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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 36 50
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 0
Contract jobs citing DNS 29 16 15
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 3.76% 3.89% 2.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.37% 20.25% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 10
10th Percentile £385 £525 £438
25th Percentile £500 £563 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £689 £638 £633
90th Percentile £725 £719 £729
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £96.91 - -

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 82 79 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 10.62% 19.22% 22.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 52 96
10th Percentile £342 £427 -
25th Percentile £500 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £688 £640 £632
90th Percentile £725 £705 £675
South West median daily rate £535 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +15.68% -11.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £95.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% - -
South West median hourly rate £39.82 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -30.75% -11.54% +15.06%

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

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

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 23 September 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
Corsham -6 18 £556 -3.26% 8
Salisbury - 8 £700 - 5
Bradford-on-Avon - 1 £210 -
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 11 (37.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.90%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (58.62%) DHCP
2 7 (24.14%) Firewall
3 6 (20.69%) SAN
4 5 (17.24%) VoIP
5 4 (13.79%) Kerberos
5 4 (13.79%) VSAN
6 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
6 3 (10.34%) Wireless
7 2 (6.90%) Asterisk PBX
7 2 (6.90%) BGP
7 2 (6.90%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (6.90%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (6.90%) MPLS
7 2 (6.90%) Network Security
7 2 (6.90%) NX-OS
7 2 (6.90%) PABX
7 2 (6.90%) VPN
8 1 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (3.45%) DMVPN
8 1 (3.45%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Military
4 4 (13.79%) Aerospace
4 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (17.24%) Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (10.34%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (10.34%) Wintel Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Architect
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Cisco Administrator
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Unix Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) LDAP
2 5 (17.24%) OAuth
2 5 (17.24%) SAML
3 4 (13.79%) Terraform
4 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
4 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) PKI
2 4 (13.79%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (13.79%) Replication
3 3 (10.34%) Clustering
3 3 (10.34%) Fat Client
3 3 (10.34%) Smartcard
3 3 (10.34%) Thin Client
4 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (55.17%) Windows
2 15 (51.72%) Windows Server
3 6 (20.69%) Linux
3 6 (20.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.45%) AIX
5 1 (3.45%) Solaris
5 1 (3.45%) Unix
5 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Runbook
2 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (20.69%) ITIL
3 6 (20.69%) Patch Management
4 5 (17.24%) Agile
4 5 (17.24%) DevOps
4 5 (17.24%) Integration Testing
4 5 (17.24%) Load Balancing
4 5 (17.24%) Server Management
4 5 (17.24%) Service Management
4 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (13.79%) GitOps
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (13.79%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (13.79%) SIEM
6 3 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (10.34%) System Testing
6 3 (10.34%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.34%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (93.10%) Security Cleared
2 17 (58.62%) DV Cleared
3 12 (41.38%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) VCAP
4 3 (10.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.45%) CISM
6 1 (3.45%) CISSP
6 1 (3.45%) MCSE
6 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) NCSC
1 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (62.07%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (17.24%) Hyper-V
4 4 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (13.79%) VMware NSX
4 4 (13.79%) vSphere
5 1 (3.45%) Docker
5 1 (3.45%) NFS
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (3.45%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (3.45%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) WSUS
2 5 (17.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (17.24%) Ansible
3 4 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 4 (13.79%) OPNET
3 4 (13.79%) PowerCLI
3 4 (13.79%) vCenter Server
4 3 (10.34%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (3.45%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.45%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.45%) Puppet
5 1 (3.45%) SCCM
5 1 (3.45%) SCOM
5 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (55.17%) Microsoft
2 14 (48.28%) Cisco
3 9 (31.03%) VMware
4 6 (20.69%) Red Hat
5 4 (13.79%) SaltStack
6 3 (10.34%) Atlassian
6 3 (10.34%) Juniper
6 3 (10.34%) McAfee
7 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
7 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.45%) Blue Coat
8 1 (3.45%) BMC
8 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.45%) F5
8 1 (3.45%) FireEye
8 1 (3.45%) Infoblox
8 1 (3.45%) NetApp
8 1 (3.45%) Remedy
8 1 (3.45%) Samsung
8 1 (3.45%) Zscaler