DNS Contract Job Trends in Sunderland

Domain Name System (DNS)
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sunderland requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sunderland 8.70% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £244 - -
25th Percentile £272 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £384 - -
90th Percentile £416 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £413 £340 £140
% change year-on-year +21.32% +142.86% -65.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sunderland

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 Sunderland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sunderland 8.70% - 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £244 - -
25th Percentile £272 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £384 - -
90th Percentile £416 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £425 £340 £585
% change year-on-year +25.00% -41.88% +46.25%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sunderland.

DNS job vacancy trend in Sunderland

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Sunderland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing DNS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sunderland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Sunderland over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Sunderland

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Hourly Rate Trend in Sunderland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing DNS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Route 53
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Server Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam