DNSSEC Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring DNSSEC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DNSSEC 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.030% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £568 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +3.27% - -15.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 320 189 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.49% 12.36% 17.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 105 220
10th Percentile £210 £233 £211
25th Percentile £306 £300 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £586
90th Percentile £613 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 17
10th Percentile £18.67 £18.76 £10.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £27.00 £13.50
Median hourly rate £58.00 £30.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.33% +114.29% -37.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £39.74 £23.75
90th Percentile £70.30 £43.70 £25.75
England median hourly rate £26.72 £40.00 £45.44
% change year-on-year -33.20% -11.97% +103.45%

DNSSEC
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

DNSSEC job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DNSSEC
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DNSSEC

DNSSEC
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 DNSSEC within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Warwickshire - 1 - - 1
DNSSEC
England

DNSSEC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft