Domain Name System (DNS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 176 221
Rank change year-on-year +37 +45 -50
Permanent jobs citing DNS 2,090 2,062 3,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.04% 2.12% 1.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.45% 13.31% 14.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,736 1,600 2,292
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,438 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +2.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

DNS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,526 15,491 22,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 15.91% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,761 11,859
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS.

Salary trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the UK

DNS
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +37 1,923 £44,225 +4.06% 399
UK excluding London +23 1,555 £40,000 - 320
Work from Home +53 781 £50,000 +9.89% 179
London +42 496 £55,001 +0.00% 93
South East -3 432 £42,500 +6.25% 79
North of England +16 343 £42,500 - 86
Midlands +72 308 £37,500 -1.32% 50
South West +7 191 £37,500 -6.25% 39
North West +6 181 £45,000 - 53
West Midlands +51 165 £39,750 +3.25% 31
East of England -10 150 £41,500 -2.35% 45
East Midlands +55 139 £37,500 +2.74% 19
Yorkshire +51 118 £32,500 -18.75% 27
Wales +32 60 £34,000 -7.06% 5
Scotland -47 60 £42,500 +21.43% 19
North East +6 50 £42,500 +9.97% 6
Northern Ireland +15 13 £32,500 -4.41% 4
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 498 (23.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 310 (14.83%) SharePoint
3 123 (5.89%) IIS
4 46 (2.20%) WebLogic
5 35 (1.67%) CMS
6 34 (1.63%) WordPress
7 33 (1.58%) Exchange Server 2013
8 26 (1.24%) Exchange Server 2010
9 25 (1.20%) Skype for Business
10 24 (1.15%) Apache
10 24 (1.15%) Confluence
11 22 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2007
11 22 (1.05%) nginx
12 9 (0.43%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.33%) Umbraco
14 5 (0.24%) SAS
15 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2003
16 3 (0.14%) Apache Solr
17 2 (0.096%) Moodle
Applications
1 259 (12.39%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.24%) Trello
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.14%) SPSS
8 2 (0.096%) CATIA
8 2 (0.096%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 46 (2.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (0.81%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.19%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
7 2 (0.096%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.048%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.048%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.048%) Eikon
8 1 (0.048%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.048%) Sage 300 ERP
8 1 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.048%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.048%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,151 (55.07%) Azure
2 959 (45.89%) Microsoft 365
3 420 (20.10%) AWS
4 364 (17.42%) Entra ID
5 117 (5.60%) IaaS
6 115 (5.50%) OneDrive
7 83 (3.97%) SaaS
8 75 (3.59%) Power Platform
9 73 (3.49%) PaaS
10 68 (3.25%) GCP
11 65 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
12 52 (2.49%) Mimecast
12 52 (2.49%) Nutanix
13 50 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
14 46 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (2.06%) GitHub
16 40 (1.91%) OpenShift
17 33 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
18 31 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
19 29 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1,272 (60.86%) DHCP
2 855 (40.91%) Firewall
3 684 (32.73%) TCP/IP
4 410 (19.62%) VPN
5 407 (19.47%) WAN
6 357 (17.08%) LAN
7 247 (11.82%) VLAN
8 215 (10.29%) Wi-Fi
9 210 (10.05%) Wireless
10 193 (9.23%) SAN
11 156 (7.46%) SSL
12 121 (5.79%) Network Security
13 117 (5.60%) HTTP
14 109 (5.22%) Internet
15 102 (4.88%) VoIP
16 98 (4.69%) BGP
17 93 (4.45%) SD-WAN
18 65 (3.11%) IPsec
19 62 (2.97%) SNMP
20 59 (2.82%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 85 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (2.73%) Oracle Database
3 57 (2.73%) Relational Database
4 51 (2.44%) RDBMS
5 47 (2.25%) MySQL
6 40 (1.91%) Power BI
7 22 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.67%) Redis
12 10 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.43%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.38%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.29%) GIS
16 4 (0.19%) Data Lake
17 3 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
17 3 (0.14%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 59 (2.82%) Jenkins
2 51 (2.44%) JIRA
3 42 (2.01%) Git
4 21 (1.00%) GitLab
5 10 (0.48%) Trac
6 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.33%) Katalon Studio
7 4 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
7 4 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.14%) Subversion
8 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.096%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.096%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.096%) git-flow
9 2 (0.096%) Grunt
9 2 (0.096%) Hudson
9 2 (0.096%) webpack
10 1 (0.048%) Selenium
General
1 580 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 232 (11.10%) Finance
3 204 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (4.02%) Telecoms
5 56 (2.68%) Public Sector
6 48 (2.30%) Law
7 45 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 45 (2.15%) Marketing
8 43 (2.06%) Banking
8 43 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (1.87%) Aerospace
10 34 (1.63%) Manufacturing
11 30 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 28 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.15%) Legal
13 24 (1.15%) Retail
14 14 (0.67%) Games
15 12 (0.57%) Electronics
16 10 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.43%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 386 (18.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 294 (14.07%) Senior
3 270 (12.92%) Analyst
4 260 (12.44%) IT Support
5 253 (12.11%) Support Engineer
6 222 (10.62%) IT Engineer
7 146 (6.99%) Network Engineer
8 137 (6.56%) Lead
9 117 (5.60%) IT Support Engineer
10 112 (5.36%) Architect
11 104 (4.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 101 (4.83%) 2nd Line Support
13 94 (4.50%) Support Analyst
14 93 (4.45%) IT Technician
15 89 (4.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 89 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support
16 77 (3.68%) Administrator
16 77 (3.68%) IT Analyst
16 77 (3.68%) Support Technician
17 74 (3.54%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (3.35%) .NET
2 58 (2.78%) HTML
3 55 (2.63%) REST
4 52 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
5 50 (2.39%) CSS
6 46 (2.20%) Spring Boot
7 40 (1.91%) ARM Templates
8 36 (1.72%) React
8 36 (1.72%) SAML
9 35 (1.67%) LDAP
10 33 (1.58%) YAML
11 32 (1.53%) 802.1X
12 30 (1.44%) ASP.NET
13 28 (1.34%) jQuery
14 24 (1.15%) Vue
15 23 (1.10%) ASP.NET MVC
15 23 (1.10%) RESTful
16 22 (1.05%) AngularJS
17 21 (1.00%) OAuth
18 20 (0.96%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 203 (9.71%) Data Centre
2 130 (6.22%) Self-Motivation
3 116 (5.55%) Driving Licence
4 114 (5.45%) Public Cloud
5 109 (5.22%) PKI
6 81 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
7 76 (3.64%) Replication
8 59 (2.82%) Onboarding
9 56 (2.68%) Management Information System
10 40 (1.91%) Client/Server
10 40 (1.91%) Clustering
11 33 (1.58%) Cyberattack
12 31 (1.48%) Hybrid Cloud
12 31 (1.48%) Security Posture
13 25 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
14 21 (1.00%) IoT
15 17 (0.81%) CCTV
15 17 (0.81%) Eurex
15 17 (0.81%) Smartphone
16 14 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,358 (64.98%) Windows
2 847 (40.53%) Windows Server
3 473 (22.63%) Linux
4 277 (13.25%) Windows 10
5 232 (11.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 201 (9.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 172 (8.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 115 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 70 (3.35%) Windows Server 2008
10 66 (3.16%) Apple iOS
11 65 (3.11%) Android
12 64 (3.06%) Unix
13 51 (2.44%) Mac OS
14 44 (2.11%) CentOS
15 42 (2.01%) Ubuntu
16 37 (1.77%) Windows 7
17 33 (1.58%) VMS
18 28 (1.34%) Windows 8
19 23 (1.10%) Mac OS X
20 20 (0.96%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (22.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 431 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
3 422 (20.19%) ITIL
4 285 (13.64%) Customer Service
5 263 (12.58%) Agile
6 251 (12.01%) DevOps
7 237 (11.34%) Cybersecurity
8 209 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 184 (8.80%) Migration
10 153 (7.32%) Project Management
11 120 (5.74%) Collaborative Working
12 117 (5.60%) Load Balancing
13 109 (5.22%) CI/CD
14 108 (5.17%) Mentoring
15 107 (5.12%) Information Security
16 106 (5.07%) Infrastructure as Code
17 103 (4.93%) Actionable Insight
18 98 (4.69%) Service Management
19 92 (4.40%) Incident Management
20 91 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 460 (22.01%) PowerShell
2 217 (10.38%) Python
3 200 (9.57%) SQL
4 128 (6.12%) Bash
5 94 (4.50%) Java
6 75 (3.59%) C#
7 69 (3.30%) JavaScript
8 54 (2.58%) Perl
9 36 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 34 (1.63%) VBScript
11 24 (1.15%) Ruby
11 24 (1.15%) VB
12 22 (1.05%) Bicep
13 19 (0.91%) XAML
14 16 (0.77%) PHP
15 15 (0.72%) C++
16 12 (0.57%) C
17 10 (0.48%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.33%) Go
19 6 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 272 (13.01%) Degree
2 270 (12.92%) Security Cleared
3 176 (8.42%) SC Cleared
4 144 (6.89%) Cisco Certification
5 133 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 119 (5.69%) DV Cleared
7 117 (5.60%) CCNA
8 111 (5.31%) Azure Certification
9 73 (3.49%) AWS Certification
10 64 (3.06%) CCNP
11 55 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
12 54 (2.58%) MCSE
13 50 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 45 (2.15%) DBS Check
15 40 (1.91%) MCSA
16 35 (1.67%) A+ Certification
17 34 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 32 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 30 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
20 27 (1.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (5.74%) SLA
2 73 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 30 (1.44%) GDPR
5 18 (0.86%) NIST
6 16 (0.77%) COBIT
7 15 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.67%) Data Quality
8 14 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.43%) NCSC
10 8 (0.38%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.38%) PMO
10 8 (0.38%) QA
11 7 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.096%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.048%) GxP
16 1 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,287 (61.58%) Active Directory
2 479 (22.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 408 (19.52%) Hyper-V
4 116 (5.55%) VMware ESXi
5 106 (5.07%) Docker
6 96 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
7 82 (3.92%) vSphere
8 66 (3.16%) Virtual Servers
9 52 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (1.15%) Terminal Services
11 20 (0.96%) Firmware
11 20 (0.96%) NFS
12 18 (0.86%) pfSense
13 17 (0.81%) XenApp
14 13 (0.62%) XenDesktop
15 9 (0.43%) DFS Replication
15 9 (0.43%) VMware NSX
16 8 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
16 8 (0.38%) VMware Server
17 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 316 (15.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 170 (8.13%) SCCM
3 144 (6.89%) Ansible
4 127 (6.08%) Terraform
5 122 (5.84%) Kubernetes
6 118 (5.65%) WSUS
7 86 (4.11%) SCOM
8 79 (3.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 79 (3.78%) Puppet
9 60 (2.87%) vCenter Server
10 54 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
11 37 (1.77%) Grafana
12 25 (1.20%) CASB
12 25 (1.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 25 (1.20%) ZABBIX
13 23 (1.10%) FortiGate
14 22 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
15 21 (1.00%) NetBackup
15 21 (1.00%) Prometheus
16 19 (0.91%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,127 (53.92%) Microsoft
2 684 (32.73%) VMware
3 319 (15.26%) Cisco
4 191 (9.14%) Veeam
5 163 (7.80%) Citrix
6 119 (5.69%) Oracle
7 106 (5.07%) Dell
8 105 (5.02%) HP
9 100 (4.78%) Red Hat
10 85 (4.07%) Apple
10 85 (4.07%) Juniper
11 79 (3.78%) Fortinet
11 79 (3.78%) Meraki
12 72 (3.44%) SolarWinds
13 59 (2.82%) Google
14 54 (2.58%) Palo Alto
15 46 (2.20%) Sparx
16 43 (2.06%) Sophos
17 40 (1.91%) Bloomberg
18 37 (1.77%) NetApp