DNS Contract Job Trends in Preston

Domain Name System (DNS)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 3.51% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £185 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £261 - -
75th Percentile £391 - -
90th Percentile £468 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £261 - £200
% change year-on-year - - +25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 10.53% 7.04% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £185 - -
25th Percentile £254 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £438 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% - -
75th Percentile £609 £538 -
90th Percentile £675 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £400 £350 £200
% change year-on-year +14.29% +75.00% -46.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £26.55 - -
25th Percentile £34.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.38 £70.16 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.04% - -
75th Percentile £61.63 - -
90th Percentile £69.21 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £74.26 £47.37 £45.88
% change year-on-year +56.76% +3.25% -8.20%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Preston

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Preston over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Preston

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing DNS

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Lucidchart
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) ITSM
1 2 (50.00%) Observability
1 2 (50.00%) RBAC
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Key Management
2 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
1 2 (50.00%) WSUS
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Tanium
1 2 (50.00%) VMware