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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 34 37
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +20
Contract jobs citing DNS 26 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 3.38% 0.88% 2.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.91% 8.33% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 0 7
10th Percentile £513 - £411
25th Percentile £560 - £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 - £440
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.15%
75th Percentile £638 - £480
90th Percentile £757 - £484
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £595 - £435
% change year-on-year - - -15.12%

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 79 24 57
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 10.27% 10.57% 16.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 10 43
10th Percentile £391 £447 £355
25th Percentile £512 £484 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £527 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% +0.33% +1.01%
75th Percentile £624 £548 £550
90th Percentile £651 £578 £588
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £590 £508 £506
% change year-on-year +16.26% +0.40% -1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.50 - £18.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 - £22.52
75th Percentile £43.75 - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £22.51
% change year-on-year +172.68% -36.92% +18.47%

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 18 July 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

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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 15 (57.69%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) Entra ID
3 6 (23.08%) AWS
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (15.38%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (15.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (7.69%) GCP
6 2 (7.69%) IaaS
6 2 (7.69%) PaaS
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (69.23%) Firewall
2 16 (61.54%) VPN
3 14 (53.85%) DHCP
4 12 (46.15%) TCP/IP
5 11 (42.31%) Cisco ASA
5 11 (42.31%) Cisco Firepower
5 11 (42.31%) IPsec
5 11 (42.31%) Network Security
6 9 (34.62%) LAN
6 9 (34.62%) WAN
7 7 (26.92%) SSL
8 6 (23.08%) NGFW
9 5 (19.23%) VLAN
10 4 (15.38%) BGP
10 4 (15.38%) BIG-IP
10 4 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (15.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 4 (15.38%) MPLS
10 4 (15.38%) OSPF
10 4 (15.38%) SSH
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
1 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
2 2 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Military
2 2 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Senior
2 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) Network Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (23.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (19.23%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (15.38%) Architect
8 3 (11.54%) Lead
8 3 (11.54%) Lead Architect
8 3 (11.54%) Network Architect
8 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (11.54%) Technical Architect
8 3 (11.54%) Technical Leader
9 2 (7.69%) Analyst
9 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (7.69%) Network Technical Architect
9 2 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 1 (3.85%) Field Engineer
10 1 (3.85%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) ARM Templates
2 3 (11.54%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) PKI
2 9 (34.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 4 (15.38%) Fibre Optics
3 4 (15.38%) Onboarding
3 4 (15.38%) Private Cloud
4 3 (11.54%) ARM Cortex
4 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
4 3 (11.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (11.54%) Management Information System
5 2 (7.69%) Cyberattack
5 2 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
5 2 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 14 (53.85%) Windows
2 12 (46.15%) Linux
3 6 (23.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 12 (46.15%) ITIL
2 11 (42.31%) Network Virtualisation
3 10 (38.46%) Zero Trust
4 9 (34.62%) Security Operations
5 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
5 7 (26.92%) Computer Science
5 7 (26.92%) Network Monitoring
5 7 (26.92%) Project Delivery
5 7 (26.92%) RBAC
5 7 (26.92%) Security Hardening
5 7 (26.92%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (23.08%) Cloud Security
6 6 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (23.08%) High Availability
6 6 (23.08%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (19.23%) Agile
7 5 (19.23%) DevOps
7 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 5 (19.23%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) PowerShell
2 7 (26.92%) Bicep
3 5 (19.23%) Bash
4 2 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (92.31%) Security Cleared
2 22 (84.62%) DV Cleared
3 7 (26.92%) Degree
3 7 (26.92%) SC Cleared
4 4 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
5 3 (11.54%) CCNP
5 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (11.54%) MCSA
5 3 (11.54%) MCSE
5 3 (11.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (7.69%) CCIE
6 2 (7.69%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) NCSC
2 5 (19.23%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (65.38%) Active Directory
2 12 (46.15%) VMware NSX
3 8 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Ansible
3 4 (15.38%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (11.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 12 (46.15%) VMware
3 11 (42.31%) Cisco
3 11 (42.31%) Palo Alto
3 11 (42.31%) SolarWinds
4 4 (15.38%) Becrypt
4 4 (15.38%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (15.38%) F5
4 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
5 2 (7.69%) Google
5 2 (7.69%) Splunk
6 1 (3.85%) Aruba