DNS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 59 78
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing DNS 38 88 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.51% 3.28% 2.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.08% 14.55% 15.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 70 51
10th Percentile £325 £356 £213
25th Percentile £355 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £605 £558
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +8.52% +12.63%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £675
90th Percentile £620 £653 £725
South East median daily rate £550 £501 £550
% change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% +25.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £21.28 £24.90
25th Percentile £18.50 £25.44 £34.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £33.25 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% -36.06% -20.00%
75th Percentile £19.50 £41.44 £70.50
90th Percentile - £45.83 £80.70
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £47.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -50.53% +8.57% +103.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 605 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.68% 22.52% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 295 291
10th Percentile £242 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +2.46% +5.51%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £570
90th Percentile £618 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 50 15
10th Percentile - £17.79 £19.70
25th Percentile - £23.78 £25.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.15% -1.52% +288.24%
75th Percentile £22.09 £85.65 £80.25
90th Percentile £31.44 £87.47 £81.22
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for DNS in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire -10 31 £500 -17.36% 35
Buckinghamshire +12 6 £583 +25.28% 19
Oxfordshire +1 1 £213 -34.11% 21
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (21.05%) Apache
2 5 (13.16%) IIS
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (44.74%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Entra ID
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.26%) GitHub
3 2 (5.26%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.63%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.63%) GCP
4 1 (2.63%) Mimecast
4 1 (2.63%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (55.26%) DHCP
2 16 (42.11%) SMTP
3 11 (28.95%) FTP
3 11 (28.95%) TCP/IP
3 11 (28.95%) Telnet
4 8 (21.05%) BGP
4 8 (21.05%) Firewall
4 8 (21.05%) VPN
4 8 (21.05%) WAN
5 7 (18.42%) OSPF
6 6 (15.79%) SD-WAN
7 5 (13.16%) MPLS
7 5 (13.16%) NetScaler
8 4 (10.53%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (10.53%) Network Security
8 4 (10.53%) NGFW
8 4 (10.53%) tcpdump
8 4 (10.53%) VLAN
8 4 (10.53%) VSAN
9 3 (7.89%) Cisco ASA
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
1 6 (15.79%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.26%) Multimedia
2 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Law
3 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (18.42%) Support Engineer
2 5 (13.16%) Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Administrator
3 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support
3 4 (10.53%) Lead
3 4 (10.53%) Network Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (7.89%) Technical Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Technical Architect
6 1 (2.63%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 1 (2.63%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.63%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) LDAP
2 2 (5.26%) YAML
3 1 (2.63%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.63%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) PKI
2 5 (13.16%) Clustering
2 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.53%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (10.53%) Public Cloud
4 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.63%) IoT
6 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (52.63%) Windows
2 14 (36.84%) Linux
3 13 (34.21%) Windows Server
4 8 (21.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.63%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) DevSecOps
1 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (18.42%) ITIL
2 7 (18.42%) Vulnerability Management
3 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
3 6 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (13.16%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (13.16%) Workflow
4 5 (13.16%) Workflow Management
5 4 (10.53%) High Availability
5 4 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (10.53%) Server Migrations
5 4 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (10.53%) TOGAF
6 3 (7.89%) Adaptive Security
6 3 (7.89%) DevOps
6 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (7.89%) IT Strategy
6 3 (7.89%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (7.89%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.79%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.63%) Bash
3 1 (2.63%) Bicep
3 1 (2.63%) C#
3 1 (2.63%) VB
3 1 (2.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (65.79%) Security Cleared
2 23 (60.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) Degree
4 2 (5.26%) CCNA
4 2 (5.26%) CCNP
4 2 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) MCSE
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.63%) BC Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.63%) CCDP
5 1 (2.63%) CCIP
5 1 (2.63%) CCSP
5 1 (2.63%) CEH
5 1 (2.63%) CISSP
5 1 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) NIST
2 3 (7.89%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (7.89%) NCSC
3 1 (2.63%) QA
System Software
1 14 (36.84%) Active Directory
2 11 (28.95%) NFS
3 8 (21.05%) Samba
4 5 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (13.16%) vSphere
4 5 (13.16%) XenApp
4 5 (13.16%) XenDesktop
5 4 (10.53%) VMware NSX
6 2 (5.26%) Ceph
7 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (21.05%) yum
3 6 (15.79%) WSUS
4 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (10.53%) NetBackup
6 3 (7.89%) Ansible
7 2 (5.26%) Argo
8 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.63%) CASB
8 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
8 1 (2.63%) SCCM
8 1 (2.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (47.37%) VMware
2 12 (31.58%) HP
2 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 11 (28.95%) Dell
4 10 (26.32%) Red Hat
5 9 (23.68%) Cisco
6 5 (13.16%) Citrix
6 5 (13.16%) Palo Alto
7 4 (10.53%) 3PAR
7 4 (10.53%) Veritas
8 2 (5.26%) Empirix
8 2 (5.26%) Juniper
8 2 (5.26%) NetScout
9 1 (2.63%) Alcatel-Lucent
9 1 (2.63%) Aruba
9 1 (2.63%) Blue Coat
9 1 (2.63%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.63%) Commvault
9 1 (2.63%) F5
9 1 (2.63%) Intel