DNS Jobs in the North of England

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 154 141
Rank change year-on-year +26 -13 -26
Permanent jobs citing DNS 343 397 453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.96% 2.30% 2.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.84% 12.53% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 274 295 363
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,125 £34,000 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £67,968 £63,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,166 3,168 2,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.39% 18.37% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,662 1,257 1,688
10th Percentile £25,888 £26,000 £26,675
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £60,938 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,706 £73,675
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the North of England

DNS
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for DNS in the North of England

DNS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the North of England

DNS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +1 184 £45,000 - 50
Yorkshire +56 116 £32,500 -13.33% 24
North East +8 49 £42,500 +13.33% 7
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 96 (27.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (11.95%) SharePoint
3 24 (7.00%) IIS
4 12 (3.50%) WebLogic
5 11 (3.21%) CMS
6 5 (1.46%) WordPress
7 4 (1.17%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 53 (15.45%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.17%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 199 (58.02%) Azure
2 180 (52.48%) Microsoft 365
3 76 (22.16%) AWS
4 63 (18.37%) Entra ID
5 19 (5.54%) OneDrive
6 18 (5.25%) IaaS
7 17 (4.96%) Power Platform
8 14 (4.08%) PaaS
9 13 (3.79%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
10 12 (3.50%) AWS KMS
10 12 (3.50%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (3.50%) GCP
11 8 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (2.33%) GitHub
11 8 (2.33%) SaaS
12 7 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (2.04%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (1.46%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 235 (68.51%) DHCP
2 115 (33.53%) Firewall
3 88 (25.66%) WAN
4 82 (23.91%) TCP/IP
5 80 (23.32%) VPN
6 73 (21.28%) LAN
7 43 (12.54%) SSL
8 30 (8.75%) VoIP
9 28 (8.16%) Wi-Fi
10 25 (7.29%) Internet
10 25 (7.29%) VLAN
11 24 (7.00%) Network Security
12 23 (6.71%) SAN
13 22 (6.41%) SD-WAN
13 22 (6.41%) Wireless
14 19 (5.54%) BGP
15 17 (4.96%) WLAN
16 13 (3.79%) iSCSI
17 12 (3.50%) DKIM
17 12 (3.50%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.99%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.54%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.79%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.50%) Oracle Database
4 12 (3.50%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.75%) Power BI
6 5 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.46%) MySQL
6 5 (1.46%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.46%) Redis
7 4 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.87%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
1 3 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (0.58%) JIRA
3 1 (0.29%) Git
3 1 (0.29%) GitLab
General
1 83 (24.20%) Social Skills
2 32 (9.33%) Finance
3 20 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.08%) Retail
5 13 (3.79%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.75%) French Language
6 6 (1.75%) German Language
6 6 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.75%) Italian Language
6 6 (1.75%) Portuguese Language
6 6 (1.75%) Spanish Language
6 6 (1.75%) Swedish Language
6 6 (1.75%) Turkish Language
7 5 (1.46%) Legal
8 4 (1.17%) Agriculture
8 4 (1.17%) Law
8 4 (1.17%) Marketing
8 4 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.87%) Local Government
10 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (25.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 59 (17.20%) Analyst
3 49 (14.29%) Senior
4 45 (13.12%) IT Support
5 33 (9.62%) IT Engineer
6 27 (7.87%) Lead
6 27 (7.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (7.29%) Network Engineer
8 23 (6.71%) Support Engineer
9 22 (6.41%) 2nd Line Support
10 20 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
11 19 (5.54%) IT Analyst
11 19 (5.54%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 19 (5.54%) Support Analyst
12 18 (5.25%) Administrator
12 18 (5.25%) Systems Administrator
13 17 (4.96%) Architect
13 17 (4.96%) Infrastructure Manager
13 17 (4.96%) IT Technician
14 14 (4.08%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.50%) RabbitMQ
1 12 (3.50%) Spring Boot
2 11 (3.21%) CSS
2 11 (3.21%) HTML
2 11 (3.21%) React
3 8 (2.33%) .NET
4 7 (2.04%) jQuery
4 7 (2.04%) Node.js
4 7 (2.04%) Vue
5 6 (1.75%) LDAP
6 5 (1.46%) Middleware
7 4 (1.17%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.17%) ASP.NET
7 4 (1.17%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (1.17%) JWT
7 4 (1.17%) REST
7 4 (1.17%) RESTful
7 4 (1.17%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (1.17%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 4 (1.17%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.62%) Public Cloud
2 25 (7.29%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (5.83%) Driving Licence
4 19 (5.54%) Data Centre
4 19 (5.54%) PKI
5 17 (4.96%) Management Information System
6 15 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (3.50%) PMI
7 12 (3.50%) Replication
7 12 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.92%) Cyberattack
8 10 (2.92%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.04%) Clustering
10 4 (1.17%) Fat Client
10 4 (1.17%) Thin Client
11 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.87%) Mobile Computing
12 2 (0.58%) CCTV
12 2 (0.58%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.58%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 211 (61.52%) Windows
2 139 (40.52%) Windows Server
3 70 (20.41%) Linux
4 37 (10.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 34 (9.91%) Windows 10
5 34 (9.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 26 (7.58%) Android
7 18 (5.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (4.66%) Apple iOS
9 14 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (2.92%) VMS
10 10 (2.92%) Windows Server 2008
11 9 (2.62%) Windows 7
12 7 (2.04%) Mac OS
13 6 (1.75%) Unix
14 4 (1.17%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.58%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.58%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (33.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 79 (23.03%) ITIL
3 65 (18.95%) Disaster Recovery
4 62 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (12.24%) Customer Service
6 36 (10.50%) Capacity Planning
6 36 (10.50%) Migration
7 33 (9.62%) Agile
8 32 (9.33%) Project Management
9 31 (9.04%) DevOps
10 29 (8.45%) Cybersecurity
10 29 (8.45%) Mentoring
11 27 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (7.58%) Computer Science
13 25 (7.29%) Server Management
14 21 (6.12%) Information Security
14 21 (6.12%) Proactive Monitoring
15 20 (5.83%) Coaching
15 20 (5.83%) Incident Management
16 17 (4.96%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (17.49%) PowerShell
2 33 (9.62%) SQL
3 17 (4.96%) Python
4 10 (2.92%) VBScript
5 9 (2.62%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.33%) C#
7 4 (1.17%) Bash
7 4 (1.17%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.17%) XAML
8 3 (0.87%) Go
8 3 (0.87%) Ruby
9 2 (0.58%) Java
10 1 (0.29%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 44 (12.83%) Degree
2 26 (7.58%) Azure Certification
3 20 (5.83%) Security Cleared
4 17 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (4.96%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.66%) AWS Certification
5 16 (4.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (4.08%) CCNA
6 14 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 12 (3.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.50%) PMI Certification
9 8 (2.33%) CCNP
10 6 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.46%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.46%) CISSP
11 5 (1.46%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.46%) MCSE
11 5 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.17%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.41%) SLA
2 8 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.58%) GDPR
3 2 (0.58%) NIST
4 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.29%) NCSC
4 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 247 (72.01%) Active Directory
2 70 (20.41%) Hyper-V
3 66 (19.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.66%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (4.66%) vSphere
5 14 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.17%) Firmware
8 3 (0.87%) Docker
9 2 (0.58%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.58%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.29%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.29%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 62 (18.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (8.45%) SCCM
3 22 (6.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (5.25%) SCOM
5 17 (4.96%) WSUS
6 16 (4.66%) Terraform
7 15 (4.37%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (3.50%) CA Single Sign-On
8 12 (3.50%) Opsgenie
8 12 (3.50%) VxRail
8 12 (3.50%) ZABBIX
9 11 (3.21%) Kubernetes
10 10 (2.92%) CASB
10 10 (2.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 9 (2.62%) FortiGate
12 8 (2.33%) Ansible
13 7 (2.04%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (1.75%) Grafana
14 6 (1.75%) Prometheus
15 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 210 (61.22%) Microsoft
2 110 (32.07%) VMware
3 58 (16.91%) Cisco
4 37 (10.79%) Citrix
5 30 (8.75%) SolarWinds
6 29 (8.45%) Veeam
7 23 (6.71%) Oracle
8 19 (5.54%) Fortinet
9 17 (4.96%) CA
9 17 (4.96%) Dell
10 16 (4.66%) ServiceNow
11 15 (4.37%) Apple
12 13 (3.79%) NetApp
13 12 (3.50%) CyberArk
13 12 (3.50%) Sparx
14 11 (3.21%) SAP
15 8 (2.33%) F5
15 8 (2.33%) Juniper
16 7 (2.04%) Aruba
16 7 (2.04%) Epicor