DNS Contracts in Solihull

Domain Name System (DNS)
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Solihull 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 22 16
Rank change year-on-year +5 -6 -4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DNS 4 4 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Solihull 6.56% 4.82% 6.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 26.67% 9.76% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £220 £175 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £550 £425
% change year-on-year -13.64% +29.41% +9.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 15 41 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 24.59% 49.40% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 7
10th Percentile £276 £214 -
25th Percentile £347 £296 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £325 £300
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +8.33% -24.91%
75th Percentile £634 £373 £340
90th Percentile £1,234 £388 £354
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -2.30%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Solihull

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing DNS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Solihull

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Solihull citing DNS

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Solihull 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (25.00%) AWS KMS
4 1 (25.00%) Route 53
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) HTTP
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) TACACS
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) FTP
3 1 (25.00%) IMAP
3 1 (25.00%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (25.00%) SMTP
3 1 (25.00%) SSH
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Automotive
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (50.00%) Product Management
2 2 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Groovy
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) DFS Replication
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Dovecot
1 1 (25.00%) Postfix
1 1 (25.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Nessus
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Arista
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow