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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 99 68
Rank change year-on-year +51 -31 +32
Contract jobs citing DNS 65 58 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.87% 1.81% 3.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.29% 10.98% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 38 89
10th Percentile £375 £248 £325
25th Percentile £525 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £742 £719
England median daily rate £548 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +12.41% -7.14% +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 3
10th Percentile - - £78.40
25th Percentile - - £79.75
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.94% +81.97%
75th Percentile - - £100.00
90th Percentile - £71.93 £107.50
England median hourly rate £80.68 £40.00 £52.13
% change year-on-year +101.69% -23.27% +89.56%

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 257 528 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.32% 16.51% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 343 416
10th Percentile £250 £276 £206
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £717
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 125
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.70
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the South West

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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 1 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
Gloucestershire +44 33 £613 +15.02% 23
Wiltshire +34 17 £588 +2.17% 6
Bristol +14 8 £588 +14.08% 17
Dorset +3 3 £225 - 4
Cornwall - 2 £438 - 2
Devon +3 1 £413 -31.25% 12
Somerset -8 1 - - 3
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 15 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (18.46%) SharePoint
3 8 (12.31%) Skype for Business
4 6 (9.23%) Confluence
5 2 (3.08%) IIS
6 1 (1.54%) Apache
6 1 (1.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) AWS
1 22 (33.85%) Azure
2 15 (23.08%) OpenShift
3 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.62%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.08%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.54%) GitHub
6 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (56.92%) DHCP
2 23 (35.38%) Firewall
3 19 (29.23%) TCP/IP
4 16 (24.62%) HTTP
5 13 (20.00%) Kerberos
6 10 (15.38%) VPN
7 9 (13.85%) Skype
8 6 (9.23%) LAN
8 6 (9.23%) WAN
9 5 (7.69%) Unified Communications
10 4 (6.15%) VLAN
10 4 (6.15%) VoIP
10 4 (6.15%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (6.15%) Wireless
11 3 (4.62%) Cisco ISE
11 3 (4.62%) Network Security
11 3 (4.62%) SSL
12 2 (3.08%) BIG-IP
12 2 (3.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 2 (3.08%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) JIRA
2 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.62%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.54%) GitLab
General
1 10 (15.38%) Aerospace
1 10 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 8 (12.31%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.62%) Finance
4 3 (4.62%) Military
5 1 (1.54%) Electronics
5 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.54%) Marketing
5 1 (1.54%) Publishing
5 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (27.69%) Architect
2 14 (21.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (18.46%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Administrator
6 4 (6.15%) Network Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) DevOps Administrator
7 3 (4.62%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (4.62%) Linux DevOps Administrator
7 3 (4.62%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 3 (4.62%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Active Directory Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Desktop Support
8 2 (3.08%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Network Security Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Security Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.54%) .NET
2 2 (3.08%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.54%) LDAP
3 1 (1.54%) Node.js
3 1 (1.54%) SOAP
3 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (40.00%) PKI
2 13 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 13 (20.00%) Replication
3 3 (4.62%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.08%) Clustering
4 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.08%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (60.00%) Windows
2 30 (46.15%) Windows Server
3 24 (36.92%) Linux
4 15 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (18.46%) Windows 10
6 10 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (10.77%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (10.77%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.54%) Android
8 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.54%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (1.54%) Unix
8 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (30.77%) Containerisation
2 17 (26.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (24.62%) Service Management
4 13 (20.00%) DevOps
4 13 (20.00%) RBAC
5 9 (13.85%) Agile
6 7 (10.77%) ITIL
7 6 (9.23%) Incident Management
7 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (9.23%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (7.69%) CI/CD
8 5 (7.69%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (7.69%) High Availability
8 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (7.69%) Security Hardening
9 4 (6.15%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (6.15%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (6.15%) Load Balancing
9 4 (6.15%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (6.15%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (38.46%) Python
2 23 (35.38%) Bash
3 21 (32.31%) PowerShell
4 16 (24.62%) Java
5 9 (13.85%) SQL
6 5 (7.69%) Perl
7 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.54%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.54%) VB
7 1 (1.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 49 (75.38%) Security Cleared
2 32 (49.23%) SC Cleared
3 20 (30.77%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.77%) Degree
5 5 (7.69%) MCSA
5 5 (7.69%) MCSE
5 5 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.54%) CCNP
7 1 (1.54%) CCSA
7 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.54%) CISSP
7 1 (1.54%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) SLA
2 1 (1.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (41.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 25 (38.46%) Hyper-V
3 20 (30.77%) Docker
4 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 6 (9.23%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (6.15%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (3.08%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (3.08%) vSphere
7 1 (1.54%) BitLocker
7 1 (1.54%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (36.92%) Ansible
2 21 (32.31%) Terraform
3 20 (30.77%) Kubernetes
4 17 (26.15%) Puppet
5 10 (15.38%) SCCM
6 6 (9.23%) WSUS
7 4 (6.15%) Prometheus
8 3 (4.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (4.62%) AppManager
8 3 (4.62%) Grafana
9 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (3.08%) OPNET
9 2 (3.08%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.54%) NetApp OnCommand
10 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.54%) SCOM
10 1 (1.54%) vMotion
Vendors
1 32 (49.23%) VMware
2 18 (27.69%) Microsoft
3 16 (24.62%) Red Hat
4 7 (10.77%) F5
5 6 (9.23%) Cisco
6 5 (7.69%) Veeam
7 3 (4.62%) Aruba
7 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.62%) Infoblox
7 3 (4.62%) Ivanti
7 3 (4.62%) Palo Alto
7 3 (4.62%) Remedy
8 2 (3.08%) CheckPoint
8 2 (3.08%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (3.08%) HP
8 2 (3.08%) Ruckus Wireless
8 2 (3.08%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.08%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.54%) Citrix
9 1 (1.54%) Splunk