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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 72 64
Rank change year-on-year 0 -8 +16
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DNS 14 16 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.37% 1.34% 2.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.56% 10.00% 23.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 34
10th Percentile £448 £269 £316
25th Percentile £463 £422 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £469 £429
Median % change year-on-year +10.40% +9.33% -28.54%
75th Percentile £566 £519 £550
90th Percentile £616 £616 £642
North West median daily rate £465 £463 £400
% change year-on-year +0.54% +15.63% -30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
North West median hourly rate £66.50 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year +40.00% - -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 90 160 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.80% 13.37% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 126 146
10th Percentile £219 £305 £313
25th Percentile £360 £400 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +16.67% -1.37%
75th Percentile £535 £775 £550
90th Percentile £640 £850 £647
North West median daily rate £442 £515 £475
% change year-on-year -14.13% +8.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £37.25 £15.72
25th Percentile - £40.63 £15.74
Median hourly rate £20.00 £47.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +187.88% -64.54%
75th Percentile - £76.38 £17.95
90th Percentile - £92.95 £22.28
North West median hourly rate £66.50 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year +36.94% +191.13% -47.57%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Manchester

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing DNS

DNS
DemandTrendContract 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 20 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton - 4 - -
Altrincham - 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) GCP
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (14.29%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) Fastly
5 1 (7.14%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) TCP/IP
2 8 (57.14%) DHCP
3 5 (35.71%) VPN
4 3 (21.43%) Firewall
4 3 (21.43%) VLAN
5 2 (14.29%) iSCSI
5 2 (14.29%) SAN
6 1 (7.14%) HTTP
6 1 (7.14%) Network Security
6 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) French Language
3 3 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) IT Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) IT Support
1 4 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Project Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Flask
2 1 (7.14%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 3 (21.43%) Replication
3 2 (14.29%) Clustering
3 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
4 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 4 (28.57%) Customer Service
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (28.57%) ITSM
2 4 (28.57%) Project Management
2 4 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 4 (28.57%) Service Management
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 3 (21.43%) DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Perl
3 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (28.57%) A+ Certification
2 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.14%) CISSP
4 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (7.14%) MCSA
4 1 (7.14%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (7.14%) Docker
4 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) CASB
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Nessus
2 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Google
3 3 (21.43%) Dell
3 3 (21.43%) NetApp
3 3 (21.43%) Veeam
3 3 (21.43%) VMware
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco
4 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.14%) CyberArk
5 1 (7.14%) Remedy
5 1 (7.14%) Splunk
5 1 (7.14%) Tenable