DNS Jobs in the Thames Valley

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 75 103 119
Rank change year-on-year +28 +16 +3
Permanent jobs citing DNS 218 166 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.24% 2.76% 2.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.80% 17.33% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 192 130 150
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £26,363
25th Percentile £34,000 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £34,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -24.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £59,000 £53,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £65,100 £71,375
South East median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -6.98% -4.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 956 958 1,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.22% 15.91% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 674 541 760
10th Percentile £28,325 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £30,750 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,850 £73,875 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -1.04%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the Thames Valley

DNS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for DNS in the Thames Valley

DNS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the Thames Valley

DNS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +87 104 £52,500 -4.55% 13
Oxfordshire +28 69 £40,000 +26.98% 6
Buckinghamshire -47 45 £35,000 +7.69% 6
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 47 (21.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (11.47%) IIS
3 16 (7.34%) WordPress
4 14 (6.42%) SharePoint
5 12 (5.50%) Apache
5 12 (5.50%) CMS
5 12 (5.50%) nginx
6 4 (1.83%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.38%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (8.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 121 (55.50%) Azure
2 102 (46.79%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (15.14%) AWS
4 32 (14.68%) Entra ID
5 22 (10.09%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (6.42%) Azure Storage
7 12 (5.50%) OCI
7 12 (5.50%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.67%) WhatsApp
9 7 (3.21%) Google Workspace
10 4 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.83%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.83%) PaaS
11 3 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.38%) IaaS
12 2 (0.92%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (0.92%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 1 (0.46%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 115 (52.75%) DHCP
2 91 (41.74%) Firewall
3 50 (22.94%) TCP/IP
4 29 (13.30%) VPN
5 27 (12.39%) SSL
6 25 (11.47%) SAN
6 25 (11.47%) WAN
6 25 (11.47%) Wireless
7 21 (9.63%) LAN
8 20 (9.17%) VLAN
9 17 (7.80%) OSPF
9 17 (7.80%) VoIP
10 16 (7.34%) Internet
11 15 (6.88%) BGP
12 14 (6.42%) Wi-Fi
13 13 (5.96%) SD-WAN
13 13 (5.96%) SNMP
14 11 (5.05%) NAS
14 11 (5.05%) SMTP
15 10 (4.59%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.50%) MySQL
2 12 (5.50%) Power BI
3 9 (4.13%) Oracle Database
4 7 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.83%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.46%) Git
General
1 77 (35.32%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.50%) Marketing
3 7 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (3.21%) Public Sector
4 4 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (1.38%) Finance
6 2 (0.92%) Electronics
6 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.46%) Legal
7 1 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (16.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 36 (16.51%) IT Support
3 33 (15.14%) Analyst
4 26 (11.93%) Systems Engineer
5 23 (10.55%) IT Analyst
5 23 (10.55%) Support Engineer
6 20 (9.17%) Active Directory Specialist
6 20 (9.17%) Azure Specialist
7 17 (7.80%) IT Engineer
7 17 (7.80%) IT Support Engineer
7 17 (7.80%) Support Specialist
8 16 (7.34%) Lead
9 14 (6.42%) Active Directory Support
9 14 (6.42%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 14 (6.42%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
10 13 (5.96%) Network Engineer
10 13 (5.96%) Windows Engineer
10 13 (5.96%) Windows Systems Engineer
11 12 (5.50%) IT Technician
11 12 (5.50%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.42%) ARM Templates
2 10 (4.59%) Web Services
3 9 (4.13%) .NET
4 4 (1.83%) LAMP
4 4 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (1.83%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.38%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.38%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (1.38%) CSS
