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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 49 50
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 0
Contract jobs citing DNS 16 17 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 3.69% 2.71% 3.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.28% 11.97% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 26
10th Percentile £525 £474 £469
25th Percentile £563 £519 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +8.18%
75th Percentile £638 £603 £622
90th Percentile £684 £717 £675
South West median daily rate £550 £543 £575
% change year-on-year +1.38% -5.65% +15.00%

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 83 142 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 19.12% 22.65% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 101 95
10th Percentile £430 - £210
25th Percentile £490 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £640 £628 £606
90th Percentile £695 £675 £658
South West median daily rate £485 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.62% - +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 - - -24.01%
75th Percentile £52.50 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £61.80
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.54% +15.06% -8.32%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +18 13 £575 +6.98% 4
Swindon 0 2 - - 1
DNS
South West

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 6 (37.50%) Confluence
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (18.75%) Skype for Business
4 2 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) VPN
2 5 (31.25%) Skype
3 4 (25.00%) Unified Communications
4 3 (18.75%) BGP
4 3 (18.75%) DHCP
4 3 (18.75%) Firewall
4 3 (18.75%) IPsec
4 3 (18.75%) MPLS
4 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
5 2 (12.50%) Network Security
5 2 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) GitLab
2 3 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Military
5 1 (6.25%) Electronics
5 1 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.25%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) NETCONF
1 3 (18.75%) RESTCONF
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (37.50%) Critical Thinking
2 6 (37.50%) Service Management
3 5 (31.25%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) System Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
5 3 (18.75%) DevOps
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (18.75%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (18.75%) NsoIT
5 3 (18.75%) Validation
6 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 2 (12.50%) High Availability
6 2 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
7 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (25.00%) Degree
5 3 (18.75%) CCNP
5 3 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (12.50%) MCSA
6 2 (12.50%) MCSE
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 6 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (18.75%) Docker
4 3 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (18.75%) VMware NSX
5 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) vCenter Server
2 6 (37.50%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (18.75%) Terraform
4 2 (12.50%) WSUS
5 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) VMware
2 10 (62.50%) Cisco
2 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 4 (25.00%) Veeam
4 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds
5 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 2 (12.50%) F5
5 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
6 1 (6.25%) Citrix
6 1 (6.25%) SAP
6 1 (6.25%) Splunk