DNS Contracts in Northamptonshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 35 33
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing DNS 6 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.30% 1.41% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.00% 26.67% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £455 £190
25th Percentile £425 £463 £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £214
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +122.22% -52.50%
75th Percentile £613 £488 £232
90th Percentile £620 £495 £239
East Midlands median daily rate £550 £375 £700
% change year-on-year +46.67% -46.43% +69.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 24 15 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 9.20% 5.30% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 21
10th Percentile £340 £451 £198
25th Percentile £368 £472 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £330
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +51.52% -25.84%
75th Percentile £492 £538 £488
90th Percentile £590 £586 £565
East Midlands median daily rate £430 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% +6.25%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Northamptonshire

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for DNS in Northamptonshire

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 29 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Northamptonshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Northamptonshire

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Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 29 June 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
Northampton -7 6 £550 +15.79% 4
DNS
East Midlands

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) CentOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Rocky
1 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
1 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
1 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CCNA
1 5 (83.33%) CCNP
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft