DNS Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Domain Name System (DNS)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring DNS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 13 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Taunton 4.00% 3.33% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 50.00% 33.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 £138 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £150 -
Median % change year-on-year +266.67% - -
75th Percentile £600 £163 -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £633 £541 £488
% change year-on-year +16.86% +11.03% +21.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 8.00% 10.00% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £563 £138 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £150 -
Median % change year-on-year +333.33% - -
75th Percentile £713 £163 -
90th Percentile £735 - -
Somerset median daily rate £480 £450 £381
% change year-on-year +6.67% +18.03% -4.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £13.00 £11.87
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -36.29%
Somerset median hourly rate - £13.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year - -74.95% +3.78%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Taunton

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing DNS

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware