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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 37 74
Rank change year-on-year -22 +37 -35
Contract jobs citing DNS 10 17 15
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.20% 3.91% 1.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.24% 22.37% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 15
10th Percentile £502 £387 -
25th Percentile £508 £531 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% +2.17% +0.88%
75th Percentile £713 £638 £681
90th Percentile £715 £687 £720
South West median daily rate £508 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -13.62% +2.17% +4.55%

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 58 76 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 6.99% 17.47% 21.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 54 164
10th Percentile £302 £460 £460
25th Percentile £363 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +6.98% -10.42%
75th Percentile £688 £666 £675
90th Percentile £724 £716 £698
South West median daily rate £500 £548 £538
% change year-on-year -8.76% +1.95% +6.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £68.00
Median hourly rate - - £71.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.40%
75th Percentile - - £74.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +87.50% +308.16%

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 13 May 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

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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 13 May 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 -21 6 £541 -7.87%
Salisbury - 1 - - 2
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 2 (20.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP
General
1 4 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) OAuth
1 4 (40.00%) OAuth2
1 4 (40.00%) OpenID
1 4 (40.00%) SAML
2 2 (20.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Load Balancing
1 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (40.00%) RBAC
2 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Server Management
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
4 1 (10.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 1 (10.00%) FireEye
4 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
4 1 (10.00%) NetApp
4 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat