DNS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 173 140
Rank change year-on-year +32 -33 +13
Contract jobs citing DNS 191 182 426
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.95% 1.23% 1.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.49% 11.86% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 140 284
10th Percentile £350 £313 £327
25th Percentile £400 £412 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £486 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.76% -7.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £650
90th Percentile £838 £676 £700
UK median daily rate £543 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +14.21% -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £18.98 £18.50
25th Percentile £45.75 £19.69 £23.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £21.25 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year +156.47% -70.89% +228.09%
75th Percentile £63.25 £22.69 £87.50
90th Percentile - £23.33 £95.00
UK median hourly rate £54.50 £40.00 £59.07
% change year-on-year +36.25% -32.28% +165.46%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,092 1,534 2,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.16% 10.38% 11.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 999 1,874
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +4.95%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £484 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -3.20% -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 72 100
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £19.40
25th Percentile £44.00 £14.20 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £70.06
90th Percentile £73.03 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year - +110.53% -32.93%

DNS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DNS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DNS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing DNS over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

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 remote working options 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 22 (11.52%) Confluence
2 14 (7.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (6.28%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.19%) IIS
5 3 (1.57%) Apache
5 3 (1.57%) CMS
5 3 (1.57%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.57%) WordPress
6 2 (1.05%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (7.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.57%) Trello
3 2 (1.05%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (45.03%) Azure
2 68 (35.60%) AWS
3 42 (21.99%) AWS CloudFormation
4 26 (13.61%) GCP
4 26 (13.61%) SaaS
5 25 (13.09%) IaaS
6 22 (11.52%) PaaS
7 20 (10.47%) GitHub
8 17 (8.90%) Amazon EC2
9 14 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
10 13 (6.81%) Entra ID
11 12 (6.28%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (4.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 9 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (4.19%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (3.66%) Amazon S3
14 7 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (3.14%) Route 53
16 4 (2.09%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 105 (54.97%) DHCP
2 72 (37.70%) Firewall
2 72 (37.70%) TCP/IP
3 48 (25.13%) VPN
4 42 (21.99%) HTTP
5 38 (19.90%) BGP
6 28 (14.66%) OSPF
7 21 (10.99%) HTTPS
8 19 (9.95%) LAN
8 19 (9.95%) Network Security
9 18 (9.42%) WAN
10 17 (8.90%) SMTP
11 16 (8.38%) SSL
11 16 (8.38%) VLAN
11 16 (8.38%) Wireless
12 14 (7.33%) IPsec
13 13 (6.81%) MPLS
14 10 (5.24%) Internet
15 9 (4.71%) FTP
15 9 (4.71%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.42%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (5.76%) SQL Server
3 10 (5.24%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (1.57%) Power BI
5 2 (1.05%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.05%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.52%) MySQL
6 1 (0.52%) Power Query
6 1 (0.52%) Sisense
6 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.52%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (12.04%) Jenkins
2 22 (11.52%) JIRA
3 16 (8.38%) Git
4 5 (2.62%) GitLab
5 4 (2.09%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.57%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (1.57%) Vite
6 3 (1.57%) webpack
7 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.52%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (0.52%) Subversion
8 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 30 (15.71%) Finance
3 13 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.19%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.62%) Banking
6 4 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.57%) Local Government
7 3 (1.57%) Marketing
7 3 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.57%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.05%) Legal
8 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.52%) Advertising
9 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.52%) French Language
9 1 (0.52%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.52%) Military
9 1 (0.52%) Retail
9 1 (0.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (18.32%) Network Engineer
2 32 (16.75%) Architect
3 29 (15.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (10.99%) Cloud Architect
5 20 (10.47%) Azure Engineer
5 20 (10.47%) Senior
6 18 (9.42%) Cloud Native Architect
6 18 (9.42%) Technical Architect
7 17 (8.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (7.85%) AWS Architect
9 14 (7.33%) Windows Engineer
10 13 (6.81%) Support Engineer
11 11 (5.76%) Security Architect
12 10 (5.24%) Network Security Architect
13 9 (4.71%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.71%) Lead
13 9 (4.71%) Security Technical Architect
13 9 (4.71%) VMware Engineer
14 8 (4.19%) Senior DevOps
14 8 (4.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.81%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (4.71%) NETCONF
3 8 (4.19%) RESTCONF
4 7 (3.66%) .NET
4 7 (3.66%) ADO
4 7 (3.66%) CSS
5 5 (2.62%) HTML
6 3 (1.57%) Alpine.js
6 3 (1.57%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.57%) Bootstrap
6 3 (1.57%) HTML5
6 3 (1.57%) JSON
6 3 (1.57%) Laravel
6 3 (1.57%) Next.js
6 3 (1.57%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.57%) React
6 3 (1.57%) React Native
6 3 (1.57%) Sass
6 3 (1.57%) Vue
6 3 (1.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.99%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.95%) PKI
3 12 (6.28%) Data Centre
4 7 (3.66%) Anti-Spyware
4 7 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.14%) Clustering
6 5 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.62%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.62%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (2.09%) Replication
8 3 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.57%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.57%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.52%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 78 (40.84%) Windows
2 44 (23.04%) Linux
3 38 (19.90%) Windows Server
4 12 (6.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (5.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (3.14%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 5 (2.62%) VMS
9 4 (2.09%) CentOS
10 3 (1.57%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.57%) Unix
10 3 (1.57%) Windows 10
11 2 (1.05%) SUSE
12 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.52%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.52%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (27.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 42 (21.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 39 (20.42%) DevOps
4 29 (15.18%) CI/CD
4 29 (15.18%) Migration
5 28 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (13.61%) Agile
7 21 (10.99%) Sprint Planning
7 21 (10.99%) Test Automation
8 20 (10.47%) Containerisation
8 20 (10.47%) ITIL
9 17 (8.90%) Configuration Management
10 16 (8.38%) Continuous Integration
10 16 (8.38%) High Availability
11 15 (7.85%) Deployment Automation
12 14 (7.33%) Mentoring
13 12 (6.28%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (5.76%) DevSecOps
15 10 (5.24%) Load Balancing
16 9 (4.71%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.37%) Python
2 35 (18.32%) PowerShell
3 24 (12.57%) Bicep
4 20 (10.47%) Bash
5 7 (3.66%) Perl
6 6 (3.14%) C#
6 6 (3.14%) Shell Script
6 6 (3.14%) VBScript
7 5 (2.62%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.62%) SQL
8 4 (2.09%) Java
9 3 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.57%) PHP
9 3 (1.57%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.05%) VB
11 1 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 64 (33.51%) Security Cleared
2 60 (31.41%) SC Cleared
3 28 (14.66%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (10.47%) CCNP
5 16 (8.38%) Degree
6 9 (4.71%) CCNA
7 6 (3.14%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.62%) CISSP
9 3 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.05%) CCSP
10 2 (1.05%) CEH
10 2 (1.05%) JNCIA
10 2 (1.05%) JNCIS
10 2 (1.05%) VCAP
10 2 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.62%) SLA
2 4 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.09%) SOC 2
3 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.57%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.57%) GDPR
3 3 (1.57%) WCAG
4 2 (1.05%) NIST
4 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.05%) QA
5 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (29.32%) Active Directory
2 34 (17.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (11.52%) Docker
4 21 (10.99%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (8.38%) Hyper-V
5 16 (8.38%) vSphere
6 4 (2.09%) DFS Replication
6 4 (2.09%) NFS
6 4 (2.09%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.57%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (1.05%) XenApp
8 2 (1.05%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.52%) Samba
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (30.89%) Terraform
2 44 (23.04%) Ansible
3 23 (12.04%) Kubernetes
4 22 (11.52%) Puppet
5 21 (10.99%) Progress Chef
6 14 (7.33%) Grafana
6 14 (7.33%) WSUS
7 13 (6.81%) Prometheus
8 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (4.71%) SCCM
10 7 (3.66%) FortiGate
11 6 (3.14%) vCenter Server
12 5 (2.62%) Tivoli
13 4 (2.09%) NetBackup
14 2 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (1.05%) Nagios
14 2 (1.05%) Packer
14 2 (1.05%) PowerCLI
14 2 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (1.05%) SCOM
Vendors
1 55 (28.80%) Cisco
1 55 (28.80%) VMware
2 38 (19.90%) Microsoft
3 33 (17.28%) Palo Alto
4 32 (16.75%) CheckPoint
5 21 (10.99%) Fortinet
5 21 (10.99%) Red Hat
6 14 (7.33%) F5
7 11 (5.76%) Citrix
7 11 (5.76%) Infoblox
8 10 (5.24%) Dell
9 8 (4.19%) Atlassian
9 8 (4.19%) Google
9 8 (4.19%) HP
9 8 (4.19%) Oracle
10 7 (3.66%) SolarWinds
10 7 (3.66%) Veeam
11 5 (2.62%) Aruba
11 5 (2.62%) Splunk
11 5 (2.62%) Zscaler
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