Percentile £323 £301 £259
25th Percentile £463 £406 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £698 - £738
East of England median daily rate £523 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +26.67% -8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 27 40
10th Percentile £41.25 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.38%
75th Percentile - - £70.00
90th Percentile £85.00 - £73.75
East of England median hourly rate £62.00 £44.28 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.02% -31.88% +30.00%

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

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +33 33 £550 +23.60% 6
Welwyn Garden City +1 1 £675 - 1
Broxbourne - 1 - -
St Albans - 1 £145 -
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 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
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.78%) IaaS
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%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.78%) NAS
5 1 (2.78%) Skype
5 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.78%) VLAN
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 3 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) 1st Line Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (2.78%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) IT Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Junior
4 1 (2.78%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Support Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) LDAP
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%) PKI
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
4 1 (2.78%) Smartcard
4 1 (2.78%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 25 (69.44%) 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%) Analytics
7 8 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
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 1 (2.78%) Bash
3 1 (2.78%) SQL
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 23 (63.89%) 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
3 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (58.33%) Microsoft
1 21 (58.33%) Splunk
1 21 (58.33%) VMware
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