DNS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 130 166
Rank change year-on-year -29 +36 -1
Contract jobs citing DNS 205 499 731
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.33% 1.91% 1.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.29% 16.68% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 348 506
10th Percentile £300 £325 £328
25th Percentile £350 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.46% +10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £588
90th Percentile £675 £729 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -9.52% +7.14% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 20
10th Percentile £20.40 £17.75 -
25th Percentile £23.25 £54.13 £20.75
Median hourly rate £24.50 £82.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.12% +228.00% -48.72%
75th Percentile £60.00 £87.50 £51.44
90th Percentile £64.50 £95.00 £66.15
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.27% +48.94% +7.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

DNS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,668 2,992 4,366
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.79% 11.45% 9.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 1,994 2,962
10th Percentile £298 £350 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £611 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 112 101
10th Percentile £12.75 £20.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £24.75 £60.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.75% +26.32% +15.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.06 £63.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £28.25
% change year-on-year +110.53% -32.74% +6.89%

DNS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DNS trend for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DNS.

DNS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DNS over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

DNS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DNS.

DNS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DNS over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

DNS hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 30 (14.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (8.29%) IIS
3 15 (7.32%) Confluence
4 7 (3.41%) nginx
5 5 (2.44%) Apache
5 5 (2.44%) SharePoint
6 4 (1.95%) Apache Solr
6 4 (1.95%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.46%) JBoss
8 2 (0.98%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.49%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.49%) SAS
9 1 (0.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 103 (50.24%) Azure
2 53 (25.85%) Entra ID
3 49 (23.90%) AWS
4 48 (23.41%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (10.73%) IaaS
6 21 (10.24%) GCP
7 20 (9.76%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (7.32%) Azure Storage
9 13 (6.34%) PaaS
10 10 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (4.39%) GitHub
12 8 (3.90%) Rubrik
12 8 (3.90%) SaaS
13 7 (3.41%) Akamai
13 7 (3.41%) Nutanix
13 7 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (2.44%) CloudFront
16 4 (1.95%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 106 (51.71%) DHCP
2 86 (41.95%) Firewall
3 43 (20.98%) TCP/IP
4 38 (18.54%) VPN
5 31 (15.12%) Network Security
6 20 (9.76%) VLAN
7 17 (8.29%) BGP
8 16 (7.80%) SAN
9 14 (6.83%) WAN
10 13 (6.34%) LAN
10 13 (6.34%) OSPF
11 12 (5.85%) HTTP
12 11 (5.37%) IPsec
13 10 (4.88%) SNMP
14 9 (4.39%) Internet
14 9 (4.39%) MPLS
14 9 (4.39%) NAS
14 9 (4.39%) SSL
15 7 (3.41%) Cisco Nexus
15 7 (3.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.27%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.39%) Relational Database
3 7 (3.41%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.93%) MySQL
5 5 (2.44%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.95%) Couchbase
6 4 (1.95%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.46%) Amazon QuickSight
7 3 (1.46%) MariaDB
7 3 (1.46%) Power BI
8 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.49%) Power Query
9 1 (0.49%) Redis
9 1 (0.49%) Sisense
9 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (10.24%) JIRA
2 18 (8.78%) Git
3 14 (6.83%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.41%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.95%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.46%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.46%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.46%) GitLab
6 3 (1.46%) Snyk
6 3 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.46%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.98%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.49%) Darcs
8 1 (0.49%) ERwin
8 1 (0.49%) Gradle
8 1 (0.49%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.49%) Postman
8 1 (0.49%) Subversion
General
1 58 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 44 (21.46%) Finance
3 15 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.34%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.88%) Banking
6 10 (4.88%) Retail
7 9 (4.39%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.44%) Legal
9 4 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.46%) Electronics
10 3 (1.46%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.46%) Marketing
10 3 (1.46%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.98%) Front Office
12 1 (0.49%) Military
12 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (17.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (12.20%) Network Engineer
3 20 (9.76%) Senior
4 17 (8.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (7.32%) Active Directory Specialist
5 15 (7.32%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (6.83%) Active Directory Support
6 14 (6.83%) Support Specialist
7 13 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (6.34%) Security Engineer
8 12 (5.85%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (5.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.88%) Analyst
