DNS Contracts in the North East

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 35 41
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing DNS 12 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.72% 0.92% 2.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 6.25% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 6
10th Percentile £250 £490 £262
25th Percentile £319 £513 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £600 £299
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +100.84% -54.04%
75th Percentile £500 £644 £589
90th Percentile £625 £648 £688
England median daily rate £549 £486 £525
% change year-on-year +12.90% -7.38% +5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 36 48 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 11.15% 14.77% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 27 27
10th Percentile £153 £301 £134
25th Percentile £216 £363 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £425 £280
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +51.79% -42.56%
75th Percentile £535 £569 £522
90th Percentile £625 £646 £685
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the North East

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in the North East.

Daily rate trend for DNS in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the North East over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the North East region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +3 11 £413 -31.25% 13
Durham - 1 £250 - 1
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) IaaS
2 5 (41.67%) PaaS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) DHCP
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) BGP
2 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (8.33%) HSRP
2 1 (8.33%) OSPF
General
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Consultant
3 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Service Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Wintel Support
3 1 (8.33%) Wintel Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Android
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (8.33%) Migration
1 1 (8.33%) Server Management
1 1 (8.33%) Server Migrations
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (8.33%) CCNA
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
1 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) VMware