DNS Contracts

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 160 137 148
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 +31
Contract jobs citing DNS 610 1,030 1,639
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.52% 1.90% 1.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.36% 14.93% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 688 1,180
10th Percentile £250 £250 £226
25th Percentile £363 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £450
% change year-on-year +4.38% +6.44% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 29
10th Percentile £19.25 £18.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £22.85 £23.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.59 £40.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.53% +31.15% -6.47%
75th Percentile £42.19 £68.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £61.58 £81.80 £77.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £33.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +41.79% +52.27% -5.21%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,935 6,900 10,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.29% 12.70% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,987 4,481 6,836
10th Percentile £213 £230 £238
25th Percentile £363 £375 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £607 £623 £619
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +8.70% +2.22% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 283 375
10th Percentile £14.16 £10.63 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.95 £17.86 £17.46
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +61.29% +38.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.59 £68.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £56.91 £24.75
% change year-on-year -12.14% +129.94% +23.75%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the UK

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DNS over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DNS in the UK

DNS
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England -22 549 £500 - 255
UK excluding London -9 353 £500 +4.38% 253
London -22 221 £450 -14.29% 31
Work from Home -31 175 £475 -8.21% 105
South East +34 131 £525 +2.44% 62
Midlands -1 72 £525 +29.23% 38
North of England -31 61 £475 -5.00% 77
West Midlands -11 52 £550 +29.41% 26
South West -22 42 £538 -4.02% 26
Scotland +31 32 £240 -51.39% 15
Yorkshire +15 32 £515 -8.44% 29
North West -23 30 £450 +10.43% 37
East Midlands +16 20 £375 -30.23% 12
East of England -16 13 £358 -20.56% 28
Northern Ireland +3 5 £150 -29.41% 6
North East +1 2 £563 +100.89% 14
Wales -3 2 £313 -47.92% 5

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 122 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (5.41%) Confluence
3 32 (5.25%) SharePoint
4 19 (3.11%) Apache
5 16 (2.62%) Tomcat
6 12 (1.97%) nginx
7 10 (1.64%) IIS
8 9 (1.48%) CMS
8 9 (1.48%) JBoss
9 7 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (0.98%) Exchange Server 2013
11 5 (0.82%) WordPress
12 3 (0.49%) Drupal
13 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.16%) SharePoint Server
14 1 (0.16%) Site Server
14 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
14 1 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 55 (9.02%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Elementor
5 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.48%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.66%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 204 (33.44%) Azure
2 119 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
3 96 (15.74%) AWS
4 88 (14.43%) Entra ID
5 39 (6.39%) GCP
6 33 (5.41%) IaaS
7 28 (4.59%) GitHub
8 26 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
9 24 (3.93%) Azure Storage
10 23 (3.77%) PaaS
10 23 (3.77%) SaaS
11 20 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (2.79%) OCI
13 16 (2.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 14 (2.30%) Azure AKS
14 14 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (2.13%) Cloudflare
16 12 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (1.64%) Mimecast
18 9 (1.48%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 346 (56.72%) DHCP
2 194 (31.80%) Firewall
3 144 (23.61%) TCP/IP
4 112 (18.36%) VPN
5 81 (13.28%) WAN
6 68 (11.15%) LAN
7 54 (8.85%) Network Security
8 52 (8.52%) HTTP
9 50 (8.20%) BGP
10 46 (7.54%) SAN
10 46 (7.54%) Wireless
11 38 (6.23%) SD-WAN
12 35 (5.74%) MPLS
13 33 (5.41%) SSL
14 31 (5.08%) Wireshark
