DNS Contracts in Hampshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire with 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 68 78
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 -29
Contract jobs citing DNS 39 30 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.37% 2.33% 2.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.71% 10.91% 14.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 30
10th Percentile £481 £226 £375
25th Percentile £504 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% +2.55%
75th Percentile £556 £600 £548
90th Percentile £624 £678 £609
South East median daily rate £501 £543 £450
% change year-on-year -7.74% +20.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate - £43.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - +103.49% +7.50%
75th Percentile - - £22.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £33.25 £43.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -24.00% +103.49% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 advertised in Hampshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 448 275 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 27.17% 21.33% 18.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 143 202
10th Percentile £277 £235 £210
25th Percentile £425 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +1.74% +9.21%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £611
90th Percentile £677 £688 £690
South East median daily rate £490 £481 £455
% change year-on-year +1.96% +5.62% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 35 47
10th Percentile £17.69 £16.60 £16.25
25th Percentile £51.06 £31.61 £18.13
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +166.67% -47.44%
75th Percentile £61.30 £69.38 £49.76
90th Percentile £65.81 £75.00 £63.95
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -42.28%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Hampshire

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for DNS in Hampshire

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Hampshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Hampshire

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Hampshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Portsmouth +6 10 £538 -
Basingstoke -21 7 £525 +31.25%
Southampton - 6 £488 - 1
Winchester - 3 - - 1
Farnborough -2 2 £626 +178.33% 2
Eastleigh -1 1 £500 -
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 11 (28.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (25.64%) Confluence
3 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) AWS
2 3 (7.69%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.13%) GitHub
3 2 (5.13%) IaaS
3 2 (5.13%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (58.97%) DHCP
2 8 (20.51%) SAN
3 5 (12.82%) iSCSI
3 5 (12.82%) VLAN
4 3 (7.69%) VSAN
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (5.13%) Firewall
5 2 (5.13%) Internet
5 2 (5.13%) Network Security
5 2 (5.13%) NX-OS
5 2 (5.13%) VPN
5 2 (5.13%) WAN
5 2 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.56%) MPLS
6 1 (2.56%) PBX
6 1 (2.56%) Skype
6 1 (2.56%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.56%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.56%) MySQL
1 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
1 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Git
General
1 17 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (25.64%) Military
4 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 18 (46.15%) Integration Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Test Engineer
3 9 (23.08%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) Server Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Virtualisation Architect
6 4 (10.26%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Windows Server Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) Network Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) Network Security Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.13%) Security Consultant
8 2 (5.13%) Storage Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Azure Consultant
9 1 (2.56%) Cloud Consultant
9 1 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (2.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
9 1 (2.56%) Linux Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) PKI
2 5 (12.82%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.13%) Clustering
4 1 (2.56%) CMDB
4 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
4 1 (2.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 32 (82.05%) Windows Server
2 31 (79.49%) Windows
3 22 (56.41%) Windows Server 2012
4 11 (28.21%) Linux
5 6 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (12.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (5.13%) Windows 10
7 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.56%) Unix
8 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) Agile
2 10 (25.64%) Critical Thinking
2 10 (25.64%) Patch Management
2 10 (25.64%) Regression Testing
2 10 (25.64%) Test Scripting
3 5 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (12.82%) Open Source
3 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (12.82%) RBAC
4 4 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (10.26%) Server Management
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (7.69%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 3 (7.69%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (5.13%) Analytics
6 2 (5.13%) Network Design
6 2 (5.13%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (5.13%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (5.13%) Task Automation
6 2 (5.13%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) SQL
2 5 (12.82%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.82%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) Bash
3 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (71.79%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.90%) SC Cleared
3 10 (25.64%) MCSA
3 10 (25.64%) MCSE
3 10 (25.64%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (25.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 7 (17.95%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) GDPR
1 2 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (82.05%) Active Directory
2 26 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (23.08%) vSphere
4 5 (12.82%) Hyper-V
4 5 (12.82%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (35.90%) WSUS
2 8 (20.51%) SCCM
3 3 (7.69%) Terraform
3 3 (7.69%) vCenter Server
4 2 (5.13%) Ansible
4 2 (5.13%) VxRail
5 1 (2.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.56%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.56%) Nessus
5 1 (2.56%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.56%) Packer
5 1 (2.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 31 (79.49%) VMware
2 22 (56.41%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.26%) SolarWinds
4 3 (7.69%) Juniper
5 2 (5.13%) Cisco
5 2 (5.13%) Dell
5 2 (5.13%) EMC
5 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.56%) Arqiva
6 1 (2.56%) NetApp
6 1 (2.56%) NETGEAR
6 1 (2.56%) Oracle
6 1 (2.56%) Qualys
6 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.56%) Splunk
6 1 (2.56%) Symantec
6 1 (2.56%) Veeam
6 1 (2.56%) Veritas