DNS Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Domain Name System (DNS)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - -9
Contract jobs citing DNS 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 0.39% - 1.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.44% - 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile - - £538
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £400 £513
% change year-on-year +12.50% -21.95% -14.58%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 41 5 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 16.14% 4.63% 36.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 5 34
10th Percentile £313 £306 £495
25th Percentile £360 £310 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £425 £555
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -23.42% -1.94%
75th Percentile £619 £580 £583
90th Percentile £643 £643 £594
Cheshire median daily rate £448 £425 £505
% change year-on-year +5.41% -15.84% -3.81%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Knutsford

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing DNS

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Log Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Ticket Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) CASB
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable