DNS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 173 132 160
Rank change year-on-year -41 +28 +2
Contract jobs citing DNS 184 448 727
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.25% 1.82% 1.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.00% 15.75% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 308 509
10th Percentile £302 £329 £363
25th Percentile £378 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £539 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +7.75% +5.50%
75th Percentile £608 £641 £588
90th Percentile £685 £700 £651
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 18
10th Percentile £18.98 £42.25 -
25th Percentile £19.69 £68.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £21.25 £82.50 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year -74.24% +270.79% -51.89%
75th Percentile £22.69 £87.50 £48.06
90th Percentile £23.33 £100.00 £66.45
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £30.50
% change year-on-year -23.27% +70.92% -6.47%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,533 2,844 4,340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.54% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,882 2,941
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £24.38 £57.50 £48.04
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% +19.69% +17.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.56
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%

DNS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DNS trend for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DNS.

DNS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DNS over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

DNS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DNS.

DNS hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 32 (17.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (9.24%) Confluence
3 11 (5.98%) IIS
4 7 (3.80%) nginx
5 5 (2.72%) Apache
6 4 (2.17%) Apache Solr
6 4 (2.17%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.63%) JBoss
7 3 (1.63%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.54%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.54%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Temenos T24
2 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 87 (47.28%) Azure
2 48 (26.09%) Entra ID
3 45 (24.46%) AWS
3 45 (24.46%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (11.96%) GCP
5 18 (9.78%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (9.78%) IaaS
6 17 (9.24%) Azure Storage
7 12 (6.52%) PaaS
8 10 (5.43%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (5.43%) GitHub
9 7 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (3.80%) SaaS
9 7 (3.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (3.26%) Akamai
10 6 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.26%) Nutanix
10 6 (3.26%) Rubrik
11 5 (2.72%) CloudFront
11 5 (2.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 96 (52.17%) DHCP
2 79 (42.93%) Firewall
3 44 (23.91%) TCP/IP
4 39 (21.20%) VPN
5 30 (16.30%) Network Security
6 19 (10.33%) VLAN
7 17 (9.24%) BGP
8 13 (7.07%) HTTP
8 13 (7.07%) SAN
9 11 (5.98%) OSPF
9 11 (5.98%) SNMP
9 11 (5.98%) WAN
10 10 (5.43%) LAN
11 8 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (4.35%) IPsec
11 8 (4.35%) NAS
12 7 (3.80%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (3.80%) SD-WAN
13 6 (3.26%) Kerberos
13 6 (3.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.15%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (3.26%) MySQL
3 6 (3.26%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.72%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.72%) Power BI
5 4 (2.17%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.17%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.63%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (1.63%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.54%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 20 (10.87%) JIRA
2 17 (9.24%) Git
3 14 (7.61%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.80%) GitLab
5 6 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (3.26%) TeamCity
6 4 (2.17%) CircleCI
6 4 (2.17%) Travis CI
7 3 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.63%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.63%) Snyk
8 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.54%) Darcs
9 1 (0.54%) Gradle
9 1 (0.54%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.54%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.54%) Postman
9 1 (0.54%) Subversion
General
1 55 (29.89%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.20%) Finance
3 17 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.98%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (5.43%) Retail
6 8 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.80%) Banking
8 6 (3.26%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.72%) Legal
10 3 (1.63%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.63%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.09%) Front Office
11 2 (1.09%) Military
12 1 (0.54%) Advertising
12 1 (0.54%) Electronics
12 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.54%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.54%) Marketing
12 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (13.59%) Network Engineer
3 17 (9.24%) Active Directory Support
3 17 (9.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (9.24%) Senior
4 16 (8.70%) Security Engineer
5 14 (7.61%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (7.61%) Azure Engineer
5 14 (7.61%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (7.61%) Support Specialist
6 13 (7.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (7.07%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.43%) Analyst
7 10 (5.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (3.80%) Architect
8 7 (3.80%) Server Engineer
