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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 119 84
Rank change year-on-year +33 -35 +6
Contract jobs citing DNS 94 63 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.47% 1.36% 2.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.22% 11.29% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 49 95
10th Percentile £313 £213 £190
25th Percentile £408 £363 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £622 £638
90th Percentile £613 £650 £683
England median daily rate £530 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +6.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £61.25 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% -12.50% +31.15%

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 546 558 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.38% 12.08% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 368 440
10th Percentile £184 £199 £195
25th Percentile £325 £320 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £538 £628 £566
90th Percentile £638 £775 £650
England median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 27 28
10th Percentile £25.02 £13.42 -
25th Percentile £32.54 £18.15 £10.63
Median hourly rate £45.08 £24.87 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.26% +50.73% -10.81%
75th Percentile £57.62 £45.94 £22.00
90th Percentile £65.14 £51.36 £37.85
England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +23.08% +30.00%

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

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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

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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 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the North of England

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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 17 July 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
North West +14 43 £458 +1.67% 52
Yorkshire +6 43 £550 +6.80% 44
North East +6 9 £345 -38.67% 11
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 14 (14.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (13.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 9 (9.57%) SharePoint
4 4 (4.26%) OpenStack
4 4 (4.26%) Skype for Business
5 3 (3.19%) IIS
6 2 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (15.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.02%) Azure
2 13 (13.83%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (12.77%) AWS
4 11 (11.70%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (5.32%) GitHub
5 5 (5.32%) Serverless
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.26%) GCP
6 4 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (3.19%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (3.19%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (3.19%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (3.19%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (3.19%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (47.87%) DHCP
2 26 (27.66%) Firewall
3 25 (26.60%) TCP/IP
4 15 (15.96%) VPN
5 13 (13.83%) Network Security
6 10 (10.64%) WAN
7 8 (8.51%) LAN
7 8 (8.51%) VLAN
8 7 (7.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 7 (7.45%) NAS
8 7 (7.45%) SAN
8 7 (7.45%) SSL
9 6 (6.38%) BGP
9 6 (6.38%) DMZ
9 6 (6.38%) OSPF
10 5 (5.32%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (5.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 5 (5.32%) IPsec
10 5 (5.32%) MPLS
10 5 (5.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.89%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (4.26%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.06%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (12.77%) Jenkins
2 10 (10.64%) Git
3 9 (9.57%) GitLab
4 3 (3.19%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.13%) JIRA
General
1 30 (31.91%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.70%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.51%) Finance
4 5 (5.32%) Banking
5 4 (4.26%) French Language
6 3 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.19%) Military
7 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.06%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (21.28%) Network Engineer
2 13 (13.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (9.57%) IT Engineer
3 9 (9.57%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 6 (6.38%) Consultant
4 6 (6.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 5 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (5.32%) Engineering Specialist
5 5 (5.32%) IT Support
5 5 (5.32%) Lead
5 5 (5.32%) Support Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Active Directory Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Designer
6 4 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.45%) Middleware
2 3 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (3.19%) LDAP
3 2 (2.13%) Node.js
4 1 (1.06%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.06%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (1.06%) JSON
4 1 (1.06%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Linux Command Line
2 11 (11.70%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.26%) Operational Technology
5 3 (3.19%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.06%) Clustering
7 1 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.06%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 57 (60.64%) Windows
2 38 (40.43%) Windows Server
3 30 (31.91%) Linux
4 11 (11.70%) VMS
5 6 (6.38%) Windows 10
6 5 (5.32%) Windows 7
7 4 (4.26%) Unix
8 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.06%) CentOS
10 1 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.06%) Windows 8
10 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (32.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 30 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (28.72%) Agile
4 17 (18.09%) ITSM
4 17 (18.09%) Migration
5 14 (14.89%) DevOps
5 14 (14.89%) ITIL
5 14 (14.89%) Microservices
6 13 (13.83%) Security Management
6 13 (13.83%) SOA
7 11 (11.70%) Server Management
8 10 (10.64%) Computer Science
8 10 (10.64%) Infrastructure Automation
9 8 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (8.51%) Load Balancing
9 8 (8.51%) Service Management
10 7 (7.45%) Collaborative Working
10 7 (7.45%) Kanban
10 7 (7.45%) Scrum
11 6 (6.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (30.85%) PowerShell
2 18 (19.15%) Python
3 15 (15.96%) Bash
4 14 (14.89%) Perl
4 14 (14.89%) PL/SQL
4 14 (14.89%) SQL
5 9 (9.57%) Shell Script
6 4 (4.26%) VB
6 4 (4.26%) VBScript
7 1 (1.06%) Bicep
7 1 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 27 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 25 (26.60%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (26.60%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.83%) Degree
4 10 (10.64%) CCNA
4 10 (10.64%) CCNP
5 7 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (4.26%) A+ Certification
8 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.19%) CISSP
8 3 (3.19%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (3.19%) MCSA
8 3 (3.19%) MCSE
9 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.13%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.13%) JNCIS
9 2 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.19%) NIST
2 2 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (2.13%) GDPR
2 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.13%) SLA
2 2 (2.13%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.06%) NCSC
3 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (53.19%) Active Directory
2 19 (20.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (12.77%) VMware NSX
4 9 (9.57%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (9.57%) vSphere
5 7 (7.45%) Docker
6 5 (5.32%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (4.26%) BitLocker
8 3 (3.19%) Hyper-V
8 3 (3.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (17.02%) Ansible
2 12 (12.77%) Terraform
2 12 (12.77%) WSUS
3 11 (11.70%) vCenter Server
4 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (7.45%) vRealize
6 5 (5.32%) SCCM
7 4 (4.26%) Prometheus
8 3 (3.19%) CASB
8 3 (3.19%) Grafana
8 3 (3.19%) Kubernetes
8 3 (3.19%) Nessus
9 2 (2.13%) Kustomize
9 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (2.13%) NetApp OnCommand
9 2 (2.13%) PowerCLI
9 2 (2.13%) Puppet
9 2 (2.13%) vMotion
10 1 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.06%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 34 (36.17%) Microsoft
2 30 (31.91%) VMware
3 28 (29.79%) Cisco
4 14 (14.89%) Oracle
5 11 (11.70%) F5
6 8 (8.51%) CheckPoint
7 7 (7.45%) Splunk
8 6 (6.38%) ServiceNow
9 5 (5.32%) Dell
10 4 (4.26%) Arista
10 4 (4.26%) Google
11 3 (3.19%) CyberArk
11 3 (3.19%) Infoblox
11 3 (3.19%) Remedy
11 3 (3.19%) SolarWinds
11 3 (3.19%) Tenable
12 2 (2.13%) Broadcom
12 2 (2.13%) Computacenter
13 1 (1.06%) LogRhythm
13 1 (1.06%) McAfee