DNS Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 66 66
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 +71
Contract jobs citing DNS 108 72 85
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 3.98% 2.67% 2.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.00% 20.00% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 32 49
10th Percentile £206 £221 £190
25th Percentile £354 £339 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £380 £425
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -10.59% +21.43%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £525
90th Percentile £573 £661 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.10 £26.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.20 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.97% -10.37% +35.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £25.30 £28.00
90th Percentile £37.13 - -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £23.99 £47.50
% change year-on-year +87.58% -49.49% +115.91%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 360 360 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.25% 13.36% 18.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 201 306
10th Percentile £170 £170 £206
25th Percentile £300 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £565
90th Percentile £628 £675 £700
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 8 27
10th Percentile £15.80 £18.03 £16.35
25th Percentile £22.42 £21.01 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £24.19 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.04% +44.74%
75th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £43.85 £42.50 -
England median hourly rate £36.25 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -36.79% +1.52% +37.73%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

DNS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the Midlands

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DNS

DNS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
West Midlands +35 103 £438 +13.64% 23
East Midlands -32 5 £450 +20.00% 20
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 22 (20.37%) Confluence
2 10 (9.26%) nginx
3 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (9.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 7 (6.48%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.26%) AWS
2 31 (28.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 31 (28.70%) Amazon S3
3 30 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
3 30 (27.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 26 (24.07%) Amazon ELB
4 26 (24.07%) AWS KMS
5 23 (21.30%) Azure
6 20 (18.52%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (11.11%) Amazon Glacier
8 11 (10.19%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (10.19%) Route 53
9 8 (7.41%) SaaS
10 6 (5.56%) Entra ID
11 5 (4.63%) IaaS
11 5 (4.63%) PaaS
12 4 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.70%) GCP
12 4 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 58 (53.70%) Firewall
2 42 (38.89%) DHCP
3 31 (28.70%) HTTP
4 29 (26.85%) VPN
5 28 (25.93%) Wireless
6 27 (25.00%) SMTP
7 26 (24.07%) Network Security
8 23 (21.30%) SSH
8 23 (21.30%) SSL
9 22 (20.37%) FTP
10 21 (19.44%) TCP/IP
10 21 (19.44%) WAN
11 15 (13.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 15 (13.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 14 (12.96%) DMZ
13 11 (10.19%) IPsec
14 10 (9.26%) IMAP
14 10 (9.26%) LAN
14 10 (9.26%) OpenLDAP
15 9 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (21.30%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.26%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.93%) Big Data
5 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Parquet
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (25.93%) Jenkins
2 27 (25.00%) Git
3 24 (22.22%) JIRA
4 22 (20.37%) Vagrant
5 6 (5.56%) Fiddler
6 4 (3.70%) GitLab
7 1 (0.93%) MLflow
7 1 (0.93%) Poetry
7 1 (0.93%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 26 (24.07%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.67%) Banking
3 18 (16.67%) Investment Banking
4 11 (10.19%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (7.41%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.70%) Finance
8 4 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.85%) Legal
10 1 (0.93%) Automotive
10 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.93%) Military
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (23.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (18.52%) Network Engineer
3 18 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (15.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 17 (15.74%) Platform Engineer
5 16 (14.81%) AWS DevOps
5 16 (14.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 13 (12.04%) Analyst
7 10 (9.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 10 (9.26%) Operations Engineer
7 10 (9.26%) Senior
7 10 (9.26%) Support Analyst
8 8 (7.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) IT Support
9 6 (5.56%) Security Engineer
9 6 (5.56%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (4.63%) Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.26%) LDAP
2 9 (8.33%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.93%) Flask
4 1 (0.93%) NumPy
4 1 (0.93%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.22%) Replication
2 16 (14.81%) Management Information System
3 15 (13.89%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.56%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.78%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.85%) PKI
7 2 (1.85%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.85%) SCADA
8 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 47 (43.52%) Windows
2 34 (31.48%) Linux
3 24 (22.22%) VMS
4 22 (20.37%) Amazon Linux
5 11 (10.19%) Ubuntu
6 8 (7.41%) Windows Server
7 7 (6.48%) Windows 10
8 6 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.93%) SUSE
9 1 (0.93%) Unix
9 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (41.67%) Change Management
2 29 (26.85%) DevOps
3 23 (21.30%) Cloud Security
3 23 (21.30%) Configuration Management
4 22 (20.37%) Patch Management
4 22 (20.37%) Platform Engineering
5 18 (16.67%) Load Balancing
6 17 (15.74%) ITIL
7 15 (13.89%) CI/CD
8 10 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 10 (9.26%) Inventory Management
8 10 (9.26%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (8.33%) Business Strategy
9 9 (8.33%) Design Patterns
9 9 (8.33%) High Availability
9 9 (8.33%) Problem Management
10 8 (7.41%) Network Segmentation
11 7 (6.48%) Computer Science
11 7 (6.48%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (32.41%) Python
2 33 (30.56%) PowerShell
3 23 (21.30%) Groovy
4 15 (13.89%) SQL
5 13 (12.04%) Perl
6 12 (11.11%) Java
7 7 (6.48%) Bash
8 3 (2.78%) Lisp
9 1 (0.93%) Go
Qualifications
1 47 (43.52%) Security Cleared
2 41 (37.96%) SC Cleared
3 20 (18.52%) Cisco Certification
4 17 (15.74%) Degree
5 16 (14.81%) CCNP
6 12 (11.11%) AWS Certification
7 10 (9.26%) Azure Certification
7 10 (9.26%) CCNA
8 7 (6.48%) CCIE
8 7 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (6.48%) MCP
9 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (4.63%) MCDST
11 4 (3.70%) DV Cleared
12 3 (2.78%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (1.85%) CISSP
13 2 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.93%) A+ Certification
14 1 (0.93%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.70%) SLA
2 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 36 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 28 (25.93%) Docker
3 22 (20.37%) DFS Replication
4 21 (19.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (13.89%) Dovecot
5 15 (13.89%) Postfix
6 10 (9.26%) Squid
7 5 (4.63%) Terminal Services
8 2 (1.85%) Firmware
8 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.93%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (26.85%) Terraform
2 23 (21.30%) Grafana
2 23 (21.30%) Prometheus
3 11 (10.19%) Nessus
4 10 (9.26%) Ansible
4 10 (9.26%) Proxmox
4 10 (9.26%) SCCM
5 6 (5.56%) OpenView
6 5 (4.63%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (2.78%) Kubernetes
8 2 (1.85%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (1.85%) Nagios
9 1 (0.93%) Istio
9 1 (0.93%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.93%) Puppet
9 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.93%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 34 (31.48%) Cisco
2 33 (30.56%) F5
3 27 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 26 (24.07%) Microsoft
5 23 (21.30%) VMware
6 16 (14.81%) CheckPoint
7 15 (13.89%) Blue Coat
8 12 (11.11%) Juniper
9 10 (9.26%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (7.41%) Remedy
11 7 (6.48%) Red Hat
12 6 (5.56%) Fortinet
12 6 (5.56%) McAfee
12 6 (5.56%) NetApp
12 6 (5.56%) Palo Alto
13 5 (4.63%) Broadcom
13 5 (4.63%) iManage
13 5 (4.63%) Mitel
13 5 (4.63%) Peregrine
13 5 (4.63%) SolarWinds