DNS Contracts in the North of England

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 67 82
Rank change year-on-year -58 +15 +38
Contract jobs citing DNS 64 193 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.35% 3.32% 2.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.76% 28.38% 21.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 144 138
10th Percentile £211 £249 £163
25th Percentile £331 £350 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £630
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £488 £525 £496
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.79% +16.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £52.13 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £49.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -18.56% +78.61% +1.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

DNS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 595 680 874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.51% 11.70% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 468 605
10th Percentile £200 £204 £181
25th Percentile £313 £331 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £487 £445
Median % change year-on-year -2.41% +9.38% +11.25%
75th Percentile £607 £570 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 48 28
10th Percentile £13.53 - £11.10
25th Percentile £17.72 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.35% -5.01%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.13
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £47.17
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.66 £23.91
% change year-on-year +114.36% -21.96% -4.36%

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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 1 May 2024.

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 1 May 2024. 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 +7 31 £515 -4.19% 26
North West -60 30 £400 -27.27% 55
North East +12 3 £600 +39.53% 7
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 8 (12.50%) Confluence
2 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.69%) nginx
4 2 (3.13%) IIS
4 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.13%) Traefik
5 1 (1.56%) Apache
5 1 (1.56%) JBoss
5 1 (1.56%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.56%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) Azure
2 18 (28.13%) AWS
3 14 (21.88%) GCP
4 12 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (17.19%) Entra ID
6 9 (14.06%) GitHub
7 6 (9.38%) Akamai
7 6 (9.38%) Apigee
7 6 (9.38%) Cloudflare
7 6 (9.38%) Kong
8 5 (7.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (4.69%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (4.69%) IaaS
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.56%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 34 (53.13%) DHCP
2 17 (26.56%) Firewall
3 16 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 12 (18.75%) VPN
5 8 (12.50%) LAN
5 8 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (10.94%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (9.38%) HTTP
7 6 (9.38%) WAN
8 5 (7.81%) SAN
8 5 (7.81%) VLAN
9 3 (4.69%) Wireless
9 3 (4.69%) Wireshark
10 2 (3.13%) Broadband
10 2 (3.13%) NAS
10 2 (3.13%) Network Security
10 2 (3.13%) VoIP
11 1 (1.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 1 (1.56%) NetScaler
11 1 (1.56%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.56%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 10 (15.63%) GitLab
1 10 (15.63%) JIRA
2 8 (12.50%) Git
2 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (9.38%) CircleCI
3 6 (9.38%) Travis CI
4 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Finance
3 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.94%) Banking
4 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.94%) Retail
5 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (14.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (14.06%) Senior
3 8 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Data Centre Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Network Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Analyst
5 5 (7.81%) Cloud Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Architect
6 4 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) IT Technician
6 4 (6.25%) Security Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Data Centre Technician
7 3 (4.69%) Data Technician
7 3 (4.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) IT Support
7 3 (4.69%) Security Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) JSON
2 6 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (9.38%) XML
2 6 (9.38%) YAML
3 3 (4.69%) LDAP
4 2 (3.13%) ADSI
4 2 (3.13%) cloud-init
4 2 (3.13%) SAML
5 1 (1.56%) IBM Integration Bus
5 1 (1.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.38%) Data Structures
2 6 (9.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (9.38%) PKI
2 6 (9.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (6.25%) Clustering
3 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.69%) NHS
5 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.56%) iPad
6 1 (1.56%) LIMS
6 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (42.19%) Windows
2 13 (20.31%) Windows 10
3 12 (18.75%) Windows Server
4 7 (10.94%) Windows 7
5 5 (7.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (6.25%) VMS
6 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (4.69%) Linux
7 3 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (3.13%) CentOS
8 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (1.56%) Unix
9 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.56%) Migration
2 16 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (18.75%) DevOps
4 11 (17.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (17.19%) Project Management
5 10 (15.63%) CI/CD
5 10 (15.63%) Runbook
6 9 (14.06%) Agile
7 8 (12.50%) Containerisation
7 8 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
7 8 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (12.50%) Customer Service
7 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (12.50%) Task Automation
8 7 (10.94%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (10.94%) Network Monitoring
9 6 (9.38%) API Development
9 6 (9.38%) API Integration
9 6 (9.38%) Secure Coding
9 6 (9.38%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.69%) PowerShell
2 13 (20.31%) Python
3 8 (12.50%) Bash
4 4 (6.25%) Go
4 4 (6.25%) SQL
5 2 (3.13%) Java
5 2 (3.13%) Ruby
6 1 (1.56%) ActionScript
6 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (14.06%) CCNA
2 9 (14.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (9.38%) CCNP
5 6 (9.38%) Degree
5 6 (9.38%) SC Cleared
6 5 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (7.81%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (6.25%) A+ Certification
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.13%) JNCIA
8 2 (3.13%) MCSE
9 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.56%) CCIE
9 1 (1.56%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) QA
2 2 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (3.13%) NCSC
2 2 (3.13%) NIST
2 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 32 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 21 (32.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (20.31%) Hyper-V
4 11 (17.19%) Docker
5 10 (15.63%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (10.94%) KVM
6 7 (10.94%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (10.94%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (3.13%) vSphere
8 1 (1.56%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.56%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.56%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 11 (17.19%) Ansible
1 11 (17.19%) Kubernetes
1 11 (17.19%) Terraform
2 10 (15.63%) vCenter Server
3 8 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
3 8 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 8 (12.50%) Puppet
4 6 (9.38%) Grafana
4 6 (9.38%) Kibana
4 6 (9.38%) logstash
4 6 (9.38%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (4.69%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (4.69%) ZABBIX
6 2 (3.13%) CA Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.13%) Graphite
6 2 (3.13%) HAProxy
6 2 (3.13%) Packer
6 2 (3.13%) Podman
6 2 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (48.44%) Microsoft
2 22 (34.38%) VMware
3 8 (12.50%) Splunk
4 7 (10.94%) F5
5 5 (7.81%) Cisco
6 4 (6.25%) CA
6 4 (6.25%) Google
7 3 (4.69%) Citrix
7 3 (4.69%) HP
8 2 (3.13%) Atlassian
8 2 (3.13%) Dell
8 2 (3.13%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.13%) Oracle
8 2 (3.13%) PagerDuty
8 2 (3.13%) Sophos
8 2 (3.13%) Veeam
9 1 (1.56%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.56%) Infoblox
9 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds