DNS Job Trends in the East of England

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 67 98
Rank change year-on-year -48 +31 -28
Permanent jobs citing DNS 50 102 129
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.98% 3.53% 2.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.18% 21.25% 13.59%
Number of salaries quoted 38 94 126
10th Percentile £26,850 £25,000 £25,500
25th Percentile £28,594 £28,500 £26,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £34,188 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -14.53% -11.11%
75th Percentile £42,500 £49,688 £43,750
90th Percentile £64,000 £63,750 £56,250
England median annual salary £37,750 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -16.11% +3.45% -3.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 696 480 949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 13.64% 16.60% 18.05%
Number of salaries quoted 230 258 741
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £24,840
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,561 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,938 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £68,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £53,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.56% +10.31% -4.98%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

DNS job vacancy trend in the East of England

DNS
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the East of England over the 6 months to 11 March 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in the East of England

DNS
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 11 March 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
Suffolk +10 11 £40,000 -3.61% 3
Essex -9 11 £41,000 -3.53% 3
Hertfordshire -33 9 £43,000 -2.27% 16
Norfolk -18 8 £32,875 +17.41% 4
Cambridgeshire -22 6 £33,500 -14.10% 6
Bedfordshire +17 5 £27,000 -32.50% 2
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 16 (32.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 32 (64.00%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (38.00%) Azure
2 19 (38.00%) Entra ID
3 8 (16.00%) IaaS
4 7 (14.00%) PaaS
5 6 (12.00%) Power Automate
6 5 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 5 (10.00%) PowerApps
7 3 (6.00%) Google Workspace
8 2 (4.00%) AWS
8 2 (4.00%) SaaS
9 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (2.00%) Azure Storage
9 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 41 (82.00%) DHCP
2 31 (62.00%) Firewall
3 25 (50.00%) VPN
4 24 (48.00%) TCP/IP
5 17 (34.00%) VLAN
6 14 (28.00%) LAN
7 9 (18.00%) WAN
7 9 (18.00%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (12.00%) IMAP
8 6 (12.00%) Network Security
8 6 (12.00%) POP3
8 6 (12.00%) SMTP
9 5 (10.00%) EIGRP
9 5 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (10.00%) OSPF
9 5 (10.00%) Wireless
9 5 (10.00%) Wireshark
10 3 (6.00%) VoIP
11 1 (2.00%) IPv4
11 1 (2.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Legal
3 6 (12.00%) Telecoms
4 5 (10.00%) Retail
5 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Law
6 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) IT Support
2 9 (18.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Lead
3 7 (14.00%) Support Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) IT Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 5 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (10.00%) Administrator
5 5 (10.00%) Desktop Support
5 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) IT Administrator
5 5 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Driving Licence
2 7 (14.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 43 (86.00%) Windows
2 29 (58.00%) Windows Server
3 16 (32.00%) Windows 10
4 6 (12.00%) Android
4 6 (12.00%) Apple iOS
4 6 (12.00%) Mac OS
5 4 (8.00%) VMS
5 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (4.00%) Linux
7 1 (2.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (26.00%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (24.00%) ITIL
4 11 (22.00%) Customer Service
5 10 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 9 (18.00%) AI
6 9 (18.00%) Asset Management
6 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (18.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
8 6 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (12.00%) Time Management
9 5 (10.00%) Case Management
9 5 (10.00%) Digital Innovation
9 5 (10.00%) ERP
9 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
9 5 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
10 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
10 4 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.00%) Bash
2 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (24.00%) Azure Certification
2 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (12.00%) CCNA
3 6 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (12.00%) DBS Check
4 5 (10.00%) CCNP
5 4 (8.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 4 (8.00%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (6.00%) Degree
7 2 (4.00%) A+ Certification
7 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
8 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.00%) MCSE
8 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 41 (82.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (18.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (14.00%) vSphere
4 5 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (8.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.00%) Docker
6 1 (2.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 4 (8.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 4 (8.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (6.00%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (6.00%) SCCM
4 2 (4.00%) PaperCut
5 1 (2.00%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (92.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (24.00%) VMware
3 9 (18.00%) SolarWinds
4 7 (14.00%) Cisco
5 4 (8.00%) Freshdesk
6 3 (6.00%) Citrix
6 3 (6.00%) Google
6 3 (6.00%) Mitel
6 3 (6.00%) Sophos
7 2 (4.00%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.00%) Apple
8 1 (2.00%) Blue Coat
8 1 (2.00%) Darktrace
8 1 (2.00%) F5
8 1 (2.00%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.00%) LogRhythm
8 1 (2.00%) MikroTik
8 1 (2.00%) Okta
8 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (2.00%) Splunk