DNS Contracts in Manchester

Domain Name System (DNS)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 43 78
Rank change year-on-year -42 +35 +3
Contract jobs citing DNS 14 79 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.91% 4.18% 2.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.73% 33.91% 21.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 61 52
10th Percentile £381 £344 £130
25th Percentile £400 £469 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +54.84%
75th Percentile £622 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £698
North West median daily rate £400 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -27.27% - +33.51%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

DNS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 208 233 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.52% 12.32% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 177 203
10th Percentile £268 £313 £173
25th Percentile £350 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £464
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +7.76% +23.73%
75th Percentile £750 £575 £619
90th Percentile £850 £668 £638
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -1.00% +11.11% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 8
10th Percentile £14.29 £15.00 £11.05
25th Percentile - £18.50 £15.01
Median hourly rate £17.72 £20.71 £17.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% +16.65% -67.73%
75th Percentile £100.00 £28.75 £20.32
90th Percentile £102.40 £32.50 £37.47
North West median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £18.50
% change year-on-year -14.40% +68.92% -65.09%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Manchester over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) nginx
1 2 (14.29%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) DHCP
1 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) LAN
2 2 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (7.14%) BGP
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) SAN
3 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) IT Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) IT Operations Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) cloud-init
1 2 (14.29%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) CMDB
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) CentOS
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Configuration Management
2 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) Capacity Management
4 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Task Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (14.29%) Change Management
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
5 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
5 2 (14.29%) Project Management
5 2 (14.29%) Security Management
5 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) Go
3 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (14.29%) Ruby
5 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (14.29%) CCNA
2 2 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CCIE
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) MCSA
3 1 (7.14%) MCSE
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) NCSC
1 2 (14.29%) NIST
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) ZABBIX
3 2 (14.29%) Consul
3 2 (14.29%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (14.29%) Graphite
3 2 (14.29%) HAProxy
3 2 (14.29%) Istio
3 2 (14.29%) linkerd
3 2 (14.29%) Nagios
3 2 (14.29%) Packer
3 2 (14.29%) Podman
3 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 2 (14.29%) Puppet
4 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
4 1 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 2 (14.29%) CA
3 2 (14.29%) Dell
3 2 (14.29%) PagerDuty
3 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
3 2 (14.29%) Splunk
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) EMC
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) HP