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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 32 52
Rank change year-on-year -33 +20 -24
Contract jobs citing DNS 35 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.00% 2.99% 0.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.78% 12.50% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £429 £259 -
25th Percentile £446 £333 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £460 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% - -
75th Percentile £538 £583 -
90th Percentile £541 £653 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £447 £300 £380
% change year-on-year +49.00% -21.05% -24.00%

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 126 64 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 14.40% 23.88% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 39 39
10th Percentile £366 £209 £235
25th Percentile £431 £220 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year - +16.28% -18.10%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £590
90th Percentile £690 £695 £634
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £379 £420
% change year-on-year +18.73% -9.76% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.50 £27.25 £17.35
% change year-on-year -43.12% +57.08% +63.19%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -33 33 £460 -34.29% 5
Doncaster -5 1 £550 +150.00% 1
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 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) Azure
1 8 (22.86%) GitHub
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) GCP
3 6 (17.14%) Entra ID
4 5 (14.29%) OpenShift
5 3 (8.57%) IaaS
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (8.57%) PaaS
5 3 (8.57%) SaaS
6 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.71%) AWS KMS
6 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.71%) ShareGate
7 1 (2.86%) Apigee
7 1 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.86%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 16 (45.71%) Network Security
2 12 (34.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 12 (34.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 12 (34.29%) Firewall
3 11 (31.43%) DMZ
3 11 (31.43%) TCP/IP
4 9 (25.71%) DHCP
5 7 (20.00%) VPN
6 4 (11.43%) BIG-IP
7 2 (5.71%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (5.71%) DKIM
7 2 (5.71%) DMARC
7 2 (5.71%) DWDM
7 2 (5.71%) Internet
7 2 (5.71%) LAN
7 2 (5.71%) SMTP
7 2 (5.71%) VSAN
7 2 (5.71%) WAN
7 2 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (2.86%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Jenkins
2 6 (17.14%) JIRA
3 5 (14.29%) Git
3 5 (14.29%) GitLab
4 3 (8.57%) CircleCI
5 2 (5.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.86%) Travis CI
General
1 16 (45.71%) Banking
2 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
3 11 (31.43%) Investment Banking
4 5 (14.29%) Finance
5 3 (8.57%) Financial Institution
5 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Law
6 2 (5.71%) Legal
6 2 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Operations Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Administrator
3 3 (8.57%) Lead
3 3 (8.57%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Service Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Core Network Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Lead Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Quality Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Senior Storage Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (2.86%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (2.86%) Virtualisation Architect
5 1 (2.86%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) JSON
2 2 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.71%) Kafka
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (2.86%) LDAP
3 1 (2.86%) REST
3 1 (2.86%) XML
3 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Management Information System
2 4 (11.43%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.86%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 8 (22.86%) Linux
2 7 (20.00%) Windows
3 4 (11.43%) Unix
4 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Load Balancing
2 12 (34.29%) Business Strategy
2 12 (34.29%) Design Patterns
3 9 (25.71%) CI/CD
3 9 (25.71%) DevOps
3 9 (25.71%) Migration
4 8 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 7 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (17.14%) Agile
6 6 (17.14%) Mentoring
6 6 (17.14%) Observability
6 6 (17.14%) Runbook
6 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (14.29%) API Integration
7 5 (14.29%) Problem Management
7 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) Python
2 9 (25.71%) PowerShell
3 6 (17.14%) Bash
4 4 (11.43%) Java
4 4 (11.43%) SQL
5 3 (8.57%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.71%) Go
6 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.71%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) CCNA
2 2 (5.71%) CCNP
2 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.71%) JNCIA
2 2 (5.71%) JNCIS
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.86%) CCA
3 1 (2.86%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) SLA
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) QA
System Software
1 15 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (17.14%) Docker
3 5 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 5 (14.29%) vSphere
4 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.86%) XenApp
5 1 (2.86%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) Ansible
2 13 (37.14%) Terraform
3 9 (25.71%) Kubernetes
4 7 (20.00%) Grafana
5 4 (11.43%) Argo
5 4 (11.43%) vCenter Server
6 3 (8.57%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.86%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.86%) Kibana
7 1 (2.86%) logstash
7 1 (2.86%) Podman
7 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (48.57%) F5
1 17 (48.57%) VMware
2 7 (20.00%) Splunk
3 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (11.43%) Cisco
4 4 (11.43%) Infoblox
4 4 (11.43%) Oracle
4 4 (11.43%) Red Hat
4 4 (11.43%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.57%) AppDynamics
5 3 (8.57%) Pure Storage
6 2 (5.71%) Arista
7 1 (2.86%) Citrix
7 1 (2.86%) NetApp
7 1 (2.86%) NetScout
7 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.86%) SevOne