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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 54 49
Rank change year-on-year -18 -5 -16
Contract jobs citing DNS 24 20 14
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.11% 3.21% 2.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 22.73% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 8
10th Percentile £372 £377 £525
25th Percentile £413 £406 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -28.48% +4.17%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £645
90th Percentile £545 £550 £647
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £622
% change year-on-year -13.64% -11.58% +10.58%

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 144 88 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 12.64% 14.13% 13.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 41 42
10th Percentile £358 £300 £205
25th Percentile £409 £385 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £545
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -17.43% -7.23%
75th Percentile £554 £525 £622
90th Percentile £688 £638 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £514
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.59% +14.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 0 0
10th Percentile £21.33 - -
25th Percentile £24.66 - -
Median hourly rate £25.77 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 - £21.57
% change year-on-year - - -1.95%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -27 22 £500 +11.86% 6
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 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) GitHub
2 9 (37.50%) OpenShift
3 3 (12.50%) Azure
4 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) DHCP
2 7 (29.17%) BIG-IP
2 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.33%) Firewall
3 2 (8.33%) SNMP
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.17%) DWDM
4 1 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (4.17%) HTTP
4 1 (4.17%) Internet
4 1 (4.17%) LAN
4 1 (4.17%) Network Security
4 1 (4.17%) VPN
4 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
1 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 6 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Architect
2 6 (25.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (25.00%) JSON
3 2 (8.33%) Redfish
4 1 (4.17%) Kafka
4 1 (4.17%) LDAP
4 1 (4.17%) Node.js
4 1 (4.17%) OpenID
4 1 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 7 (29.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) DevOps
2 12 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 11 (45.83%) Containerisation
3 11 (45.83%) Migration
4 10 (41.67%) High Availability
4 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (33.33%) RBAC
6 7 (29.17%) Agile
6 7 (29.17%) Performance Optimisation
7 6 (25.00%) Data Migration
7 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (25.00%) Observability
7 6 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (25.00%) Project Management
7 6 (25.00%) Risk Management
8 5 (20.83%) API Integration
8 5 (20.83%) Risk Assessment
8 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) Python
2 10 (41.67%) Bash
3 7 (29.17%) JavaScript
4 6 (25.00%) VBA
5 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (4.17%) Perl
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) OCP
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) CCNA
3 1 (4.17%) CCNP
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) JNCIA
3 1 (4.17%) JNCIS
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) VMware NSX
1 9 (37.50%) vSphere
2 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.33%) Firmware
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (75.00%) Ansible
2 14 (58.33%) Terraform
3 13 (54.17%) Kubernetes
4 10 (41.67%) Argo
4 10 (41.67%) Grafana
5 9 (37.50%) vCenter Server
6 4 (16.67%) Prometheus
7 2 (8.33%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Pure Storage
1 9 (37.50%) VMware
2 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 7 (29.17%) F5
3 7 (29.17%) Infoblox
3 7 (29.17%) Splunk
4 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (8.33%) Dell
7 1 (4.17%) Arista
7 1 (4.17%) Cisco
7 1 (4.17%) Databricks