DNS Contract Job Trends in Peterborough

Domain Name System (DNS)
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Peterborough requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 26 31
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 +6
Contract jobs citing DNS 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Peterborough 1.52% 2.15% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 10.53% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £163 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +150.00%
75th Percentile £188 - £463
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £250 £425
% change year-on-year +90.00% -41.18% +150.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £30.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Peterborough

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 Peterborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8 19 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Peterborough 12.12% 20.43% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £167 - -
25th Percentile £174 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 - £425
75th Percentile £385 - £463
90th Percentile £499 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £530 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +11.58% +11.76% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 40
10th Percentile - - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £18.23 £15.44 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +18.07% -5.28% +5.16%
75th Percentile £19.34 £16.30 £21.37
90th Percentile - £31.00 £21.38
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £17.12 £15.87 £16.30
% change year-on-year +7.88% -2.64% +1.88%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Peterborough.

DNS job vacancy trend in Peterborough

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Peterborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Peterborough citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Peterborough citing DNS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Peterborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Peterborough citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Peterborough citing DNS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Peterborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support
1 1 (100.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft