DNS Jobs in Kent

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Kent

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 33 70
Rank change year-on-year -19 +37 -39
Permanent jobs citing DNS 50 76 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 3.38% 6.61% 3.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.88% 21.53% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 48 75 45
10th Percentile £23,000 £25,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £24,875 £32,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £40,000 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +25.00% -22.89%
75th Percentile £43,750 £49,375 £47,500
90th Percentile £48,875 £61,250 -
South East median annual salary £42,500 £39,886 £43,000
% change year-on-year +6.56% -7.24% -6.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

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 Kent with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 201 353 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 13.60% 30.72% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 162 182 180
10th Percentile £21,250 £27,075 £27,375
25th Percentile £27,125 £31,625 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £40,500 £38,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% +5.88% -1.92%
75th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,750
South East median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Kent

DNS
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for DNS in Kent

DNS
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Kent over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in Kent

DNS
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Kent region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Maidstone +18 21 £42,500 +60.38% 2
Tonbridge - 4 £32,500 -
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 19 (38.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 26 (52.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (64.00%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (44.00%) Azure
3 9 (18.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 37 (74.00%) DHCP
2 33 (66.00%) Firewall
3 11 (22.00%) VPN
4 9 (18.00%) TCP/IP
5 7 (14.00%) FTP
5 7 (14.00%) LAN
5 7 (14.00%) VLAN
5 7 (14.00%) WAN
6 6 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (4.00%) SNMP
8 1 (2.00%) SAN
8 1 (2.00%) VoIP
8 1 (2.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (64.00%) Analyst
2 19 (38.00%) Support Analyst
3 17 (34.00%) 1st Line Support
4 16 (32.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 14 (28.00%) Help Desk Analyst
6 12 (24.00%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
6 12 (24.00%) First Line Help Desk Support
6 12 (24.00%) Help Desk Support
6 12 (24.00%) Help Desk Support Analyst
7 9 (18.00%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (16.00%) Support Engineer
9 7 (14.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 7 (14.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (12.00%) Vulnerability Analyst
11 5 (10.00%) Security Analyst
12 4 (8.00%) IT Support
13 3 (6.00%) IT Analyst
13 3 (6.00%) IT Support Analyst
14 2 (4.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (96.00%) Windows
2 18 (36.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (24.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (32.00%) Customer Service
3 14 (28.00%) ITIL
4 11 (22.00%) Cybersecurity
4 11 (22.00%) Patch Management
4 11 (22.00%) Penetration Testing
4 11 (22.00%) Threat Detection
4 11 (22.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 9 (18.00%) Gamification
6 8 (16.00%) Business Continuity
7 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (6.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (4.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (4.00%) DevOps
9 2 (4.00%) Incident Management
9 2 (4.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
9 2 (4.00%) Mentoring
9 2 (4.00%) Security Operations
10 1 (2.00%) Hardware Maintenance
10 1 (2.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (28.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.00%) SLA
2 11 (22.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 49 (98.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) WSUS
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.00%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (4.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 28 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (24.00%) WatchGuard
3 9 (18.00%) Cisco
4 7 (14.00%) Meraki
4 7 (14.00%) VMware
5 2 (4.00%) SolarWinds