DNS Contracts in Wiltshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 71 43
Rank change year-on-year +33 -28 +7
Contract jobs citing DNS 16 18 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 3.51% 1.97% 4.24%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.39% 7.73% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 35
10th Percentile £529 - £469
25th Percentile £544 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -4.35% +12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £644
90th Percentile £689 £720 £723
South West median daily rate £613 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +13.95% -6.52% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £78.00
25th Percentile - - £78.75
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - £106.25
90th Percentile - - £110.00
South West median hourly rate - £40.00 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -52.94% +10.75%

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 87 233 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 19.08% 25.55% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 184 122
10th Percentile £455 £443 £334
25th Percentile £498 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £640 £672 £675
90th Percentile £688 £675 £759
South West median daily rate £545 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +1.40% +2.38% +12.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 10
10th Percentile - - £56.13
25th Percentile - £68.00 £60.38
Median hourly rate - £71.00 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.90% +4.86%
75th Percentile - £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £17.79 £56.49 £9.80
% change year-on-year -68.51% +476.43% -81.85%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Wiltshire

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Wiltshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Wiltshire

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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 3 July 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 +37 16 £588 +9.30% 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 8 (50.00%) Confluence
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 6 (37.50%) Skype for Business
3 1 (6.25%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) DHCP
1 8 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 7 (43.75%) Skype
3 4 (25.00%) VPN
4 3 (18.75%) BGP
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (18.75%) IPsec
4 3 (18.75%) MPLS
5 2 (12.50%) Firewall
5 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 1 (6.25%) LAN
6 1 (6.25%) SMTP
6 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Military
4 1 (6.25%) Electronics
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Network Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) NETCONF
1 3 (18.75%) RESTCONF
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) LDAP
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (81.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (37.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (25.00%) Linux
4 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) Service Management
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) System Testing
4 4 (25.00%) ITIL
5 3 (18.75%) Information Security
5 3 (18.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 3 (18.75%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (18.75%) NsoIT
5 3 (18.75%) Two-Factor Authentication
5 3 (18.75%) Validation
5 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
6 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
6 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
7 1 (6.25%) Change Management
7 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (6.25%) ITSM
7 1 (6.25%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
4 4 (25.00%) Bash
5 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (87.50%) SC Cleared
3 9 (56.25%) Degree
4 7 (43.75%) DV Cleared
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)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
3 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (37.50%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (31.25%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (6.25%) Docker
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Ansible
2 5 (31.25%) WSUS
3 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Puppet
4 1 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (6.25%) SCOM
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) VMware
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (37.50%) Atlassian
3 6 (37.50%) Cisco
4 5 (31.25%) Veeam
5 3 (18.75%) F5
6 1 (6.25%) Citrix
6 1 (6.25%) Oracle
6 1 (6.25%) Remedy
6 1 (6.25%) SAP
6 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 1 (6.25%) Splunk