DNS Contracts in the South East

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 91 95
Rank change year-on-year +31 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing DNS 167 136 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.03% 2.39% 2.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.76% 14.53% 15.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 87 134
10th Percentile £306 £213 £209
25th Percentile £419 £375 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +2.55%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £540
90th Percentile - £705 £600
England median daily rate £485 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.71% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 9
10th Percentile £21.28 £23.55 -
25th Percentile £25.44 £31.13 £20.75
Median hourly rate £33.25 £43.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +103.49% +7.50%
75th Percentile £41.44 £65.63 £22.25
90th Percentile £45.83 £78.75 £31.30
England median hourly rate £40.00 £49.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -18.56% +78.61% +1.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

DNS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,214 936 1,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.00% 16.45% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 560 759
10th Percentile £205 £241 £190
25th Percentile £363 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +6.79% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £638 £700 £657
England median daily rate £498 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 73 73
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.25 £13.05
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £52.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +144.19% -37.68%
75th Percentile £64.69 £67.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £59.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the South East

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for DNS in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +11 85 £605 +8.28% 23
Berkshire +3 70 £605 -6.92% 13
Hampshire +2 38 £525 -4.55% 21
Surrey +14 17 £199 -33.75% 5
West Sussex - 12 £450 - 9
East Sussex +12 11 £500 -35.48% 4
Buckinghamshire +18 10 £465 -9.27% 6
Oxfordshire +5 5 £323 +29.00% 4
Kent +7 3 £205 -45.33% 12
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 37 (22.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.39%) Confluence
3 5 (2.99%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.20%) Apache
4 2 (1.20%) nginx
5 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (6.59%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (26.95%) Azure
2 27 (16.17%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (11.98%) Entra ID
4 17 (10.18%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (9.58%) Azure Storage
6 14 (8.38%) OCI
7 13 (7.78%) AWS
8 8 (4.79%) IaaS
9 5 (2.99%) Datadog
10 4 (2.40%) GitHub
11 3 (1.80%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.80%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.80%) PaaS
11 3 (1.80%) SaaS
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.20%) CloudFront
12 2 (1.20%) Google Workspace
12 2 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 122 (73.05%) DHCP
2 69 (41.32%) Firewall
3 28 (16.77%) SAN
4 17 (10.18%) WAN
5 16 (9.58%) VPN
6 15 (8.98%) TCP/IP
7 14 (8.38%) VLAN
8 12 (7.19%) Wireless
9 10 (5.99%) LAN
10 9 (5.39%) 4G
11 7 (4.19%) 3G
11 7 (4.19%) 5G
11 7 (4.19%) VoLTE
11 7 (4.19%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (3.59%) GGSN
12 6 (3.59%) iSCSI
12 6 (3.59%) LTE
12 6 (3.59%) RANAP
12 6 (3.59%) SGSN
12 6 (3.59%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.99%) MySQL
1 5 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.60%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (5.39%) JIRA
2 6 (3.59%) Git
3 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.20%) GitLab
4 1 (0.60%) MSI
4 1 (0.60%) Subversion
4 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 70 (41.92%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (5.39%) Military
3 9 (5.39%) Telecoms
4 6 (3.59%) Multimedia
4 6 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (3.59%) Public Sector
5 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.80%) Front Office
6 1 (0.60%) Advertising
6 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.60%) Finance
Job Titles
1 49 (29.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 20 (11.98%) Integration Engineer
3 19 (11.38%) Support Specialist
4 16 (9.58%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (8.38%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (8.38%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (8.38%) Senior
6 13 (7.78%) Architect
7 12 (7.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 12 (7.19%) Storage Engineer
8 10 (5.99%) Network Engineer
8 10 (5.99%) Server Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Support Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Test and Integration Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) Test Engineer
10 8 (4.79%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.19%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (4.19%) IT Support
