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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 57 101
Rank change year-on-year -28 +44 -27
Contract jobs citing DNS 56 57 51
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.66% 3.41% 1.60%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.66% 23.17% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 42 32
10th Percentile £309 £378 £194
25th Percentile £375 £538 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £594 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +10.47% -4.02%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £627
90th Percentile £588 £723 £778
England median daily rate £495 £550 £485
% change year-on-year -10.00% +13.52% -7.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £40.00
75th Percentile £22.67 - -
90th Percentile £26.00 - £71.93
England median hourly rate £35.22 £80.68 £40.00
% change year-on-year -56.34% +101.69% -23.27%

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 271 246 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.03% 14.70% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 163 334
10th Percentile £276 £235 £290
25th Percentile £400 £397 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £536
Median % change year-on-year -8.17% +1.54% +7.25%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £709
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 4 41
10th Percentile £12.98 £13.67 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £16.32 £15.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £41.40 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.95% +3.49% +308.16%
75th Percentile £71.50 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.00 £74.00
England median hourly rate £33.86 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -9.71% -6.25% +128.57%

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 25 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS in the South West over the 6 months to 25 May 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 25 May 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
Bristol -15 16 £575 +15.00% 10
Gloucestershire -16 11 £340 -44.72% 5
Somerset -7 10 £515 - 6
Wiltshire -16 9 £550 -6.38% 5
Devon - 3 £500 - 2
Dorset -6 1 - - 6
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 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.57%) IIS
3 2 (3.57%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) GCP
2 10 (17.86%) Azure
3 8 (14.29%) SaaS
4 6 (10.71%) AWS
4 6 (10.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (8.93%) IaaS
5 5 (8.93%) PaaS
6 4 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 4 (7.14%) GitHub
6 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.36%) Asana
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (5.36%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (5.36%) Google Drive
7 3 (5.36%) Google Workspace
8 2 (3.57%) Akamai
8 2 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.57%) Google Compute Engine
8 2 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (50.00%) DHCP
2 18 (32.14%) VPN
3 14 (25.00%) Firewall
4 10 (17.86%) VLAN
5 8 (14.29%) LAN
6 5 (8.93%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (7.14%) Network Security
7 4 (7.14%) SAN
7 4 (7.14%) TCP/IP
7 4 (7.14%) WAN
8 3 (5.36%) DKIM
8 3 (5.36%) DMARC
8 3 (5.36%) VoIP
9 2 (3.57%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (3.57%) H.323
9 2 (3.57%) RTP
10 1 (1.79%) NAS
10 1 (1.79%) SSH
10 1 (1.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.79%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) JIRA
2 4 (7.14%) Git
2 4 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.36%) GitLab
4 1 (1.79%) Spinnaker
General
1 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.57%) Finance
5 2 (3.57%) Law
5 2 (3.57%) Police
6 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.79%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (16.07%) GCP Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Administrator
3 8 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Junior
5 5 (8.93%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
6 4 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) IT Support
6 4 (7.14%) IT Support Specialist
6 4 (7.14%) Junior IT Support
6 4 (7.14%) Support Specialist
7 3 (5.36%) Architect
8 2 (3.57%) Applications Specialist
8 2 (3.57%) IT Administrator
8 2 (3.57%) Security Specialist
8 2 (3.57%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.57%) Technical Specialist
8 2 (3.57%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) OAuth
2 3 (5.36%) LDAP
2 3 (5.36%) OAuth2
2 3 (5.36%) OpenID
2 3 (5.36%) SAML
3 2 (3.57%) XMPP
4 1 (1.79%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.36%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.36%) Freedom of Information
2 3 (5.36%) PKI
3 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (44.64%) Windows
2 21 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 12 (21.43%) Linux
4 6 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.36%) CentOS
5 3 (5.36%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.57%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.79%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (1.79%) Rocky
7 1 (1.79%) SUSE
7 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (23.21%) Migration
4 12 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (19.64%) CI/CD
5 11 (19.64%) DevOps
6 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (16.07%) Change Management
7 9 (16.07%) High Availability
7 9 (16.07%) ITIL
8 7 (12.50%) Configuration Management
9 6 (10.71%) Containerisation
10 5 (8.93%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (8.93%) Problem Management
10 5 (8.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (8.93%) Software Testing
10 5 (8.93%) Storage Management
10 5 (8.93%) Validation
11 4 (7.14%) Operational Stability
11 4 (7.14%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 9 (16.07%) Bash
2 9 (16.07%) Python
3 5 (8.93%) Go
4 3 (5.36%) Bicep
5 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.57%) SQL
6 1 (1.79%) C
6 1 (1.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.64%) DV Cleared
2 11 (19.64%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.14%) Degree
5 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.79%) CCNA
7 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) QA
1 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (55.36%) Active Directory
2 14 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (23.21%) Hyper-V
4 4 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (5.36%) NFS
5 3 (5.36%) VMware Workstation
6 2 (3.57%) Docker
7 1 (1.79%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.79%) iptables
7 1 (1.79%) KVM
7 1 (1.79%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 15 (26.79%) Terraform
2 8 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 8 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (8.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (8.93%) Ansible
4 3 (5.36%) Grafana
4 3 (5.36%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.57%) Argo
5 2 (3.57%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (3.57%) Nagios
5 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (3.57%) SCCM
6 1 (1.79%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.79%) Istio
6 1 (1.79%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.79%) linkerd
6 1 (1.79%) WSUS
6 1 (1.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) VMware
2 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
3 8 (14.29%) Google
4 7 (12.50%) Cisco
5 3 (5.36%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.57%) Genesys
6 2 (3.57%) Infoblox
6 2 (3.57%) NetApp
6 2 (3.57%) Splunk
7 1 (1.79%) BMC
7 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.79%) FireEye
7 1 (1.79%) NetScout
7 1 (1.79%) Netskope
7 1 (1.79%) Oracle
7 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.79%) Qualys
7 1 (1.79%) Remedy
7 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.79%) Tenable