DNS Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 37 50
Rank change year-on-year -33 +13 -25
Contract jobs citing DNS 37 15 11
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 3.24% 3.96% 2.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.89% 20.55% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 8 8
10th Percentile £374 £263 £525
25th Percentile £426 £371 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £463 £625
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -26.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £504 £556 £645
90th Percentile £564 £665 £647
Yorkshire median daily rate £447 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -18.77% -8.33% +14.29%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 169 73 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.80% 19.26% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 39 53
10th Percentile £358 £200 £233
25th Percentile £408 £318 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.45% -2.10%
75th Percentile £533 £569 £588
90th Percentile £688 £650 £635
Yorkshire median daily rate £451 £466 £459
% change year-on-year -3.11% +1.42% -3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - -
Median hourly rate £25.77 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 - £18.27
% change year-on-year - - +71.87%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

DNS job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in South Yorkshire

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing DNS

DNS
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 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
Sheffield -38 33 £460 -3.16% 4
Doncaster -14 1 £550 +150.00%
DNS
Yorkshire

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) GitHub
2 13 (35.14%) OpenShift
3 6 (16.22%) Azure
4 5 (13.51%) AWS
4 5 (13.51%) GCP
5 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.41%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.41%) ShareGate
7 1 (2.70%) Apigee
7 1 (2.70%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 15 (40.54%) TCP/IP
2 12 (32.43%) DHCP
3 8 (21.62%) BIG-IP
3 8 (21.62%) Firewall
4 4 (10.81%) Network Security
4 4 (10.81%) VPN
5 2 (5.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (5.41%) DKIM
5 2 (5.41%) DMARC
5 2 (5.41%) DWDM
5 2 (5.41%) Internet
5 2 (5.41%) LAN
5 2 (5.41%) SMTP
5 2 (5.41%) SNMP
5 2 (5.41%) WAN
5 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (2.70%) HTTP
6 1 (2.70%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (48.65%) Jenkins
2 10 (27.03%) JIRA
3 5 (13.51%) Git
3 5 (13.51%) GitLab
4 3 (8.11%) CircleCI
5 2 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.70%) Travis CI
General
1 24 (64.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Banking
4 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 3 (8.11%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Law
6 2 (5.41%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (45.95%) Architect
2 6 (16.22%) Lead
3 4 (10.81%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Data Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Migration Specialist
4 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Service Manager
4 2 (5.41%) VMware Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Citrix Expert
5 1 (2.70%) Core Network Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.70%) Exchange Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Quality Manager
5 1 (2.70%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (32.43%) OpenTelemetry
2 8 (21.62%) JSON
3 2 (5.41%) Kafka
3 2 (5.41%) LDAP
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (5.41%) Redfish
3 2 (5.41%) YAML
4 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.70%) OpenID
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) Cloud Native
2 10 (27.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (13.51%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (8.11%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.70%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.70%) PKI
6 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Unix
2 4 (10.81%) Windows
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) CI/CD
1 18 (48.65%) DevOps
1 18 (48.65%) Migration
2 16 (43.24%) Containerisation
3 15 (40.54%) High Availability
3 15 (40.54%) Load Balancing
4 14 (37.84%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (29.73%) RBAC
6 10 (27.03%) Agile
6 10 (27.03%) Performance Optimisation
7 9 (24.32%) Data Migration
7 9 (24.32%) Observability
7 9 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (21.62%) API Integration
8 8 (21.62%) Data Protection
8 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (21.62%) Risk Management
9 7 (18.92%) Project Management
9 7 (18.92%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 27 (72.97%) Python
2 17 (45.95%) Bash
3 7 (18.92%) JavaScript
4 6 (16.22%) PowerShell
4 6 (16.22%) VBA
5 5 (13.51%) SQL
6 4 (10.81%) Java
6 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.41%) Go
8 1 (2.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) OCP
1 5 (13.51%) Oracle Certification
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.41%) CCNA
2 2 (5.41%) CCNP
2 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) JNCIA
2 2 (5.41%) JNCIS
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.70%) CCA
3 1 (2.70%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) SLA
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 13 (35.14%) VMware NSX
1 13 (35.14%) vSphere
2 10 (27.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (13.51%) Docker
4 2 (5.41%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.41%) Firmware
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.70%) XenApp
5 1 (2.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (78.38%) Ansible
2 20 (54.05%) Terraform
3 19 (51.35%) Kubernetes
4 16 (43.24%) Grafana
5 14 (37.84%) Argo
6 13 (35.14%) vCenter Server
7 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
8 2 (5.41%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (2.70%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (2.70%) Kibana
9 1 (2.70%) logstash
9 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
9 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (40.54%) Splunk
2 14 (37.84%) VMware
3 13 (35.14%) Pure Storage
4 11 (29.73%) Red Hat
5 9 (24.32%) F5
6 8 (21.62%) Infoblox
6 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
7 7 (18.92%) ServiceNow
8 4 (10.81%) Oracle
9 3 (8.11%) AppDynamics
10 2 (5.41%) Arista
10 2 (5.41%) Cisco
10 2 (5.41%) Dell
11 1 (2.70%) Citrix