DNS Jobs in the North West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 125 153
Rank change year-on-year +6 +28 -32
Permanent jobs citing DNS 183 209 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.87% 2.67% 2.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.98% 13.06% 17.06%
Number of salaries quoted 150 168 175
10th Percentile £29,900 £30,875 £25,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,250 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -
75th Percentile £60,938 £52,500 £54,375
90th Percentile £75,000 £58,000 £67,500
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 West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,145 1,600 1,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.72% 20.44% 13.22%
Number of salaries quoted 873 665 708
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £34,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61,250 £58,000 £59,787
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,500
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the North West

DNS
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for DNS in the North West

DNS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the North West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the North West

DNS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 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
Manchester +12 88 £50,378 +9.52% 10
Merseyside +13 41 £47,000 +10.59% 6
Cheshire -9 35 £43,500 -7.45% 26
Lancashire -1 16 £32,000 +14.29% 10
Cumbria -29 3 £45,000 - 1
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 53 (28.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (10.93%) IIS
3 16 (8.74%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.37%) WebLogic
5 4 (2.19%) CMS
5 4 (2.19%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (5.46%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (2.19%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (63.39%) Microsoft 365
2 115 (62.84%) Azure
3 51 (27.87%) AWS
4 34 (18.58%) Entra ID
5 15 (8.20%) Power Platform
6 13 (7.10%) IaaS
7 12 (6.56%) GCP
7 12 (6.56%) PaaS
8 11 (6.01%) OneDrive
9 9 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (4.37%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (3.83%) AWS KMS
11 7 (3.83%) Azure Key Vault
11 7 (3.83%) GitHub
11 7 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (3.83%) PowerApps
12 6 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.19%) SaaS
14 3 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (1.64%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 113 (61.75%) DHCP
2 60 (32.79%) Firewall
3 53 (28.96%) WAN
4 41 (22.40%) TCP/IP
5 40 (21.86%) VPN
6 38 (20.77%) LAN
7 32 (17.49%) SSL
8 22 (12.02%) SD-WAN
9 19 (10.38%) Internet
10 16 (8.74%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (8.20%) BGP
11 15 (8.20%) SAN
12 13 (7.10%) Wireless
13 12 (6.56%) DKIM
13 12 (6.56%) DMARC
13 12 (6.56%) iSCSI
14 11 (6.01%) Network Security
14 11 (6.01%) VoIP
15 8 (4.37%) IPsec
16 7 (3.83%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (17.49%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.46%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (4.92%) Relational Database
4 8 (4.37%) Oracle Database
4 8 (4.37%) RDBMS
5 6 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (2.73%) MySQL
7 4 (2.19%) Power BI
7 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.64%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (0.55%) JIRA
General
1 45 (24.59%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.65%) Finance
3 12 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.46%) Retail
5 8 (4.37%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.19%) Legal
7 4 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.09%) Law
8 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 58 (31.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (20.22%) Senior
3 25 (13.66%) Analyst
4 22 (12.02%) Network Engineer
4 22 (12.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (10.93%) IT Engineer
6 19 (10.38%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
7 17 (9.29%) IT Support
8 16 (8.74%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (8.74%) Lead
8 16 (8.74%) Support Engineer
9 14 (7.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 14 (7.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 12 (6.56%) Information Analyst
10 12 (6.56%) Information Security Analyst
10 12 (6.56%) Infrastructure Manager
10 12 (6.56%) Security Analyst
11 10 (5.46%) IT Support Engineer
12 9 (4.92%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 9 (4.92%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.37%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (4.37%) Spring Boot
2 6 (3.28%) LDAP
3 5 (2.73%) .NET
4 2 (1.09%) JWT
4 2 (1.09%) RESTful
5 1 (0.55%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.55%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.55%) HTML
5 1 (0.55%) jQuery
5 1 (0.55%) Laravel
5 1 (0.55%) React
5 1 (0.55%) REST
5 1 (0.55%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.55%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (0.55%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.55%) Vue
5 1 (0.55%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.38%) Public Cloud
2 15 (8.20%) Driving Licence
2 15 (8.20%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (6.56%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.56%) PMI
4 11 (6.01%) PKI
5 10 (5.46%) Cyberattack
5 10 (5.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (4.37%) Onboarding
6 8 (4.37%) Replication
7 5 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.19%) Fat Client
8 4 (2.19%) Thin Client
9 2 (1.09%) CCTV
9 2 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.55%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.55%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 92 (50.27%) Windows
2 57 (31.15%) Windows Server
3 37 (20.22%) Linux
4 13 (7.10%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (5.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (4.92%) VMS
6 9 (4.92%) Windows 10
6 9 (4.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (4.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (2.19%) Android
9 3 (1.64%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.09%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (42.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 51 (27.87%) ITIL
3 48 (26.23%) Disaster Recovery
4 36 (19.67%) Capacity Planning
5 33 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (14.75%) Project Management
7 25 (13.66%) Migration
7 25 (13.66%) Server Management
8 22 (12.02%) Agile
9 21 (11.48%) Customer Service
10 20 (10.93%) Incident Management
10 20 (10.93%) Mentoring
11 19 (10.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (10.38%) DevOps
11 19 (10.38%) Proactive Monitoring
12 17 (9.29%) Line Management
13 14 (7.65%) Computer Science
13 14 (7.65%) Information Security
14 13 (7.10%) SIEM
15 12 (6.56%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.85%) PowerShell
2 13 (7.10%) SQL
3 7 (3.83%) Python
4 5 (2.73%) C#
5 3 (1.64%) Bash
5 3 (1.64%) Go
5 3 (1.64%) Ruby
6 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.55%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.55%) XAML
Qualifications
1 24 (13.11%) Degree
2 13 (7.10%) Azure Certification
3 12 (6.56%) PMI Certification
4 11 (6.01%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.01%) Security Cleared
5 10 (5.46%) AWS Certification
6 9 (4.92%) CCNA
6 9 (4.92%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (4.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.37%) CCNP
7 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (2.73%) DBS Check
11 4 (2.19%) A+ Certification
11 4 (2.19%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.55%) CCIE
13 1 (0.55%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.92%) SLA
2 6 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.55%) NCSC
3 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 127 (69.40%) Active Directory
2 27 (14.75%) Hyper-V
3 24 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.73%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.19%) vSphere
6 2 (1.09%) Docker
6 2 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.09%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.55%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.55%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.55%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 35 (19.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (10.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 12 (6.56%) Opsgenie
3 12 (6.56%) Terraform
3 12 (6.56%) VxRail
3 12 (6.56%) ZABBIX
4 10 (5.46%) CASB
5 9 (4.92%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (3.83%) CA Single Sign-On
7 6 (3.28%) WSUS
8 5 (2.73%) Kubernetes
9 2 (1.09%) SCCM
10 1 (0.55%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.55%) Grafana
10 1 (0.55%) Icinga
10 1 (0.55%) Nagios
10 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 106 (57.92%) Microsoft
2 54 (29.51%) VMware
3 33 (18.03%) Cisco
4 20 (10.93%) Citrix
5 18 (9.84%) Fortinet
5 18 (9.84%) SolarWinds
6 14 (7.65%) Dell
7 13 (7.10%) NetApp
8 12 (6.56%) Veeam
9 11 (6.01%) Apple
9 11 (6.01%) ServiceNow
10 9 (4.92%) CA
11 8 (4.37%) Juniper
11 8 (4.37%) Oracle
11 8 (4.37%) Sparx
12 7 (3.83%) CyberArk
12 7 (3.83%) F5
13 6 (3.28%) Meraki
14 4 (2.19%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (2.19%) Ubiquiti