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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 30 40
Rank change year-on-year -18 +10 +17
Contract jobs citing DNS 19 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.51% 0.57% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.94% 4.76% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 4
10th Percentile £512 - £437
25th Percentile £560 - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £465
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.27%
75th Percentile £600 - £477
90th Percentile £698 - £481
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £575 - £465
% change year-on-year - - -9.27%

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 68 21 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 8.98% 12.00% 17.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 11 46
10th Percentile £313 £274 £391
25th Percentile £499 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +1.06%
75th Percentile £610 £546 £550
90th Percentile £643 £560 £656
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +2.44%
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 24 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 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (10.53%) IaaS
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) SaaS
6 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (47.37%) Firewall
2 8 (42.11%) TCP/IP
3 7 (36.84%) Cisco ASA
3 7 (36.84%) Cisco Firepower
3 7 (36.84%) IPsec
3 7 (36.84%) LAN
3 7 (36.84%) VPN
3 7 (36.84%) WAN
4 6 (31.58%) DHCP
4 6 (31.58%) Network Security
5 4 (21.05%) SSL
5 4 (21.05%) VLAN
6 3 (15.79%) BGP
6 3 (15.79%) BIG-IP
6 3 (15.79%) CATAPAN
6 3 (15.79%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (15.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (15.79%) MPLS
6 3 (15.79%) OSPF
6 3 (15.79%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
1 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Senior
2 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) Network Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (21.05%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (15.79%) Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Lead
6 2 (10.53%) Lead Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Network Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
6 2 (10.53%) Technical Leader
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Network Field Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Network Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) PKI
2 4 (21.05%) Cyberattack
2 4 (21.05%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 3 (15.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (15.79%) Private Cloud
4 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
4 2 (10.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
5 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (5.26%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
1 8 (42.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Zero Trust
2 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (36.84%) ITIL
3 6 (31.58%) Identity Access Management
3 6 (31.58%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (31.58%) Project Delivery
3 6 (31.58%) Security Operations
4 5 (26.32%) Cloud Security
4 5 (26.32%) Computer Science
4 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Identity Management
5 4 (21.05%) Incident Response
5 4 (21.05%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (21.05%) RBAC
5 4 (21.05%) Security Hardening
5 4 (21.05%) SIEM
5 4 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
6 3 (15.79%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Bicep
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (89.47%) Security Cleared
2 14 (73.68%) DV Cleared
3 9 (47.37%) SC Cleared
4 5 (26.32%) Degree
5 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Certification
6 3 (15.79%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (15.79%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (15.79%) MCSA
6 3 (15.79%) MCSE
7 2 (10.53%) CCNP
7 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
8 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (5.26%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) NCSC
2 4 (21.05%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (47.37%) Active Directory
2 8 (42.11%) VMware NSX
3 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (42.11%) VMware
3 7 (36.84%) Cisco
3 7 (36.84%) Palo Alto
3 7 (36.84%) SolarWinds
4 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
4 4 (21.05%) Splunk
5 3 (15.79%) Becrypt
5 3 (15.79%) F5
6 1 (5.26%) Aruba
6 1 (5.26%) Google