DNS Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Domain Name System (DNS)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 7 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 2.96% 6.45% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.71% 66.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £406 £510 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £520 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% - -
75th Percentile £431 £530 -
90th Percentile £435 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £425 £520 -
% change year-on-year -18.27% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 70 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 51.85% 9.68% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 2 3
10th Percentile £304 £321 -
25th Percentile £313 £353 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £410 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +9.33% -10.45%
75th Percentile £498 £473 £431
90th Percentile £500 £507 £458
Suffolk median daily rate £400 £300 £220
% change year-on-year +33.33% +36.36% -44.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - -
Median hourly rate £17.12 - -
75th Percentile £18.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £17.12 - £48.56

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Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich.

DNS job vacancy trend in Ipswich

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Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing DNS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing DNS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 3 (75.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) 5G
1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
1 4 (100.00%) SSH
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 4 (100.00%) Flask
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) Jinja
1 4 (100.00%) Pandas
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (75.00%) Kafka
2 3 (75.00%) Playwright
2 3 (75.00%) pytest
2 3 (75.00%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (75.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
2 3 (75.00%) API Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Application Packaging
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Patterns
2 3 (75.00%) Process Management
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) API Development
4 1 (25.00%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus