DNS Contracts in West Yorkshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 78 82
Rank change year-on-year +25 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing DNS 23 29 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.30% 1.77% 1.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.47% 27.10% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 24
10th Percentile £208 £331 £163
25th Percentile £320 £422 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £638 £419
Median % change year-on-year -34.90% +52.24% +4.69%
75th Percentile £581 £700 £650
90th Percentile £609 - £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £515 £538 £375
% change year-on-year -4.19% +43.33% -9.09%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 94 107 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.39% 6.54% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 85 127
10th Percentile £273 £315 £178
25th Percentile £319 £369 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% +4.65%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £550
90th Percentile £640 £700 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £453 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -4.63% +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile - - £15.02
25th Percentile £12.75 £31.25 £16.00
Median hourly rate £13.87 £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -57.32% +84.24% +0.80%
75th Percentile £14.25 £33.75 £21.32
90th Percentile £16.66 - £23.53
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £18.20
% change year-on-year +71.87% -41.58% +3.97%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in West Yorkshire

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in West Yorkshire

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in West Yorkshire

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in West Yorkshire

DNS
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Leeds +24 14 £563 -19.64% 11
Wakefield - 9 £338 -
Bradford 0 1 £375 +11.11% 1
DNS
Yorkshire

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.70%) IIS
3 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Akamai
2 6 (26.09%) Cloudflare
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.04%) AWS
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.35%) IaaS
4 1 (4.35%) OCI
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (60.87%) DHCP
2 7 (30.43%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (26.09%) Remote Desktop
4 5 (21.74%) Firewall
5 3 (13.04%) LAN
5 3 (13.04%) TCP/IP
5 3 (13.04%) WAN
5 3 (13.04%) Wireshark
6 2 (8.70%) NAS
6 2 (8.70%) SAN
6 2 (8.70%) VLAN
6 2 (8.70%) VPN
7 1 (4.35%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Banking
2 6 (26.09%) Retail
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Back Office
5 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Data Centre Engineer
1 5 (21.74%) IT Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) IT Technician
2 4 (17.39%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre Technician
3 3 (13.04%) Data Technician
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Security Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 2 (8.70%) IT Support
4 2 (8.70%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Test Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Help Desk Support Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) ADSI
1 2 (8.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Data Centre
2 6 (26.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 5 (21.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (4.35%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.35%) iPad
4 1 (4.35%) LIMS
4 1 (4.35%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (69.57%) Windows
2 9 (39.13%) Windows 10
3 6 (26.09%) Windows 7
3 6 (26.09%) Windows Server
4 4 (17.39%) VMS
5 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Migration
2 8 (34.78%) Runbook
3 6 (26.09%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Validation
5 3 (13.04%) Cloud Security
5 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) OWASP
5 3 (13.04%) Project Management
5 3 (13.04%) RAD
5 3 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.70%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (8.70%) RBAC
7 1 (4.35%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (4.35%) Customer Service
7 1 (4.35%) Database Migration
7 1 (4.35%) Information Assurance
7 1 (4.35%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (26.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (17.39%) CCNA
3 3 (13.04%) A+ Certification
3 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Degree
3 3 (13.04%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (8.70%) CCNP
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Active Directory
1 13 (56.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (30.43%) Hyper-V
3 6 (26.09%) KVM
3 6 (26.09%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (26.09%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (26.09%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.35%) vSphere
4 1 (4.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 13 (56.52%) VMware
3 6 (26.09%) F5
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco
5 2 (8.70%) Veeam
6 1 (4.35%) Aruba
6 1 (4.35%) Citrix
6 1 (4.35%) Fortinet
6 1 (4.35%) HP
6 1 (4.35%) NetApp
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle
6 1 (4.35%) Sophos