5 3 (1.38%) HTML
5 3 (1.38%) jQuery
5 3 (1.38%) React
5 3 (1.38%) REST
5 3 (1.38%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (1.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (1.38%) Vue
5 3 (1.38%) WPF
6 2 (0.92%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.46%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.76%) PKI
2 24 (11.01%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (9.63%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.96%) CMDB
5 10 (4.59%) Driving Licence
6 8 (3.67%) Cyberattack
6 8 (3.67%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.75%) Replication
8 5 (2.29%) CCTV
9 4 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.92%) Clustering
11 2 (0.92%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (0.92%) Molecular Biology
11 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.46%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 138 (63.30%) Windows
2 99 (45.41%) Windows Server
3 76 (34.86%) Linux
4 46 (21.10%) Windows 10
5 44 (20.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 40 (18.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (8.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (7.34%) Windows XP
9 11 (5.05%) Android
9 11 (5.05%) Mac OS X
10 6 (2.75%) Apple iOS
10 6 (2.75%) Ubuntu
10 6 (2.75%) VMS
11 4 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.83%) Windows 8
11 4 (1.83%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (1.38%) Mac OS
12 3 (1.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (18.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 40 (18.35%) ITIL
4 37 (16.97%) Agile
5 32 (14.68%) Customer Service
6 22 (10.09%) Release Management
7 20 (9.17%) Analytics
7 20 (9.17%) Log Analytics
7 20 (9.17%) Service Management
8 19 (8.72%) Information Security
8 19 (8.72%) Performance Tuning
8 19 (8.72%) Project Management
9 17 (7.80%) DevOps
10 16 (7.34%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (7.34%) Server Management
11 15 (6.88%) Web Development
12 14 (6.42%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (6.42%) Identity Management
12 14 (6.42%) Privileged Identity Management
12 14 (6.42%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (21.56%) PowerShell
2 33 (15.14%) SQL
3 29 (13.30%) C#
4 20 (9.17%) VB
4 20 (9.17%) VBScript
5 14 (6.42%) Bicep
6 12 (5.50%) PHP
7 7 (3.21%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.29%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.29%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.29%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.38%) XAML
10 1 (0.46%) C
10 1 (0.46%) C++
10 1 (0.46%) Java
10 1 (0.46%) Python
Qualifications
1 58 (26.61%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.64%) DV Cleared
3 39 (17.89%) Degree
4 37 (16.97%) SC Cleared
5 26 (11.93%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (9.17%) CCNA
7 18 (8.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 14 (6.42%) CCNP
9 13 (5.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (5.05%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.75%) MCSE
12 4 (1.83%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.83%) MCP
13 2 (0.92%) CCIE
13 2 (0.92%) MCITP
14 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.46%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.05%) SLA
2 7 (3.21%) GDPR
3 6 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.38%) QA
System Software
1 125 (57.34%) Active Directory
2 38 (17.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (15.60%) Hyper-V
4 15 (6.88%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (6.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (6.42%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (4.59%) vSphere
7 3 (1.38%) XenApp
7 3 (1.38%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.92%) Docker
9 1 (0.46%) NFS
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (17.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 39 (17.89%) SCOM
2 38 (17.43%) SCCM
3 28 (12.84%) WSUS
4 23 (10.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (7.80%) Kubernetes
6 12 (5.50%) EMC NetWorker
6 12 (5.50%) NetBackup
6 12 (5.50%) vCenter Server
7 8 (3.67%) CASB
8 3 (1.38%) Grafana
9 2 (0.92%) Nessus
9 2 (0.92%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.46%) Icinga
Vendors
1 125 (57.34%) Microsoft
2 74 (33.94%) VMware
3 30 (13.76%) Cisco
4 21 (9.63%) Oracle
5 18 (8.26%) Dell
6 17 (7.80%) Veeam
7 16 (7.34%) HP
7 16 (7.34%) Juniper
7 16 (7.34%) Palo Alto
8 13 (5.96%) Dynatrace
9 12 (5.50%) 3PAR
9 12 (5.50%) EMC
9 12 (5.50%) Extreme Networks
9 12 (5.50%) Symantec
10 11 (5.05%) Citrix
11 5 (2.29%) Adaptive Insights
11 5 (2.29%) Aruba
11 5 (2.29%) Draytek
11 5 (2.29%) Fortinet
11 5 (2.29%) Tagetik