11 7 (4.19%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.80%) .NET
2 3 (1.80%) XMPP
3 2 (1.20%) Django
3 2 (1.20%) HornetQ
3 2 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.20%) VCL
3 2 (1.20%) YAML
4 1 (0.60%) JSON
4 1 (0.60%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (23.35%) PKI
2 26 (15.57%) Data Centre
3 17 (10.18%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.79%) Private Cloud
5 5 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.40%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.40%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.80%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.80%) Clustering
8 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.60%) CMDB
9 1 (0.60%) Grid Computing
9 1 (0.60%) IoT
9 1 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Replication
9 1 (0.60%) Smart Meter
9 1 (0.60%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 111 (66.47%) Windows
2 88 (52.69%) Windows Server
3 64 (38.32%) Linux
4 46 (27.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 45 (26.95%) Windows Server 2012
6 40 (23.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 30 (17.96%) Windows 10
8 14 (8.38%) Windows XP
9 10 (5.99%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (5.39%) Unix
11 7 (4.19%) Ubuntu
11 7 (4.19%) Windows 7
12 6 (3.59%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (2.99%) Debian
14 4 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.60%) Android
15 1 (0.60%) Solaris
15 1 (0.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (32.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (27.54%) ITIL
3 39 (23.35%) Agile
4 25 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (14.97%) RBAC
4 25 (14.97%) Release Management
5 22 (13.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (12.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 21 (12.57%) Server Management
7 20 (11.98%) DevOps
7 20 (11.98%) Proactive Monitoring
8 19 (11.38%) Analytics
9 18 (10.78%) CI/CD
9 18 (10.78%) Service Management
10 17 (10.18%) Identity Management
10 17 (10.18%) Log Analytics
11 16 (9.58%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 16 (9.58%) Performance Tuning
11 16 (9.58%) Privileged Identity Management
11 16 (9.58%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (36.53%) PowerShell
2 22 (13.17%) VBScript
3 17 (10.18%) Bicep
4 16 (9.58%) C#
4 16 (9.58%) VB
5 11 (6.59%) SQL
6 9 (5.39%) Python
7 7 (4.19%) Bash
8 6 (3.59%) Shell Script
9 3 (1.80%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.20%) C++
10 2 (1.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 86 (51.50%) Security Cleared
2 59 (35.33%) SC Cleared
3 52 (31.14%) DV Cleared
4 51 (30.54%) Degree
5 22 (13.17%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (12.57%) CCNA
7 19 (11.38%) CCNP
8 16 (9.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 13 (7.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 10 (5.99%) MCSA
10 10 (5.99%) MCSE
11 9 (5.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 8 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (2.40%) DBS Check
14 3 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.60%) BC Cleared
15 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.60%) CCDP
15 1 (0.60%) CCIE
15 1 (0.60%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.19%) GDPR
2 5 (2.99%) ISO 9000
2 5 (2.99%) SLA
3 3 (1.80%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.60%) NIST
5 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 113 (67.66%) Active Directory
2 73 (43.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (16.17%) Hyper-V
4 26 (15.57%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (13.77%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (11.38%) XenApp
7 16 (9.58%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (7.78%) vSphere
9 6 (3.59%) XenDesktop
10 3 (1.80%) VMware NSX
11 2 (1.20%) Varnish
11 2 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.60%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.60%) Docker
12 1 (0.60%) NFS
12 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.60%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 55 (32.93%) SCCM
2 54 (32.34%) WSUS
3 30 (17.96%) SCOM
4 24 (14.37%) vCenter Server
5 21 (12.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 20 (11.98%) Kubernetes
6 20 (11.98%) Microsoft Intune
7 15 (8.98%) Ansible
8 14 (8.38%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (8.38%) NetBackup
9 7 (4.19%) Terraform
10 5 (2.99%) Nessus
10 5 (2.99%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (2.40%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.80%) AppManager
13 2 (1.20%) HAProxy
13 2 (1.20%) VxRail
14 1 (0.60%) Failover Clustering
14 1 (0.60%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.60%) vRealize
Vendors
1 84 (50.30%) Microsoft
2 80 (47.90%) VMware
3 34 (20.36%) Cisco
4 22 (13.17%) Symantec
5 21 (12.57%) Citrix
5 21 (12.57%) Palo Alto
6 20 (11.98%) Veeam
7 19 (11.38%) Dell
7 19 (11.38%) Juniper
7 19 (11.38%) Oracle
8 16 (9.58%) EMC
8 16 (9.58%) Ivanti
9 15 (8.98%) HP
10 14 (8.38%) 3PAR
10 14 (8.38%) Extreme Networks
11 11 (6.59%) Red Hat
11 11 (6.59%) SolarWinds
12 6 (3.59%) Empirix
12 6 (3.59%) F5
12 6 (3.59%) NetScout