9 6 (3.26%) Active Directory Engineer
9 6 (3.26%) Security Analyst
10 5 (2.72%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (2.72%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.87%) ARM Templates
2 11 (5.98%) .NET
2 11 (5.98%) JSON
3 10 (5.43%) YAML
4 7 (3.80%) LDAP
5 6 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
5 6 (3.26%) SAML
6 5 (2.72%) OAuth
6 5 (2.72%) OAuth2
6 5 (2.72%) XML
7 4 (2.17%) ASP.NET
7 4 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (2.17%) LEMP Stack
8 3 (1.63%) CSS
8 3 (1.63%) GraphQL
8 3 (1.63%) IBM Integration Bus
8 3 (1.63%) Kafka
8 3 (1.63%) Middleware
9 2 (1.09%) ADSI
9 2 (1.09%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.85%) PKI
2 20 (10.87%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (7.07%) Clustering
4 12 (6.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 11 (5.98%) Cloud Native
6 8 (4.35%) Data Centre
6 8 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.35%) Replication
7 5 (2.72%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.17%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.63%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (1.09%) NHS
10 2 (1.09%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) CBDC
11 1 (0.54%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.54%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 87 (47.28%) Windows
2 62 (33.70%) Windows Server
3 53 (28.80%) Linux
4 25 (13.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 22 (11.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (9.78%) Windows 10
7 12 (6.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (5.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (5.43%) Unix
10 7 (3.80%) Solaris
11 6 (3.26%) CentOS
11 6 (3.26%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (3.26%) Windows 7
12 4 (2.17%) Ubuntu
12 4 (2.17%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (2.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (1.63%) VMS
14 1 (0.54%) Debian
14 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (29.35%) Agile
2 51 (27.72%) DevOps
3 41 (22.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (21.20%) CI/CD
5 35 (19.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 35 (19.02%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (18.48%) ITIL
7 23 (12.50%) Release Management
8 21 (11.41%) RBAC
8 21 (11.41%) Service Management
9 20 (10.87%) Migration
9 20 (10.87%) Vulnerability Management
10 19 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (10.33%) Identity Management
11 18 (9.78%) Analytics
11 18 (9.78%) Information Security
11 18 (9.78%) Log Analytics
11 18 (9.78%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 17 (9.24%) Load Balancing
12 17 (9.24%) Privileged Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (36.41%) PowerShell
2 32 (17.39%) Python
3 21 (11.41%) VB
3 21 (11.41%) VBScript
4 19 (10.33%) Bicep
4 19 (10.33%) C#
5 18 (9.78%) Bash
6 12 (6.52%) Java
7 8 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.80%) PHP
9 6 (3.26%) Go
10 4 (2.17%) C++
10 4 (2.17%) SQL
11 3 (1.63%) ActionScript
11 3 (1.63%) Perl
11 3 (1.63%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.09%) TypeScript
12 2 (1.09%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.54%) Rust
13 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (22.83%) Degree
2 36 (19.57%) Security Cleared
3 30 (16.30%) SC Cleared
4 22 (11.96%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (11.96%) DV Cleared
5 17 (9.24%) CCNP
5 17 (9.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (6.52%) CCNA
8 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (3.80%) CCDP
10 6 (3.26%) AWS Certification
11 5 (2.72%) CISSP
12 4 (2.17%) APMP
12 4 (2.17%) CEH
12 4 (2.17%) CISM
12 4 (2.17%) MCSA
12 4 (2.17%) MCSE
12 4 (2.17%) PMP
13 3 (1.63%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.70%) GDPR
2 9 (4.89%) NIST
2 9 (4.89%) QA
3 7 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (2.17%) HIPAA
5 4 (2.17%) SLA
6 3 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.09%) ISO 9001
7 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.54%) COPPA
8 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 103 (55.98%) Active Directory
2 33 (17.93%) Virtual Machines
3 29 (15.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (11.96%) Docker
5 19 (10.33%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (4.89%) XenApp
7 8 (4.35%) vSphere
8 7 (3.80%) Hyper-V
8 7 (3.80%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (2.72%) XenDesktop
10 3 (1.63%) VMware NSX
11 2 (1.09%) Firmware
11 2 (1.09%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.54%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.54%) PowerDNS
12 1 (0.54%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.54%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.54%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 39 (21.20%) Kubernetes
1 39 (21.20%) SCCM
2 28 (15.22%) Ansible
3 26 (14.13%) Terraform
4 22 (11.96%) WSUS
5 19 (10.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 19 (10.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (10.33%) SCOM
6 10 (5.43%) Kibana
7 7 (3.80%) Grafana
7 7 (3.80%) Prometheus
7 7 (3.80%) vCenter Server
8 6 (3.26%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (3.26%) logstash
8 6 (3.26%) Netcool
8 6 (3.26%) Puppet
8 6 (3.26%) Tivoli
8 6 (3.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (2.72%) Progress Chef
10 3 (1.63%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 68 (36.96%) Microsoft
2 40 (21.74%) VMware
3 26 (14.13%) Cisco
4 16 (8.70%) Qualys
4 16 (8.70%) Splunk
5 13 (7.07%) F5
5 13 (7.07%) Palo Alto
6 12 (6.52%) Citrix
7 11 (5.98%) Dell
7 11 (5.98%) IBM
7 11 (5.98%) Oracle
7 11 (5.98%) ServiceNow
8 10 (5.43%) CA
8 10 (5.43%) HP
9 8 (4.35%) Arista
10 7 (3.80%) Google
11 6 (3.26%) EMC
11 6 (3.26%) Red Hat
11 6 (3.26%) Serena
11 6 (3.26%) Zscaler