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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 37 52
Rank change year-on-year +2 +15 -2
Contract jobs citing DNS 4 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.53% 2.08% 1.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.33% 15.00% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile - £411 £442
25th Percentile £525 £415 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £435 £465
Median % change year-on-year +26.44% -6.45% +2.20%
75th Percentile £588 £466 £513
90th Percentile £595 £480 £547
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £435 £465
% change year-on-year +26.44% -6.45% -13.08%

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 30 40 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 11.49% 13.89% 15.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 37 77
10th Percentile £296 £394 £410
25th Percentile £475 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £505 £540
Median % change year-on-year +4.31% -6.48% +2.86%
75th Percentile £571 £550 £629
90th Percentile £579 £588 £700
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -1.82%

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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

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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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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) AI Transformation
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (25.00%) Email Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Podman
1 3 (75.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware