DNS Contract Job Trends in London

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 143 170
Rank change year-on-year -44 +27 -1
Contract jobs citing DNS 257 243 242
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 1.96% 1.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.33% 18.56% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 166 147
10th Percentile £260 £259 £256
25th Percentile £413 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% +15.91% -18.18%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £531
90th Percentile £638 £675 £665
England median daily rate £480 £549 £486
% change year-on-year -12.57% +12.90% -7.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £26.26 - £16.00
25th Percentile £27.93 £45.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.33 £54.50 £23.65
Median % change year-on-year -42.52% +130.44% -55.59%
75th Percentile £35.35 £63.25 £24.09
90th Percentile £37.39 - £25.00
England median hourly rate £45.71 £80.68 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.34% +101.69% -18.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,402 1,309 1,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.79% 10.56% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 932 833 1,114
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £618
90th Percentile £701 £724 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 51
10th Percentile £19.34 £24.21 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.21 £24.66 £16.56
Median hourly rate £26.11 £38.75 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.62% +64.89% -45.35%
75th Percentile £37.25 £50.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £62.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.62% -27.50% +122.22%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

DNS job vacancy trend in London

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in London

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DNS

DNS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Central London -31 22 £425 -22.73% 15
South London -5 10 £519 -13.58%
West London -29 6 £188 -53.13% 4
East London -10 5 £200 -65.81% 2
North London - 1 £225 - 1
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 36 (14.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (8.17%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.67%) nginx
4 9 (3.50%) Confluence
5 6 (2.33%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) Traefik
Applications
1 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 130 (50.58%) Azure
2 64 (24.90%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (24.12%) AWS
3 62 (24.12%) Entra ID
4 34 (13.23%) GCP
5 29 (11.28%) IaaS
5 29 (11.28%) Serverless
6 26 (10.12%) GitHub
7 25 (9.73%) Amazon S3
7 25 (9.73%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (9.34%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (9.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 22 (8.56%) Amazon EKS
9 22 (8.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (8.56%) PaaS
9 22 (8.56%) SaaS
10 20 (7.78%) Route 53
11 19 (7.39%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (5.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (4.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 108 (42.02%) DHCP
2 88 (34.24%) Firewall
3 72 (28.02%) VPN
4 63 (24.51%) TCP/IP
5 28 (10.89%) Network Security
6 23 (8.95%) Kerberos
7 19 (7.39%) WAN
8 18 (7.00%) HTTP
8 18 (7.00%) VLAN
9 14 (5.45%) DKIM
9 14 (5.45%) DMARC
9 14 (5.45%) LAN
10 12 (4.67%) SSL
11 11 (4.28%) Internet
11 11 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (3.50%) OpenVPN
13 8 (3.11%) SAN
13 8 (3.11%) SMTP
14 7 (2.72%) HTTPS
14 7 (2.72%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.23%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (5.45%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (1.95%) DynamoDB
4 5 (1.95%) MySQL
4 5 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.95%) Power BI
5 4 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (1.56%) DocumentDB
5 4 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.56%) Redis
6 3 (1.17%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (6.61%) JIRA
2 16 (6.23%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.28%) GitLab
4 10 (3.89%) Git
5 7 (2.72%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.72%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.33%) Chocolatey
7 5 (1.95%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (1.56%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
General
1 51 (19.84%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.51%) Finance
3 23 (8.95%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.23%) Banking
6 12 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.67%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.50%) Legal
8 4 (1.56%) Local Government
9 3 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.78%) Law
10 2 (0.78%) Military
10 2 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.39%) Advertising
11 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.39%) Games
11 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Marketing
11 1 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 40 (15.56%) Architect
2 29 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (9.73%) Senior
4 22 (8.56%) Support Engineer
5 20 (7.78%) Azure Engineer
5 20 (7.78%) Network Engineer
6 17 (6.61%) AWS Architect
7 15 (5.84%) IT Engineer
8 14 (5.45%) Integration Engineer
9 13 (5.06%) Cloud Architect
9 13 (5.06%) IT Support
9 13 (5.06%) Security Engineer
10 12 (4.67%) Analyst
