DNSSEC Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DNSSEC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DNSSEC 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.065% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - -
75th Percentile £560 - -
90th Percentile £573 - -
South East median daily rate £581 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

DNSSEC 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 397 238 524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.89% 15.89% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 132 228
10th Percentile £306 £252 £206
25th Percentile £400 £361 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £469 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -8.42% +2.50%
75th Percentile £590 £538 £600
90th Percentile £643 £599 £608
South East median daily rate £525 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 10 45
10th Percentile £16.17 - £16.73
25th Percentile £19.34 - £22.58
Median hourly rate £32.50 £14.20 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +128.87% -78.15% -6.36%
75th Percentile £42.38 £24.23 £85.65
90th Percentile £57.60 £58.75 £87.50
South East median hourly rate £42.25 £45.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -7.14% -20.66% -4.42%

DNSSEC
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNSSEC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

DNSSEC job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

DNSSEC
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DNSSEC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DNSSEC

DNSSEC
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 DNSSEC within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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 - 2 £538 - 6
DNSSEC
South East

DNSSEC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft