DNS Contracts in the North of England

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 121 69
Rank change year-on-year +57 -52 +12
Contract jobs citing DNS 110 65 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.34% 1.36% 3.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.93% 10.85% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 51 144
10th Percentile £225 £213 £249
25th Percentile £313 £341 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £638
90th Percentile £698 £650 £700
England median daily rate £548 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +12.41% -7.14% +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £45.60
25th Percentile - - £49.80
Median hourly rate - - £52.13
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £80.68 £40.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year +101.69% -23.27% +89.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the North of England

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the North of England

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the North of England

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Yorkshire +27 50 £550 +6.80% 44
North West +33 47 £425 +6.25% 75
North East +10 13 £340 -43.33% 18
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 25 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (17.27%) SharePoint
3 16 (14.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (6.36%) nginx
4 7 (6.36%) Traefik
5 5 (4.55%) IIS
6 4 (3.64%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.91%) Confluence
7 1 (0.91%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 28 (25.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.73%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (22.73%) Entra ID
2 22 (20.00%) Azure
3 21 (19.09%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (15.45%) AWS
5 13 (11.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (8.18%) AWS Fargate
8 6 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.45%) GitHub
8 6 (5.45%) OneDrive
9 5 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.64%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.64%) GCP
11 3 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.73%) IaaS
11 3 (2.73%) Nutanix
11 3 (2.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (50.91%) DHCP
2 29 (26.36%) TCP/IP
3 22 (20.00%) VPN
4 14 (12.73%) WAN
5 13 (11.82%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (10.91%) LAN
6 12 (10.91%) VLAN
7 11 (10.00%) Firewall
8 7 (6.36%) Network Security
9 5 (4.55%) VoIP
10 4 (3.64%) DWDM
10 4 (3.64%) NAS
10 4 (3.64%) SAN
10 4 (3.64%) Skype
11 3 (2.73%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (1.82%) BGP
12 2 (1.82%) OSPF
12 2 (1.82%) Wireless
13 1 (0.91%) IPsec
13 1 (0.91%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.36%) Oracle Database
2 11 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (12.73%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.82%) GitLab
3 4 (3.64%) Git
4 3 (2.73%) JIRA
4 3 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.82%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.45%) Military
5 5 (4.55%) Banking
6 4 (3.64%) Finance
6 4 (3.64%) French Language
7 3 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (12.73%) Network Engineer
3 12 (10.91%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 12 (10.91%) Senior
3 12 (10.91%) Support Engineer
4 10 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (9.09%) IT Engineer
5 8 (7.27%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 8 (7.27%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (6.36%) Engineering Specialist
6 7 (6.36%) IT Support
7 6 (5.45%) Administrator
7 6 (5.45%) Analyst
7 6 (5.45%) Consultant
7 6 (5.45%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) VMWare Administrator
7 6 (5.45%) Wintel Administrator
8 5 (4.55%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.18%) cloud-init
1 9 (8.18%) Kafka
1 9 (8.18%) Keycloak
2 4 (3.64%) Middleware
3 2 (1.82%) Node.js
4 1 (0.91%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.91%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.91%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.55%) Linux Command Line
2 10 (9.09%) PKI
3 8 (7.27%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.73%) Clustering
7 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.91%) Blog
8 1 (0.91%) CMDB
8 1 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 73 (66.36%) Windows
2 47 (42.73%) Windows Server
3 39 (35.45%) Linux
4 11 (10.00%) CentOS
4 11 (10.00%) VMS
4 11 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 10 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (9.09%) Unix
6 9 (8.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (6.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (5.45%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (3.64%) Windows 7
10 3 (2.73%) Android
11 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
11 2 (1.82%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (33.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (28.18%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (24.55%) Agile
4 26 (23.64%) DevOps
5 22 (20.00%) ITSM
6 21 (19.09%) Migration
7 20 (18.18%) ITIL
8 18 (16.36%) Microservices
9 16 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (14.55%) Security Management
9 16 (14.55%) SOA
10 15 (13.64%) CI/CD
10 15 (13.64%) Server Management
11 12 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (9.09%) Cloud Security
13 9 (8.18%) Collaborative Working
13 9 (8.18%) Customer Service
13 9 (8.18%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
13 9 (8.18%) Observability
13 9 (8.18%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (27.27%) Bash
2 28 (25.45%) PowerShell
3 26 (23.64%) Python
4 19 (17.27%) Perl
4 19 (17.27%) SQL
5 18 (16.36%) PL/SQL
6 9 (8.18%) Go
7 5 (4.55%) Shell Script
7 5 (4.55%) VB
7 5 (4.55%) VBScript
8 1 (0.91%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 43 (39.09%) Security Cleared
2 36 (32.73%) SC Cleared
3 28 (25.45%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (10.91%) Degree
5 11 (10.00%) AWS Certification
6 8 (7.27%) CCNA
7 7 (6.36%) CCNP
8 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (3.64%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.82%) JNCIA
10 2 (1.82%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.91%) CCIE
11 1 (0.91%) CISSP
11 1 (0.91%) MCP
11 1 (0.91%) MCSA
11 1 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.09%) NCSC
2 6 (5.45%) SLA
3 3 (2.73%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.91%) GDPR
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.91%) NIST
System Software
1 67 (60.91%) Active Directory
2 22 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (6.36%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (5.45%) Hyper-V
5 6 (5.45%) VMware NSX
6 5 (4.55%) BitLocker
7 4 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (3.64%) vSphere
8 2 (1.82%) Docker
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 18 (16.36%) Terraform
2 17 (15.45%) WSUS
3 15 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (12.73%) Kubernetes
5 13 (11.82%) Ansible
6 12 (10.91%) Istio
6 12 (10.91%) ZABBIX
7 11 (10.00%) Prometheus
7 11 (10.00%) SCCM
8 10 (9.09%) vCenter Server
9 9 (8.18%) Consul
9 9 (8.18%) Grafana
9 9 (8.18%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (8.18%) linkerd
9 9 (8.18%) Packer
9 9 (8.18%) Rancher
10 7 (6.36%) HAProxy
11 5 (4.55%) AppManager
12 4 (3.64%) vRealize
13 3 (2.73%) NetApp OnCommand
Vendors
1 47 (42.73%) Microsoft
2 34 (30.91%) VMware
3 31 (28.18%) Cisco
4 18 (16.36%) Oracle
5 10 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 10 (9.09%) Splunk
6 9 (8.18%) Okta
7 7 (6.36%) Apple
7 7 (6.36%) ESET
8 6 (5.45%) SolarWinds
9 5 (4.55%) Ivanti
10 4 (3.64%) Arista
10 4 (3.64%) CheckPoint
10 4 (3.64%) Google
11 3 (2.73%) Infoblox
12 2 (1.82%) Dell
12 2 (1.82%) F5
12 2 (1.82%) HP
12 2 (1.82%) Meraki
12 2 (1.82%) Red Hat