DNS Contracts in the South West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 103 86
Rank change year-on-year +29 -17 +13
Contract jobs citing DNS 46 51 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.45% 1.59% 2.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.76% 9.26% 17.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 30 52
10th Percentile £287 £173 £378
25th Percentile £513 £436 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% -6.52% +35.29%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £625
90th Percentile £649 £611 £675
England median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 3
10th Percentile - - £78.00
25th Percentile - - £78.75
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.94% +10.75%
75th Percentile - - £100.00
90th Percentile - £71.93 £107.50
England median hourly rate £61.25 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +53.13% - +31.15%

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 259 551 474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.77% 17.22% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 353 326
10th Percentile £235 £300 £223
25th Percentile £375 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £535 £506
Median % change year-on-year - +5.68% +7.71%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £624
90th Percentile £649 £675 £725
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 38
10th Percentile £22.51 £12.50 £22.13
25th Percentile £29.59 £15.75 £56.70
Median hourly rate £41.40 £56.49 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.72% -10.33% +22.96%
75th Percentile £53.20 £71.10 £79.38
90th Percentile £60.28 £75.00 £93.38
England median hourly rate £43.00 £40.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year +7.50% +18.52% +35.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the South West over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the South West

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the South West

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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 16 July 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
Wiltshire +31 16 £588 +9.30% 15
Gloucestershire +35 11 £545 +52.45% 22
Bristol +16 11 £413 -26.17% 17
Somerset -2 5 £633 +114.41% 9
Dorset +3 3 £205 - 7
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (28.26%) Confluence
2 12 (26.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (19.57%) SharePoint
4 6 (13.04%) Skype for Business
5 1 (2.17%) Apache
5 1 (2.17%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (34.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.57%) AWS
2 7 (15.22%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.52%) OneDrive
3 3 (6.52%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.17%) GitHub
5 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (45.65%) DHCP
2 14 (30.43%) Firewall
3 12 (26.09%) Unified Communications
3 12 (26.09%) VPN
4 10 (21.74%) LAN
5 9 (19.57%) WAN
6 7 (15.22%) BGP
6 7 (15.22%) IPsec
6 7 (15.22%) MPLS
6 7 (15.22%) Skype
6 7 (15.22%) VoIP
6 7 (15.22%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (13.04%) TCP/IP
8 4 (8.70%) HTTP
8 4 (8.70%) Kerberos
9 3 (6.52%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (6.52%) VLAN
9 3 (6.52%) Wireless
10 1 (2.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (2.17%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.17%) Power BI
1 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (30.43%) JIRA
2 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.52%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) GitLab
General
1 18 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.87%) Finance
5 3 (6.52%) Aerospace
5 3 (6.52%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.52%) Military
6 1 (2.17%) Electronics
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.17%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (21.74%) Network Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Support Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Architect
4 3 (6.52%) Administrator
4 3 (6.52%) DevOps Administrator
4 3 (6.52%) IT Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (6.52%) Linux DevOps Administrator
4 3 (6.52%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.52%) Test Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) IT Support
5 2 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Lead
5 2 (4.35%) Switch Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) NETCONF
1 7 (15.22%) RESTCONF
2 4 (8.70%) .NET
3 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.17%) LDAP
4 1 (2.17%) Node.js
4 1 (2.17%) SOAP
4 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (47.83%) PKI
2 4 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.70%) Replication
3 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.52%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.17%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 26 (56.52%) Windows
2 12 (26.09%) Linux
2 12 (26.09%) Windows Server
3 10 (21.74%) Windows 10
4 6 (13.04%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (8.70%) Android
5 4 (8.70%) Mac OS
5 4 (8.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (6.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
7 1 (2.17%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.17%) Unix
7 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Service Management
2 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 12 (26.09%) Critical Thinking
4 10 (21.74%) System Testing
5 8 (17.39%) Agile
6 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
6 7 (15.22%) DevOps
6 7 (15.22%) ITIL
6 7 (15.22%) Network Virtualisation
6 7 (15.22%) NsoIT
6 7 (15.22%) Validation
7 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.87%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (8.70%) Customer Service
8 4 (8.70%) ITSM
8 4 (8.70%) RBAC
8 4 (8.70%) Test Scripting
9 3 (6.52%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) Python
2 10 (21.74%) Bash
3 9 (19.57%) SQL
4 8 (17.39%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.70%) Java
5 4 (8.70%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 25 (54.35%) SC Cleared
3 13 (28.26%) Degree
3 13 (28.26%) DV Cleared
4 9 (19.57%) CCNP
4 9 (19.57%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.35%) MCSA
5 2 (4.35%) MCSE
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.17%) CCNA
6 1 (2.17%) CISSP
6 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) SLA
2 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 22 (47.83%) Active Directory
2 20 (43.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (21.74%) Hyper-V
3 10 (21.74%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (17.39%) Docker
5 6 (13.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 6 (13.04%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (4.35%) vSphere
7 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (36.96%) Ansible
2 9 (19.57%) Terraform
3 8 (17.39%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.87%) SCCM
4 5 (10.87%) WSUS
5 4 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.70%) Puppet
6 3 (6.52%) AppManager
6 3 (6.52%) Grafana
7 2 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (2.17%) SCOM
8 1 (2.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (54.35%) VMware
2 14 (30.43%) Microsoft
3 11 (23.91%) Cisco
4 10 (21.74%) Atlassian
5 5 (10.87%) F5
5 5 (10.87%) Veeam
6 3 (6.52%) Ivanti
6 3 (6.52%) Red Hat
6 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow
7 2 (4.35%) Remedy
8 1 (2.17%) Aruba
8 1 (2.17%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.17%) Citrix
8 1 (2.17%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.17%) Oracle
8 1 (2.17%) Ruckus Wireless
8 1 (2.17%) SAP
8 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.17%) Splunk
8 1 (2.17%) Veritas