DNS Contracts in the City of London

Domain Name System (DNS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 107 119
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 -19
Contract jobs citing DNS 26 60 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.19% 1.75% 1.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.76% 17.39% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 38 64
10th Percentile £399 £374 £473
25th Percentile £459 £461 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £600 £547
Median % change year-on-year -9.58% +9.79% +15.05%
75th Percentile £788 £675 £588
90th Percentile £939 £700 £669
Central London median daily rate £500 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -16.67% +11.11% +13.68%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 221 345 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.13% 10.07% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 231 308
10th Percentile £194 £220 £313
25th Percentile £350 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £738
Central London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 12
10th Percentile - £21.70 £21.00
25th Percentile £12.75 £23.92 £24.75
Median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.53% -25.23% +112.86%
75th Percentile £14.25 £31.55 £61.94
90th Percentile - £33.62 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £13.50 £27.85 £39.50
% change year-on-year -51.53% -29.49% +125.71%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DNS in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.69%) Apache
2 2 (7.69%) IIS
2 2 (7.69%) JBoss
2 2 (7.69%) nginx
2 2 (7.69%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.85%) Confluence
3 1 (3.85%) Exchange Server 2013
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) Entra ID
3 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (26.92%) IaaS
5 5 (19.23%) AWS
6 4 (15.38%) Mimecast
7 3 (11.54%) GitHub
8 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (7.69%) GCP
8 2 (7.69%) PaaS
9 1 (3.85%) Azure API Management
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (61.54%) Firewall
2 7 (26.92%) DHCP
3 5 (19.23%) Network Security
4 4 (15.38%) SD-WAN
5 3 (11.54%) BGP
5 3 (11.54%) MPLS
5 3 (11.54%) OSPF
5 3 (11.54%) TCP/IP
5 3 (11.54%) VPN
5 3 (11.54%) Wireless
6 2 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (7.69%) EIGRP
6 2 (7.69%) LAN
6 2 (7.69%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (7.69%) SSL
6 2 (7.69%) VLAN
6 2 (7.69%) WAN
6 2 (7.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 2 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.85%) CouchDB
3 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) CircleCI
2 2 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (7.69%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) Darcs
3 1 (3.85%) Jaeger
3 1 (3.85%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (3.85%) Mercurial
3 1 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (3.85%) Travis CI
3 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (7.69%) French Language
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Integration Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
4 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Consultant
4 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Server Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Market Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.69%) IBM Integration Bus
1 2 (7.69%) YAML
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.85%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.85%) CSS
2 1 (3.85%) HTML
2 1 (3.85%) JSON
2 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) SAML
2 1 (3.85%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) CBDC
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (3.85%) Digital Currency
2 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) PKI
2 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Windows
1 11 (42.31%) Windows Server
2 3 (11.54%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (3.85%) OpenVMS
4 1 (3.85%) VMS
4 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.85%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) CI/CD
1 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (19.23%) DevOps
2 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (19.23%) Time Management
3 4 (15.38%) Agile
3 4 (15.38%) Identity Management
3 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
4 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
4 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (11.54%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (11.54%) IT Strategy
4 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
5 2 (7.69%) Cloud Security
5 2 (7.69%) Computer Science
5 2 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 2 (7.69%) Load Balancing
5 2 (7.69%) Migration
5 2 (7.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (15.38%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Bicep
4 1 (3.85%) C
4 1 (3.85%) C#
4 1 (3.85%) C++
4 1 (3.85%) Go
4 1 (3.85%) Ruby
4 1 (3.85%) Rust
4 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.85%) VB
4 1 (3.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) CCNA
1 3 (11.54%) CCNP
1 3 (11.54%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) CCIE
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) ISO 20022
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 6 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Docker
3 1 (3.85%) Firmware
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (15.38%) SCCM
2 4 (15.38%) Terraform
3 3 (11.54%) Ansible
4 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (7.69%) Grafana
4 2 (7.69%) Kibana
4 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.69%) logstash
4 2 (7.69%) Progress Chef
4 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.69%) Puppet
4 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (3.85%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.85%) Packer
5 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) VMware
3 5 (19.23%) Okta
4 4 (15.38%) Citrix
4 4 (15.38%) Oracle
5 3 (11.54%) Cisco
5 3 (11.54%) IBM
5 3 (11.54%) Palo Alto
6 2 (7.69%) CheckPoint
6 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 2 (7.69%) SolarWinds
6 2 (7.69%) Temenos
7 1 (3.85%) Google
7 1 (3.85%) Meraki
7 1 (3.85%) Qualys
7 1 (3.85%) Remedy
7 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow
7 1 (3.85%) Splunk
7 1 (3.85%) Veeam
7 1 (3.85%) Veritas