DNS Contracts in Surrey

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 40 51
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing DNS 4 17 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.34% 2.79% 3.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.55% 15.32% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 13
10th Percentile £285 £184 -
25th Percentile £338 £188 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £318 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.86% -36.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £481 £525 £600
90th Percentile £515 - £723
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +4.76% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
South East median hourly rate £89.63 £33.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year +169.56% +2.31% +51.16%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 53 111 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 17.79% 18.20% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 83 98
10th Percentile £245 £187 £206
25th Percentile £303 £254 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £405 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% -14.74% +62.39%
75th Percentile £506 £525 £700
90th Percentile £539 £663 £838
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £467
% change year-on-year -2.00% +7.18% +2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 11
10th Percentile - £20.38 £36.25
25th Percentile - £26.56 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.74% -13.89% -
75th Percentile £32.77 £51.56 £62.55
90th Percentile £55.20 £58.13 -
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.26% +101.75%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Surrey

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Surrey

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Surrey over the 6 months to 20 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Surrey

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Surrey

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Leatherhead +9 2 £388 - 1
Guildford 0 1 - - 2
Camberley -7 1 £425 -17.07% 2
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) DMZ
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) Multicast
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) Softphone
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) F5
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Wyse