DNS Contracts in Sheffield

Domain Name System (DNS)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 48 25
Rank change year-on-year +12 -23 +17
Contract jobs citing DNS 14 7 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 4.39% 1.85% 6.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.73% 11.48% 56.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 26
10th Percentile £354 £623 £500
25th Percentile £413 £625 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £645 £650
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -0.77% -3.70%
75th Percentile £588 - £700
90th Percentile £670 £648 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £463 £635 £588
% change year-on-year -27.17% +8.09% +26.34%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 59 61 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 18.50% 16.09% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 37
10th Percentile £220 £259 £385
25th Percentile £352 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £517 £650
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% -20.46% +44.44%
75th Percentile £609 £588 £700
90th Percentile £650 £647 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -12.45% -2.10% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.40%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £10.63
% change year-on-year - - -39.74%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DHCP
2 4 (28.57%) NAS
2 4 (28.57%) Network Security
2 4 (28.57%) SAN
2 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (21.43%) DWDM
3 3 (21.43%) Firewall
3 3 (21.43%) LAN
3 3 (21.43%) VPN
3 3 (21.43%) WAN
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 4 (28.57%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
2 5 (35.71%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) Kanban
3 4 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 2 (14.29%) Network Design
5 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 1 (7.14%) Change Management
6 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
6 1 (7.14%) Project Management
6 1 (7.14%) Security Architecture
6 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
6 1 (7.14%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 4 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (21.43%) CCNA
3 3 (21.43%) CCNP
4 2 (14.29%) JNCIA
4 2 (14.29%) JNCIS
5 1 (7.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (28.57%) VMware NSX
1 4 (28.57%) vSphere
2 3 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) vCenter Server
2 4 (28.57%) vRealize
3 3 (21.43%) Terraform
4 1 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 4 (28.57%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Arista
3 2 (14.29%) Infoblox
4 1 (7.14%) Aruba
4 1 (7.14%) F5
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow