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 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 31 41
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 +16
Contract jobs citing DNS 20 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.62% 0.55% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.99% 4.55% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 0 3
10th Percentile £512 - £433
25th Percentile £560 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 - £465
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.27%
75th Percentile £630 - £480
90th Percentile £769 - £482
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £583 - £457
% change year-on-year - - -10.73%

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 69 22 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.06% 12.15% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 11 44
10th Percentile £313 £274 £384
25th Percentile £499 £475 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +1.74%
75th Percentile £610 £546 £550
90th Percentile £647 £560 £701
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +2.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £19.13
Median hourly rate £17.50 - £22.55
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £17.50 £14.20 £22.52
% change year-on-year +23.24% -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 27 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 10 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (30.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) IaaS
4 2 (10.00%) PaaS
4 2 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) Firewall
2 9 (45.00%) TCP/IP
3 8 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (40.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 8 (40.00%) IPsec
3 8 (40.00%) LAN
3 8 (40.00%) VPN
3 8 (40.00%) WAN
4 6 (30.00%) DHCP
4 6 (30.00%) Network Security
5 5 (25.00%) VLAN
6 4 (20.00%) BGP
6 4 (20.00%) BIG-IP
6 4 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (20.00%) MPLS
6 4 (20.00%) OSPF
6 4 (20.00%) SD-WAN
6 4 (20.00%) SSL
7 3 (15.00%) CATAPAN
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Network Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Architect
4 4 (20.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) Lead
5 3 (15.00%) Lead Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Network Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Technical Architect
5 3 (15.00%) Technical Leader
6 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Network Technical Architect
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Identity Management Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Network Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) PKI
2 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 4 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) Private Cloud
2 4 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 3 (15.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Linux
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 8 (40.00%) ITIL
3 7 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (35.00%) Project Delivery
4 6 (30.00%) Cloud Security
4 6 (30.00%) Computer Science
4 6 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (30.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 6 (30.00%) Security Operations
5 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (20.00%) Identity Management
6 4 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 4 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (20.00%) RBAC
6 4 (20.00%) Security Hardening
6 4 (20.00%) SIEM
6 4 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) Bicep
2 2 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 9 (45.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (30.00%) Degree
5 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (15.00%) CCNP
6 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (15.00%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (15.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (15.00%) MCSA
6 3 (15.00%) MCSE
6 3 (15.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (10.00%) CCIE
8 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) NCSC
2 4 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (45.00%) VMware NSX
2 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (45.00%) VMware
3 8 (40.00%) Cisco
3 8 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 8 (40.00%) SolarWinds
4 4 (20.00%) F5
4 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (20.00%) Splunk
5 3 (15.00%) Becrypt
6 2 (10.00%) Google
7 1 (5.00%) Aruba