DNS Contracts in the North West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 104 63
Rank change year-on-year +13 -41 +12
Contract jobs citing DNS 37 31 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.78% 1.11% 3.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.01% 9.39% 21.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 25 56
10th Percentile £313 £205 £178
25th Percentile £392 £285 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £534 £500 £638
90th Percentile £538 £607 £669
England median daily rate £540 £488 £520
% change year-on-year +10.77% -6.25% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year - -8.88% -
England median hourly rate £41.50 £40.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +3.75% -8.57% +47.06%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 308 330 430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.84% 11.87% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 230 283
10th Percentile £186 £210 £288
25th Percentile £350 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £669 £566
90th Percentile £638 £825 £638
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 11
10th Percentile £27.70 £21.28 £15.72
25th Percentile £34.78 £26.06 £17.11
Median hourly rate £47.37 £45.88 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% +66.84% +42.86%
75th Percentile £59.17 £50.44 £49.98
90th Percentile £65.76 £51.91 £52.13
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the North West over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cumbria +25 17 £456 -13.64% 4
Manchester +12 12 £450 -5.26% 40
Cheshire -4 6 £338 -15.63% 9
Merseyside +4 2 £295 - 8
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (35.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (21.62%) SharePoint
3 4 (10.81%) IIS
3 4 (10.81%) OpenStack
3 4 (10.81%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (29.73%) Azure
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (27.03%) AWS
2 10 (27.03%) Entra ID
3 4 (10.81%) GCP
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (8.11%) Amazon S3
4 3 (8.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (8.11%) GitHub
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Cognito
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.41%) Nutanix
5 2 (5.41%) Serverless
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (83.78%) DHCP
2 10 (27.03%) VPN
3 8 (21.62%) VLAN
4 6 (16.22%) Firewall
4 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
4 6 (16.22%) WAN
5 5 (13.51%) BGP
5 5 (13.51%) IPsec
5 5 (13.51%) MPLS
5 5 (13.51%) OSPF
5 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (10.81%) 3GPP
6 4 (10.81%) 4G
6 4 (10.81%) 5G
6 4 (10.81%) LAN
6 4 (10.81%) Network Security
6 4 (10.81%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (10.81%) Skype
6 4 (10.81%) Wireshark
7 3 (8.11%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (27.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) French Language
5 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.41%) Military
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Finance
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) IT Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) IT Support
3 4 (10.81%) Designer
3 4 (10.81%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Network Designer
3 4 (10.81%) Project Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Administrator
4 3 (8.11%) VMWare Administrator
4 3 (8.11%) Wintel Administrator
5 2 (5.41%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (2.70%) Consultant
6 1 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.41%) Node.js
2 1 (2.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.70%) AWS Amplify
2 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Management Information System
2 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (10.81%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.41%) Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (67.57%) Windows
2 15 (40.54%) Windows Server
3 8 (21.62%) VMS
4 6 (16.22%) Linux
5 5 (13.51%) Windows 10
5 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (10.81%) Windows 7
7 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (5.41%) CentOS
9 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) ITSM
2 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (32.43%) DevOps
3 12 (32.43%) ITIL
4 8 (21.62%) Service Management
5 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.51%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (13.51%) Customer Service
7 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (13.51%) Load Balancing
7 5 (13.51%) Patch Management
7 5 (13.51%) Project Management
8 4 (10.81%) CI/CD
8 4 (10.81%) Computer Science
8 4 (10.81%) Disk Encryption
8 4 (10.81%) Service Delivery
9 3 (8.11%) High Availability
9 3 (8.11%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (8.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.81%) VB
2 4 (10.81%) VBScript
3 3 (8.11%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) Perl
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) Degree
4 4 (10.81%) A+ Certification
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) CCIE
5 1 (2.70%) CCNP
5 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) SLA
2 2 (5.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 18 (48.65%) Active Directory
2 9 (24.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (13.51%) Docker
3 5 (13.51%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (10.81%) BitLocker
4 4 (10.81%) Hyper-V
5 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (8.11%) VMware NSX
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (29.73%) WSUS
2 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (10.81%) SCCM
3 4 (10.81%) Terraform
4 3 (8.11%) Ansible
4 3 (8.11%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (5.41%) Nagios
5 2 (5.41%) NetApp OnCommand
5 2 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.41%) vMotion
5 2 (5.41%) ZABBIX
6 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.70%) Istio
6 1 (2.70%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 21 (56.76%) Microsoft
2 18 (48.65%) VMware
3 6 (16.22%) Dell
4 4 (10.81%) Google
4 4 (10.81%) ServiceNow
5 2 (5.41%) Cisco
5 2 (5.41%) F5
5 2 (5.41%) HP
5 2 (5.41%) IBM
5 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.70%) Arista
6 1 (2.70%) Computacenter
6 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.70%) McAfee
6 1 (2.70%) Splunk