DNSSEC Contract Job Trends

Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 637 525 585
Rank change year-on-year -112 +60 +97
Contract jobs citing DNSSEC 6 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.12% 0.027% 0.055%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £440 - £436
25th Percentile £474 - £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £550
75th Percentile £585 - -
90th Percentile £593 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,827 3,712 5,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.53% 12.43% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,970 2,280 3,213
10th Percentile £250 £225 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -1.48%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £471 £488
% change year-on-year +1.91% -3.38% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 171 425
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.69 £20.93 £17.69
Median hourly rate £27.94 £45.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.91% +12.50% +110.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.13 £80.00 £72.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.72 £32.77 £47.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -31.01% +150.00%

DNSSEC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DNSSEC job vacancy trend in the UK

DNSSEC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DNSSEC

DNSSEC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNSSEC over the 6 months to 20 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNSSEC in the UK

DNSSEC
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNSSEC within the UK 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
England -98 4 £538 - 4
UK excluding London - 4 £538 - 4
Work from Home - 3 £581 - 1
South East - 3 £581 - 4
North West - 1 £417 -
North of England - 1 £417 -

DNSSEC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Route 53
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Network Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) DDoS Mitigation
2 3 (50.00%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Server Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Bash
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Infoblox
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Google
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco