DNS Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 60 53
Rank change year-on-year -8 -7 +14
Permanent jobs citing DNS 5 22 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.56% 2.46% 1.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.02% 11.06% 7.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1 18 3
10th Percentile - £25,000 £52,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £26,188 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £32,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% -40.91% -
75th Percentile £34,250 £46,594 -
90th Percentile - £59,375 -
East of England median annual salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -21.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 83 199 147
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.30% 22.21% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 64 110 81
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,700 £31,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% -1.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £66,500
90th Percentile £79,375 £72,500 £70,000
East of England median annual salary £40,000 £50,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year -20.79% +5.21% +12.94%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DNS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

DNS job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

DNS
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing DNS

DNS
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Cambridge -4 3 - - 15
Peterborough -8 1 £33,500 -39.09% 7
DNS
East of England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (20.00%) IaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) LAN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
4 2 (40.00%) IPsec
4 2 (40.00%) SSL
4 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (40.00%) VLAN
4 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Deskside Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Android
3 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Maintenance
1 2 (40.00%) Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
2 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) MCSE
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GxP
1 2 (40.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Apple