OpenDNS Contracts

OpenDNS
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring OpenDNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OpenDNS over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 - 683
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing OpenDNS 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% - 0.002%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.009% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £450
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

OpenDNS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,532 14,163 20,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.62% 32.81% 36.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,730 9,952 14,655
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 355 335
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.05 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.87 £26.00
% change year-on-year -9.58% -19.73% +36.20%

OpenDNS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for OpenDNS in the UK

OpenDNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for OpenDNS in the UK

OpenDNS
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenDNS within the UK over the 6 months to 30 June 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
London - 1 - - 2
England - 1 - - 2

OpenDNS
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Hyperautomation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Snort
1 1 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Nexpose
1 1 (100.00%) Suricata
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) Carbon Black
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) FireEye
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) Qualys
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler