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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 40 45
Rank change year-on-year -15 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing DNS 16 18 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.53% 4.02% 2.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.22% 29.03% 27.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile - £618 £190
25th Percentile £406 £622 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -34.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £433 £645 £700
90th Percentile £441 £647 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +41.94%

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 72 62 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 11.39% 13.84% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 35 32
10th Percentile £167 £209 £173
25th Percentile £359 £500 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £573 £593
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% -3.46% +31.78%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £681
90th Percentile £650 £648 £706
Yorkshire median daily rate £458 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -8.45% +17.65% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £13.87 £22.00
% change year-on-year +260.49% -36.95% +2.33%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS 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 18 September 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 -18 16 £413 -34.00% 3
DNS
Yorkshire

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 7 (43.75%) DMZ
2 7 (43.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 7 (43.75%) NAS
2 7 (43.75%) Network Security
2 7 (43.75%) SAN
3 3 (18.75%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (43.75%) Git
2 7 (43.75%) GitLab
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 7 (43.75%) Banking
1 7 (43.75%) Investment Banking
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Operations Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Migration Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) Server Migration Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) Server Specialist
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Virtualisation Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Management Information System
2 4 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
1 7 (43.75%) Windows
1 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
2 3 (18.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Business Strategy
2 7 (43.75%) Design Patterns
2 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Automation
2 7 (43.75%) Kanban
2 7 (43.75%) Load Balancing
2 7 (43.75%) Migration
2 7 (43.75%) Scrum
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (18.75%) Server Migrations
7 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
8 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (6.25%) Data Flow Diagram
8 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Transformation
8 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
8 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) PowerShell
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 6 (37.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) VCAP
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (56.25%) VMware NSX
2 9 (56.25%) vSphere
3 7 (43.75%) Active Directory
4 6 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) vCenter Server
2 7 (43.75%) Ansible
2 7 (43.75%) vRealize
3 2 (12.50%) PowerCLI
3 2 (12.50%) Terraform
4 1 (6.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (75.00%) F5
3 2 (12.50%) Broadcom
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft