DNS Contract Job Trends in Stoke-on-Trent

Domain Name System (DNS)
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Stoke-on-Trent 5.26% - 3.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.00% - 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £407
25th Percentile - - £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - £481
75th Percentile - - £539
90th Percentile - - £561
Staffordshire median daily rate £325 - £425
% change year-on-year - - +161.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4 11 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent 21.05% 34.38% 31.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 12
10th Percentile £239 £170 £377
25th Percentile £298 £247 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -7.89% +26.67%
75th Percentile £350 £569 £575
90th Percentile - £688 -
Staffordshire median daily rate £350 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -22.22% - +38.46%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stoke-on-Trent.

DNS job vacancy trend in Stoke-on-Trent

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing DNS

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stoke-on-Trent citing DNS

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Inventory Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow