DNS Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Domain Name System (DNS)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 33 39
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +20
Contract jobs citing DNS 20 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.64% 0.56% 1.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.57% 4.55% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 5
10th Percentile £512 - £441
25th Percentile £560 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 - £465
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.27%
75th Percentile £628 - £475
90th Percentile £652 - £480
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £583 - £465
% change year-on-year - - -7.01%

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 70 22 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.23% 12.29% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 12 49
10th Percentile £309 £294 £400
25th Percentile £476 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +1.74%
75th Percentile £610 £545 £550
90th Percentile £643 £559 £755
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £19.13
Median hourly rate - - £22.55
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.20 £22.52
% change year-on-year - -36.94% +18.53%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing DNS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Milton Keynes

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing DNS

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (10.00%) IaaS
3 2 (10.00%) PaaS
3 2 (10.00%) SaaS
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (40.00%) Firewall
3 6 (30.00%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (30.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 6 (30.00%) DHCP
3 6 (30.00%) IPsec
3 6 (30.00%) LAN
3 6 (30.00%) Network Security
3 6 (30.00%) VPN
3 6 (30.00%) WAN
4 4 (20.00%) SSL
5 3 (15.00%) CATAPAN
5 3 (15.00%) NGFW
5 3 (15.00%) VLAN
6 2 (10.00%) BIG-IP
6 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (10.00%) ICMP
6 2 (10.00%) MPLS
6 2 (10.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Analyst
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Field Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Network Field Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) PKI
2 6 (30.00%) Cyberattack
2 6 (30.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Security Operations
1 8 (40.00%) Zero Trust
2 7 (35.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (30.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (30.00%) ITIL
3 6 (30.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (30.00%) SIEM
4 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (20.00%) Identity Management
5 4 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (20.00%) RBAC
5 4 (20.00%) Security Hardening
5 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (15.00%) Agile
6 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (25.00%) Degree
5 4 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
5 4 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (15.00%) MCSA
6 3 (15.00%) MCSE
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.00%) CCNP
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) NCSC
1 4 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (35.00%) VMware NSX
3 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) VMware
3 6 (30.00%) Cisco
3 6 (30.00%) Palo Alto
3 6 (30.00%) SolarWinds
3 6 (30.00%) Splunk
4 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (15.00%) Becrypt
6 2 (10.00%) F5
7 1 (5.00%) Aruba