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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 35 42
Rank change year-on-year -8 +7 +16
Contract jobs citing DNS 17 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.57% 1.95% 2.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.56% 13.33% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 9
10th Percentile £522 £559 £453
25th Percentile £560 £562 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £583 £465
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +25.28% -15.46%
75th Percentile £638 £614 £484
90th Percentile £653 £624 £500
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £600 £583 £465
% change year-on-year +3.00% +25.28% -11.43%

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 64 30 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 9.68% 14.63% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 18 70
10th Percentile £264 £336 £320
25th Percentile £511 £498 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £601 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +14.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £614 £630 £581
90th Percentile £643 £670 £825
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £560 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +10.34% -3.33% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £18.00
25th Percentile - - £22.52
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £36.00 £14.20 £24.00
% change year-on-year +153.52% -40.83% -

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 7 April 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 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) IaaS
3 2 (11.76%) PaaS
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) TCP/IP
2 3 (17.65%) DHCP
3 2 (11.76%) Firewall
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security
4 1 (5.88%) SAN
4 1 (5.88%) VLAN
4 1 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.88%) Wireless
General
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Analyst
2 7 (41.18%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (23.53%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Lead
4 3 (17.65%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Field Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Identity Management Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Network Field Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Splunk Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Cyberattack
1 8 (47.06%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (29.41%) PKI
3 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (11.76%) Public Cloud
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Linux
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Incident Response
2 9 (52.94%) SIEM
3 8 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (47.06%) Security Operations
4 5 (29.41%) Computer Science
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (17.65%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (17.65%) Zero Trust
7 2 (11.76%) Agile
7 2 (11.76%) AI
7 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
7 2 (11.76%) High Availability
7 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (11.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Bicep
2 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (88.24%) Security Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) DV Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 5 (29.41%) CompTIA CySA+
3 5 (29.41%) CompTIA Security+
3 5 (29.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (29.41%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Podman
1 2 (11.76%) Proxmox
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Splunk
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Zscaler
4 1 (5.88%) Aruba
4 1 (5.88%) VMware