Hybrid/Remote DNSSEC Contract Job Trends

Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DNSSEC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 352 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DNSSEC 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.023% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 - -
UK median daily rate £538 - £550

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

DNSSEC 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,261 1,041 1,542
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.73% 10.70% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 667 1,006
10th Percentile £318 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% -4.76% +0.58%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 32 73
10th Percentile £14.85 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £24.44 £44.28 £14.27
Median hourly rate £44.96 £63.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.63% +40.00% -16.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £73.39 £87.46
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.91% +12.50% +110.53%

DNSSEC
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNSSEC and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

DNSSEC job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

DNSSEC
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DNSSEC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DNSSEC

DNSSEC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Server Management
1 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DDoS Mitigation
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft