DNS Contract Job Trends in Lincolnshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 8 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Lincolnshire 4.52% - 5.00%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 57.14% - 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £232 - -
25th Percentile £272 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £352 - -
75th Percentile £445 - -
90th Percentile £493 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £413 £550 £375
% change year-on-year -25.00% +46.67% -30.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £72.75 - -
25th Percentile - - £45.22
Median hourly rate £74.00 - £48.56
75th Percentile - - £51.91
90th Percentile £75.25 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £74.00 - £48.56

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 14 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 7.91% - 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £319 - £821
25th Percentile £433 - £821
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £823
Median % change year-on-year - - +73.16%
75th Percentile £503 - £824
90th Percentile £625 - £825
East Midlands median daily rate £435 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +1.16% -14.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 3
10th Percentile £51.43 - -
25th Percentile £72.75 - £12.28
Median hourly rate £74.00 - £12.57
75th Percentile - - £32.38
90th Percentile £75.00 - £44.09
East Midlands median hourly rate £25.75 £13.81 £14.27
% change year-on-year +86.46% -3.22% -30.39%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Lincolnshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Lincolnshire over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Lincolnshire

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lincolnshire citing DNS

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Lincolnshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Lincoln - 8 £352 -
DNS
East Midlands

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
2 6 (75.00%) IPv4
2 6 (75.00%) IPv6
2 6 (75.00%) Network Security
2 6 (75.00%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) LAN
3 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) WAN
4 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) IT Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
2 5 (62.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Server
2 6 (75.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (87.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) MCSA
3 2 (25.00%) MCSE
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Firmware
3 1 (12.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) WSUS
2 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) Citrix
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds