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 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing DNS 8 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.42% 1.00% 2.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 57.14% 6.45% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £320 £489 £255
25th Percentile £333 £509 £271
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £563 £284
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +98.24% -56.35%
75th Percentile £494 £609 £417
90th Percentile £500 £626 £572
North East median daily rate £345 £563 £284
% change year-on-year -38.67% +98.24% -56.35%

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 14 31 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.98% 15.42% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 18
10th Percentile £200 £250 £182
25th Percentile £319 £416 £245
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £306
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +55.10% -44.32%
75th Percentile £500 £597 £400
90th Percentile £520 £642 £623
North East median daily rate £300 £475 £284
% change year-on-year -36.84% +67.40% -45.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
North East median hourly rate - £33.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +88.57% +2.94%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 +4 8 £350 -37.78% 4
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) PaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Support
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Migration
1 1 (12.50%) Server Management
1 1 (12.50%) Server Migrations
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
1 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) VMware