11 11 (4.28%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 10 (3.89%) Administrator
12 10 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.11%) Azure Architect
13 8 (3.11%) Desktop Support
13 8 (3.11%) IT Support Engineer
13 8 (3.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.67%) OAuth
2 28 (10.89%) LDAP
3 27 (10.51%) SAML
4 18 (7.00%) OpenID
5 7 (2.72%) ARM Templates
5 7 (2.72%) REST
6 5 (1.95%) OAuth2
6 5 (1.95%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (1.95%) Web Services
7 4 (1.56%) AWS CDK
7 4 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.56%) gRPC
7 4 (1.56%) Hibernate
7 4 (1.56%) JPA
7 4 (1.56%) Kafka
7 4 (1.56%) RESTful
7 4 (1.56%) Spring
7 4 (1.56%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.56%) Spring Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.56%) Replication
2 13 (5.06%) Onboarding
2 13 (5.06%) PKI
3 12 (4.67%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.67%) Data Centre
4 10 (3.89%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (3.11%) Clustering
5 8 (3.11%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.95%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.95%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
9 4 (1.56%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.56%) Smartphone
10 3 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 102 (39.69%) Windows
2 64 (24.90%) Windows Server
3 33 (12.84%) Linux
4 14 (5.45%) Windows 10
5 8 (3.11%) Android
5 8 (3.11%) Mac OS
5 8 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (2.72%) Apple iOS
6 7 (2.72%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (2.33%) Unix
8 5 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (1.17%) CentOS
9 3 (1.17%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.78%) VMS
10 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.39%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
1 44 (17.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (16.34%) Migration
2 42 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (15.95%) DevOps
4 38 (14.79%) High Availability
5 36 (14.01%) CI/CD
6 35 (13.62%) Disaster Recovery
7 32 (12.45%) Load Balancing
8 29 (11.28%) ITIL
9 26 (10.12%) RBAC
10 25 (9.73%) Observability
11 23 (8.95%) Runbook
12 22 (8.56%) Identity Access Management
13 20 (7.78%) Roadmaps
13 20 (7.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (7.39%) Root Cause Analysis
15 18 (7.00%) Cybersecurity
15 18 (7.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 72 (28.02%) PowerShell
2 34 (13.23%) Python
3 23 (8.95%) Bash
4 14 (5.45%) SQL
5 7 (2.72%) Ruby
6 5 (1.95%) Bicep
6 5 (1.95%) Java
6 5 (1.95%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.17%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.78%) C
8 2 (0.78%) Go
9 1 (0.39%) C#
9 1 (0.39%) Perl
9 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 79 (30.74%) Security Cleared
2 63 (24.51%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.84%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (5.84%) DV Cleared
4 14 (5.45%) CCNP
5 10 (3.89%) CCNA
6 7 (2.72%) Degree
7 6 (2.33%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.17%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.78%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.39%) ACSP
10 1 (0.39%) ACTC
10 1 (0.39%) CISSP
10 1 (0.39%) OCP
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.39%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.78%) GDPR
2 16 (6.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (5.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 14 (5.45%) NIST
5 8 (3.11%) SLA
6 4 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 4 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.56%) QA
7 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.39%) COBIT
8 1 (0.39%) NCSC
8 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 112 (43.58%) Active Directory
2 30 (11.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (7.78%) Hyper-V
4 19 (7.39%) Docker
5 15 (5.84%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (4.28%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (3.89%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (3.89%) vSphere
8 9 (3.50%) Squid
9 8 (3.11%) BitLocker
9 8 (3.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (2.33%) NFS
10 6 (2.33%) Postfix
10 6 (2.33%) Varnish
11 4 (1.56%) Sendmail
11 4 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (1.17%) VMware NSX
12 3 (1.17%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.78%) Firmware
14 1 (0.39%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 63 (24.51%) Terraform
2 45 (17.51%) Kubernetes
3 40 (15.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (15.56%) Single Sign-On
4 25 (9.73%) Ansible
5 20 (7.78%) Grafana
6 18 (7.00%) Prometheus
6 18 (7.00%) SCCM
7 15 (5.84%) FortiGate
8 14 (5.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (3.89%) vCenter Server
10 8 (3.11%) Puppet
10 8 (3.11%) vMotion
11 7 (2.72%) Consul
11 7 (2.72%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.56%) Kibana
12 4 (1.56%) WSUS
13 3 (1.17%) Argo
13 3 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
13 3 (1.17%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 100 (38.91%) Microsoft
2 40 (15.56%) VMware
3 25 (9.73%) Google
4 21 (8.17%) Citrix
4 21 (8.17%) Dynatrace
5 16 (6.23%) Okta
5 16 (6.23%) ServiceNow
6 15 (5.84%) Cisco
7 13 (5.06%) Red Hat
8 12 (4.67%) AppDynamics
8 12 (4.67%) Palo Alto
9 9 (3.50%) Infoblox
9 9 (3.50%) Splunk
10 8 (3.11%) Atlassian
10 8 (3.11%) Dell
10 8 (3.11%) NetApp
10 8 (3.11%) Zscaler
11 7 (2.72%) F5
12 6 (2.33%) Bloomberg
12 6 (2.33%) Tenable