DNS Jobs in England

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 172 202
Rank change year-on-year +49 +30 -45
Permanent jobs citing DNS 1,985 1,985 2,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.33% 2.15% 2.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.31% 13.87% 14.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,655 1,543 2,125
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,563 £32,438 £32,500
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 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,171 14,313 17,788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.27% 15.49% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8,600 7,406 10,448
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,017 £37,277
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in England

DNS
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for DNS in England

DNS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in England

DNS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
London +55 508 £55,000 - 96
South East 0 446 £42,500 +6.25% 82
North of England +23 343 £42,000 +5.00% 82
Midlands +84 314 £39,000 +0.65% 67
South West +25 223 £37,500 -6.25% 32
North West +1 181 £45,000 - 52
West Midlands +63 173 £42,500 +9.68% 42
East of England -9 145 £41,500 -2.35% 45
East Midlands +65 137 £37,500 +2.74% 25
Yorkshire +52 118 £32,500 -10.34% 25
North East +9 50 £42,500 +13.33% 7
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 487 (24.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 310 (15.62%) SharePoint
3 120 (6.05%) IIS
4 36 (1.81%) WordPress
5 34 (1.71%) CMS
5 34 (1.71%) Exchange Server 2013
6 30 (1.51%) Exchange Server 2010
7 28 (1.41%) WebLogic
8 23 (1.16%) Confluence
8 23 (1.16%) nginx
9 22 (1.11%) Apache
9 22 (1.11%) Exchange Server 2007
10 11 (0.55%) Skype for Business
11 10 (0.50%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.35%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.25%) SAS
14 4 (0.20%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2003
15 2 (0.10%) Moodle
15 2 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 236 (11.89%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.30%) Trello
5 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.15%) SPSS
7 2 (0.10%) CATIA
7 2 (0.10%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 28 (1.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 15 (0.76%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.35%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.20%) Epicor Tropos
5 4 (0.20%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.15%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.10%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.10%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.050%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.050%) Eikon
8 1 (0.050%) Sage 300 ERP
8 1 (0.050%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.050%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.050%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.050%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,084 (54.61%) Azure
2 932 (46.95%) Microsoft 365
3 404 (20.35%) AWS
4 348 (17.53%) Entra ID
5 112 (5.64%) IaaS
6 109 (5.49%) OneDrive
7 76 (3.83%) SaaS
8 74 (3.73%) PaaS
9 73 (3.68%) GCP
9 73 (3.68%) Power Platform
10 56 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (2.47%) Mimecast
12 47 (2.37%) Nutanix
13 42 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 42 (2.12%) GitHub
14 38 (1.91%) OpenShift
15 33 (1.66%) Amazon EKS
16 28 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
17 27 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
18 26 (1.31%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1,254 (63.17%) DHCP
2 816 (41.11%) Firewall
3 647 (32.59%) TCP/IP
4 401 (20.20%) VPN
5 396 (19.95%) WAN
6 351 (17.68%) LAN
7 267 (13.45%) VLAN
8 219 (11.03%) Wi-Fi
9 193 (9.72%) Wireless
10 187 (9.42%) SAN
11 145 (7.30%) HTTP
12 140 (7.05%) SSL
13 112 (5.64%) VoIP
14 107 (5.39%) Network Security
15 97 (4.89%) Internet
16 90 (4.53%) SD-WAN
17 88 (4.43%) BGP
18 66 (3.32%) OSPF
19 62 (3.12%) SNMP
20 59 (2.97%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (10.43%) SQL Server
2 73 (3.68%) Amazon RDS
3 50 (2.52%) MySQL
4 38 (1.91%) Oracle Database
4 38 (1.91%) Relational Database
5 36 (1.81%) Power BI
6 33 (1.66%) RDBMS
7 21 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (0.65%) Redis
10 12 (0.60%) MongoDB
10 12 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.45%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.30%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.20%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.15%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.15%) EDRMS
14 3 (0.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 59 (2.97%) Jenkins
2 48 (2.42%) JIRA
3 38 (1.91%) Git
4 18 (0.91%) GitLab
5 10 (0.50%) Trac
6 7 (0.35%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.30%) Katalon Studio
7 6 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.25%) Subversion
9 4 (0.20%) Charles Proxy
9 4 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.10%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.10%) git-flow
11 2 (0.10%) Hudson
11 2 (0.10%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.050%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.050%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 571 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 233 (11.74%) Finance
3 201 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (3.58%) Telecoms
5 61 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 53 (2.67%) Law
7 50 (2.52%) Public Sector
8 43 (2.17%) Banking
9 35 (1.76%) Marketing
10 32 (1.61%) Manufacturing
11 31 (1.56%) Aerospace
12 29 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
12 29 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
13 28 (1.41%) Legal
13 28 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (1.21%) Retail
15 17 (0.86%) Games
16 9 (0.45%) Electronics
17 8 (0.40%) Automotive
18 7 (0.35%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 390 (19.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 275 (13.85%) Senior
3 246 (12.39%) Support Engineer
4 244 (12.29%) IT Support
5 238 (11.99%) Analyst
6 226 (11.39%) IT Engineer
7 133 (6.70%) Network Engineer
8 117 (5.89%) IT Support Engineer
9 113 (5.69%) Lead
10 112 (5.64%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 100 (5.04%) Architect
12 97 (4.89%) 2nd Line Support
13 83 (4.18%) Support Analyst
14 82 (4.13%) 3rd Line Support
15 79 (3.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 79 (3.98%) IT Technician
16 76 (3.83%) Administrator
17 75 (3.78%) Systems Engineer
18 68 (3.43%) IT Analyst
19 65 (3.27%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (4.33%) HTML
2 67 (3.38%) .NET
3 64 (3.22%) SAML
4 53 (2.67%) REST
5 48 (2.42%) OpenID
6 47 (2.37%) CSS
7 38 (1.91%) ARM Templates
8 37 (1.86%) React
9 35 (1.76%) RabbitMQ
10 34 (1.71%) LDAP
11 32 (1.61%) 802.1X
11 32 (1.61%) ASP.NET
11 32 (1.61%) YAML
12 28 (1.41%) jQuery
12 28 (1.41%) Spring Boot
13 23 (1.16%) ASP.NET MVC
13 23 (1.16%) RESTful
14 22 (1.11%) AngularJS
14 22 (1.11%) Vue
15 20 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 153 (7.71%) Data Centre
2 123 (6.20%) Self-Motivation
3 112 (5.64%) Driving Licence
4 104 (5.24%) PKI
5 87 (4.38%) Public Cloud
6 67 (3.38%) Replication
7 62 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
8 58 (2.92%) Onboarding
9 55 (2.77%) Cyberattack
10 50 (2.52%) Management Information System
11 38 (1.91%) Client/Server
11 38 (1.91%) Cloud Native
12 36 (1.81%) Clustering
13 30 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (1.51%) Security Posture
14 26 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
15 22 (1.11%) IoT
16 19 (0.96%) Smartphone
17 17 (0.86%) CCTV
17 17 (0.86%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1,312 (66.10%) Windows
2 803 (40.45%) Windows Server
3 424 (21.36%) Linux
4 255 (12.85%) Windows 10
5 220 (11.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 189 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 167 (8.41%) Windows Server 2012
8 94 (4.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 73 (3.68%) Windows Server 2008
10 67 (3.38%) Android
11 60 (3.02%) Apple iOS
12 58 (2.92%) Unix
13 45 (2.27%) Mac OS
14 37 (1.86%) Windows 7
15 36 (1.81%) CentOS
16 34 (1.71%) Ubuntu
17 33 (1.66%) VMS
18 31 (1.56%) Windows 8
19 20 (1.01%) Mac OS X
19 20 (1.01%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (23.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 416 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
3 405 (20.40%) ITIL
4 254 (12.80%) Agile
4 254 (12.80%) Customer Service
5 243 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
6 237 (11.94%) DevOps
7 206 (10.38%) Disaster Recovery
8 166 (8.36%) Migration
9 130 (6.55%) Project Management
10 119 (5.99%) Infrastructure as Code
11 101 (5.09%) Load Balancing
12 98 (4.94%) Information Security
13 96 (4.84%) Collaborative Working
14 95 (4.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 95 (4.79%) Mentoring
15 94 (4.74%) CI/CD
16 87 (4.38%) Service Management
17 85 (4.28%) Identity Management
18 84 (4.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 444 (22.37%) PowerShell
2 213 (10.73%) Python
3 195 (9.82%) SQL
4 126 (6.35%) Bash
5 88 (4.43%) Java
6 75 (3.78%) C#
7 62 (3.12%) JavaScript
8 54 (2.72%) Perl
9 32 (1.61%) T-SQL
10 30 (1.51%) VBScript
11 24 (1.21%) PHP
12 22 (1.11%) Ruby
13 21 (1.06%) VB
14 19 (0.96%) XAML
15 18 (0.91%) Bicep
16 17 (0.86%) C++
17 12 (0.60%) C
18 10 (0.50%) PL/SQL
19 6 (0.30%) Shell Script
20 5 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 258 (13.00%) Security Cleared
2 252 (12.70%) Degree
3 145 (7.30%) DV Cleared
4 134 (6.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 133 (6.70%) SC Cleared
6 130 (6.55%) Cisco Certification
7 112 (5.64%) CCNA
8 93 (4.69%) Azure Certification
9 77 (3.88%) AWS Certification
10 61 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 57 (2.87%) MCSE
12 49 (2.47%) DBS Check
13 48 (2.42%) CCNP
14 46 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
15 41 (2.07%) A+ Certification
15 41 (2.07%) MCSA
16 35 (1.76%) Network+ Certification
17 32 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 30 (1.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 26 (1.31%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (6.10%) SLA
2 60 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 31 (1.56%) GDPR
5 15 (0.76%) COBIT
5 15 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 15 (0.76%) NIST
6 14 (0.71%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.45%) PMO
8 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.35%) NCSC
10 6 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.30%) QA
11 5 (0.25%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.15%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.10%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.050%) GxP
14 1 (0.050%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1,250 (62.97%) Active Directory
2 471 (23.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 409 (20.60%) Hyper-V
4 116 (5.84%) VMware ESXi
5 96 (4.84%) Docker
6 89 (4.48%) Virtual Machines
7 73 (3.68%) vSphere
8 68 (3.43%) Virtual Servers
9 45 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 20 (1.01%) Firmware
10 20 (1.01%) NFS
10 20 (1.01%) Terminal Services
11 18 (0.91%) pfSense
12 14 (0.71%) XenApp
13 9 (0.45%) VMware NSX
14 8 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
14 8 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 8 (0.40%) VMware Server
14 8 (0.40%) XenDesktop
15 7 (0.35%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 298 (15.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 144 (7.25%) SCCM
3 142 (7.15%) Terraform
4 128 (6.45%) Ansible
5 123 (6.20%) WSUS
6 109 (5.49%) Kubernetes
7 80 (4.03%) Puppet
8 77 (3.88%) SCOM
9 73 (3.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 59 (2.97%) vCenter Server
11 50 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
12 36 (1.81%) Grafana
13 31 (1.56%) FortiGate
14 26 (1.31%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 23 (1.16%) ZABBIX
16 22 (1.11%) NetBackup
17 21 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
17 21 (1.06%) Progress Chef
18 19 (0.96%) Nagios
19 18 (0.91%) CASB
Vendors
1 1,060 (53.40%) Microsoft
2 659 (33.20%) VMware
3 296 (14.91%) Cisco
4 188 (9.47%) Veeam
5 163 (8.21%) Citrix
6 102 (5.14%) HP
7 98 (4.94%) Dell
8 92 (4.63%) Oracle
9 89 (4.48%) Red Hat
10 86 (4.33%) Juniper
11 79 (3.98%) Apple
11 79 (3.98%) Fortinet
12 72 (3.63%) SolarWinds
13 62 (3.12%) Meraki
14 59 (2.97%) Google
15 50 (2.52%) Palo Alto
16 45 (2.27%) Sophos
17 41 (2.07%) Aruba
18 38 (1.91%) Bloomberg
19 34 (1.71%) Acronis