DNS Contract Job Trends in Yeovil

Domain Name System (DNS)
Somerset > Yeovil

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yeovil requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DNS 5 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Yeovil 4.90% - 30.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 55.56% - 72.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £674 - -
25th Percentile £679 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £697 - -
75th Percentile £712 - -
90th Percentile £716 - -
Somerset median daily rate £478 £633 £295
% change year-on-year -24.51% +114.41% -39.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £40.00
Somerset median hourly rate £100.00 - £40.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yeovil

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 Yeovil.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9 0 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yeovil 8.82% - 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £133 - -
25th Percentile £286 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - -56.86%
75th Percentile £696 - -
90th Percentile £712 - -
Somerset median daily rate £510 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 8
10th Percentile £94.02 - -
25th Percentile £96.27 - -
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -49.15%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £40.54 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -49.15%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yeovil

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yeovil.

DNS job vacancy trend in Yeovil

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Yeovil

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yeovil citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yeovil citing DNS

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Yeovil

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yeovil citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yeovil citing DNS

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yeovil 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 4 (80.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (80.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Systems Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (60.00%) Converged Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Feasibility Study
4 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) VCAP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Docker
3 3 (60.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (60.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (60.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (20.00%) Thales