DNS Contract Job Trends in the South West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 3 months leading up to 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 53 83
Rank change year-on-year -19 +30 -15
Contract jobs citing DNS 30 25 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.70% 2.63% 1.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.48% 17.61% 9.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 21
10th Percentile £365 £431 £173
25th Percentile £417 £522 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £578 £613 £588
90th Percentile £588 £622 £599
England median daily rate £456 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -17.05% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £44.75
25th Percentile £12.43 - £51.88
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £67.50
75th Percentile £12.69 - £74.63
90th Percentile - - £76.65
England median hourly rate £45.71 £81.01 £24.18
% change year-on-year -43.57% +235.04% -61.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 154 142 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.73% 14.93% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 87 204
10th Percentile £264 £250 £275
25th Percentile £363 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.84% +1.40% +7.50%
75th Percentile £560 £606 £628
90th Percentile £636 £676 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 23
10th Percentile £12.43 - £12.50
25th Percentile £60.00 - £13.30
Median hourly rate £71.00 £65.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +293.94% -75.97%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £67.83
90th Percentile £102.50 - £83.60
England median hourly rate £49.36 £47.50 £24.87
% change year-on-year +3.92% +90.99% -44.73%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

DNS job vacancy trend in the South West

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the South West over the 3 months to 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the South West

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DNS

DNS
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 3 months to 26 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol -11 12 £575 -2.13% 5
Gloucestershire -8 7 £370 -32.11% 4
Wiltshire -7 4 £550 -4.35% 4
Somerset - 4 £478 - 5
Devon - 1 £500 - 5
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.55%) IIS
2 2 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) GCP
2 7 (15.91%) Azure
2 7 (15.91%) SaaS
3 5 (11.36%) GitHub
3 5 (11.36%) IaaS
3 5 (11.36%) PaaS
4 4 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 4 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 3 (6.82%) AWS
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (6.82%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (4.55%) Akamai
6 2 (4.55%) Asana
6 2 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.55%) Google Drive
6 2 (4.55%) Google Workspace
6 2 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (40.91%) VPN
2 17 (38.64%) DHCP
3 13 (29.55%) Firewall
4 8 (18.18%) LAN
5 7 (15.91%) VLAN
6 4 (9.09%) WAN
6 4 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (6.82%) VoIP
8 2 (4.55%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (4.55%) DKIM
8 2 (4.55%) DMARC
8 2 (4.55%) H.323
8 2 (4.55%) Network Security
8 2 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (4.55%) RTP
9 1 (2.27%) IPsec
9 1 (2.27%) WireGuard
9 1 (2.27%) Wireless
9 1 (2.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.27%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Git
1 4 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (2.27%) GitLab
2 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Finance
5 1 (2.27%) Law
5 1 (2.27%) Military
5 1 (2.27%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (18.18%) Architect
2 8 (18.18%) GCP Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Network Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) GCP DevOps
5 4 (9.09%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) IT Support
5 4 (9.09%) IT Support Specialist
5 4 (9.09%) Junior
5 4 (9.09%) Junior IT Support
5 4 (9.09%) Support Specialist
6 3 (6.82%) Administrator
6 3 (6.82%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Applications Specialist
7 2 (4.55%) Security Specialist
7 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Security Specialist
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Specialist
7 2 (4.55%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.18%) OAuth
2 6 (13.64%) OAuth2
2 6 (13.64%) OpenID
2 6 (13.64%) SAML
3 2 (4.55%) XMPP
4 1 (2.27%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) PKI
2 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.55%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.55%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (45.45%) Windows
2 18 (40.91%) Windows Server
3 9 (20.45%) Linux
4 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.27%) CentOS
5 1 (2.27%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (2.27%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (25.00%) Migration
3 10 (22.73%) CI/CD
3 10 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (20.45%) DevOps
4 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (15.91%) Change Management
5 7 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (15.91%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (15.91%) Mentoring
5 7 (15.91%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (13.64%) High Availability
6 6 (13.64%) Identity Management
6 6 (13.64%) ITIL
6 6 (13.64%) Load Balancing
6 6 (13.64%) RBAC
7 4 (9.09%) Agile
7 4 (9.09%) Configuration Management
7 4 (9.09%) Mathematics
7 4 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) PowerShell
2 7 (15.91%) Python
3 5 (11.36%) Bash
4 4 (9.09%) Go
5 3 (6.82%) Bicep
6 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.55%) Ruby
7 1 (2.27%) C
7 1 (2.27%) SQL
7 1 (2.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 9 (20.45%) SC Cleared
4 6 (13.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (11.36%) Azure Certification
6 3 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.27%) CCNA
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 7 (15.91%) Hyper-V
2 7 (15.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.27%) iptables
Systems Management
1 13 (29.55%) Terraform
2 10 (22.73%) Single Sign-On
3 8 (18.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (15.91%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.82%) Ansible
6 2 (4.55%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (2.27%) Argo
7 1 (2.27%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.27%) Grafana
7 1 (2.27%) Nagios
7 1 (2.27%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.27%) SCCM
7 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (18.18%) VMware
3 7 (15.91%) Cisco
4 6 (13.64%) Google
5 2 (4.55%) Genesys
5 2 (4.55%) Infoblox
5 2 (4.55%) NetApp
6 1 (2.27%) FireEye
6 1 (2.27%) NetScout
6 1 (2.27%) Netskope
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.27%) Qualys
6 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.27%) Tenable