DNS Contracts in London

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 194 158
Rank change year-on-year +53 -36 +28
Contract jobs citing DNS 271 206 397
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.00% 1.27% 1.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.69% 13.39% 16.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 139 272
10th Percentile £285 £256 £313
25th Percentile £388 £350 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £554 £631
90th Percentile £663 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile £46.45 £20.00 £36.03
25th Percentile £47.50 £21.90 £55.94
Median hourly rate £56.00 £23.80 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +135.29% -65.26% +136.21%
75th Percentile £63.00 £23.99 £73.25
90th Percentile £63.15 £24.51 £79.10
England median hourly rate £61.25 £24.20 £33.50
% change year-on-year +153.10% -27.76% +9.84%

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 1,376 1,539 2,445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.18% 9.51% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 1,021 1,723
10th Percentile £289 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £380 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £619 £668
90th Percentile £715 £713 £750
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 31 39
10th Percentile £20.32 £16.24 £18.46
25th Percentile - £20.00 £22.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -34.87% +40.54%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.25 £68.50
90th Percentile £62.05 £65.00 £80.60
England median hourly rate £42.50 £54.88 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.55% -0.23% +69.23%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in London

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in London

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in London

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in London

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 15 August 2025. 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 +19 45 £525 -0.94% 14
West London +8 18 £401 -23.71% 6
South London +10 13 £538 +19.44% 2
East London +13 3 £585 +160.00% 3
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 17 (6.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (4.43%) Confluence
3 9 (3.32%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.58%) nginx
5 4 (1.48%) Apache
6 2 (0.74%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.37%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Eikon
1 1 (0.37%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.37%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (38.38%) Azure
2 82 (30.26%) AWS
3 56 (20.66%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (11.81%) Entra ID
5 29 (10.70%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (9.96%) GitHub
7 21 (7.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 21 (7.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 20 (7.38%) Azure Monitor
9 19 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (6.64%) Amazon S3
11 17 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (5.90%) Azure DevOps
12 16 (5.90%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (5.54%) GCP
14 13 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (4.43%) Route 53
16 11 (4.06%) Amazon ELB
17 9 (3.32%) Azure AKS
17 9 (3.32%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (50.92%) Firewall
2 126 (46.49%) DHCP
3 102 (37.64%) VPN
4 92 (33.95%) TCP/IP
5 41 (15.13%) VLAN
6 38 (14.02%) Network Security
7 37 (13.65%) WAN
8 33 (12.18%) SSL
9 32 (11.81%) HTTP
10 30 (11.07%) LAN
10 30 (11.07%) Wireless
11 26 (9.59%) BGP
12 24 (8.86%) OSPF
13 20 (7.38%) SD-WAN
13 20 (7.38%) SMTP
14 17 (6.27%) NGFW
15 15 (5.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 15 (5.54%) Internet
16 14 (5.17%) EIGRP
16 14 (5.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.23%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (4.80%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.21%) Big Data
6 4 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.11%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.11%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.11%) Power BI
8 2 (0.74%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.74%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.74%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.74%) MySQL
9 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 35 (12.92%) Jenkins
2 24 (8.86%) Git
3 16 (5.90%) JIRA
4 7 (2.58%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (2.21%) Vagrant
6 5 (1.85%) GitLab
7 4 (1.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.48%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.48%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (1.48%) Vite
7 4 (1.48%) webpack
8 3 (1.11%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.74%) Subversion
9 2 (0.74%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.37%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.37%) Postman
General
1 82 (30.26%) Social Skills
2 57 (21.03%) Finance
3 27 (9.96%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (5.54%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.43%) Banking
7 10 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.32%) Legal
9 7 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.58%) Telecoms
10 6 (2.21%) Local Government
10 6 (2.21%) Marketing
10 6 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.48%) Law
12 2 (0.74%) Electronics
12 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.74%) Retail
13 1 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 51 (18.82%) Network Engineer
2 38 (14.02%) Support Engineer
3 34 (12.55%) Senior
4 29 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 27 (9.96%) Architect
6 26 (9.59%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (7.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (6.27%) Network Support
8 17 (6.27%) Network Support Engineer
9 16 (5.90%) Analyst
10 14 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (4.43%) Administrator
12 12 (4.43%) AWS DevOps
12 12 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.06%) Desktop Engineer
13 11 (4.06%) Security Engineer
14 10 (3.69%) Consultant
14 10 (3.69%) IT Support
14 10 (3.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.27%) ADO
2 14 (5.17%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (4.43%) .NET
4 9 (3.32%) OAuth
5 8 (2.95%) LDAP
5 8 (2.95%) OpenTelemetry
5 8 (2.95%) REST
5 8 (2.95%) YAML
6 7 (2.58%) CSS
6 7 (2.58%) HTML
6 7 (2.58%) OAuth2
6 7 (2.58%) OpenID
6 7 (2.58%) React
7 6 (2.21%) JSON
8 5 (1.85%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.85%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.48%) HTML5
9 4 (1.48%) Kafka
9 4 (1.48%) NumPy
9 4 (1.48%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.75%) Data Centre
2 17 (6.27%) Anti-Spyware
3 14 (5.17%) Replication
4 13 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.43%) PKI
6 11 (4.06%) Cloud Native
7 9 (3.32%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.95%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.95%) Public Cloud
8 8 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (2.21%) Video Conferencing
10 5 (1.85%) Clustering
10 5 (1.85%) iPad
10 5 (1.85%) iPhone
11 4 (1.48%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (1.48%) Private Cloud
11 4 (1.48%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.11%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 119 (43.91%) Windows
2 57 (21.03%) Linux
3 30 (11.07%) Windows Server
4 22 (8.12%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.43%) Mac OS
6 11 (4.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (4.06%) Unix
7 8 (2.95%) Ubuntu
7 8 (2.95%) VMS
7 8 (2.95%) Windows 7
8 7 (2.58%) CentOS
9 6 (2.21%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (2.21%) Android
10 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.11%) Mac OS X
10 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.74%) Solaris
11 2 (0.74%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.74%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (23.25%) DevOps
2 57 (21.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 55 (20.30%) CI/CD
4 53 (19.56%) Migration
5 43 (15.87%) Agile
6 42 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (13.28%) High Availability
8 34 (12.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (10.33%) ITIL
10 23 (8.49%) Containerisation
11 22 (8.12%) Load Balancing
12 20 (7.38%) Configuration Management
12 20 (7.38%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (7.01%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (7.01%) Kalman Filter
14 18 (6.64%) Network Monitoring
15 17 (6.27%) Cloud Security
15 17 (6.27%) Observability
16 16 (5.90%) Patch Management
17 15 (5.54%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 68 (25.09%) Python
2 59 (21.77%) PowerShell
3 34 (12.55%) Bash
4 18 (6.64%) SQL
5 17 (6.27%) C#
6 13 (4.80%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.43%) Perl
8 9 (3.32%) Bicep
9 8 (2.95%) Groovy
10 6 (2.21%) VBScript
11 5 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.85%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.48%) Go
12 4 (1.48%) Java
13 2 (0.74%) C++
13 2 (0.74%) VB
14 1 (0.37%) C
Qualifications
1 48 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 46 (16.97%) Cisco Certification
3 38 (14.02%) SC Cleared
4 36 (13.28%) CCNP
5 27 (9.96%) Degree
6 15 (5.54%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.69%) CCSA
7 10 (3.69%) CISSP
8 9 (3.32%) CCNA
9 8 (2.95%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.95%) CCIE
10 7 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 4 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (1.11%) A+ Certification
13 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 3 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.48%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.48%) GDPR
3 4 (1.48%) NIST
3 4 (1.48%) WCAG
4 3 (1.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 3 (1.11%) NCSC
5 2 (0.74%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.74%) QA
5 2 (0.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 79 (29.15%) Active Directory
2 38 (14.02%) Docker
3 28 (10.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (4.43%) Microsoft App-V
5 11 (4.06%) Hyper-V
6 10 (3.69%) Firmware
7 8 (2.95%) vSphere
8 7 (2.58%) Dovecot
8 7 (2.58%) Postfix
9 6 (2.21%) DFS Replication
9 6 (2.21%) Squid
10 5 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (1.85%) XenApp
11 3 (1.11%) vCloud
11 3 (1.11%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.74%) NFS
12 2 (0.74%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.74%) Veritas File System
12 2 (0.74%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 74 (27.31%) Terraform
2 37 (13.65%) Kubernetes
3 36 (13.28%) Ansible
4 26 (9.59%) Grafana
5 23 (8.49%) SCCM
6 21 (7.75%) Prometheus
7 19 (7.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (7.01%) Progress Chef
8 18 (6.64%) Puppet
9 9 (3.32%) FortiGate
10 8 (2.95%) Nessus
11 7 (2.58%) CA Spectrum
12 6 (2.21%) Proxmox
13 5 (1.85%) Packer
14 4 (1.48%) Kibana
14 4 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (1.11%) Argo
16 2 (0.74%) Consul
16 2 (0.74%) QRadar
16 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 73 (26.94%) Microsoft
2 62 (22.88%) Cisco
3 40 (14.76%) CheckPoint
4 35 (12.92%) VMware
5 31 (11.44%) F5
5 31 (11.44%) Infoblox
6 30 (11.07%) Palo Alto
7 23 (8.49%) Google
8 22 (8.12%) ServiceNow
9 19 (7.01%) Citrix
10 17 (6.27%) Red Hat
11 16 (5.90%) Juniper
12 15 (5.54%) SolarWinds
13 14 (5.17%) Meraki
14 13 (4.80%) Fortinet
15 9 (3.32%) Splunk
16 7 (2.58%) AlgoSec
17 6 (2.21%) Jaspersoft
17 6 (2.21%) Zscaler
18 5 (1.85%) Brocade