DNS Job Trends in Derbyshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Derbyshire requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 24 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +44
Permanent jobs citing DNS 47 16 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Derbyshire 9.42% 6.04% 6.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.04% 25.81% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 41 11 18
10th Percentile £24,250 - £21,750
25th Percentile £25,750 £23,500 £22,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £28,000 £29,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -3.45% -24.75%
75th Percentile £29,250 £45,000 £37,500
90th Percentile £34,500 £53,750 £47,500
East Midlands median annual salary £28,500 £31,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year -8.80% -10.71% -26.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 204 62 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Derbyshire 40.88% 23.40% 19.93%
Number of salaries quoted 55 29 49
10th Percentile £25,300 £23,500 £22,750
25th Percentile £25,750 £29,000 £24,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £37,500 £26,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.33% +41.51% -33.75%
75th Percentile £31,000 £42,500 £44,000
90th Percentile £34,200 £54,500 £56,250
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% -5.88% -10.53%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

DNS
Salary Trend in Derbyshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in Derbyshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Derbyshire over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in Derbyshire

DNS
Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Derby 0 39 £27,500 +10.00% 2
Chesterfield +5 6 - - 1
Belper - 2 £31,500 -
DNS
East Midlands

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (12.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (10.64%) Azure
2 5 (10.64%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.38%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 47 (100.00%) DHCP
2 8 (17.02%) Network Security
3 6 (12.77%) Internet
4 5 (10.64%) TCP/IP
5 4 (8.51%) LAN
5 4 (8.51%) WAN
5 4 (8.51%) WLAN
6 3 (6.38%) Firewall
7 2 (4.26%) VLAN
8 1 (2.13%) VPN
General
1 14 (29.79%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (91.49%) IT Engineer
2 39 (82.98%) IT Support
3 35 (74.47%) IT Support Engineer
3 35 (74.47%) Support Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Field Engineer
4 6 (12.77%) Field Service Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) IT Support Technician
5 4 (8.51%) IT Technician
5 4 (8.51%) Support Technician
6 3 (6.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 3 (6.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (6.38%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (74.47%) Driving Licence
2 6 (12.77%) iPad
2 6 (12.77%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 47 (100.00%) Windows
2 44 (93.62%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.51%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (6.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (93.62%) Customer Service
2 39 (82.98%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (65.96%) Incident Management
4 6 (12.77%) Preventative Maintenance
4 6 (12.77%) Server Management
5 4 (8.51%) Proactive Monitoring
5 4 (8.51%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 3 (6.38%) Data Protection
6 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (6.38%) ITSM
7 2 (4.26%) Mentoring
8 1 (2.13%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Degree
1 6 (12.77%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 42 (89.36%) Active Directory
2 8 (17.02%) Hyper-V
2 8 (17.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) WSUS
2 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
1 8 (17.02%) VMware
2 6 (12.77%) Apple
3 3 (6.38%) Freshdesk
3 3 (6.38%) Meraki
3 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow
4 2 (4.26%) Cisco
4 2 (4.26%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.13%) Fortinet