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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 70 89
Rank change year-on-year +2 +19 -3
Contract jobs citing DNS 96 44 45
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.59% 2.24% 1.69%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 31.58% 17.96% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 30 27
10th Percentile £226 £277 £173
25th Percentile £413 £325 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +1.38% -5.65%
75th Percentile £693 £638 £593
90th Percentile £730 £649 £679
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £31.90 - -
25th Percentile £88.75 - -
Median hourly rate £96.91 - -
75th Percentile £99.12 - -
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.48 £45.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +41.07% +86.10% -49.09%

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 304 245 400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.19% 12.45% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 159 241
10th Percentile £205 £213 £338
25th Percentile £391 £317 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £652 £594 £600
90th Percentile £725 £649 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £510
% change year-on-year +2.04% -3.92% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 4 29
10th Percentile £12.71 £26.70 £11.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £40.07 £15.75
Median hourly rate £39.82 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.75% -11.54% +15.06%
75th Percentile £86.25 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £99.17 - £77.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.23 £57.35
% change year-on-year -21.16% -28.12% +1.52%

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

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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

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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 13 September 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS in the South West over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 13 September 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 -11 32 £683 +8.02% 18
Wiltshire -3 27 £525 -9.68% 14
Bristol -13 21 £575 +27.78% 9
Gloucestershire 0 8 £340 +4.62% 14
Dorset -11 2 - - 4
DNS
England

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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 14 (14.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.08%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (32.29%) AWS
2 21 (21.88%) Azure
2 21 (21.88%) GCP
3 8 (8.33%) GitHub
4 7 (7.29%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.29%) SaaS
5 6 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (4.17%) Azure Functions
7 4 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (4.17%) Azure Storage
7 4 (4.17%) Google Workspace
7 4 (4.17%) Serverless
8 3 (3.13%) Asana
8 3 (3.13%) Google Drive
9 2 (2.08%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (60.42%) DHCP
2 41 (42.71%) Firewall
3 38 (39.58%) TCP/IP
4 19 (19.79%) VSAN
5 15 (15.63%) VPN
6 9 (9.38%) SAN
7 8 (8.33%) VLAN
8 7 (7.29%) WAN
9 5 (5.21%) VoIP
10 4 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (4.17%) Kerberos
10 4 (4.17%) Network Security
11 3 (3.13%) BGP
11 3 (3.13%) DKIM
11 3 (3.13%) DMARC
11 3 (3.13%) Wireless
12 2 (2.08%) IPsec
12 2 (2.08%) MPLS
12 2 (2.08%) tcpdump
12 2 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.04%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (8.33%) GitLab
1 8 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 6 (6.25%) JIRA
3 3 (3.13%) Git
4 2 (2.08%) Spinnaker
General
1 18 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 9 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Military
6 4 (4.17%) Finance
7 3 (3.13%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.08%) Banking
8 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.08%) Law
8 2 (2.08%) Police
9 1 (1.04%) Advertising
9 1 (1.04%) Legal
9 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (27.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (15.63%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (11.46%) Administrator
3 11 (11.46%) Principal Engineer
3 11 (11.46%) Senior
4 8 (8.33%) Architect
4 8 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
4 8 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (7.29%) Network Engineer
5 7 (7.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.21%) QA Engineer
6 5 (5.21%) QA Test Engineer
6 5 (5.21%) Test Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) GCP DevOps
7 4 (4.17%) GCP DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.17%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (41.67%) Terraform
2 7 (7.29%) LDAP
2 7 (7.29%) OAuth
3 4 (4.17%) SAML
4 1 (1.04%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.04%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.04%) OpenID
4 1 (1.04%) OpenTofu
Miscellaneous
1 29 (30.21%) PKI
2 18 (18.75%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.21%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.21%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.17%) Clustering
4 4 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.17%) Replication
5 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (3.13%) Fat Client
5 3 (3.13%) Freedom of Information
5 3 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.13%) Smartcard
5 3 (3.13%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.08%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 52 (54.17%) Windows
2 40 (41.67%) Linux
3 25 (26.04%) Windows Server
4 12 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (6.25%) Unix
6 3 (3.13%) Android
6 3 (3.13%) CentOS
6 3 (3.13%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (3.13%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.13%) Windows 10
7 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.04%) AIX
8 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.04%) Rocky
8 1 (1.04%) Solaris
8 1 (1.04%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 31 (32.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 29 (30.21%) CI/CD
4 25 (26.04%) Platform Engineering
5 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (23.96%) Technical Leadership
6 21 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (20.83%) DevSecOps
8 19 (19.79%) SIEM
8 19 (19.79%) Systems Engineering
9 18 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (17.71%) Mentoring
11 16 (16.67%) Containerisation
12 15 (15.63%) Customer Requirements
13 14 (14.58%) Converged Infrastructure
13 14 (14.58%) Network Virtualisation
14 12 (12.50%) High Availability
14 12 (12.50%) ITIL
15 11 (11.46%) DevOps
16 10 (10.42%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 32 (33.33%) Python
2 31 (32.29%) Bash
3 30 (31.25%) PowerShell
4 8 (8.33%) SQL
5 6 (6.25%) Go
6 3 (3.13%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.04%) C
Qualifications
1 66 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 46 (47.92%) DV Cleared
3 24 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 15 (15.63%) VCAP
5 9 (9.38%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (4.17%) Degree
8 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.04%) CCNA
9 1 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.04%) CISM
9 1 (1.04%) CISSP
9 1 (1.04%) MCSE
9 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) QA
2 3 (3.13%) SLA
3 1 (1.04%) NCSC
System Software
1 56 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 42 (43.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 19 (19.79%) VMware NSX
4 19 (19.79%) vSphere
5 17 (17.71%) Docker
6 8 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (5.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (4.17%) NFS
8 4 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (3.13%) VirtualBox
9 3 (3.13%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (1.04%) BitLocker
10 1 (1.04%) iptables
10 1 (1.04%) KVM
10 1 (1.04%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (1.04%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (1.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 37 (38.54%) Kubernetes
2 33 (34.38%) Ansible
3 14 (14.58%) VxRail
4 8 (8.33%) WSUS
5 4 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (4.17%) Grafana
5 4 (4.17%) Istio
5 4 (4.17%) OPNET
5 4 (4.17%) PowerCLI
5 4 (4.17%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (4.17%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.13%) Argo
6 3 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (2.08%) Kustomize
7 2 (2.08%) linkerd
7 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.08%) Nagios
7 2 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (2.08%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (47.92%) VMware
2 22 (22.92%) Microsoft
3 18 (18.75%) Cisco
4 8 (8.33%) CyberArk
4 8 (8.33%) Google
4 8 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 6 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.17%) Dynatrace
6 4 (4.17%) NetApp
6 4 (4.17%) SaltStack
7 3 (3.13%) Atlassian
7 3 (3.13%) Juniper
7 3 (3.13%) McAfee
7 3 (3.13%) Splunk
7 3 (3.13%) Thales
8 2 (2.08%) BMC
8 2 (2.08%) F5
8 2 (2.08%) Infoblox
8 2 (2.08%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.08%) Remedy