DNS Jobs in Birmingham

Domain Name System (DNS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 92 106
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 +7
Permanent jobs citing DNS 28 57 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.10% 1.94% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.17% 14.81% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 25 43 23
10th Percentile - £33,200 £21,750
25th Percentile £27,750 £42,500 £27,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £43,750 £58,750 £53,125
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,000 £58,700
West Midlands median annual salary £35,000 £39,750 £38,500
% change year-on-year -11.95% +3.25% -3.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

DNS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 230 385 274
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.22% 13.08% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 139 306 196
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,750 £27,625
25th Percentile £43,250 £32,500 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -15.45% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £66,563
90th Percentile £89,666 £80,000 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -2.17%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Birmingham

DNS
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS in Birmingham.

Salary trend for DNS in Birmingham

DNS
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Birmingham over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DNS in Birmingham

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (17.86%) Confluence
3 3 (10.71%) nginx
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Solr
4 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (7.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (35.71%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon ELB
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon S3
3 5 (17.86%) AWS KMS
3 5 (17.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 2 (7.14%) Route 53
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.57%) IaaS
7 1 (3.57%) PaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.57%) Pulumi
7 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (60.71%) Firewall
2 16 (57.14%) DHCP
3 15 (53.57%) WAN
4 12 (42.86%) VPN
5 11 (39.29%) LAN
6 8 (28.57%) TCP/IP
7 5 (17.86%) FTP
7 5 (17.86%) HTTP
7 5 (17.86%) SD-WAN
7 5 (17.86%) SMTP
7 5 (17.86%) SSH
8 3 (10.71%) Network Security
8 3 (10.71%) VLAN
9 2 (7.14%) IMAP
9 2 (7.14%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (7.14%) Wireless
10 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
10 1 (3.57%) IPsec
10 1 (3.57%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (14.29%) Power BI
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (10.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (10.71%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (10.71%) Tableau
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Couchbase
5 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Git
2 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
3 5 (17.86%) JIRA
3 5 (17.86%) Vagrant
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Support Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support
3 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) SQL Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Junior
6 2 (7.14%) Junior Network Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Web Services
2 2 (7.14%) LDAP
3 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Replication
2 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.57%) NHS
2 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Windows
2 11 (39.29%) Linux
3 7 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 7 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (17.86%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (17.86%) VMS
6 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 6 (21.43%) Logistics
4 5 (17.86%) Change Management
4 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
4 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
4 5 (17.86%) Patch Management
4 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Analytics
5 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (10.71%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (10.71%) Visualisation
7 2 (7.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) SQL
2 6 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (17.86%) Groovy
3 5 (17.86%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) Perl
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
5 1 (3.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) A+ Certification
2 6 (21.43%) MCP
2 6 (21.43%) MCSA
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) Degree
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
4 3 (10.71%) CCNA
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.14%) JNCIA
5 2 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
6 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) ISO 9000
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (39.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (21.43%) Docker
3 2 (7.14%) DFS Replication
3 2 (7.14%) Dovecot
3 2 (7.14%) Postfix
3 2 (7.14%) Squid
4 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Grafana
2 5 (17.86%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.14%) Nessus
3 2 (7.14%) Proxmox
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.57%) Nagios
4 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) Cisco
3 5 (17.86%) ServiceNow
4 3 (10.71%) Juniper
4 3 (10.71%) Meraki
4 3 (10.71%) SAP
5 2 (7.14%) Fujitsu
5 2 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (3.57%) Aruba
6 1 (3.57%) Databricks
6 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.57%) HP
6 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.57%) VMware