DNS Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Domain Name System (DNS)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 42 56
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 +21
Contract jobs citing DNS 28 19 16
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 3.79% 3.14% 1.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 42.42% 25.68% 17.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 13
10th Percentile £190 £226 £371
25th Percentile £213 £243 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £336 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -27.27% +41.48%
75th Percentile £493 £734 £630
90th Percentile £530 £746 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £225 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -47.06% +6.25% +3.23%

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 66 74 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 8.94% 12.23% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 50 79
10th Percentile £275 £207 £275
25th Percentile £321 £303 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £534 £569 £588
90th Percentile £551 £750 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £435 £444 £450
% change year-on-year -2.08% -1.39% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £41.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £28.60 £17.35
% change year-on-year +74.86% +64.84% -65.31%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Leeds

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Leeds over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Leeds

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing DNS

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 8 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 8 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon ELB
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (14.29%) Azure
4 4 (14.29%) GitHub
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon EventBridge
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 3 (10.71%) Route 53
5 3 (10.71%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.57%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (60.71%) Network Security
2 14 (50.00%) DMZ
2 14 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 14 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 10 (35.71%) TCP/IP
4 9 (32.14%) Firewall
5 6 (21.43%) VPN
6 5 (17.86%) DHCP
6 5 (17.86%) SSL
7 3 (10.71%) LAN
7 3 (10.71%) VoIP
7 3 (10.71%) WAN
8 1 (3.57%) Internet
8 1 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.71%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 6 (21.43%) Git
3 5 (17.86%) GitLab
4 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
4 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 15 (53.57%) Banking
2 14 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
2 5 (17.86%) Senior DevOps
2 5 (17.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) IT Support
3 4 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Service Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (53.57%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.71%) iPhone
3 2 (7.14%) NHS
4 1 (3.57%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Windows 10
2 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Android
4 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Load Balancing
2 14 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 14 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (21.43%) DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
5 5 (17.86%) DevSecOps
5 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (17.86%) ITIL
6 4 (14.29%) High Availability
6 4 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 4 (14.29%) Mentoring
6 4 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (10.71%) Auto-Scaling
7 3 (10.71%) Migration
7 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (7.14%) Customer Service
8 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (7.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) Bash
3 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.57%) Go
4 1 (3.57%) Java
4 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (53.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (32.14%) Docker
3 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Packer
4 1 (3.57%) Grafana
4 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) F5
2 15 (53.57%) VMware
3 5 (17.86%) CheckPoint
3 5 (17.86%) Palo Alto
4 4 (14.29%) Splunk
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.57%) Oracle
6 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.57%) Zscaler