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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 55 86
Rank change year-on-year -27 +31 -2
Contract jobs citing DNS 15 54 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.04% 3.04% 2.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.81% 24.55% 19.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 39 48
10th Percentile £383 £340 £132
25th Percentile £419 £391 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +45.65%
75th Percentile £566 £644 £638
90th Percentile £673 £678 £683
North West median daily rate £463 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -11.90% -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 192 220 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 13.31% 12.37% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 158 215
10th Percentile £243 £310 £159
25th Percentile £350 £363 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £775 £573 £622
90th Percentile £850 £650 £638
North West median daily rate £495 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +4.21% +5.56% +17.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 6
10th Percentile £18.90 £14.19 £13.79
25th Percentile £29.25 £16.42 £16.42
Median hourly rate £65.50 £19.85 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +229.93% +8.78% -48.69%
75th Percentile £101.00 £26.86 £22.46
90th Percentile £102.80 £31.88 £46.76
North West median hourly rate £41.23 £31.25 £19.25
% change year-on-year +31.94% +62.34% +19.34%

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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 1 June 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 5 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (6.67%) BGP
3 1 (6.67%) Firewall
3 1 (6.67%) HTTP
3 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (6.67%) IPsec
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) SNMP
3 1 (6.67%) SSH
3 1 (6.67%) VLAN
3 1 (6.67%) WAN
3 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) 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
4 1 (6.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) IT Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) IT Operations Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) Operations Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Server Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Support Technician
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) cloud-init
1 2 (13.33%) SAML
2 1 (6.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
1 2 (13.33%) CMDB
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
1 2 (13.33%) PKI
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) CentOS
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.67%) VMS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 4 (26.67%) Task Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
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%) Problem Management
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 4 (26.67%) Go
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
4 2 (13.33%) Ruby
5 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) CCNA
3 2 (13.33%) Network+ Certification
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
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 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.67%) Firmware
4 1 (6.67%) NFS
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
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
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) 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%) PagerDuty
3 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (13.33%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) HP