DNS Contracts in the West Midlands

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 80 118
Rank change year-on-year +29 +38 -24
Contract jobs citing DNS 66 58 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.43% 2.46% 1.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.01% 16.29% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 52 42
10th Percentile £200 £178 £164
25th Percentile £300 £313 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £305
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% +39.34% -14.39%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £425
90th Percentile £775 £700 £495
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £49.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -18.56% +78.61% +1.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

DNS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 388 356 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.15% 15.13% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 220 260
10th Percentile £200 £263 £165
25th Percentile £306 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £485 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +21.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £504
90th Percentile £690 £700 £619
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 17
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.93
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.38
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Coventry +26 18 £650 +92.59% 2
Birmingham -6 13 £350 -17.65% 6
Warwickshire +12 11 £713 +66.67% 3
Worcestershire +16 9 £550 +4.76% 7
Solihull -7 8 £225 -51.61% 1
Shropshire +30 6 £300 -42.86% 6
Staffordshire +6 1 - - 5
DNS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 15 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (12.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.55%) CMS
3 3 (4.55%) Drupal
4 2 (3.03%) IIS
4 2 (3.03%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (36.36%) Azure
2 23 (34.85%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (12.12%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (10.61%) Entra ID
4 7 (10.61%) OneDrive
5 6 (9.09%) AWS
6 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (7.58%) CloudFront
6 5 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (4.55%) GCP
8 2 (3.03%) IaaS
8 2 (3.03%) PaaS
9 1 (1.52%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.52%) Nutanix
9 1 (1.52%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (53.03%) DHCP
2 19 (28.79%) VPN
3 18 (27.27%) WAN
4 16 (24.24%) TCP/IP
5 13 (19.70%) Firewall
5 13 (19.70%) LAN
6 9 (13.64%) SD-WAN
7 8 (12.12%) NetScaler
8 7 (10.61%) Fibre Channel
8 7 (10.61%) Remote Desktop
8 7 (10.61%) SAN
9 6 (9.09%) MPLS
9 6 (9.09%) Network Security
9 6 (9.09%) VoIP
10 5 (7.58%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (7.58%) Cisco Firepower
10 5 (7.58%) Internet
10 5 (7.58%) PBX
10 5 (7.58%) Wireless
10 5 (7.58%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Git
2 3 (4.55%) Artifactory
2 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.55%) Selenium
2 3 (4.55%) Subversion
3 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 16 (24.24%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Telecoms
3 6 (9.09%) Finance
3 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.58%) Retail
5 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (25.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) Architect
4 8 (12.12%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (10.61%) Network Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Administrator
7 5 (7.58%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Citrix Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Deployment Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Enterprise Architect
7 5 (7.58%) Security Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Server Administrator
7 5 (7.58%) VMWare Administrator
7 5 (7.58%) WAN Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) 1st/2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) OAuth
1 5 (7.58%) OAuth2
1 5 (7.58%) SAML
1 5 (7.58%) Web Services
2 2 (3.03%) JSON
2 2 (3.03%) LAMP
2 2 (3.03%) YAML
3 1 (1.52%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.12%) Cloud Native
1 8 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.09%) PKI
3 3 (4.55%) Fat Client
3 3 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.55%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.55%) Thin Client
4 2 (3.03%) iPad
4 2 (3.03%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.03%) Replication
5 1 (1.52%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.52%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 47 (71.21%) Windows
2 33 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 16 (24.24%) Linux
4 15 (22.73%) Windows 10
5 9 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (9.09%) Ubuntu
6 6 (9.09%) Unix
7 5 (7.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (7.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (6.06%) CentOS
8 4 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (4.55%) Windows 7
10 2 (3.03%) VMS
10 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (19.70%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (18.18%) Patch Management
4 10 (15.15%) CI/CD
4 10 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (13.64%) ITIL
5 9 (13.64%) Security Monitoring
5 9 (13.64%) Task Automation
6 8 (12.12%) Application Packaging
6 8 (12.12%) Change Management
6 8 (12.12%) Virtual Environments
7 7 (10.61%) Cloud Security
8 6 (9.09%) Agile
8 6 (9.09%) DevOps
8 6 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (9.09%) Load Balancing
8 6 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 6 (9.09%) Project Delivery
8 6 (9.09%) Visualisation
9 5 (7.58%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (28.79%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.12%) C#
2 8 (12.12%) Java
3 4 (6.06%) Bash
4 1 (1.52%) Bicep
4 1 (1.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 10 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (10.61%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.58%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.58%) CCIE
4 5 (7.58%) CCIE Data Center
4 5 (7.58%) CCNA
5 4 (6.06%) Degree
6 2 (3.03%) CCNP
7 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.58%) NIST
2 4 (6.06%) ISO 9000
3 3 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 35 (53.03%) Active Directory
2 15 (22.73%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (15.15%) VMware NSX
5 9 (13.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (12.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 8 (12.12%) XenApp
6 8 (12.12%) XenDesktop
7 7 (10.61%) vSphere
8 5 (7.58%) Docker
8 5 (7.58%) VMware Server
9 3 (4.55%) BitLocker
10 2 (3.03%) Terminal Services
10 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (1.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (31.82%) SCCM
2 14 (21.21%) vCenter Server
3 4 (6.06%) Ansible
4 3 (4.55%) OpenView
4 3 (4.55%) Terraform
5 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.52%) SCOM
Vendors
1 27 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 21 (31.82%) VMware
3 12 (18.18%) Cisco
4 8 (12.12%) Citrix
4 8 (12.12%) NetApp
4 8 (12.12%) Palo Alto
5 7 (10.61%) Veeam
6 5 (7.58%) CheckPoint
6 5 (7.58%) Infoblox
6 5 (7.58%) Symantec
6 5 (7.58%) Zscaler
7 3 (4.55%) Fujitsu
7 3 (4.55%) Salesforce
7 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
8 2 (3.03%) Aruba
8 2 (3.03%) ProCurve
8 2 (3.03%) Synology
8 2 (3.03%) Zerto
9 1 (1.52%) Juniper
9 1 (1.52%) Mitel