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 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 72 105
Rank change year-on-year -2 +33 -18
Contract jobs citing DNS 79 42 42
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.23% 2.21% 1.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.24% 16.34% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 29 31
10th Percentile £209 £270 £173
25th Percentile £350 £456 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.98% -5.78%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £588
90th Percentile £705 £649 £599
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile - - £44.75
25th Percentile £12.43 - £51.88
Median hourly rate £55.50 - £67.50
75th Percentile £99.12 - £74.63
90th Percentile £100.00 - £76.65
England median hourly rate £36.36 £57.50 £24.59
% change year-on-year -36.77% +133.83% -38.53%

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 290 257 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.19% 13.52% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 168 324
10th Percentile £209 £225 £282
25th Percentile £352 £352 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £627
90th Percentile £691 £655 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 2 38
10th Percentile £12.71 £22.51 £12.46
25th Percentile £18.25 £29.59 £15.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £41.40 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.02% -36.32% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £53.20 £71.25
90th Percentile £100.00 £60.28 £75.90
England median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -40.62% -7.33% -2.88%

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 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the South West

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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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in the South West

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 6 months to 26 July 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
Somerset -8 23 £515 -18.58% 12
Bristol -6 21 £575 +39.39% 6
Wiltshire -9 14 £500 -14.89% 3
Gloucestershire -7 12 £340 -37.61% 17
Dorset -9 2 - - 2
Devon - 1 £500 - 2
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 11 (13.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.53%) IIS
3 2 (2.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.05%) AWS
1 19 (24.05%) Azure
1 19 (24.05%) GCP
2 10 (12.66%) Entra ID
3 7 (8.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 7 (8.86%) SaaS
4 6 (7.59%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (6.33%) GitHub
6 4 (5.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (5.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (5.06%) Azure Functions
6 4 (5.06%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (5.06%) Azure Storage
6 4 (5.06%) Google Workspace
6 4 (5.06%) Serverless
7 3 (3.80%) Asana
7 3 (3.80%) Google Drive
8 2 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.53%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (58.23%) DHCP
2 26 (32.91%) Firewall
3 24 (30.38%) TCP/IP
4 15 (18.99%) VPN
5 10 (12.66%) VLAN
6 9 (11.39%) VSAN
7 8 (10.13%) SAN
8 6 (7.59%) LAN
8 6 (7.59%) WAN
8 6 (7.59%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (6.33%) VoIP
10 4 (5.06%) Network Security
11 3 (3.80%) DKIM
11 3 (3.80%) DMARC
12 2 (2.53%) BGP
12 2 (2.53%) Cisco Nexus
12 2 (2.53%) MPLS
13 1 (1.27%) IPsec
13 1 (1.27%) Wireless
13 1 (1.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (5.06%) Data Lake
1 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.27%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.33%) GitLab
2 5 (6.33%) JIRA
3 3 (3.80%) Git
4 2 (2.53%) Spinnaker
General
1 14 (17.72%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.46%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.13%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (6.33%) Military
4 5 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.53%) Finance
6 2 (2.53%) Law
6 2 (2.53%) Police
7 1 (1.27%) Advertising
7 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (27.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (12.66%) Administrator
3 9 (11.39%) GCP Engineer
4 8 (10.13%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Principal Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Senior
5 7 (8.86%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (7.59%) Network Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Architect
7 5 (6.33%) Junior
7 5 (6.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Technical Specialist
8 4 (5.06%) GCP DevOps
8 4 (5.06%) GCP DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) IT Support
8 4 (5.06%) IT Support Specialist
8 4 (5.06%) Junior IT Support
8 4 (5.06%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.06%) LDAP
2 3 (3.80%) OAuth
3 1 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 19 (24.05%) PKI
2 11 (13.92%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.33%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.06%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.06%) Clustering
4 4 (5.06%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.80%) Fat Client
5 3 (3.80%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (3.80%) Smartcard
5 3 (3.80%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.53%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (50.63%) Windows
2 30 (37.97%) Linux
3 20 (25.32%) Windows Server
4 11 (13.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.06%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.80%) Android
6 3 (3.80%) CentOS
6 3 (3.80%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.53%) Unix
7 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.27%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (1.27%) Rocky
8 1 (1.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.91%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (31.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (26.58%) CI/CD
4 20 (25.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (21.52%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (18.99%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (17.72%) Containerisation
7 14 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (16.46%) Systems Engineering
9 12 (15.19%) DevSecOps
9 12 (15.19%) Migration
9 12 (15.19%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (13.92%) High Availability
10 11 (13.92%) Mentoring
11 10 (12.66%) Customer Requirements
11 10 (12.66%) DevOps
11 10 (12.66%) SIEM
12 9 (11.39%) Network Virtualisation
13 8 (10.13%) Converged Infrastructure
14 7 (8.86%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.38%) Bash
2 23 (29.11%) Python
3 18 (22.78%) PowerShell
4 6 (7.59%) Go
4 6 (7.59%) SQL
5 2 (2.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.27%) C
6 1 (1.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 42 (53.16%) Security Cleared
2 26 (32.91%) DV Cleared
3 16 (20.25%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.86%) VCAP
5 4 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.06%) Degree
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.27%) CCNA
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.53%) QA
2 1 (1.27%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (60.76%) Active Directory
2 26 (32.91%) Hyper-V
3 25 (31.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (16.46%) Docker
5 9 (11.39%) VMware NSX
5 9 (11.39%) vSphere
6 8 (10.13%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (6.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (3.80%) NFS
8 3 (3.80%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (2.53%) VirtualBox
10 1 (1.27%) BitLocker
10 1 (1.27%) iptables
10 1 (1.27%) KVM
Systems Management
1 26 (32.91%) Terraform
2 22 (27.85%) Kubernetes
3 19 (24.05%) Ansible
4 8 (10.13%) VxRail
5 5 (6.33%) WSUS
6 4 (5.06%) Grafana
6 4 (5.06%) Prometheus
6 4 (5.06%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (3.80%) Argo
7 3 (3.80%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.53%) Istio
8 2 (2.53%) Kustomize
8 2 (2.53%) linkerd
8 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (2.53%) Nagios
8 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (2.53%) SCCM
9 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.27%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (35.44%) VMware
2 15 (18.99%) Microsoft
3 12 (15.19%) Cisco
4 9 (11.39%) Google
5 7 (8.86%) Red Hat
6 5 (6.33%) CyberArk
6 5 (6.33%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.80%) McAfee
7 3 (3.80%) Splunk
8 2 (2.53%) BMC
8 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
8 2 (2.53%) Infoblox
8 2 (2.53%) Juniper
8 2 (2.53%) NetApp
8 2 (2.53%) Remedy
8 2 (2.53%) Thales
9 1 (1.27%) Netskope
9 1 (1.27%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.27%) Samsung
9 1 (1.27%) Tenable