DNS Contracts in Manchester

Domain Name System (DNS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 82 45
Rank change year-on-year +24 -37 +33
Contract jobs citing DNS 21 14 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.27% 0.92% 4.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.43% 6.83% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 61
10th Percentile £327 £381 £344
25th Percentile £385 £400 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% -13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £475 £622 £650
90th Percentile £605 £688 £688
North West median daily rate £425 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +6.25% -27.27% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 98 205 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.58% 13.51% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 158 177
10th Percentile £193 £262 £313
25th Percentile £288 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -8.75% +7.76%
75th Percentile £491 £750 £575
90th Percentile £582 £850 £668
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £14.29 £15.00
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - -14.42% +16.65%
75th Percentile - £100.00 £28.75
90th Percentile - £102.40 £32.50
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

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

DNS
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

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Manchester

DNS
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

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bolton - 4 - - 4
Altrincham - 1 - - 2
DNS
North West

DNS
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 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (9.52%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 6 (28.57%) GitHub
3 5 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
4 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (14.29%) Serverless
5 3 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (9.52%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 14 (66.67%) DHCP
2 7 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 6 (28.57%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) Firewall
4 1 (4.76%) HTTP
4 1 (4.76%) Intranet
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security
4 1 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (4.76%) VLAN
4 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) French Language
3 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Military
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (23.81%) IT Support
2 4 (19.05%) IT Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Project Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Node.js
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (4.76%) cloud-init
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) Keycloak
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Management Information System
2 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (9.52%) Clustering
4 1 (4.76%) Blog
4 1 (4.76%) CMDB
4 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 6 (28.57%) Linux
4 3 (14.29%) CentOS
4 3 (14.29%) VMS
5 2 (9.52%) Unix
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) DevOps
2 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (38.10%) ITSM
3 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 7 (33.33%) ITIL
3 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Load Balancing
5 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) Project Management
5 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery
6 4 (19.05%) Computer Science
6 4 (19.05%) Configuration Management
6 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (19.05%) Customer Service
6 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (19.05%) Service Management
7 3 (14.29%) Analytics
7 3 (14.29%) Change Management
7 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Go
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) Perl
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) A+ Certification
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.76%) NCSC
2 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.52%) Docker
3 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (9.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) Terraform
2 6 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (19.05%) Istio
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (19.05%) WSUS
3 4 (19.05%) ZABBIX
4 3 (14.29%) Kustomize
4 3 (14.29%) Nagios
4 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (9.52%) Ansible
6 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (4.76%) Consul
6 1 (4.76%) Grafana
6 1 (4.76%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (4.76%) linkerd
6 1 (4.76%) Packer
6 1 (4.76%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (33.33%) VMware
3 4 (19.05%) Google
4 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 2 (9.52%) Dell
5 2 (9.52%) HP
5 2 (9.52%) IBM
6 1 (4.76%) Cisco
6 1 (4.76%) Meraki
6 1 (4.76%) Okta
6 1 (4.76%) Splunk