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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 34 54
Rank change year-on-year -24 +20 -22
Contract jobs citing DNS 32 10 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.08% 3.22% 0.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.77% 14.71% 2.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £417 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.21% - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £538 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £447 £294 £388
% change year-on-year +52.17% -24.19% -20.51%

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 104 68 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.25% 21.86% 8.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 39 28
10th Percentile £399 £199 £235
25th Percentile £455 £220 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +16.28% -18.10%
75th Percentile £650 £605 £605
90th Percentile £700 £695 £658
Yorkshire median daily rate £455 £408 £425
% change year-on-year +11.59% -4.06% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £16.19 £22.00
% change year-on-year -4.26% -26.41% +38.63%

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
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 26 December 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
Sheffield -24 32 £454 -35.21% 11
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 2 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) GCP
3 6 (18.75%) GitHub
4 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
5 3 (9.38%) IaaS
5 3 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 3 (9.38%) PaaS
5 3 (9.38%) SaaS
6 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.25%) AWS KMS
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (6.25%) ShareGate
7 1 (3.13%) Apigee
7 1 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.13%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 16 (50.00%) Network Security
2 15 (46.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 15 (46.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 14 (43.75%) DMZ
4 13 (40.63%) Firewall
5 6 (18.75%) TCP/IP
6 5 (15.63%) DHCP
6 5 (15.63%) VPN
7 3 (9.38%) NAS
7 3 (9.38%) SAN
8 2 (6.25%) DKIM
8 2 (6.25%) DMARC
8 2 (6.25%) SMTP
8 2 (6.25%) VSAN
9 1 (3.13%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (3.13%) HTTP
9 1 (3.13%) Internet
9 1 (3.13%) SSL
9 1 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.00%) Git
2 8 (25.00%) GitLab
3 3 (9.38%) CircleCI
3 3 (9.38%) JIRA
4 1 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.13%) Travis CI
General
1 19 (59.38%) Banking
2 14 (43.75%) Investment Banking
3 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Finance
5 2 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Law
5 2 (6.25%) Legal
5 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (12.50%) Architect
3 3 (9.38%) Administrator
3 3 (9.38%) Lead
3 3 (9.38%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (9.38%) Server Migration Specialist
3 3 (9.38%) Server Specialist
3 3 (9.38%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Quality Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Middleware
2 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.25%) Kafka
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (3.13%) JSON
3 1 (3.13%) LDAP
3 1 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.13%) XML
3 1 (3.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.13%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Linux
2 10 (31.25%) Windows
3 4 (12.50%) Unix
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.25%) VMS
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 15 (46.88%) Business Strategy
3 14 (43.75%) Design Patterns
4 8 (25.00%) Migration
5 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.88%) DevOps
5 7 (21.88%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (21.88%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (15.63%) Agile
6 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
6 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (15.63%) Observability
6 5 (15.63%) Problem Management
7 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 4 (12.50%) Incident Management
7 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (12.50%) Scrum
7 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 4 (12.50%) Bash
3 4 (12.50%) Java
3 4 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 4 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (6.25%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) CCA
2 1 (3.13%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) SLA
2 2 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 20 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.75%) Docker
2 6 (18.75%) VMware NSX
2 6 (18.75%) vSphere
3 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.13%) XenApp
4 1 (3.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Ansible
2 9 (28.13%) Terraform
3 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
4 6 (18.75%) Grafana
5 5 (15.63%) vCenter Server
6 3 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (9.38%) vRealize
7 2 (6.25%) Argo
8 1 (3.13%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (3.13%) Kibana
8 1 (3.13%) logstash
8 1 (3.13%) Podman
8 1 (3.13%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
8 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) VMware
2 20 (62.50%) F5
3 6 (18.75%) Splunk
4 4 (12.50%) Oracle
5 3 (9.38%) AppDynamics
5 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
5 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
5 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
6 2 (6.25%) Cisco
7 1 (3.13%) Citrix
7 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.13%) NetApp
7 1 (3.13%) NetScout
7 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.13%) Pure Storage
7 1 (3.13%) SevOne