DNS Contracts in South Wales

Domain Name System (DNS)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 41 37
Rank change year-on-year +17 -4 +26
Contract jobs citing DNS 10 1 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 4.17% 0.30% 3.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.86% 3.23% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 16
10th Percentile £405 - £388
25th Percentile £425 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -20.93% +25.85%
75th Percentile £475 £438 £584
90th Percentile £492 - £638
Wales median daily rate £450 £725 £538
% change year-on-year -37.93% +34.88% +22.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 56 31 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 23.33% 9.25% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 19 70
10th Percentile £160 £165 £244
25th Percentile £199 £199 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £220 £519
Median % change year-on-year +42.05% -57.59% +18.29%
75th Percentile £437 £513 £550
90th Percentile £465 £667 £639
Wales median daily rate £350 £325 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -35.00% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £30.00 - -
25th Percentile £33.75 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £14.36 -
Median % change year-on-year +161.14% - -
75th Percentile £44.06 - -
90th Percentile £51.25 - -
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £16.77 -
% change year-on-year +123.68% - -

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in South Wales

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in South Wales

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in South Wales

DNS
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Cardiff - 7 £450 - 2
Newport +8 2 £483 +13.53%
Glamorgan - 1 - - 5
DNS
Wales

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Linode
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) DHCP
2 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) VPN
3 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (30.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (30.00%) Wireless
5 2 (20.00%) BGP
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (20.00%) IPv4
5 2 (20.00%) OSPF
6 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (10.00%) HTTP
6 1 (10.00%) SSL
6 1 (10.00%) VoIP
6 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Migration Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) NHS
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) e-Learning
3 1 (10.00%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Data Privacy
4 1 (10.00%) High Availability
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source
4 1 (10.00%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (40.00%) CCNP
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (20.00%) CCIE
4 2 (20.00%) CCNA
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Ekahau
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) Aerohive Networks
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds