DNS Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 22 36
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 +4
Contract jobs citing DNS 3 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.35% 2.34% 2.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 21.43% 21.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £388 £425 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £225
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +100.00% -41.56%
75th Percentile £588 £475 £238
90th Percentile £618 - £380
South East median daily rate £500 £492 £524
% change year-on-year +1.53% -5.97% +15.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 18 14 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 8.11% 10.94% 11.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 20
10th Percentile £277 £358 £213
25th Percentile £400 £425 £241
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £353
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +27.57% -8.38%
75th Percentile £638 £569 £488
90th Percentile £780 £633 £538
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £456
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.75% -0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £28.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.67% -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £57.99
% change year-on-year -21.43% +20.71% +28.87%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

DNS job vacancy trend in West Sussex

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in West Sussex over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in West Sussex

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

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

DNS
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 2 November 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
Worthing -5 2 £575 +27.78% 2
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Fit Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (33.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas