DNS Contracts in Gloucestershire

Domain Name System (DNS)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 56 41
Rank change year-on-year +38 -15 +16
Contract jobs citing DNS 16 2 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.87% 0.42% 3.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.10% 3.45% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 12
10th Percentile £516 £215 £383
25th Percentile £545 £261 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £358 £600
Median % change year-on-year +72.03% -40.42% +20.60%
75th Percentile £623 £471 -
90th Percentile £760 £526 -
South West median daily rate £613 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +13.95% -6.52% +39.39%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

DNS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 42 58 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 18.03% 12.31% 15.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 37 46
10th Percentile £215 £308 £338
25th Percentile £289 £460 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £600
90th Percentile £668 £698 £719
South West median daily rate £545 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +1.40% +2.38% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £22.73
25th Percentile - £15.75 £23.06
Median hourly rate - £16.50 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year - -35.92% -57.08%
75th Percentile - £17.25 £28.06
90th Percentile - - £28.18
South West median hourly rate £17.79 £56.49 £9.80
% change year-on-year -68.51% +476.43% -81.85%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Gloucestershire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 30 June 2025. 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
Cheltenham +34 10 £579 +61.89% 12
Gloucester - 2 £615 - 11
DNS
South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) DHCP
2 8 (50.00%) HTTP
2 8 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (43.75%) Firewall
4 4 (25.00%) Kerberos
5 2 (12.50%) LAN
5 2 (12.50%) VoIP
5 2 (12.50%) WAN
5 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 3 (18.75%) Aerospace
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) PC Support
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Support
4 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) PKI
2 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (25.00%) Replication
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (12.50%) Android
3 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 10
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
1 7 (43.75%) Service Management
2 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 4 (25.00%) RBAC
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) ITSM
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (6.25%) Agile
5 1 (6.25%) Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.25%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (6.25%) Identity Management
5 1 (6.25%) Problem Management
5 1 (6.25%) Release Management
5 1 (6.25%) Service Delivery
5 1 (6.25%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Bash
1 8 (50.00%) Java
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 8 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Docker
1 8 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Terraform
2 8 (50.00%) Ansible
2 8 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) VMware
2 8 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Remedy
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