DNS Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Domain Name System (DNS)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 25 29 40
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -8
Contract jobs citing DNS 12 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 4.92% 1.23% 3.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 42.86% 7.69% 37.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 10
10th Percentile £206 £490 £266
25th Percentile £316 £513 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £600 £430
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% +39.53% -36.30%
75th Percentile £591 £644 £550
90th Percentile £694 £648 £678
North East median daily rate £340 £600 £430
% change year-on-year -43.33% +39.53% -35.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 28 39 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 11.48% 16.05% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 26
10th Percentile £203 £208 £134
25th Percentile £313 £363 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £284
Median % change year-on-year +10.21% +51.89% -45.95%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £550
90th Percentile £680 £641 £688
North East median daily rate £340 £425 £284
% change year-on-year -20.00% +49.78% -36.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
North East median hourly rate - £47.50 -

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Tyne and Wear

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for DNS in Tyne and Wear

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Tyne and Wear

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Tyne and Wear

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne 0 12 £345 -42.50% 14
DNS
North East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 2 (16.67%) nginx
1 2 (16.67%) Traefik
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) IaaS
2 3 (25.00%) PaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 2 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Wintel Support
4 1 (8.33%) Wintel Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) cloud-init
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
1 2 (16.67%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (16.67%) Android
3 2 (16.67%) CentOS
3 2 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Unix
4 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
1 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (16.67%) DevOps
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 2 (16.67%) Identity Management
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
1 2 (16.67%) Observability
1 2 (16.67%) Secrets Management
1 2 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (8.33%) Migration
2 1 (8.33%) Server Management
2 1 (8.33%) Server Migrations
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) Go
1 2 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Consul
1 2 (16.67%) Grafana
1 2 (16.67%) HAProxy
1 2 (16.67%) Istio
1 2 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) linkerd
1 2 (16.67%) Packer
1 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (16.67%) Rancher
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
1 2 (16.67%) ZABBIX
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (16.67%) Apple
3 2 (16.67%) ESET
3 2 (16.67%) Okta
3 2 (16.67%) Splunk
4 1 (8.33%) VMware