DNS Contracts in Manchester

Domain Name System (DNS)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 52 83
Rank change year-on-year -29 +31 -2
Contract jobs citing DNS 15 62 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.06% 3.41% 2.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.81% 27.56% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 46 49
10th Percentile £381 £351 £129
25th Percentile £413 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +45.65%
75th Percentile £594 £647 £638
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
North West median daily rate £450 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +33.51%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 192 225 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.61% 12.37% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 162 215
10th Percentile £243 £313 £159
25th Percentile £350 £375 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £491 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% +9.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £775 £575 £622
90th Percentile £850 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £483 £482 £450
% change year-on-year +0.21% +7.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile £27.20 £14.19 £13.79
25th Percentile £50.00 £16.42 £16.42
Median hourly rate £96.00 £19.85 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +383.57% +8.78% -66.82%
75th Percentile £102.00 £26.86 £22.46
90th Percentile £103.20 £31.88 £46.76
North West median hourly rate £34.37 £27.50 £21.53
% change year-on-year +24.96% +27.74% -54.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Manchester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
1 2 (13.33%) nginx
1 2 (13.33%) Traefik
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Entra ID
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) TCP/IP
2 6 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (13.33%) Firewall
3 2 (13.33%) LAN
3 2 (13.33%) WAN
4 1 (6.67%) BGP
4 1 (6.67%) HTTP
4 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
4 1 (6.67%) IPsec
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security
4 1 (6.67%) SAN
4 1 (6.67%) SNMP
4 1 (6.67%) SSH
4 1 (6.67%) VLAN
4 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) IT Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) IT Operations Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Server Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Support
4 1 (6.67%) IT Technician
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) cloud-init
1 2 (13.33%) SAML
2 1 (6.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Clustering
2 2 (13.33%) CMDB
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) PKI
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) CentOS
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
4 1 (6.67%) VMS
4 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Capacity Management
5 2 (13.33%) Change Management
5 2 (13.33%) Identity Management
5 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (46.67%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (26.67%) Go
5 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 2 (13.33%) Ruby
6 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (13.33%) CCNA
3 2 (13.33%) Network+ Certification
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.67%) CCIE
4 1 (6.67%) CCNP
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) MCSA
4 1 (6.67%) MCSE
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (13.33%) NCSC
1 2 (13.33%) NIST
1 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) Docker
3 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (6.67%) Firmware
5 1 (6.67%) NFS
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) ZABBIX
3 2 (13.33%) Consul
3 2 (13.33%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (13.33%) Graphite
3 2 (13.33%) HAProxy
3 2 (13.33%) Istio
3 2 (13.33%) linkerd
3 2 (13.33%) Nagios
3 2 (13.33%) Packer
3 2 (13.33%) Podman
3 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
3 2 (13.33%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
4 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Atlassian
3 2 (13.33%) CA
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Dell
3 2 (13.33%) PagerDuty
3 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (13.33%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) EMC
4 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) HP