DNS Contracts in West London

Domain Name System (DNS)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London 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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 31 55
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 -5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DNS 19 9 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 7.09% 3.03% 1.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.84% 15.79% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 11
10th Percentile £325 £381 £203
25th Percentile £375 £428 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.71% -4.55% +22.91%
75th Percentile £450 £538 £654
90th Percentile £693 - £675
London median daily rate £505 £481 £525
% change year-on-year +4.94% -8.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £23.80 -
London median hourly rate £54.50 £23.80 £68.50
% change year-on-year +128.99% -65.26% +140.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West London

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 West London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 87 57 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 32.46% 19.19% 15.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 43 76
10th Percentile £275 £213 £133
25th Percentile £366 £270 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +14.42%
75th Percentile £463 £532 £700
90th Percentile £509 £575 £838
London median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £68.00
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate £52.00 £23.80 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.49% -70.25% +321.05%
75th Percentile - £44.40 £88.13
90th Percentile - £56.76 £89.25
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £33.65
% change year-on-year +5.67% -29.26% +40.72%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in West London

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in West London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in West London over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in West London

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing DNS

DNS
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the West London region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hillingdon -6 11 £401 -23.71%
Wembley -2 2 - - 6
DNS
London

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 1 (5.26%) IIS
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (63.16%) AWS
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) DHCP
2 15 (78.95%) Firewall
3 14 (73.68%) VPN
4 13 (68.42%) VLAN
5 12 (63.16%) BGP
5 12 (63.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 12 (63.16%) OSPF
5 12 (63.16%) WAN
6 11 (57.89%) Network Security
6 11 (57.89%) SD-WAN
6 11 (57.89%) SSL
7 10 (52.63%) LAN
8 9 (47.37%) Cisco ISE
8 9 (47.37%) DMVPN
8 9 (47.37%) Wireless
8 9 (47.37%) WLAN
9 8 (42.11%) Cisco Wireless
9 8 (42.11%) EIGRP
10 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
11 2 (10.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Administrator
1 6 (31.58%) Network Administrator
2 4 (21.05%) Network Security Administrator
2 4 (21.05%) Security Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Security Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) IT Support
5 1 (5.26%) Support Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
1 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
1 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
1 2 (10.53%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) PKI
1 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Linux
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
3 2 (10.53%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.26%) VMS
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (31.58%) Patch Management
2 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) High Availability
4 2 (10.53%) B2B
4 2 (10.53%) BPMN
4 2 (10.53%) ITIL
4 2 (10.53%) MVC
4 2 (10.53%) Service Migration
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Debt
4 2 (10.53%) TOGAF
4 2 (10.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (5.26%) Migration
5 1 (5.26%) Network Management
5 1 (5.26%) Problem Management
5 1 (5.26%) Security Operations
5 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.26%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.26%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Bash
2 2 (10.53%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.53%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) CCNP
1 10 (52.63%) CCSA
1 10 (52.63%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Government Security Classifications
1 2 (10.53%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Firmware
2 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
3 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (36.84%) CA Spectrum
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Cisco
2 12 (63.16%) F5
3 10 (52.63%) Juniper
3 10 (52.63%) Meraki
4 9 (47.37%) SolarWinds
5 8 (42.11%) CheckPoint
6 6 (31.58%) VMware
7 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
7 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
8 1 (5.26%) EMC
8 1 (5.26%) HP
8 1 (5.26%) Mitel
8 1 (5.26%) NetApp
8 1 (5.26%) Veeam
8 1 (5.26%) Veritas