15 29 (4.75%) Cisco Nexus
16 28 (4.59%) OSPF
16 28 (4.59%) SNMP
16 28 (4.59%) VLAN
17 25 (4.10%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (5.74%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.79%) Relational Database
3 15 (2.46%) MySQL
4 14 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (1.80%) RDBMS
6 10 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.48%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.98%) Couchbase
8 6 (0.98%) Oracle Database
8 6 (0.98%) Power BI
9 5 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.66%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.49%) Redis
12 2 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.33%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.33%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.33%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.16%) CockroachDB
13 1 (0.16%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 39 (6.39%) JIRA
2 36 (5.90%) Git
3 25 (4.10%) GitLab
4 17 (2.79%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.46%) CircleCI
6 10 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (1.64%) Travis CI
7 9 (1.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.98%) Subversion
9 5 (0.82%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.49%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.49%) Selenium
11 2 (0.33%) MSI
11 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.33%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.16%) Darcs
12 1 (0.16%) Gradle
12 1 (0.16%) Katalon Studio
12 1 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.16%) Vagrant
General
1 183 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 85 (13.93%) Finance
3 76 (12.46%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.21%) Public Sector
5 38 (6.23%) Telecoms
6 20 (3.28%) Banking
7 18 (2.95%) Military
8 12 (1.97%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.48%) Retail
11 7 (1.15%) Local Government
12 6 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (0.98%) Legal
12 6 (0.98%) Multimedia
13 5 (0.82%) Marketing
13 5 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.66%) Electronics
15 3 (0.49%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.49%) Publishing
16 2 (0.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 118 (19.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 93 (15.25%) Network Engineer
3 68 (11.15%) Support Engineer
4 52 (8.52%) Senior
5 39 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
6 36 (5.90%) Architect
7 29 (4.75%) Analyst
8 28 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 26 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
9 26 (4.26%) IT Engineer
9 26 (4.26%) Security Engineer
10 23 (3.77%) Administrator
11 22 (3.61%) Active Directory Support
12 21 (3.44%) Active Directory Engineer
12 21 (3.44%) IT Support
13 20 (3.28%) Desktop Support
13 20 (3.28%) Server Engineer
14 18 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
15 17 (2.79%) Desktop Engineer
15 17 (2.79%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.77%) YAML
2 22 (3.61%) ARM Templates
3 16 (2.62%) JSON
4 15 (2.46%) SAML
5 14 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (1.97%) LDAP
7 11 (1.80%) XML
8 10 (1.64%) Middleware
9 9 (1.48%) CSS
9 9 (1.48%) IBM Integration Bus
10 8 (1.31%) OAuth
11 7 (1.15%) .NET
11 7 (1.15%) HTML
12 6 (0.98%) Kafka
12 6 (0.98%) REST
13 5 (0.82%) ASP.NET
13 5 (0.82%) OAuth2
13 5 (0.82%) Software Packaging
13 5 (0.82%) Web Services
14 4 (0.66%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 88 (14.43%) PKI
2 73 (11.97%) Data Centre
3 29 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
4 21 (3.44%) Clustering
5 20 (3.28%) Management Information System
6 19 (3.11%) Cloud Native
7 16 (2.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 13 (2.13%) Smartphone
9 11 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
10 10 (1.64%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
11 9 (1.48%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.48%) Replication
12 8 (1.31%) Private Cloud
12 8 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.15%) Fat Client
13 7 (1.15%) Thin Client
13 7 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
14 6 (0.98%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 351 (57.54%) Windows
2 213 (34.92%) Windows Server
3 150 (24.59%) Linux
4 77 (12.62%) Windows 10
5 68 (11.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 58 (9.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 57 (9.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 42 (6.89%) Unix
9 32 (5.25%) Windows 7
10 25 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 20 (3.28%) Windows Server 2008
12 13 (2.13%) Ubuntu
13 10 (1.64%) Windows XP
14 9 (1.48%) CentOS
15 8 (1.31%) VMS
15 8 (1.31%) Windows Server 2003
16 6 (0.98%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.49%) Android
17 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
18 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (22.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 108 (17.70%) ITIL
3 106 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
4 95 (15.57%) Agile
5 78 (12.79%) DevOps
6 72 (11.80%) CI/CD
6 72 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 62 (10.16%) Migration
8 57 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
9 52 (8.52%) Load Balancing
10 48 (7.87%) Project Management
11 45 (7.38%) Customer Service
12 43 (7.05%) Server Management
13 41 (6.72%) Computer Science
14 40 (6.56%) Task Automation
15 37 (6.07%) Analytics
16 36 (5.90%) Disaster Recovery
17 33 (5.41%) Incident Management
18 31 (5.08%) Break/Fix
19 30 (4.92%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 165 (27.05%) PowerShell
2 71 (11.64%) Python
3 36 (5.90%) SQL
4 33 (5.41%) C#
5 31 (5.08%) Bash
6 26 (4.26%) Java
6 26 (4.26%) VBScript
7 25 (4.10%) VB
8 22 (3.61%) Bicep
9 12 (1.97%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.97%) Shell Script
10 10 (1.64%) Ruby
11 9 (1.48%) Go
12 7 (1.15%) Perl
13 6 (0.98%) PHP
13 6 (0.98%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.49%) ActionScript
14 3 (0.49%) C
15 2 (0.33%) C++
15 2 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 185 (30.33%) Security Cleared
2 122 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 95 (15.57%) Cisco Certification
4 93 (15.25%) Degree
5 70 (11.48%) DV Cleared
6 66 (10.82%) CCNA
7 59 (9.67%) CCNP
8 44 (7.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (5.08%) MCSE
10 25 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (3.93%) MCSA
12 20 (3.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 19 (3.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 17 (2.79%) A+ Certification
15 13 (2.13%) AWS Certification
15 13 (2.13%) CCIE
16 12 (1.97%) CISSP
17 10 (1.64%) Azure Certification
18 7 (1.15%) DBS Check
19 6 (0.98%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.95%) NIST
2 17 (2.79%) QA
3 11 (1.80%) GDPR
4 9 (1.48%) ISO 9000
5 8 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.66%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.66%) SLA
8 3 (0.49%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.33%) GRC
9 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.16%) COPPA
10 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 332 (54.43%) Active Directory
2 149 (24.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (9.34%) VMware ESXi
4 51 (8.36%) Hyper-V
5 39 (6.39%) Docker
5 39 (6.39%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (5.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 35 (5.74%) vSphere
7 32 (5.25%) XenApp
8 21 (3.44%) VMware NSX
9 13 (2.13%) XenDesktop
10 11 (1.80%) Microsoft App-V
11 6 (0.98%) Firmware
11 6 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
12 5 (0.82%) VMware Server
12 5 (0.82%) VMware Workstation
13 4 (0.66%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.49%) KVM
14 3 (0.49%) NFS
15 2 (0.33%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 117 (19.18%) SCCM
2 67 (10.98%) Kubernetes
3 60 (9.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 55 (9.02%) Terraform
4 55 (9.02%) WSUS
5 54 (8.85%) Ansible
6 50 (8.20%) SCOM
7 45 (7.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 44 (7.21%) vCenter Server
9 23 (3.77%) Puppet
10 18 (2.95%) NetBackup
11 17 (2.79%) FortiGate
12 16 (2.62%) EMC NetWorker
13 14 (2.30%) Grafana
13 14 (2.30%) Kibana
13 14 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
14 13 (2.13%) Prometheus
15 12 (1.97%) Progress Chef
16 11 (1.80%) logstash
16 11 (1.80%) Nessus
Vendors
1 238 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 193 (31.64%) VMware
3 156 (25.57%) Cisco
4 53 (8.69%) Citrix
5 49 (8.03%) F5
5 49 (8.03%) Palo Alto
6 39 (6.39%) Oracle
7 36 (5.90%) Dell
8 33 (5.41%) Veeam
9 32 (5.25%) SolarWinds
10 31 (5.08%) Symantec
11 29 (4.75%) Splunk
12 27 (4.43%) Juniper
13 25 (4.10%) HP
14 24 (3.93%) Red Hat
15 23 (3.77%) CheckPoint
16 21 (3.44%) Infoblox
17 20 (3.28%) Google
18 19 (3.11%) EMC
19 18 (2.95%) Zscaler