DNS Contracts in the Midlands

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 87 106
Rank change year-on-year +24 +19 0
Contract jobs citing DNS 77 81 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.84% 2.41% 1.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.24% 15.82% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 67 77
10th Percentile £192 £184 £164
25th Percentile £300 £285 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £326
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% +19.05% -13.20%
75th Percentile £675 £538 £438
90th Percentile £775 £700 £500
England median daily rate £485 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.71% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.22 £36.75 -
Median hourly rate £48.56 £38.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.13% +92.50% +66.67%
75th Percentile £51.91 £40.25 £21.88
90th Percentile - - £23.00
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 474 512 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.45% 15.25% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 336 387
10th Percentile £200 £249 £163
25th Percentile £300 £313 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £607
England median daily rate £498 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £15.94 £14.55
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.35 £17.53
Median % change year-on-year -29.89% +16.10% +16.87%
75th Percentile £24.35 £23.68 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the Midlands

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +22 64 £525 +23.53% 41
East Midlands +1 12 £325 -13.33% 28
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 15 (19.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (12.99%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.90%) CMS
3 3 (3.90%) Drupal
4 2 (2.60%) IIS
4 2 (2.60%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (28.57%) Azure
3 8 (10.39%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (9.09%) OneDrive
5 6 (7.79%) Entra ID
6 5 (6.49%) AWS
6 5 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (6.49%) CloudFront
6 5 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.90%) GCP
8 2 (2.60%) IaaS
8 2 (2.60%) PaaS
9 1 (1.30%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 42 (54.55%) DHCP
2 23 (29.87%) TCP/IP
3 21 (27.27%) VPN
3 21 (27.27%) WAN
4 19 (24.68%) Firewall
5 16 (20.78%) LAN
6 9 (11.69%) SD-WAN
7 8 (10.39%) Fibre Channel
7 8 (10.39%) NetScaler
7 8 (10.39%) Wireless
8 7 (9.09%) Network Security
8 7 (9.09%) Remote Desktop
8 7 (9.09%) SAN
9 6 (7.79%) Ethernet
9 6 (7.79%) MPLS
9 6 (7.79%) VoIP
10 5 (6.49%) Ethereal
10 5 (6.49%) Internet
10 5 (6.49%) PBX
10 5 (6.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Git
2 3 (3.90%) Artifactory
2 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.90%) Selenium
2 3 (3.90%) Subversion
3 1 (1.30%) JIRA
General
1 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.99%) Telecoms
3 6 (7.79%) Finance
3 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.49%) Retail
5 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (22.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (19.48%) Support Engineer
3 13 (16.88%) Network Engineer
4 10 (12.99%) 2nd Line Support
5 9 (11.69%) Architect
6 8 (10.39%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Administrator
8 6 (7.79%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 6 (7.79%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Citrix Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Desktop Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Enterprise Architect
9 5 (6.49%) Network Support
9 5 (6.49%) Network Support Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Security Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) VMWare Administrator
9 5 (6.49%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) OAuth
1 5 (6.49%) OAuth2
1 5 (6.49%) SAML
1 5 (6.49%) Web Services
2 2 (2.60%) JSON
2 2 (2.60%) LAMP
2 2 (2.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Data Centre
2 8 (10.39%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.79%) PKI
4 4 (5.19%) iPad
5 3 (3.90%) Fat Client
5 3 (3.90%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.90%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.90%) Thin Client
6 2 (2.60%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.60%) Replication
7 1 (1.30%) Clustering
7 1 (1.30%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (67.53%) Windows
2 34 (44.16%) Windows Server
3 19 (24.68%) Windows 10
4 16 (20.78%) Linux
5 9 (11.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (7.79%) Ubuntu
6 6 (7.79%) Unix
6 6 (7.79%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (7.79%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (7.79%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (5.19%) CentOS
8 3 (3.90%) Windows 7
8 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (2.60%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (16.88%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (15.58%) Patch Management
4 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
4 10 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (11.69%) Change Management
5 9 (11.69%) ITIL
5 9 (11.69%) Security Monitoring
5 9 (11.69%) Task Automation
6 8 (10.39%) Application Packaging
6 8 (10.39%) Customer Service
6 8 (10.39%) Virtual Environments
7 7 (9.09%) Cloud Security
8 6 (7.79%) Computer Science
8 6 (7.79%) DevOps
8 6 (7.79%) Identity Access Management
8 6 (7.79%) Load Balancing
8 6 (7.79%) Project Delivery
8 6 (7.79%) Visualisation
9 5 (6.49%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.97%) PowerShell
2 8 (10.39%) C#
2 8 (10.39%) Java
3 4 (5.19%) Bash
3 4 (5.19%) SQL
4 1 (1.30%) Bicep
4 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) Cisco Certification
1 15 (19.48%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.99%) CCNA
3 7 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.79%) Degree
5 5 (6.49%) AWS Certification
5 5 (6.49%) CCIE
5 5 (6.49%) CCIE Data Center
5 5 (6.49%) CCNP
6 2 (2.60%) MCSE
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) NIST
2 4 (5.19%) ISO 9000
3 3 (3.90%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
System Software
1 40 (51.95%) Active Directory
2 16 (20.78%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (14.29%) VMware NSX
5 10 (12.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (10.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 8 (10.39%) XenApp
6 8 (10.39%) XenDesktop
7 7 (9.09%) vSphere
8 5 (6.49%) Docker
8 5 (6.49%) VMware Server
9 3 (3.90%) BitLocker
9 3 (3.90%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (2.60%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (28.57%) SCCM
2 15 (19.48%) vCenter Server
3 5 (6.49%) OpenView
4 4 (5.19%) Ansible
5 3 (3.90%) Terraform
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.30%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.30%) VxRail
7 1 (1.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (41.56%) Microsoft
2 22 (28.57%) VMware
3 17 (22.08%) Cisco
4 10 (12.99%) Palo Alto
5 8 (10.39%) Citrix
5 8 (10.39%) NetApp
6 7 (9.09%) Veeam
7 6 (7.79%) CheckPoint
8 5 (6.49%) Infoblox
8 5 (6.49%) Symantec
8 5 (6.49%) Zscaler
9 3 (3.90%) Aruba
9 3 (3.90%) Fujitsu
9 3 (3.90%) Salesforce
9 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
10 2 (2.60%) Fortinet
10 2 (2.60%) ProCurve
10 2 (2.60%) Synology
10 2 (2.60%) Zerto
11 1 (1.30%) Splunk