DNS Job Trends in the East Midlands

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 89 73
Rank change year-on-year -2 -16 +43
Permanent jobs citing DNS 69 44 134
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.52% 2.42% 3.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.90% 11.34% 25.62%
Number of salaries quoted 58 39 121
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +2.74%
75th Percentile £43,125 £52,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £56,250
England median annual salary £42,250 £42,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year -0.59% -2.30% +2.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 365 388 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.05% 21.33% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 181 168 458
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £29,000 £30,068
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% -3.75% -0.62%
75th Percentile £47,500 £57,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £64,750 £61,250 £58,750
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

DNS job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

DNS
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in the East Midlands

DNS
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Derbyshire +4 28 £28,500 -5.79% 1
Lincolnshire -7 16 £32,500 -
Nottinghamshire -11 15 £57,500 +82.54% 6
Leicestershire -31 9 £36,000 -25.77% 3
Northamptonshire -9 1 £37,500 -25.00% 1
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 17 (24.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (17.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (76.81%) Microsoft 365
2 31 (44.93%) Azure
3 22 (31.88%) Entra ID
4 7 (10.14%) Azure AKS
4 7 (10.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 7 (10.14%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (10.14%) Azure Storage
4 7 (10.14%) IaaS
5 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.90%) AWS
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.45%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 54 (78.26%) DHCP
2 24 (34.78%) TCP/IP
3 19 (27.54%) VPN
4 15 (21.74%) VoIP
5 12 (17.39%) WAN
6 10 (14.49%) Firewall
7 9 (13.04%) Internet
7 9 (13.04%) VLAN
8 8 (11.59%) Wireless
9 6 (8.70%) LAN
9 6 (8.70%) Network Security
9 6 (8.70%) SD-WAN
10 4 (5.80%) PBX
10 4 (5.80%) WLAN
11 3 (4.35%) MQTT
12 2 (2.90%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (2.90%) SSL
13 1 (1.45%) DMZ
13 1 (1.45%) SAN
13 1 (1.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (4.35%) MongoDB
General
1 34 (49.28%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.59%) Law
2 8 (11.59%) Legal
3 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.35%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.90%) Automotive
5 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.45%) Finance
6 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.45%) Marketing
6 1 (1.45%) Military
6 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (49.28%) IT Support
2 28 (40.58%) IT Engineer
3 26 (37.68%) Support Engineer
4 22 (31.88%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (13.04%) IT Support Technician
5 9 (13.04%) IT Technician
5 9 (13.04%) Support Technician
6 8 (11.59%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 8 (11.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) 3rd Line Support
6 8 (11.59%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (11.59%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Field Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Field Service Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Applications Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 25 (36.23%) Driving Licence
2 7 (10.14%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.70%) iPad
3 6 (8.70%) PMI
4 3 (4.35%) IoT
4 3 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 61 (88.41%) Windows
2 36 (52.17%) Windows Server
3 18 (26.09%) Windows 10
4 11 (15.94%) Mac OS
5 8 (11.59%) Linux
6 4 (5.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (4.35%) VMS
8 1 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (49.28%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (47.83%) Customer Service
3 19 (27.54%) Incident Management
3 19 (27.54%) ITSM
4 13 (18.84%) Service Delivery
5 11 (15.94%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (14.49%) High Availability
7 9 (13.04%) Identity Management
8 8 (11.59%) Application Packaging
8 8 (11.59%) CRM
8 8 (11.59%) E-Commerce
8 8 (11.59%) ITIL
8 8 (11.59%) Task Automation
9 7 (10.14%) Agile
9 7 (10.14%) Containerisation
9 7 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.14%) Load Balancing
10 6 (8.70%) ERP
10 6 (8.70%) Logistics
10 6 (8.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.14%) SQL
3 4 (5.80%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (20.29%) Degree
2 8 (11.59%) Azure Certification
2 8 (11.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (8.70%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.90%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) Cyber Essentials
1 9 (13.04%) GDPR
2 6 (8.70%) SLA
3 5 (7.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 49 (71.01%) Active Directory
2 12 (17.39%) Hyper-V
3 8 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (5.80%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (24.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (11.59%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (10.14%) Kubernetes
4 6 (8.70%) WSUS
5 2 (2.90%) Nagios
Vendors
1 36 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 17 (24.64%) Apple
3 9 (13.04%) VMware
4 8 (11.59%) Logitech
4 8 (11.59%) Yealink
5 4 (5.80%) Freshdesk
5 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.90%) Cisco
6 2 (2.90%) Epicor
6 2 (2.90%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.90%) TP-LINK
7 1 (1.45%) HP
7 1 (1.45%) Meraki
7 1 (1.45%) Veeam
7 1 (1.45%) Zerto