DNS Job Trends in Croydon

Domain Name System (DNS)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 - 49
Rank change year-on-year - - -26
Permanent jobs citing DNS 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Croydon 1.63% - 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.26% - 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 - £55,000
75th Percentile £33,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median annual salary £31,000 £51,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year -39.81% +25.61% +17.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 38 25 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Croydon 30.89% 12.56% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 11
10th Percentile - £55,810 -
25th Percentile £29,000 £58,016 £23,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £61,644 £28,001
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +120.15% -54.28%
75th Percentile £33,000 £65,272 £42,000
90th Percentile - £67,163 £59,750
South London median annual salary £41,250 £60,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -31.25% +36.36% -16.19%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Croydon

DNS
Salary Trend in Croydon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing DNS

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Glacier
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) SSH
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Vagrant
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SonicWALL