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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 65 77
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -6
Permanent jobs citing DNS 18 4 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.96% 0.70% 2.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.75% 7.69% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10 3 24
10th Percentile £37,225 £30,600 £28,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,750 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% +29.03% -11.43%
75th Percentile £63,125 £55,500 £38,281
90th Percentile £65,375 £64,200 £52,500
South West median annual salary £33,500 £37,000 £38,750
% change year-on-year -9.46% -4.52% -3.13%

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 122 52 218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.53% 9.06% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 80 28 180
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,850 £26,975
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,313 £31,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +8.25% +14.12%
75th Percentile £70,813 £59,063 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,125 £70,000 £70,000
South West median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year - -13.27% +8.89%

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 July 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 July 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 -22 9 £42,500 - 9
Cheltenham -30 5 £55,000 +89.66% 9
Tewkesbury -9 1 £52,500 +31.25% 1
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 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 5 (27.78%) Azure
4 3 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) DHCP
2 9 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (33.33%) Firewall
3 6 (33.33%) LAN
3 6 (33.33%) VPN
4 5 (27.78%) WAN
4 5 (27.78%) Wireless
5 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (11.11%) NAS
6 2 (11.11%) SAN
7 1 (5.56%) VLAN
7 1 (5.56%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) IT Support
1 9 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) IT Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Technician
5 1 (5.56%) Junior IT Support
5 1 (5.56%) Junior IT Technician
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Technical Support
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Driving Licence
1 5 (27.78%) Onboarding
1 5 (27.78%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
3 5 (27.78%) Apple iOS
3 5 (27.78%) Mac OS
4 2 (11.11%) VMS
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.56%) CentOS
5 1 (5.56%) CoreOS
5 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (44.44%) Project Delivery
4 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (27.78%) Customer Service
6 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (16.67%) ITIL
7 3 (16.67%) Patch Management
8 2 (11.11%) Data Management
8 2 (11.11%) High Availability
8 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
8 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
8 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (11.11%) Service Management
8 2 (11.11%) Storage Management
9 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Automation
9 1 (5.56%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) Bash
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (77.78%) Active Directory
2 6 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (16.67%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.56%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (5.56%) NetBackup
4 1 (5.56%) Proxmox
4 1 (5.56%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Veeam
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) Dell
5 1 (5.56%) HP
5 1 (5.56%) Juniper
5 1 (5.56%) McAfee
5 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.56%) Red Hat