DNS Contracts in London

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 170 206
Rank change year-on-year +1 +36 +6
Contract jobs citing DNS 262 437 548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.47% 1.62% 1.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.35% 16.33% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 316 417
10th Percentile £259 £263 £300
25th Percentile £356 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +0.92% +22.47%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £638
90th Percentile £695 £738 £700
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 7
10th Percentile £16.00 £28.78 £26.55
25th Percentile £20.00 £37.81 £34.04
Median hourly rate £23.80 £53.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.31% +18.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £24.47 £68.31 £49.29
90th Percentile £25.00 £77.13 £57.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £49.12 £27.50
% change year-on-year -18.56% +78.61% +1.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,707 2,676 3,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.59% 9.94% 9.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,881 2,550
10th Percentile £213 £256 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 54 82
10th Percentile £14.48 £20.07 £20.90
25th Percentile £18.36 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -48.84% +27.41% -25.00%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.88 £48.20
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in London

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in London

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in London

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in London

DNS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +20 37 £450 -25.00% 17
West London +12 7 £525 -4.55% 4
South London +3 3 £725 +222.22% 4
East London -7 1 £218 -45.63% 3
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 50 (19.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (6.11%) Exchange Server 2013
3 15 (5.73%) Exchange Server 2010
4 14 (5.34%) Apache
4 14 (5.34%) SharePoint
5 13 (4.96%) Confluence
5 13 (4.96%) IIS
6 12 (4.58%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.91%) JBoss
7 5 (1.91%) nginx
8 4 (1.53%) IBM Domino
8 4 (1.53%) IBM Notes
8 4 (1.53%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.76%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.05%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.91%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 109 (41.60%) Azure
2 80 (30.53%) AWS
3 73 (27.86%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (18.70%) Entra ID
5 24 (9.16%) IaaS
6 23 (8.78%) SaaS
7 22 (8.40%) PaaS
8 20 (7.63%) GCP
9 13 (4.96%) Cloud Computing
10 12 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (4.20%) Nutanix
12 10 (3.82%) Mimecast
12 10 (3.82%) Rubrik
13 9 (3.44%) GitHub
14 8 (3.05%) Amazon S3
14 8 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
14 8 (3.05%) Cloudflare
14 8 (3.05%) OneDrive
15 7 (2.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 115 (43.89%) DHCP
2 113 (43.13%) Firewall
3 67 (25.57%) TCP/IP
4 45 (17.18%) VPN
5 44 (16.79%) LAN
6 40 (15.27%) WAN
7 33 (12.60%) BGP
8 28 (10.69%) MPLS
9 26 (9.92%) Network Security
10 24 (9.16%) HTTP
10 24 (9.16%) OSPF
11 23 (8.78%) VLAN
12 21 (8.02%) Internet
13 19 (7.25%) SAN
13 19 (7.25%) SNMP
14 18 (6.87%) Wi-Fi
14 18 (6.87%) Wireless
15 17 (6.49%) IPsec
15 17 (6.49%) NAS
16 16 (6.11%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.11%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.44%) Relational Database
3 7 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (2.29%) MySQL
4 6 (2.29%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.91%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.53%) Amazon QuickSight
6 4 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (1.53%) MariaDB
6 4 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.53%) Redis
7 3 (1.15%) Power BI
8 2 (0.76%) CouchDB
8 2 (0.76%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.76%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.38%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 19 (7.25%) JIRA
2 18 (6.87%) Git
3 13 (4.96%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.05%) TeamCity
5 7 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.53%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.53%) GitLab
6 4 (1.53%) Snyk
7 2 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.76%) Postman
8 1 (0.38%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.38%) Darcs
8 1 (0.38%) ERwin
8 1 (0.38%) Gradle
8 1 (0.38%) Jaeger
8 1 (0.38%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.38%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.38%) Travis CI
8 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (25.95%) Finance
2 55 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 23 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.11%) Telecoms
5 12 (4.58%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.82%) Banking
7 9 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.67%) Mandarin Language
9 5 (1.91%) French Language
10 4 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.15%) Electronics
11 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.15%) German Language
11 3 (1.15%) Legal
11 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.15%) Marketing
11 3 (1.15%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.76%) Cantonese Language
12 2 (0.76%) Military
12 2 (0.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (14.89%) Network Engineer
2 30 (11.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (10.69%) Senior
4 24 (9.16%) Administrator
5 23 (8.78%) Support Engineer
6 19 (7.25%) Systems Administrator
7 18 (6.87%) Azure Engineer
8 16 (6.11%) Security Engineer
9 15 (5.73%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (5.34%) Analyst
10 14 (5.34%) Architect
11 12 (4.58%) IT Engineer
11 12 (4.58%) IT Support
12 10 (3.82%) Senior Network Engineer
13 9 (3.44%) Consultant
13 9 (3.44%) Developer
14 8 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
14 8 (3.05%) Linux Engineer
15 7 (2.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.54%) LDAP
2 10 (3.82%) .NET
2 10 (3.82%) JSON
2 10 (3.82%) SAML
3 7 (2.67%) 802.1X
3 7 (2.67%) Kafka
4 5 (1.91%) IBM Integration Bus
4 5 (1.91%) Node.js
4 5 (1.91%) YAML
5 4 (1.53%) ASP.NET
5 4 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.53%) GraphQL
5 4 (1.53%) NETCONF
6 3 (1.15%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.15%) CSS
6 3 (1.15%) REST
7 2 (0.76%) OAuth
7 2 (0.76%) OpenID
7 2 (0.76%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.76%) SPML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (12.21%) Data Centre
2 25 (9.54%) PKI
3 18 (6.87%) Clustering
4 13 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (4.96%) Management Information System
4 13 (4.96%) Replication
5 12 (4.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 11 (4.20%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.29%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.91%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.91%) CCTV
9 5 (1.91%) Client/Server
9 5 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 127 (48.47%) Windows
2 92 (35.11%) Windows Server
3 50 (19.08%) Linux
4 23 (8.78%) Windows Server 2012
5 22 (8.40%) Windows 7
6 21 (8.02%) Windows Server 2008
7 19 (7.25%) Windows 10
8 13 (4.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (4.96%) Unix
9 9 (3.44%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (3.05%) Oracle Linux
10 8 (3.05%) Solaris
10 8 (3.05%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (1.53%) VMS
12 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.38%) OpenVMS
13 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (16.79%) DevOps
2 42 (16.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 42 (16.03%) Migration
3 39 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (14.12%) Load Balancing
5 32 (12.21%) Agile
6 27 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (8.78%) ITIL
8 22 (8.40%) Disaster Recovery
8 22 (8.40%) High Availability
9 21 (8.02%) Vulnerability Management
10 20 (7.63%) Customer Service
11 19 (7.25%) CI/CD
11 19 (7.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 18 (6.87%) Computer Science
13 17 (6.49%) Information Security
14 16 (6.11%) Project Delivery
15 15 (5.73%) Continuous Integration
15 15 (5.73%) Data Loss Prevention
15 15 (5.73%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 63 (24.05%) PowerShell
2 53 (20.23%) Python
3 18 (6.87%) Bash
4 17 (6.49%) Java
5 14 (5.34%) Go
6 12 (4.58%) SQL
7 7 (2.67%) C#
7 7 (2.67%) JavaScript
7 7 (2.67%) PHP
7 7 (2.67%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.29%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.91%) C
9 5 (1.91%) Ruby
10 4 (1.53%) VB
10 4 (1.53%) VBScript
11 2 (0.76%) C++
11 2 (0.76%) Korn
11 2 (0.76%) Scala
11 2 (0.76%) tcsh
12 1 (0.38%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 32 (12.21%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.83%) Cisco Certification
3 29 (11.07%) CCNP
4 24 (9.16%) Degree
5 15 (5.73%) CCNA
6 12 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.20%) SC Cleared
8 9 (3.44%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.67%) CCDP
9 7 (2.67%) DV Cleared
10 6 (2.29%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.91%) CISSP
12 4 (1.53%) CISM
13 3 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.15%) CCIE
13 3 (1.15%) CCSP
14 2 (0.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.76%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.44%) GDPR
2 8 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 6 (2.29%) NIST
4 5 (1.91%) SLA
5 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.15%) QA
7 2 (0.76%) GRC
7 2 (0.76%) NCSC
8 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.38%) COPPA
8 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 135 (51.53%) Active Directory
2 48 (18.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (8.02%) Docker
4 16 (6.11%) Hyper-V
5 14 (5.34%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (4.20%) vSphere
7 7 (2.67%) NFS
8 5 (1.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (1.53%) Firmware
9 4 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (1.15%) BitLocker
10 3 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (1.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.76%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.76%) PowerDNS
11 2 (0.76%) XenApp
12 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 39 (14.89%) Terraform
2 27 (10.31%) Ansible
3 26 (9.92%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (9.54%) Kubernetes
5 21 (8.02%) SCCM
6 11 (4.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (4.20%) SCOM
7 10 (3.82%) Puppet
8 8 (3.05%) EMC NetWorker
8 8 (3.05%) Grafana
8 8 (3.05%) Netcool
8 8 (3.05%) Tivoli
8 8 (3.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 7 (2.67%) FortiGate
9 7 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (2.29%) Kibana
10 6 (2.29%) Prometheus
11 5 (1.91%) Progress Chef
11 5 (1.91%) SolarWinds Orion
11 5 (1.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 97 (37.02%) Microsoft
2 65 (24.81%) VMware
3 60 (22.90%) Cisco
4 30 (11.45%) F5
5 25 (9.54%) Palo Alto
6 21 (8.02%) Dell
7 18 (6.87%) IBM
8 17 (6.49%) Qualys
8 17 (6.49%) SolarWinds
9 16 (6.11%) Citrix
9 16 (6.11%) Oracle
10 15 (5.73%) Splunk
11 13 (4.96%) CheckPoint
11 13 (4.96%) ServiceNow
12 12 (4.58%) HP
12 12 (4.58%) Infoblox
13 11 (4.20%) Aruba
13 11 (4.20%) Okta
14 10 (3.82%) EMC
14 10 (3.82%) Meraki