DNS Jobs in the West Midlands

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 167 96
Rank change year-on-year +62 -71 -7
Permanent jobs citing DNS 172 115 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.38% 1.70% 3.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.22% 9.94% 20.67%
Number of salaries quoted 145 102 202
10th Percentile £24,950 £26,025 £26,250
25th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,914 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.22% -2.72% -5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £47,226 £52,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £56,450 £63,375
England median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 999 1,157 1,079
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.80% 17.13% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 829 528 714
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,838 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,750 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £56,950 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,375 £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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the West Midlands

DNS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for DNS in the West Midlands

DNS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the West Midlands

DNS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
Birmingham +21 59 £50,000 +25.00% 8
Shropshire +17 18 £36,500 - 8
Coventry +35 16 £42,500 +13.33% 1
Staffordshire -27 14 £43,750 +34.62% 2
Warwickshire - 12 £57,500 - 4
Worcestershire -28 11 £42,500 +7.07% 8
Wednesbury - 10 £30,000 -
Solihull +5 9 £29,500 -15.71% 4
Wolverhampton +21 5 £21,500 -59.05% 3
Herefordshire -1 2 £46,250 +8.82% 4
Dudley - 2 £24,500 -
Brierley Hill - 2 £33,750 -
Halesowen -11 1 £30,000 -10.45% 1
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 70 (40.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (22.67%) SharePoint
3 10 (5.81%) IIS
4 4 (2.33%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.74%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (1.16%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 22 (12.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Sage 200
2 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.16%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 90 (52.33%) Azure
2 89 (51.74%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (31.98%) Entra ID
4 25 (14.53%) AWS
5 19 (11.05%) OneDrive
6 9 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.65%) IaaS
8 6 (3.49%) Google Workspace
9 5 (2.91%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.91%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.33%) Azure App Service
10 4 (2.33%) PaaS
10 4 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (1.16%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.16%) GCP
11 2 (1.16%) Matillion
11 2 (1.16%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.16%) OpenDNS
Communications & Networking
1 141 (81.98%) DHCP
2 83 (48.26%) Firewall
3 65 (37.79%) TCP/IP
4 46 (26.74%) WAN
5 42 (24.42%) LAN
6 29 (16.86%) VPN
7 27 (15.70%) SAN
8 25 (14.53%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (13.95%) VLAN
10 14 (8.14%) SSL
11 13 (7.56%) HTTP
11 13 (7.56%) iSCSI
11 13 (7.56%) SD-WAN
11 13 (7.56%) SMTP
11 13 (7.56%) Wireless
12 12 (6.98%) SNMP
13 10 (5.81%) Fibre Channel
14 9 (5.23%) OSPF
14 9 (5.23%) SSH
15 8 (4.65%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.47%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.40%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.74%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.74%) Power BI
5 2 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.16%) MySQL
5 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.33%) Git
2 2 (1.16%) MSBuild
2 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 22 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (6.40%) Finance
5 7 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.07%) Law
5 7 (4.07%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.33%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.74%) Retail
8 2 (1.16%) Legal
8 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.58%) Automotive
9 1 (0.58%) Back Office
9 1 (0.58%) Games
9 1 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (18.60%) Support Engineer
2 30 (17.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (17.44%) IT Engineer
3 29 (16.86%) Analyst
4 26 (15.12%) IT Support
5 23 (13.37%) Senior
6 18 (10.47%) Network Engineer
7 16 (9.30%) IT Support Engineer
7 16 (9.30%) Service Analyst
7 16 (9.30%) Service Desk Analyst
8 13 (7.56%) 3rd Line Support
9 12 (6.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 12 (6.98%) Administrator
9 12 (6.98%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (6.40%) Support Analyst
11 10 (5.81%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) IT Manager
12 8 (4.65%) Windows Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
13 7 (4.07%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.91%) .NET
1 5 (2.91%) ASP.NET
