DNS Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 10 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 76 68
Rank change year-on-year +32 -8 +31
Permanent jobs citing DNS 18 21 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.56% 1.34% 3.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.69% 7.34% 26.63%
Number of salaries quoted 17 21 42
10th Percentile £30,705 £26,250 £23,250
25th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £68,000 £67,375
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £41,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -

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 83 286 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 16.44% 18.25% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 55 222 88
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,517 £25,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £31,993
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,100 £69,650 £67,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -15.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Cambridgeshire

DNS
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary trend for DNS in Cambridgeshire

DNS
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DNS in Cambridgeshire

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 10 May 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 +33 8 £47,500 +18.75% 16
Huntingdon +5 3 £42,500 -26.72% 1
Ely - 2 £42,475 -
Peterborough - 1 £55,000 - 1
Wisbech - 1 £32,450 -
DNS
East of England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) Apache
2 3 (16.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Mimecast
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (22.22%) Azure
5 3 (16.67%) Nutanix
5 3 (16.67%) OneDrive
5 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (11.11%) PowerApps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure AI
7 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub
7 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (5.56%) PaaS
7 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (77.78%) Firewall
2 11 (61.11%) DHCP
3 7 (38.89%) VLAN
4 6 (33.33%) VPN
5 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 4 (22.22%) WAN
6 3 (16.67%) IPv4
6 3 (16.67%) LAN
7 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
7 1 (5.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) IT Support
3 3 (16.67%) IT Technician
4 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Switch Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.56%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (5.56%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Support Technician
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security Posture
1 4 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (5.56%) NHS
4 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
1 9 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (16.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Cloud Security
4 4 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 4 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (22.22%) Service Management
4 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Threat Detection
4 4 (22.22%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 3 (16.67%) ERP
5 3 (16.67%) ITSM
5 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 3 (16.67%) Server Building
5 3 (16.67%) Time Management
6 2 (11.11%) RBAC
6 2 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.56%) CCNA
2 1 (5.56%) CCNP
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) MCP
2 1 (5.56%) MCSA
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (27.78%) Docker
3 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (22.22%) VMware NSX
4 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 3 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (5.56%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (5.56%) Firmware
6 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
2 4 (22.22%) vCenter Server
2 4 (22.22%) VxRail
3 3 (16.67%) Avamar
3 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 3 (16.67%) Puppet
4 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.56%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (5.56%) Terraform
5 1 (5.56%) vRealize
5 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) Cisco
3 4 (22.22%) Dell
3 4 (22.22%) EMC
3 4 (22.22%) SolarWinds
3 4 (22.22%) VMware
4 3 (16.67%) Aruba
4 3 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.56%) Databricks
5 1 (5.56%) Isilon
5 1 (5.56%) McAfee
5 1 (5.56%) Meraki
5 1 (5.56%) Red Hat