DNS Contracts in Northamptonshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing DNS 2 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 0.78% 2.12% 3.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 17.86% 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 10
10th Percentile £455 £194 -
25th Percentile £463 £208 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £238 £450
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -47.22% +205.08%
75th Percentile £488 £244 £543
90th Percentile £495 - £619
East Midlands median daily rate £325 £538 £398
% change year-on-year -39.53% +35.22% +4.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13 28 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 5.04% 11.86% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 40
10th Percentile £451 £198 £185
25th Percentile £472 £266 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £445
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -26.97% +28.24%
75th Percentile £538 £471 £538
90th Percentile £586 £552 £557
East Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £398
% change year-on-year +11.06% +13.26% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £14.03
25th Percentile - £11.25 £17.90
Median hourly rate - £12.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - -41.86% -
75th Percentile - £13.75 £23.00
90th Percentile - - £23.35
East Midlands median hourly rate £14.27 £21.48 £17.56
% change year-on-year -33.57% +22.34% +17.07%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Northamptonshire

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Northamptonshire

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Northamptonshire

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
Northampton -12 2 £475 +100.00% 1
DNS
East Midlands

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Messaging Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Encryption
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 2 (100.00%) VMware