2 4 (2.33%) JSON
2 4 (2.33%) YAML
3 3 (1.74%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.74%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (1.74%) CSS
3 3 (1.74%) HTML
3 3 (1.74%) jQuery
3 3 (1.74%) React
3 3 (1.74%) REST
3 3 (1.74%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (1.74%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 3 (1.74%) Vue
3 3 (1.74%) WPF
4 2 (1.16%) JWT
4 2 (1.16%) LAMP
4 2 (1.16%) RESTful
4 2 (1.16%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.05%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.81%) Driving Licence
3 9 (5.23%) PKI
3 9 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.65%) EFT
4 8 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.49%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.91%) Clustering
6 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.33%) CCTV
7 4 (2.33%) FMCG
7 4 (2.33%) IoT
7 4 (2.33%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.74%) Mobile Computing
8 3 (1.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.16%) Replication
10 1 (0.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.58%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 125 (72.67%) Windows
2 92 (53.49%) Windows Server
3 36 (20.93%) Windows Server 2016
4 34 (19.77%) Windows 10
5 29 (16.86%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (15.70%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (8.14%) Linux
8 10 (5.81%) Mac OS
9 8 (4.65%) Apple iOS
9 8 (4.65%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (2.91%) Ubuntu
10 5 (2.91%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (2.33%) CentOS
11 4 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (2.33%) VMS
12 2 (1.16%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.58%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (22.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 34 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (18.60%) ITIL
4 27 (15.70%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (9.88%) Change Control
5 17 (9.88%) Customer Service
6 14 (8.14%) ERP
6 14 (8.14%) Project Delivery
7 13 (7.56%) High Availability
8 12 (6.98%) Change Management
8 12 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (6.40%) Disaster Recovery
10 10 (5.81%) Patch Management
10 10 (5.81%) Platform Engineering
10 10 (5.81%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 9 (5.23%) CI/CD
11 9 (5.23%) Decision-Making
11 9 (5.23%) DevOps
11 9 (5.23%) Incident Management
11 9 (5.23%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 49 (28.49%) PowerShell
2 20 (11.63%) SQL
3 5 (2.91%) C#
3 5 (2.91%) T-SQL
4 4 (2.33%) Bash
5 3 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.74%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.74%) XAML
6 2 (1.16%) PHP
7 1 (0.58%) C
7 1 (0.58%) C++
7 1 (0.58%) Java
7 1 (0.58%) Perl
7 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (9.30%) Degree
2 15 (8.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (5.81%) A+ Certification
3 10 (5.81%) CCNA
3 10 (5.81%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (5.23%) Network+ Certification
5 8 (4.65%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.07%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.91%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.91%) MCSA
7 5 (2.91%) MCSE
8 4 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.58%) HNC
10 1 (0.58%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.14%) SLA
2 4 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.74%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) JSP 440
System Software
1 129 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 46 (26.74%) Hyper-V
3 40 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (9.88%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (5.81%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (4.07%) vSphere
7 6 (3.49%) pfSense
8 5 (2.91%) NFS
9 4 (2.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (2.33%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.33%) VMware Server
10 3 (1.74%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (1.16%) Docker
11 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (1.16%) XenApp
11 2 (1.16%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.58%) Squid
Systems Management
1 34 (19.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (10.47%) SCCM
3 12 (6.98%) vCenter Server
4 7 (4.07%) Terraform
5 5 (2.91%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.33%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.33%) SCOM
7 3 (1.74%) Autotask
7 3 (1.74%) Backup Exec
7 3 (1.74%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (1.74%) Nagios
8 2 (1.16%) WSUS
9 1 (0.58%) Icinga
Vendors
1 114 (66.28%) Microsoft
2 69 (40.12%) VMware
3 37 (21.51%) Cisco
4 26 (15.12%) Veeam
5 18 (10.47%) Apple
5 18 (10.47%) Citrix
6 16 (9.30%) Dell
7 14 (8.14%) Aruba
7 14 (8.14%) Sophos
8 13 (7.56%) HP
9 12 (6.98%) Fortinet
9 12 (6.98%) Juniper
9 12 (6.98%) Zerto
10 11 (6.40%) WatchGuard
11 9 (5.23%) Sage
12 8 (4.65%) Globalscape
13 7 (4.07%) Datto
13 7 (4.07%) Mitel
13 7 (4.07%) Nimble Storage
14 5 (2.91%) Webroot