DNS Contract Job Trends in Telford

Domain Name System (DNS)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 38 19
Rank change year-on-year -49 -19 -2
Contract jobs citing DNS 1 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.13% 1.65% 4.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.14% 50.00% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £298
25th Percentile £463 - £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £300
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% +8.51% -
75th Percentile £488 - £300
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median daily rate £475 £325 £300
% change year-on-year +46.15% +8.51% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 14 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 1.78% 3.30% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 6
10th Percentile £211 - £117
25th Percentile £447 £325 £162
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £388 £299
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% +29.82% -40.60%
75th Percentile £483 £463 £300
90th Percentile £534 £485 £300
Shropshire median daily rate £459 £388 £299
% change year-on-year +18.45% +29.82% -40.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Telford

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Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing DNS

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Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Telford citing DNS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat