DNS Contracts in the North West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 64 74
Rank change year-on-year -42 +10 +23
Contract jobs citing DNS 32 109 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.20% 3.54% 3.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.94% 25.71% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 71 89
10th Percentile £203 £200 £163
25th Percentile £285 £319 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +33.51%
75th Percentile £522 £600 £638
90th Percentile £628 £650 £690
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £52.13 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £49.12 £25.50
% change year-on-year -18.56% +92.62% -5.92%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 322 424 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.06% 13.77% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 284 366
10th Percentile £200 £288 £178
25th Percentile £325 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £486 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% +8.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £666 £566 £586
90th Percentile £833 £638 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 10
10th Percentile £18.02 £15.72 £15.74
25th Percentile £22.06 £18.66 £17.19
Median hourly rate £34.37 £27.50 £21.53
Median % change year-on-year +24.96% +27.74% -54.61%
75th Percentile £45.88 £50.77 £54.61
90th Percentile £94.59 £52.13 £65.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the North West

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in the North West over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the North West region over the 6 months to 18 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
Manchester -30 15 £500 -9.09% 19
Cheshire -23 5 £475 +35.71% 20
Merseyside +15 3 £295 -1.67% 5
Lancashire -3 2 £200 +25.00% 10
Cumbria -20 1 £528 +201.71%
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (9.38%) nginx
2 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.25%) Traefik
3 1 (3.13%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) JBoss
3 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (3.13%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) Azure
2 9 (28.13%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) Entra ID
3 7 (21.88%) GCP
3 7 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (15.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (9.38%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Stack
6 2 (6.25%) GitHub
7 1 (3.13%) AWS KMS
7 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.13%) IaaS
7 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.13%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 19 (59.38%) DHCP
2 10 (31.25%) TCP/IP
3 5 (15.63%) LAN
4 4 (12.50%) Firewall
4 4 (12.50%) VLAN
5 3 (9.38%) SAN
5 3 (9.38%) VPN
5 3 (9.38%) WAN
5 3 (9.38%) Wireless
6 2 (6.25%) Broadband
6 2 (6.25%) Network Security
6 2 (6.25%) VoIP
7 1 (3.13%) BGP
7 1 (3.13%) HTTP
7 1 (3.13%) HTTPS
7 1 (3.13%) IPsec
7 1 (3.13%) Skype
7 1 (3.13%) SNMP
7 1 (3.13%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 5 (15.63%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Network Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) IT Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) IT Operations Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) IT Support
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Server Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Service Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) IT Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) cloud-init
1 2 (6.25%) SAML
2 1 (3.13%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (3.13%) LDAP
2 1 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) PKI
2 4 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (9.38%) Clustering
3 3 (9.38%) NHS
4 2 (6.25%) CMDB
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.25%) Private Cloud
4 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.13%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Windows
2 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.50%) Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 3 (9.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.25%) CentOS
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
6 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
6 1 (3.13%) Unix
6 1 (3.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (18.75%) Configuration Management
2 6 (18.75%) DevOps
3 5 (15.63%) Customer Service
3 5 (15.63%) ITIL
3 5 (15.63%) Migration
4 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (12.50%) Task Automation
5 3 (9.38%) Agile
5 3 (9.38%) Change Management
5 3 (9.38%) Cloud Security
5 3 (9.38%) Cost Reduction
5 3 (9.38%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (9.38%) Identity Management
5 3 (9.38%) Incident Management
5 3 (9.38%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (6.25%) Informatics
6 2 (6.25%) Load Balancing
6 2 (6.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) SQL
4 4 (12.50%) Go
5 2 (6.25%) Bash
5 2 (6.25%) Ruby
6 1 (3.13%) Java
6 1 (3.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (15.63%) CCNA
2 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (12.50%) CCNP
3 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (6.25%) JNCIA
4 2 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CCIE
5 1 (3.13%) MCSA
5 1 (3.13%) MCSE
5 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (6.25%) NCSC
1 2 (6.25%) NIST
1 2 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (53.13%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (15.63%) Docker
4 3 (9.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.13%) Firmware
6 1 (3.13%) NFS
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.50%) Ansible
2 4 (12.50%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) ZABBIX
3 3 (9.38%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (6.25%) CA Single Sign-On
4 2 (6.25%) Consul
4 2 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (6.25%) Graphite
4 2 (6.25%) HAProxy
4 2 (6.25%) Istio
4 2 (6.25%) linkerd
4 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (6.25%) Nagios
4 2 (6.25%) Packer
4 2 (6.25%) Podman
4 2 (6.25%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.25%) Puppet
4 2 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) VMware
3 4 (12.50%) CA
4 3 (9.38%) Cisco
4 3 (9.38%) Google
5 2 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 2 (6.25%) Dell
5 2 (6.25%) PagerDuty
5 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 2 (6.25%) Splunk
6 1 (3.13%) Citrix
6 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.13%) EMC
6 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.13%) HP
6 1 (3.13%) Proofpoint
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.13%) Sophos
6 1 (3.13%) Temenos