DNS Contracts in Leeds

Domain Name System (DNS)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 49 72
Rank change year-on-year +21 +23 +17
Contract jobs citing DNS 32 14 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 6.88% 1.75% 1.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 43.24% 20.90% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 23
10th Percentile £237 £376 £415
25th Percentile £394 £468 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -19.64% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £600 -
90th Percentile £738 £679 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £415 £638
% change year-on-year +32.53% -34.90% +52.24%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 74 67 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 15.91% 8.39% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 56 68
10th Percentile £221 £275 £317
25th Percentile £235 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £700
90th Percentile £738 £644 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +195.60% - -
75th Percentile £41.50 £16.07 -
90th Percentile - £17.39 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 £32.50
% change year-on-year +195.60% -57.32% +84.24%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for DNS in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 16 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (15.63%) nginx
3 5 (15.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (15.63%) Traefik
4 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
2 6 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (18.75%) AWS Fargate
2 6 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (15.63%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.13%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) DHCP
1 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
2 6 (18.75%) VLAN
2 6 (18.75%) VPN
2 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (15.63%) LAN
3 5 (15.63%) VoIP
3 5 (15.63%) WAN
4 3 (9.38%) Firewall
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (56.25%) Oracle Database
2 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) GitLab
1 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.25%) Military
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 7 (21.88%) Engineering Specialist
4 6 (18.75%) Network Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior
5 5 (15.63%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) IT Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Desktop Support
7 3 (9.38%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) IP Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Lead
9 1 (3.13%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) cloud-init
1 6 (18.75%) Kafka
1 6 (18.75%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 16 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (18.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (75.00%) Linux
1 24 (75.00%) Windows
2 18 (56.25%) Windows Server
3 6 (18.75%) CentOS
3 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (18.75%) Unix
4 5 (15.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Agile
1 18 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (50.00%) Microservices
2 16 (50.00%) Security Management
2 16 (50.00%) SOA
3 14 (43.75%) Server Management
4 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.00%) Migration
6 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
6 6 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (18.75%) DevOps
6 6 (18.75%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 6 (18.75%) Identity Management
6 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (18.75%) Observability
6 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 6 (18.75%) Secrets Management
6 6 (18.75%) Static Application Security Testing
6 6 (18.75%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 24 (75.00%) Bash
2 18 (56.25%) PL/SQL
2 18 (56.25%) SQL
3 16 (50.00%) Perl
4 14 (43.75%) PowerShell
5 7 (21.88%) Python
6 6 (18.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (65.63%) SC Cleared
3 19 (59.38%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (18.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
5 1 (3.13%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) NCSC
2 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 25 (78.13%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Consul
1 6 (18.75%) Grafana
1 6 (18.75%) Istio
1 6 (18.75%) Jamf Pro
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 6 (18.75%) linkerd
1 6 (18.75%) Packer
1 6 (18.75%) Prometheus
1 6 (18.75%) Rancher
1 6 (18.75%) Terraform
1 6 (18.75%) ZABBIX
2 5 (15.63%) AppManager
2 5 (15.63%) HAProxy
2 5 (15.63%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) Cisco
2 18 (56.25%) Oracle
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.75%) Okta
3 6 (18.75%) Splunk
4 5 (15.63%) Apple
4 5 (15.63%) ESET
4 5 (15.63%) Ivanti
4 5 (15.63%) VMware
5 2 (6.25%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.13%) F5
6 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.13%) Meraki