DNS Contracts in Staffordshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing DNS 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 1.69% - 3.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.69% - 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £175
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.48%
75th Percentile - - £193
90th Percentile - - £497
West Midlands median daily rate £438 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -16.67% +23.53% +39.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13 4 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 22.03% 3.54% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 18
10th Percentile £130 - £163
25th Percentile £155 £180 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £190 £275
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -30.91% +27.91%
75th Percentile £400 £222 £531
90th Percentile - £261 £606
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.79% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile £13.78 - £22.42
25th Percentile £16.39 - £22.43
Median hourly rate £27.11 - £23.71
Median % change year-on-year - - +69.32%
75th Percentile £35.69 - £26.23
90th Percentile £37.38 - £26.99
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.61 £16.98 £19.60
% change year-on-year +44.98% -13.40% +15.31%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Staffordshire

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in Staffordshire.

Daily rate trend for DNS in Staffordshire

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in Staffordshire.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Staffordshire

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Stafford - 1 - - 5
DNS
West Midlands

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) PuTTY
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Peregrine
1 1 (100.00%) Remedy