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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 52 74
Rank change year-on-year -31 +22 -17
Permanent jobs citing DNS 26 6 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.20% 1.06% 2.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.71% 11.32% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 14 5 14
10th Percentile £39,000 - £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £21,000 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £29,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +81.03% -17.14% -
75th Percentile £65,938 £41,000 £39,688
90th Percentile £68,750 £58,400 £52,500
South West median annual salary £40,000 £35,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year +11.89% -20.56% +12.50%

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 139 53 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.43% 9.38% 14.54%
Number of salaries quoted 89 28 146
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,200 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,250 £34,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +10.82% +14.12%
75th Percentile £73,250 £59,063 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,600 £70,000 £70,000
South West median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +5.26%

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 23 August 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 23 August 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
Gloucester -28 13 £42,500 - 6
Cheltenham -35 7 £62,500 +115.52% 8
Tewkesbury -8 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 9 (34.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (46.15%) Entra ID
3 11 (42.31%) Azure
4 6 (23.08%) AWS
5 2 (7.69%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.85%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.85%) Route 53
6 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (84.62%) DHCP
2 12 (46.15%) TCP/IP
2 12 (46.15%) VPN
3 9 (34.62%) Firewall
3 9 (34.62%) LAN
3 9 (34.62%) WAN
3 9 (34.62%) Wireless
4 3 (11.54%) BGP
4 3 (11.54%) OSPF
5 2 (7.69%) NAS
5 2 (7.69%) SAN
5 2 (7.69%) SD-WAN
5 2 (7.69%) VSAN
5 2 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (7.69%) WLAN
6 1 (3.85%) EIGRP
6 1 (3.85%) MPLS
6 1 (3.85%) Network Security
6 1 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (3.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Git
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Manufacturing
3 2 (7.69%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 10 (38.46%) IT Engineer
2 10 (38.46%) IT Support
2 10 (38.46%) IT Support Engineer
3 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior
4 5 (19.23%) Technical Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Network Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Support Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Technical Support
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Technical Support
5 3 (11.54%) Technical Support Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Virtualisation Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Onboarding
2 6 (23.08%) Driving Licence
2 6 (23.08%) Replication
3 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
4 2 (7.69%) CMDB
4 2 (7.69%) PKI
5 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (76.92%) Windows
2 11 (42.31%) Windows Server
3 9 (34.62%) Linux
4 7 (26.92%) Mac OS
5 6 (23.08%) Apple iOS
6 3 (11.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (7.69%) CentOS
7 2 (7.69%) CoreOS
7 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (7.69%) VMS
7 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (38.46%) Project Delivery
3 9 (34.62%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (30.77%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (23.08%) Customer Service
6 5 (19.23%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
7 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 4 (15.38%) Customer Experience
7 4 (15.38%) High Availability
7 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (15.38%) ITIL
7 4 (15.38%) Process Improvement
7 4 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (11.54%) Business Continuity
8 3 (11.54%) Cloud Security
8 3 (11.54%) Load Balancing
8 3 (11.54%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
3 4 (15.38%) Bash
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) CCNP
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 20 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 12 (46.15%) Hyper-V
3 11 (42.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (7.69%) Firmware
6 1 (3.85%) KVM
6 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (19.23%) Ansible
3 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
3 2 (7.69%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (7.69%) NetBackup
3 2 (7.69%) Proxmox
3 2 (7.69%) SCVMM
4 1 (3.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (42.31%) VMware
3 6 (23.08%) Cisco
4 5 (19.23%) Fortinet
5 4 (15.38%) Veeam
6 3 (11.54%) Juniper
6 3 (11.54%) SolarWinds
7 2 (7.69%) Avaya
7 2 (7.69%) Dell
7 2 (7.69%) F5
7 2 (7.69%) HP
7 2 (7.69%) Infoblox
7 2 (7.69%) McAfee
7 2 (7.69%) Meraki
7 2 (7.69%) Netskope
7 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
7 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.85%) Arista
8 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto