DNS Jobs in the South West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 108 148 161
Rank change year-on-year +40 +13 -53
Permanent jobs citing DNS 219 142 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.39% 2.03% 2.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.63% 10.57% 13.19%
Number of salaries quoted 133 92 121
10th Percentile £26,400 £28,050 £27,375
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £42,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -1.18% +6.25%
75th Percentile £51,750 £50,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £57,250 £57,475 £71,250
England median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South 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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,242 1,344 1,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.58% 19.19% 15.48%
Number of salaries quoted 930 574 705
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,244 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for DNS in the South West

DNS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +35 116 £31,000 -31.11% 5
Bristol +19 37 £42,000 +13.51% 8
Devon -13 22 £26,125 -24.28% 6
Wiltshire -21 15 £50,500 +44.29% 3
Somerset +14 14 £45,000 -10.00% 4
Cornwall -4 8 £33,750 +12.50% 3
Dorset -29 6 £43,750 -2.78%
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 31 (14.16%) SharePoint
2 16 (7.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.20%) IIS
4 6 (2.74%) Confluence
5 4 (1.83%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.91%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.91%) nginx
7 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.46%) CMS
7 1 (0.46%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.74%) Trello
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (48.86%) Azure
2 86 (39.27%) AWS
3 73 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 46 (21.00%) SaaS
5 36 (16.44%) OpenShift
6 34 (15.53%) Entra ID
7 29 (13.24%) AWS CloudFormation
8 17 (7.76%) OneDrive
9 16 (7.31%) IaaS
9 16 (7.31%) PaaS
10 15 (6.85%) Power Platform
11 9 (4.11%) WhatsApp
12 6 (2.74%) GCP
12 6 (2.74%) Slack
13 4 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (1.83%) GitHub
13 4 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (0.91%) Mimecast
15 1 (0.46%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 154 (70.32%) DHCP
2 127 (57.99%) TCP/IP
3 76 (34.70%) HTTP
4 52 (23.74%) Firewall
5 47 (21.46%) WAN
6 43 (19.63%) VPN
7 41 (18.72%) LAN
8 27 (12.33%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (9.59%) Wireless
10 19 (8.68%) VLAN
11 14 (6.39%) IPsec
12 12 (5.48%) VSAN
13 11 (5.02%) BGP
14 10 (4.57%) SD-WAN
14 10 (4.57%) SSL
15 8 (3.65%) Internet
15 8 (3.65%) SMTP
16 7 (3.20%) OSPF
17 6 (2.74%) NetScaler
17 6 (2.74%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.28%) Relational Database
2 5 (2.28%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.83%) MySQL
3 4 (1.83%) Oracle Database
3 4 (1.83%) RDBMS
4 2 (0.91%) Couchbase
4 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (0.91%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 7 (3.20%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.46%) Git
3 1 (0.46%) Log4Net
3 1 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 78 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.61%) Finance
3 31 (14.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.02%) Aerospace
6 7 (3.20%) Marketing
6 7 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.74%) Law
8 4 (1.83%) Legal
9 3 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Publishing
10 2 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 68 (31.05%) Senior
2 57 (26.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 37 (16.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (13.24%) IT Engineer
5 28 (12.79%) Support Engineer
6 26 (11.87%) Field Engineer
7 22 (10.05%) Architect
8 18 (8.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 15 (6.85%) Cloud Architect
9 15 (6.85%) Field Service Engineer
9 15 (6.85%) IT Support
10 14 (6.39%) 3rd Line Support
10 14 (6.39%) Developer
11 13 (5.94%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (5.48%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 12 (5.48%) Lead
13 11 (5.02%) Administrator
14 10 (4.57%) Analyst
14 10 (4.57%) Systems Administrator
15 9 (4.11%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (16.44%) HTML
2 29 (13.24%) OpenID
2 29 (13.24%) SAML
3 6 (2.74%) CSS
3 6 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (2.28%) LDAP
5 4 (1.83%) .NET
5 4 (1.83%) 802.1X
5 4 (1.83%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.83%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.37%) ASP.NET
6 3 (1.37%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (1.37%) jQuery
6 3 (1.37%) React
6 3 (1.37%) REST
6 3 (1.37%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (1.37%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 3 (1.37%) Vue
6 3 (1.37%) WPF
7 2 (0.91%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.98%) Cloud Native
2 34 (15.53%) Driving Licence
3 29 (13.24%) Cyberattack
4 28 (12.79%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.65%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.65%) Tandem
6 7 (3.20%) CUDA
6 7 (3.20%) GNSS
6 7 (3.20%) Replication
7 5 (2.28%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.83%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.91%) CMDB
9 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.46%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.46%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 140 (63.93%) Windows
2 70 (31.96%) Windows Server
3 63 (28.77%) Linux
4 40 (18.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (13.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (13.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (10.96%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (4.57%) Windows 10
9 8 (3.65%) Unix
10 6 (2.74%) Android
10 6 (2.74%) Apple iOS
10 6 (2.74%) Mac OS
11 4 (1.83%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.91%) Debian
12 2 (0.91%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.91%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.46%) CentOS
13 1 (0.46%) Fedora
13 1 (0.46%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (31.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (23.74%) ITIL
3 50 (22.83%) Agile
4 46 (21.00%) DevOps
5 43 (19.63%) Software Architecture
6 40 (18.26%) Actionable Insight
7 37 (16.89%) Line Management
8 33 (15.07%) SDLC
9 32 (14.61%) Customer Service
9 32 (14.61%) Identity Management
10 29 (13.24%) Cloud Security
10 29 (13.24%) DevSecOps
10 29 (13.24%) Infrastructure as Code
10 29 (13.24%) Roadmaps
10 29 (13.24%) Technical Leadership
10 29 (13.24%) Technology Roadmap
11 25 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (10.05%) Service Management
13 17 (7.76%) Change Management
13 17 (7.76%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 65 (29.68%) PowerShell
2 48 (21.92%) Python
3 40 (18.26%) Java
4 37 (16.89%) Bash
5 16 (7.31%) SQL
6 8 (3.65%) C#
7 7 (3.20%) C
7 7 (3.20%) C++
8 3 (1.37%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.37%) XAML
9 2 (0.91%) PHP
9 2 (0.91%) Ruby
10 1 (0.46%) Perl
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (31.05%) Security Cleared
2 61 (27.85%) DV Cleared
3 33 (15.07%) AWS Certification
3 33 (15.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 25 (11.42%) Degree
5 20 (9.13%) SC Cleared
6 17 (7.76%) DBS Check
7 16 (7.31%) A+ Certification
8 9 (4.11%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.28%) PMI Certification
9 5 (2.28%) PMP
9 5 (2.28%) RHCE
9 5 (2.28%) RHCSA
10 4 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.37%) CCNA
11 3 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.37%) MCSE
12 2 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.76%) SLA
2 6 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.91%) GDPR
System Software
1 92 (42.01%) Active Directory
2 59 (26.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (24.66%) Hyper-V
4 36 (16.44%) Docker
5 11 (5.02%) Firmware
6 9 (4.11%) vSphere
7 8 (3.65%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (3.20%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.91%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.46%) KVM
10 1 (0.46%) Samba
Systems Management
1 42 (19.18%) Kubernetes
2 36 (16.44%) Ansible
2 36 (16.44%) Puppet
2 36 (16.44%) Terraform
3 32 (14.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.65%) McAfee ePO
4 8 (3.65%) SCVMM
4 8 (3.65%) WSUS
5 6 (2.74%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (2.74%) SCCM
6 5 (2.28%) Rancher
7 4 (1.83%) Istio
7 4 (1.83%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.83%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.91%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.46%) Icinga
9 1 (0.46%) Nagios
9 1 (0.46%) SCOM
9 1 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 65 (29.68%) VMware
2 63 (28.77%) Microsoft
3 38 (17.35%) Red Hat
4 23 (10.50%) HP
5 15 (6.85%) Cisco
5 15 (6.85%) Citrix
6 14 (6.39%) Veeam
7 8 (3.65%) McAfee
7 8 (3.65%) Sophos
8 7 (3.20%) Meraki
9 6 (2.74%) Aderant
9 6 (2.74%) Apple
9 6 (2.74%) Fortinet
9 6 (2.74%) iManage
9 6 (2.74%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.28%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.83%) Google
11 4 (1.83%) Oracle
11 4 (1.83%) Sparx
12 3 (1.37%) NetApp