DNS Contract Job Trends in Salisbury

Domain Name System (DNS)
Wiltshire > Salisbury

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Salisbury requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Salisbury 11.29% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 63.64% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £569 - -
25th Percentile £591 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 - -
75th Percentile £666 - -
90th Percentile £686 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -9.68% +5.68% -4.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Salisbury

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 Salisbury.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Salisbury 17.74% 4.76% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £443 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 - -
75th Percentile £632 - -
90th Percentile £673 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -8.70% +6.98% -2.27%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Salisbury

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Salisbury

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Daily Rate Trend in Salisbury

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Salisbury citing DNS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Salisbury

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Salisbury over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Salisbury

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Salisbury 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 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DHCP
1 6 (85.71%) SAN
2 5 (71.43%) VoIP
3 1 (14.29%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) NX-OS
3 1 (14.29%) PABX
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Military
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Unix Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Unix Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Clustering
1 3 (42.86%) Fat Client
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
1 3 (42.86%) Smartcard
1 3 (42.86%) Thin Client
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) AIX
2 1 (14.29%) Solaris
2 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Patch Management
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Server Management
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Security Hardening
3 1 (14.29%) Server Building
3 1 (14.29%) SIEM
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
3 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) NFS
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (14.29%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) WSUS
2 3 (42.86%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (14.29%) NetBackup
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 3 (42.86%) McAfee
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Veritas
3 1 (14.29%) VMware