DNS Contracts in Milton Keynes

Domain Name System (DNS)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 27 35 61
Rank change year-on-year +8 +26 -14
Contract jobs citing DNS 4 9 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 2.31% 2.31% 1.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% 10.84% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 10
10th Percentile £559 £453 £450
25th Percentile £562 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £465 £531
Median % change year-on-year +25.28% -12.48% +6.25%
75th Percentile £614 £484 £595
90th Percentile £624 £500 £641
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £583 £465 £513
% change year-on-year +25.28% -9.27% +2.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 20 83 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.56% 21.28% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 63 78
10th Percentile £309 £366 £410
25th Percentile £476 £474 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.95% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £630 £585 £555
90th Percentile £674 £825 £625
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £508 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +5.00% +1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 0
Median hourly rate - £23.75 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £14.20 £23.75 -
% change year-on-year -40.21% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (25.00%) Mimecast
4 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (75.00%) MPLS
1 3 (75.00%) NGFW
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
1 3 (75.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Adaptive Security
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Management
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Zachman Framework
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) MCSE
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (50.00%) NCSC
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Commvault
2 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (25.00%) Imperva
2 1 (25.00%) Netskope