DNS Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 49 57
Rank change year-on-year +22 +8 -5
Contract jobs citing DNS 29 15 20
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 6.86% 2.55% 2.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.22% 11.90% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 10 16
10th Percentile £525 £438 -
25th Percentile £563 £522 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £725 £633 £622
90th Percentile - £729 £675
South West median daily rate £575 £473 £575
% change year-on-year +21.69% -17.83% +21.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 90 126 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 21.28% 21.43% 18.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 86 92
10th Percentile £445 £460 £255
25th Percentile £525 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £684 £666 £586
90th Percentile £725 £725 £650
South West median daily rate £490 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 17
10th Percentile - - £44.09
25th Percentile £47.50 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £52.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £61.80
South West median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -13.08% +15.06% -10.50%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing DNS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Wiltshire

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing DNS

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Corsham +27 26 £625 +13.64% 4
Swindon +1 2 - - 1
DNS
South West

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 19 (65.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (58.62%) SharePoint
3 14 (48.28%) Skype for Business
4 5 (17.24%) Confluence
5 4 (13.79%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
2 2 (6.90%) AWS
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (62.07%) Skype
2 14 (48.28%) DHCP
2 14 (48.28%) TCP/IP
3 5 (17.24%) VPN
4 3 (10.34%) BGP
4 3 (10.34%) IPsec
4 3 (10.34%) MPLS
4 3 (10.34%) Unified Communications
5 2 (6.90%) Firewall
5 2 (6.90%) Network Security
5 2 (6.90%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) GitLab
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Support Engineer
2 11 (37.93%) Microsoft Engineer
3 8 (27.59%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Network Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.45%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.45%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) NETCONF
1 3 (10.34%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (41.38%) Windows
2 10 (34.48%) Linux
2 10 (34.48%) Windows 10
3 4 (13.79%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (41.38%) Knowledge Transfer
3 11 (37.93%) Root Cause Analysis
4 8 (27.59%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (24.14%) Service Management
6 5 (17.24%) Critical Thinking
7 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) Logistics
7 3 (10.34%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (10.34%) NsoIT
7 3 (10.34%) Proactive Monitoring
7 3 (10.34%) Server Management
7 3 (10.34%) Software Testing
7 3 (10.34%) System Testing
7 3 (10.34%) Validation
8 2 (6.90%) Agile
8 2 (6.90%) High Availability
8 2 (6.90%) Incident Response
8 2 (6.90%) Regression Testing
8 2 (6.90%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.24%) Python
3 2 (6.90%) Bash
3 2 (6.90%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (93.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (65.52%) DV Cleared
3 16 (55.17%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) CCNP
4 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (10.34%) Degree
5 2 (6.90%) MCSA
5 2 (6.90%) MCSE
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (6.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (41.38%) Active Directory
3 9 (31.03%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (17.24%) VMware NSX
5 3 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (6.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) vCenter Server
2 5 (17.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (17.24%) Ansible
3 3 (10.34%) WSUS
4 2 (6.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (82.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (51.72%) VMware
3 13 (44.83%) Cisco
4 5 (17.24%) SolarWinds
4 5 (17.24%) Veeam
5 3 (10.34%) Atlassian
6 2 (6.90%) CheckPoint
6 2 (6.90%) F5
6 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto