DNS Contract Job Trends in South London

Domain Name System (DNS)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 35 44
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 0
Contract jobs citing DNS 16 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in South London 9.58% 0.99% 1.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.63% 9.52% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile £299 £451 £193
25th Percentile £372 £453 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £350
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +32.14% -36.36%
75th Percentile £533 £478 £528
90th Percentile £637 £484 £579
London median daily rate £525 £525 £518
% change year-on-year - +1.45% -5.91%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 54 21 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 32.34% 10.40% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 13 53
10th Percentile £190 £222 £275
25th Percentile £413 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% -
75th Percentile £638 £525 £613
90th Percentile £725 £538 £650
London median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.31% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £68.75 -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +32.08% +10.62%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

DNS job vacancy trend in South London

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in South London over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in South London

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing DNS

DNS
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the South London region over the 6 months to 17 October 2025. 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
Croydon - 12 £475 -
Bromley - 3 - - 3
Merton +2 1 £425 -10.53%
DNS
London

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 10 (62.50%) Confluence
1 10 (62.50%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (68.75%) AWS
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
1 11 (68.75%) Route 53
1 11 (68.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 10 (62.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (62.50%) Amazon ECS
2 10 (62.50%) Amazon ELB
2 10 (62.50%) Amazon S3
2 10 (62.50%) AWS KMS
2 10 (62.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (81.25%) Firewall
2 10 (62.50%) FTP
2 10 (62.50%) HTTP
2 10 (62.50%) IMAP
2 10 (62.50%) OpenLDAP
2 10 (62.50%) SMTP
2 10 (62.50%) SSH
3 4 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (6.25%) DMZ
4 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (6.25%) LAN
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security
4 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.25%) WAN
4 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (62.50%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (62.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Git
1 10 (62.50%) Jenkins
1 10 (62.50%) JIRA
1 10 (62.50%) Vagrant
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 12 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (62.50%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (56.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (62.50%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Architect
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (62.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (62.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 12 (75.00%) Linux
2 12 (75.00%) Ubuntu
3 10 (62.50%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (62.50%) VMS
4 2 (12.50%) CentOS
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Change Management
1 11 (68.75%) Patch Management
2 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 10 (62.50%) Cloud Security
2 10 (62.50%) Configuration Management
2 10 (62.50%) DevOps
2 10 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 10 (62.50%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) B2B
3 2 (12.50%) High Availability
3 2 (12.50%) Service Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 1 (6.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (6.25%) Disk Encryption
4 1 (6.25%) Gantt Chart
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (6.25%) Process Improvement
4 1 (6.25%) Project Governance
4 1 (6.25%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (62.50%) Groovy
2 10 (62.50%) Python
2 10 (62.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) AWS Certification
2 10 (62.50%) Azure Certification
2 10 (62.50%) Degree
2 10 (62.50%) SC Cleared
2 10 (62.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.25%) PMP
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) DFS Replication
1 10 (62.50%) Docker
1 10 (62.50%) Dovecot
1 10 (62.50%) Postfix
1 10 (62.50%) Squid
2 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Grafana
1 10 (62.50%) Nessus
1 10 (62.50%) Prometheus
1 10 (62.50%) Proxmox
1 10 (62.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (62.50%) ServiceNow
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) F5
4 1 (6.25%) Infoblox
4 1 (6.25%) Wyse