DNS Contracts in West Yorkshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 79 71
Rank change year-on-year +23 -8 0
Contract jobs citing DNS 15 25 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.55% 1.65% 2.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.13% 24.04% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 33
10th Percentile £207 £296 £163
25th Percentile £367 £331 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £663 £450
Median % change year-on-year -27.17% +47.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £661 - £698
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £525 £375
% change year-on-year +14.29% +40.00% -11.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 93 104 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 9.60% 6.86% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 84 133
10th Percentile £275 £297 £168
25th Percentile £380 £359 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £671 £575
90th Percentile £645 £700 £685
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.75 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £13.87 £32.50 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -57.32% +84.24% -14.99%
75th Percentile £14.25 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £16.66 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.27 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +71.87% -39.74% +0.80%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in West Yorkshire

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in West Yorkshire

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in West Yorkshire

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in West Yorkshire

DNS
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 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
Leeds +18 9 £600 -14.29% 7
Wakefield - 5 £320 - 1
Bradford 0 1 £375 +11.11%
DNS
Yorkshire

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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%) IIS
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) Azure
2 6 (40.00%) Akamai
2 6 (40.00%) Cloudflare
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) OCI
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) DHCP
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) Wireshark
4 2 (13.33%) NAS
4 2 (13.33%) SAN
4 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (13.33%) VLAN
4 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (6.67%) LAN
5 1 (6.67%) NetScaler
5 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (6.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (40.00%) Retail
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Back Office
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 2 (13.33%) IT Support
3 2 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Technician
4 1 (6.67%) Security Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) ADSI
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.67%) LIMS
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) VMS
3 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (20.00%) OWASP
2 3 (20.00%) RAD
2 3 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (20.00%) Runbook
3 2 (13.33%) Validation
4 1 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (6.67%) Database Migration
4 1 (6.67%) Information Assurance
4 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.67%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) CCNA
2 2 (13.33%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (6.67%) KVM
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (6.67%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (6.67%) vSphere
4 1 (6.67%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) F5
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (40.00%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Veeam
4 1 (6.67%) Aruba
4 1 (6.67%) Citrix
4 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) HP
4 1 (6.67%) NetApp
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Sophos