DNS Jobs in England

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 121 174
Rank change year-on-year +4 +53 +27
Permanent jobs citing DNS 1,154 1,987 1,998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.51% 2.33% 2.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.08% 16.31% 13.89%
Number of salaries quoted 655 1,658 1,546
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,375 £31,813 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% +2.35% -5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,750 £58,563
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.30% +2.35% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,049 12,183 14,383
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 13.14% 14.30% 15.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,727 8,619 7,434
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,100 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,875 £50,250
% change year-on-year -0.78% -4.73% -4.29%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in England

DNS
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for DNS in England

DNS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DNS in England

DNS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +77 526 £42,500 +2.41% 134
North West +88 471 £42,500 -5.56% 76
London -39 241 £56,250 +2.27% 233
South East -50 139 £37,500 -11.76% 156
Midlands -63 89 £35,000 -11.95% 83
South West +5 77 £40,000 +6.67% 69
East of England +2 75 £42,500 +2.41% 58
West Midlands -55 47 £35,000 -17.65% 40
Yorkshire +9 46 £37,500 +15.38% 44
East Midlands -30 42 £35,000 -6.67% 35
North East +8 9 £32,000 -24.71% 17
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 229 (19.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 126 (10.92%) SharePoint
3 50 (4.33%) IIS
4 16 (1.39%) nginx
5 11 (0.95%) Apache
5 11 (0.95%) Apache Solr
6 9 (0.78%) WordPress
7 4 (0.35%) CMS
8 3 (0.26%) Confluence
8 3 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.26%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.26%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.087%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2003
10 1 (0.087%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.087%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.087%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.087%) Umbraco
Applications
1 117 (10.14%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (2.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.21%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.26%) SOLIDWORKS
6 1 (0.087%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 9 (0.78%) Sage 50
2 8 (0.69%) Fidessa
3 6 (0.52%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.17%) Carpe Diem
4 2 (0.17%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.17%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.087%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.087%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.087%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 424 (36.74%) Azure
2 390 (33.80%) Microsoft 365
3 192 (16.64%) Entra ID
4 141 (12.22%) AWS
5 54 (4.68%) GCP
6 52 (4.51%) OneDrive
7 43 (3.73%) SaaS
8 29 (2.51%) IaaS
8 29 (2.51%) Mimecast
9 26 (2.25%) Google Workspace
10 25 (2.17%) PaaS
11 19 (1.65%) Nutanix
12 17 (1.47%) Power Platform
13 16 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
15 14 (1.21%) Power Automate
16 12 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
16 12 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
17 10 (0.87%) GitHub
18 9 (0.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 620 (53.73%) VPN
2 534 (46.27%) DHCP
3 359 (31.11%) Firewall
4 273 (23.66%) TCP/IP
5 165 (14.30%) VLAN
6 135 (11.70%) LAN
7 134 (11.61%) WAN
8 71 (6.15%) Network Security
9 64 (5.55%) Wi-Fi
10 59 (5.11%) SAN
11 50 (4.33%) VoIP
12 46 (3.99%) Wireless
13 37 (3.21%) SMTP
14 34 (2.95%) IPsec
15 33 (2.86%) BGP
16 31 (2.69%) IPv4
16 31 (2.69%) OSPF
17 30 (2.60%) PBX
18 27 (2.34%) Cisco IOS
18 27 (2.34%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (6.93%) SQL Server
2 30 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
3 18 (1.56%) MySQL
4 14 (1.21%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (1.21%) NoSQL
5 11 (0.95%) Couchbase
6 10 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (0.87%) Power BI
7 9 (0.78%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.52%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.35%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.35%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (2.08%) JIRA
2 17 (1.47%) Git
3 8 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.43%) GitLab
4 5 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.35%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.087%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.087%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.087%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.087%) Log4Net
7 1 (0.087%) Maven
7 1 (0.087%) Subversion
7 1 (0.087%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.087%) TeamCity
General
1 492 (42.63%) Finance
2 459 (39.77%) Analytical Skills
3 444 (38.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 291 (25.22%) Social Skills
5 49 (4.25%) Retail
6 46 (3.99%) Law
7 34 (2.95%) Banking
8 27 (2.34%) Telecoms
9 26 (2.25%) Legal
10 21 (1.82%) Automotive
11 17 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.21%) Public Sector
13 10 (0.87%) Local Government
13 10 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.69%) Back Office
15 6 (0.52%) Marketing
16 5 (0.43%) Games
16 5 (0.43%) Police
17 3 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.26%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 398 (34.49%) Developer
2 397 (34.40%) Software Developer
3 137 (11.87%) IT Support
4 130 (11.27%) Support Engineer
5 128 (11.09%) Analyst
6 113 (9.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 96 (8.32%) Senior
8 92 (7.97%) IT Engineer
9 69 (5.98%) Support Analyst
10 63 (5.46%) 2nd Line Support
11 52 (4.51%) Network Engineer
12 49 (4.25%) IT Support Engineer
13 42 (3.64%) 3rd Line Support
14 37 (3.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 36 (3.12%) Cloud Engineer
16 35 (3.03%) IT Technician
17 33 (2.86%) IT Analyst
17 33 (2.86%) Technical Support
18 30 (2.60%) Infrastructure Support
18 30 (2.60%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.13%) 802.1X
2 11 (0.95%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (0.78%) SAML
3 9 (0.78%) YAML
4 8 (0.69%) FIX Protocol
4 8 (0.69%) LDAP
5 6 (0.52%) Node.js
6 5 (0.43%) Middleware
7 4 (0.35%) HTML
7 4 (0.35%) LEMP Stack
7 4 (0.35%) React
7 4 (0.35%) Web Services
8 3 (0.26%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.26%) CSS
8 3 (0.26%) Django
8 3 (0.26%) Loki
8 3 (0.26%) XML
9 2 (0.17%) EDI
9 2 (0.17%) JSON
9 2 (0.17%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 399 (34.58%) Cyberattack
2 56 (4.85%) Management Information System
3 51 (4.42%) Data Centre
4 49 (4.25%) Driving Licence
5 37 (3.21%) Onboarding
6 27 (2.34%) Clustering
7 23 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (1.99%) Replication
8 21 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
10 19 (1.65%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.56%) PKI
12 17 (1.47%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.47%) Smartphone
13 12 (1.04%) CCTV
13 12 (1.04%) Private Cloud
14 11 (0.95%) Client/Server
14 11 (0.95%) Cloud Native
15 10 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
16 9 (0.78%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 566 (49.05%) Linux
2 531 (46.01%) Windows
3 432 (37.44%) Android
4 343 (29.72%) Windows Server
5 99 (8.58%) Windows 10
6 85 (7.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 67 (5.81%) Mac OS
8 65 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 27 (2.34%) Mac OS X
10 26 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 24 (2.08%) Unix
12 23 (1.99%) Ubuntu
13 22 (1.91%) CentOS
14 20 (1.73%) Apple iOS
15 15 (1.30%) Windows 7
16 13 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 11 (0.95%) Rocky
17 11 (0.95%) VMS
18 7 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
19 5 (0.43%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (37.00%) Agile
2 408 (35.36%) Line Management
3 398 (34.49%) Mathematics
4 397 (34.40%) Android Development
4 397 (34.40%) Design Patterns
4 397 (34.40%) OO
4 397 (34.40%) OOP
5 218 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (13.00%) Customer Service
7 145 (12.56%) ITIL
8 134 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 125 (10.83%) Cybersecurity
10 111 (9.62%) Disaster Recovery
11 68 (5.89%) Incident Management
12 56 (4.85%) High Availability
12 56 (4.85%) Task Automation
13 53 (4.59%) DevOps
14 52 (4.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 52 (4.51%) Migration
15 47 (4.07%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 491 (42.55%) Python
2 404 (35.01%) Go
2 404 (35.01%) Java
3 401 (34.75%) C++
4 206 (17.85%) PowerShell
5 122 (10.57%) SQL
6 23 (1.99%) Bash
7 15 (1.30%) PHP
8 12 (1.04%) Perl
9 10 (0.87%) JavaScript
10 7 (0.61%) Bicep
11 6 (0.52%) C#
12 4 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.26%) Ruby
13 3 (0.26%) VBScript
14 2 (0.17%) AWK
14 2 (0.17%) C
14 2 (0.17%) Korn
15 1 (0.087%) R
Qualifications
1 451 (39.08%) Security Cleared
2 423 (36.66%) DV Cleared
3 124 (10.75%) Degree
4 120 (10.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 62 (5.37%) Cisco Certification
6 56 (4.85%) Network+ Certification
7 51 (4.42%) CCNA
8 44 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
9 39 (3.38%) A+ Certification
9 39 (3.38%) Azure Certification
10 31 (2.69%) MCSE
11 27 (2.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 26 (2.25%) MCP
13 25 (2.17%) SC Cleared
14 23 (1.99%) CCNP
15 22 (1.91%) MCSA
16 15 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
16 15 (1.30%) HNC
16 15 (1.30%) HND
17 14 (1.21%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (3.99%) SLA
2 19 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (1.30%) GDPR
4 12 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (0.69%) NIST
6 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.43%) QA
7 4 (0.35%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.26%) NCSC
8 3 (0.26%) PMO
9 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.087%) GRC
10 1 (0.087%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.087%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.087%) WCAG
System Software
1 474 (41.07%) Active Directory
2 433 (37.52%) Docker
3 185 (16.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 168 (14.56%) Hyper-V
5 63 (5.46%) VMware ESXi
6 42 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
7 41 (3.55%) vSphere
8 27 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 14 (1.21%) Terminal Services
9 14 (1.21%) VMware NSX
10 12 (1.04%) DFS Replication
11 11 (0.95%) Firmware
12 9 (0.78%) BitLocker
13 8 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.26%) KVM
14 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
15 2 (0.17%) pfSense
15 2 (0.17%) Postfix
15 2 (0.17%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 466 (40.38%) Ansible
2 138 (11.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 69 (5.98%) SCCM
4 58 (5.03%) Kubernetes
5 54 (4.68%) Terraform
6 38 (3.29%) vCenter Server
7 31 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
8 27 (2.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 26 (2.25%) WSUS
10 21 (1.82%) SCOM
11 18 (1.56%) Puppet
12 13 (1.13%) FortiGate
13 12 (1.04%) vMotion
14 11 (0.95%) Nagios
14 11 (0.95%) NetBackup
14 11 (0.95%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.87%) Grafana
16 9 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (0.78%) vRealize
17 7 (0.61%) VxRail
Vendors
1 465 (40.29%) Microsoft
2 242 (20.97%) VMware
3 151 (13.08%) Cisco
4 72 (6.24%) Veeam
5 63 (5.46%) Google
6 58 (5.03%) Citrix
7 42 (3.64%) Dell
8 40 (3.47%) Apple
8 40 (3.47%) SolarWinds
9 38 (3.29%) HP
10 35 (3.03%) Fortinet
11 30 (2.60%) Meraki
11 30 (2.60%) ServiceNow
12 26 (2.25%) Oracle
12 26 (2.25%) Red Hat
13 22 (1.91%) Ubiquiti
14 19 (1.65%) Riverbed
14 19 (1.65%) Sophos
15 17 (1.47%) Juniper
16 16 (1.39%) Arista