DNS Contracts in Newcastle upon Tyne

Domain Name System (DNS)
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 26 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing DNS 8 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 3.88% 1.25% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 57.14% 11.11% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £320 £489 £251
25th Percentile £333 £509 £262
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £563 £280
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +100.89% -56.92%
75th Percentile £494 £609 £306
90th Percentile £500 £626 £321
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £350 £563 £280
% change year-on-year -37.78% +100.89% -56.92%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 14 18 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.80% 11.25% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 10
10th Percentile £200 £413 £230
25th Percentile £319 £438 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £500 £284
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +76.21% -48.41%
75th Percentile £500 £619 £411
90th Percentile £520 £644 £625
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £350 £475 £288
% change year-on-year -26.32% +65.22% -47.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - £23.00 -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Daily rate trend for DNS in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 23 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Newcastle upon Tyne

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Support
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
1 1 (12.50%) Server Management
1 1 (12.50%) Server Migrations
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
1 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) VMware