DNS Contract Job Trends in Liverpool

Domain Name System (DNS)
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring DNS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 19 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 0
Contract jobs citing DNS 12 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 8.11% 4.84% 3.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.00% 39.13% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £496
25th Percentile - - £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £140 - £519
Median % change year-on-year - - +43.10%
75th Percentile - - £536
90th Percentile - - £537
Merseyside median daily rate £295 - £419
% change year-on-year - - +15.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 30 23 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Liverpool 20.27% 12.37% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 17
10th Percentile £148 £228 £220
25th Percentile £170 £273 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £295 £413
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -28.48% -8.33%
75th Percentile £475 £575 £438
90th Percentile £544 £585 £534
Merseyside median daily rate £158 £295 £400
% change year-on-year -46.61% -26.25% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £18.07 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -71.33% -
Merseyside median hourly rate - £18.07 £63.00
% change year-on-year - -71.33% -

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Liverpool

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing DNS

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing DNS

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) DMZ
1 11 (91.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 11 (91.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 7 (58.33%) Network Security
3 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (33.33%) BIG-IP
4 4 (33.33%) HTTP
4 4 (33.33%) SSL
4 4 (33.33%) Wireshark
5 1 (8.33%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Fiddler
General
1 11 (91.67%) Banking
1 11 (91.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Python Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Junior
3 3 (25.00%) Junior Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Load Balancing
2 7 (58.33%) Business Strategy
2 7 (58.33%) Design Patterns
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
3 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
4 1 (8.33%) ITSM
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) F5
2 7 (58.33%) VMware
3 4 (33.33%) Blue Coat
3 4 (33.33%) McAfee
3 4 (33.33%) NetApp
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft