DNS Contracts in Merseyside

Domain Name System (DNS)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 28 30 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing DNS 1 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.60% 1.32% 1.75%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.33% 14.29% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £202 £226
25th Percentile - £233 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £295 £318
Median % change year-on-year - -7.09% +15.45%
75th Percentile - £305 £433
90th Percentile - - £501
North West median daily rate £425 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +6.25% -27.27% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 30 21 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 17.86% 9.21% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 29
10th Percentile £151 £160 £248
25th Percentile £163 £177 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £295 £413
Median % change year-on-year -27.12% -28.48% -2.94%
75th Percentile £463 £382 £525
90th Percentile £538 £575 £550
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.50 -
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 Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Merseyside

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Merseyside

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Merseyside

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Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +6 1 - - 5
DNS
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat