DNS Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Domain Name System (DNS)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 57 65
Rank change year-on-year -22 +8 +6
Permanent jobs citing DNS 14 5 61
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.90% 1.03% 3.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.59% 10.42% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11 4 41
10th Percentile £41,250 £27,975 £28,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £28,313 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £34,500 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year +59.42% +11.29% -17.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £48,250 £42,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £61,300 £55,250
South West median annual salary £33,750 £34,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -2.17% -8.00% -6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 103 48 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.60% 9.92% 16.13%
Number of salaries quoted 68 26 229
10th Percentile £32,300 £28,125 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £31,563 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
South West median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +5.56%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

DNS
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in Gloucestershire

DNS
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Cheltenham -22 5 £55,000 +89.66% 5
Gloucester -24 5 £42,500 - 5
Tewkesbury -9 1 £52,500 +31.25%
DNS
South West

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) DHCP
2 8 (57.14%) LAN
3 7 (50.00%) WAN
4 6 (42.86%) Firewall
4 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
4 6 (42.86%) VPN
5 3 (21.43%) NAS
5 3 (21.43%) SAN
5 3 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (14.29%) VSAN
7 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) IT Support
3 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (7.14%) IT Technician
5 1 (7.14%) Junior
5 1 (7.14%) Junior IT Support
5 1 (7.14%) Junior IT Technician
5 1 (7.14%) Junior Support Technician
5 1 (7.14%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Linux
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 8 (57.14%) Windows Server
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (14.29%) CentOS
4 2 (14.29%) CoreOS
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (14.29%) VMS
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Patch Management
4 3 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (21.43%) Data Management
4 3 (21.43%) High Availability
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (21.43%) Process Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Storage Management
5 2 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) RBAC
5 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Service Management
5 2 (14.29%) Time Management
6 1 (7.14%) Cloud Operations
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (42.86%) Bash
2 6 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 7 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (14.29%) FortiGate
3 2 (14.29%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (14.29%) NetBackup
3 2 (14.29%) SCVMM
4 1 (7.14%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 4 (28.57%) Veeam
4 3 (21.43%) Cisco
5 2 (14.29%) Dell
5 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 2 (14.29%) HP
5 2 (14.29%) Juniper
5 2 (14.29%) McAfee
5 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
6 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto