DNS Contracts in Kent

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DNS 15 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 11.72% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 34.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £153 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £603 - -
90th Percentile £623 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £520
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% +12.74%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 44 22 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 34.38% 12.02% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 10 18
10th Percentile £150 £139 £209
25th Percentile £160 £153 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £263 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -48.66% +76.29%
75th Percentile £438 £466 £525
90th Percentile £623 £510 £536
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £36.95 £79.19
Median % change year-on-year - -53.34% -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.20
% change year-on-year -4.10% -1.46% +29.34%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Kent

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Kent over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Kent

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing DNS

DNS
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Kent region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Dover - 5 £375 - 1
Tonbridge - 5 £155 -
Maidstone - 2 £615 - 3
West Malling - 1 £615 - 2
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 5 (33.33%) Confluence
1 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) IaaS
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (20.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DHCP
1 10 (66.67%) Firewall
1 10 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 10 (66.67%) VPN
2 5 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
2 5 (33.33%) SAN
2 5 (33.33%) SSL
2 5 (33.33%) VLAN
3 3 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Law
1 5 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (53.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Help Desk Officer
3 5 (33.33%) Help Desk Support
3 5 (33.33%) IT Support
3 5 (33.33%) Service Desk Officer
3 5 (33.33%) Service Desk Support
3 5 (33.33%) Support Officer
3 5 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (33.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) VMware Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) ITIL
3 5 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) CRM
3 5 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
3 5 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (26.67%) Security Patching
5 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
1 5 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 10 (66.67%) Hyper-V
1 10 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 10 (66.67%) vSphere
2 5 (33.33%) DFS Replication
2 5 (33.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Tivoli
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (66.67%) Citrix
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 5 (33.33%) Veeam