10 10 (4.88%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Server Engineer
12 7 (3.41%) Systems Engineer
13 6 (2.93%) Administrator
13 6 (2.93%) Developer
13 6 (2.93%) Security Analyst
13 6 (2.93%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.24%) ARM Templates
2 14 (6.83%) .NET
3 12 (5.85%) JSON
4 9 (4.39%) LDAP
4 9 (4.39%) YAML
5 6 (2.93%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (2.93%) SAML
5 6 (2.93%) XML
6 5 (2.44%) OAuth
6 5 (2.44%) OAuth2
7 4 (1.95%) ASP.NET
7 4 (1.95%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (1.46%) .NET Core
8 3 (1.46%) CSS
8 3 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.46%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.46%) IBM Integration Bus
8 3 (1.46%) Kafka
8 3 (1.46%) REST
8 3 (1.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.66%) PKI
2 19 (9.27%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (7.32%) Clustering
4 11 (5.37%) Cloud Native
4 11 (5.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 10 (4.88%) Data Centre
6 9 (4.39%) Replication
7 8 (3.90%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.44%) NHS
9 4 (1.95%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.95%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.46%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.98%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.98%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 103 (50.24%) Windows
2 72 (35.12%) Windows Server
3 56 (27.32%) Linux
4 24 (11.71%) Windows Server 2016
5 21 (10.24%) Windows Server 2019
6 20 (9.76%) Windows 10
7 12 (5.85%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (5.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (4.39%) Unix
10 8 (3.90%) Solaris
11 7 (3.41%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (3.41%) VMS
11 7 (3.41%) Windows 7
12 5 (2.44%) CentOS
13 4 (1.95%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (1.95%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (1.46%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.49%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (26.83%) Agile
2 52 (25.37%) DevOps
3 40 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 39 (19.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 34 (16.59%) CI/CD
6 32 (15.61%) ITIL
7 30 (14.63%) Migration
8 29 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (11.71%) RBAC
10 21 (10.24%) Release Management
11 20 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 20 (9.76%) High Availability
11 20 (9.76%) Vulnerability Management
12 19 (9.27%) Service Management
13 17 (8.29%) Analytics
13 17 (8.29%) Computer Science
13 17 (8.29%) Identity Management
13 17 (8.29%) Information Security
14 16 (7.80%) Log Analytics
14 16 (7.80%) Multi-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 72 (35.12%) PowerShell
2 37 (18.05%) Python
3 19 (9.27%) VB
3 19 (9.27%) VBScript
4 18 (8.78%) Bash
5 17 (8.29%) C#
6 16 (7.80%) Bicep
6 16 (7.80%) Java
7 10 (4.88%) SQL
8 8 (3.90%) JavaScript
9 7 (3.41%) Perl
9 7 (3.41%) PHP
10 6 (2.93%) Go
11 4 (1.95%) C++
12 3 (1.46%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.98%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.98%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.98%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.49%) Rust
14 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 40 (19.51%) Degree
3 35 (17.07%) SC Cleared
4 24 (11.71%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (10.24%) DV Cleared
6 17 (8.29%) CCNP
7 15 (7.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 13 (6.34%) CCNA
8 13 (6.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.90%) CCDP
10 7 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (2.44%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.44%) CISSP
12 4 (1.95%) APMP
12 4 (1.95%) CEH
12 4 (1.95%) CISM
12 4 (1.95%) PMP
13 3 (1.46%) BC Cleared
13 3 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.29%) GDPR
2 13 (6.34%) QA
3 9 (4.39%) NIST
4 7 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.95%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.95%) SLA
6 3 (1.46%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.98%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.49%) COPPA
8 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.49%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 118 (57.56%) Active Directory
2 37 (18.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (16.10%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (10.24%) Docker
5 17 (8.29%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (4.39%) Hyper-V
6 9 (4.39%) vSphere
6 9 (4.39%) XenApp
7 7 (3.41%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (2.44%) XenDesktop
9 4 (1.95%) Firmware
10 3 (1.46%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.46%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.98%) KVM
12 1 (0.49%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.49%) iptables
12 1 (0.49%) PowerDNS
12 1 (0.49%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.49%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 43 (20.98%) SCCM
2 37 (18.05%) Kubernetes
3 30 (14.63%) Ansible
4 27 (13.17%) Terraform
5 22 (10.73%) WSUS
6 19 (9.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (8.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 17 (8.29%) SCOM
9 9 (4.39%) Kibana
10 8 (3.90%) vCenter Server
11 7 (3.41%) EMC NetWorker
11 7 (3.41%) Netcool
11 7 (3.41%) Tivoli
11 7 (3.41%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 6 (2.93%) Grafana
12 6 (2.93%) Prometheus
13 5 (2.44%) logstash
13 5 (2.44%) Puppet
14 4 (1.95%) Progress Chef
15 2 (0.98%) Salt
Vendors
1 72 (35.12%) Microsoft
2 52 (25.37%) VMware
3 26 (12.68%) Cisco
4 16 (7.80%) Qualys
5 14 (6.83%) Palo Alto
6 13 (6.34%) Citrix
6 13 (6.34%) Oracle
6 13 (6.34%) Splunk
7 12 (5.85%) Dell
7 12 (5.85%) IBM
7 12 (5.85%) ServiceNow
8 11 (5.37%) CA
8 11 (5.37%) F5
8 11 (5.37%) HP
9 8 (3.90%) Arista
10 7 (3.41%) CyberArk
10 7 (3.41%) EMC
10 7 (3.41%) Isilon
10 7 (3.41%) Serena
11 6 (2.93%) Juniper