DNS Contracts in Oxfordshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Oxfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 23 28
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +6
Contract jobs citing DNS 5 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.22% 3.20% 2.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.73% 34.78% 24.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £208 - £139
25th Percentile £249 £213 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £323 £250 £225
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £399 £300 £344
90th Percentile £443 £405 £445
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £440
% change year-on-year -9.09% +25.00% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £43.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year +8.57% +103.49% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 22 23 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 9.78% 9.20% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 24
10th Percentile £170 £213 £138
25th Percentile £363 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +38.46% +20.93%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £503
90th Percentile £538 £525 £800
South East median daily rate £488 £488 £450
% change year-on-year - +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.00 £48.50 -
Median hourly rate £48.75 £49.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +145.00% -58.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £49.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £53.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +8.21% +146.51% -34.85%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Oxfordshire

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Oxfordshire

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Oxfordshire

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Oxfordshire

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Oxford +11 1 £180 -60.00% 4
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (40.00%) Google Workspace
1 2 (40.00%) IaaS
1 2 (40.00%) PaaS
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (20.00%) InfiniBand
3 1 (20.00%) IP Telephony
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Grid Computing
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Information Security
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (40.00%) Server Management
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) NFS
3 1 (20.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) CFEngine
2 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Google
2 2 (40.00%) Meraki
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft