DNS Contracts in West Yorkshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 54 78
Rank change year-on-year +23 +24 +4
Contract jobs citing DNS 32 23 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.84% 2.30% 1.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 37.65% 24.47% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 28
10th Percentile £237 £208 £331
25th Percentile £394 £320 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £415 £638
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -34.90% +52.24%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £700
90th Percentile £738 £609 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £515 £538
% change year-on-year +6.80% -4.19% +43.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 85 94 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 15.51% 9.41% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 69 85
10th Percentile £222 £273 £315
25th Percentile £239 £319 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £675
90th Percentile £738 £640 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £403 £459 £475
% change year-on-year -12.25% -3.37% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 £12.75 £31.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 £13.87 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +195.60% -57.32% +84.24%
75th Percentile £41.50 £14.25 £33.75
90th Percentile - £16.66 -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £18.27 £10.63
% change year-on-year +124.41% +71.87% -41.58%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Leeds +21 32 £550 -2.22% 26
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 16 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (15.63%) nginx
3 5 (15.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (15.63%) Traefik
4 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.88%) Entra ID
2 6 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (18.75%) AWS Fargate
2 6 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (15.63%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.13%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) DHCP
1 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
2 6 (18.75%) VLAN
2 6 (18.75%) VPN
2 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (15.63%) LAN
3 5 (15.63%) VoIP
3 5 (15.63%) WAN
4 3 (9.38%) Firewall
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (56.25%) Oracle Database
2 6 (18.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) GitLab
1 6 (18.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.25%) Military
3 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 7 (21.88%) Engineering Specialist
4 6 (18.75%) Network Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Senior
5 5 (15.63%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) IT Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Desktop Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Desktop Support
7 3 (9.38%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) IP Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Lead
9 1 (3.13%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) cloud-init
1 6 (18.75%) Kafka
1 6 (18.75%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 16 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (18.75%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 24 (75.00%) Linux
1 24 (75.00%) Windows
2 18 (56.25%) Windows Server
3 6 (18.75%) CentOS
3 6 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (18.75%) Unix
4 5 (15.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Agile
1 18 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (50.00%) Microservices
2 16 (50.00%) Security Management
2 16 (50.00%) SOA
3 14 (43.75%) Server Management
4 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (25.00%) Migration
6 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 6 (18.75%) Cloud Security
6 6 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (18.75%) DevOps
6 6 (18.75%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 6 (18.75%) Identity Management
6 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (18.75%) Observability
6 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
6 6 (18.75%) Secrets Management
6 6 (18.75%) Static Application Security Testing
6 6 (18.75%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 24 (75.00%) Bash
2 18 (56.25%) PL/SQL
2 18 (56.25%) SQL
3 16 (50.00%) Perl
4 14 (43.75%) PowerShell
5 7 (21.88%) Python
6 6 (18.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (65.63%) SC Cleared
3 19 (59.38%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (18.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.13%) CCNA
5 1 (3.13%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) NCSC
2 1 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 25 (78.13%) Active Directory
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Consul
1 6 (18.75%) Grafana
1 6 (18.75%) Istio
1 6 (18.75%) Jamf Pro
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 6 (18.75%) linkerd
1 6 (18.75%) Packer
1 6 (18.75%) Prometheus
1 6 (18.75%) Rancher
1 6 (18.75%) Terraform
1 6 (18.75%) ZABBIX
2 5 (15.63%) AppManager
2 5 (15.63%) HAProxy
2 5 (15.63%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) Cisco
2 18 (56.25%) Oracle
3 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.75%) Okta
3 6 (18.75%) Splunk
4 5 (15.63%) Apple
4 5 (15.63%) ESET
4 5 (15.63%) Ivanti
4 5 (15.63%) VMware
5 2 (6.25%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.13%) F5
6 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.13%) Meraki