DNSSEC Contract Job Trends in the South East

Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring DNSSEC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DNSSEC 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.049% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £510 - -
25th Percentile £537 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - -
75th Percentile £590 - -
90th Percentile £595 - -
England median daily rate £538 - £550

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

DNSSEC 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 747 537 1,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.10% 17.68% 20.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 357 566
10th Percentile £293 £217 £214
25th Percentile £413 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% +3.57%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £623 £650
England median daily rate £500 £498 £500
% change year-on-year +0.46% -0.46% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 26 142
10th Percentile £17.74 £14.20 £17.63
25th Percentile £22.50 £21.80 £29.44
Median hourly rate £42.25 £45.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -20.66% -4.42%
75th Percentile £56.21 £58.39 £70.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £61.31 £85.65
England median hourly rate £29.52 £39.32 £41.50
% change year-on-year -24.92% -5.25% +121.75%

DNSSEC
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNSSEC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

DNSSEC job vacancy trend in the South East

DNSSEC
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing DNSSEC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing DNSSEC

DNSSEC
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNSSEC within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley - 2 £538 - 4
Berkshire - 2 £538 - 4
Surrey - 1 £598 -
DNSSEC
England

DNSSEC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Route 53
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google
1 3 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft