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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 62 53
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 +33
Permanent jobs citing DNS 8 26 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.46% 2.75% 5.44%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.79% 21.67% 29.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 22
10th Percentile £21,000 £27,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £28,375 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £33,000 £33,546
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -1.63% -29.38%
75th Percentile £58,125 £33,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £74,500 £43,625 £50,375
South West median annual salary £34,500 £51,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -32.35% +36.00% -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 58 120 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.56% 12.67% 18.37%
Number of salaries quoted 32 70 93
10th Percentile £21,000 £32,050 £29,200
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £59,063 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,875 - £78,250
South West median annual salary £34,000 £51,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% +4.08% +3.16%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 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
Cheltenham +16 2 £56,250 +100.89% 4
Stroud - 2 £42,500 - 2
Gloucester +4 1 £92,500 +180.30% 10
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) DHCP
1 7 (87.50%) LAN
2 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (62.50%) WAN
4 4 (50.00%) VPN
5 3 (37.50%) VSAN
6 2 (25.00%) VLAN
6 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (12.50%) Firewall
7 1 (12.50%) HTTP
7 1 (12.50%) ICMP
7 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (12.50%) Telnet
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 5 (62.50%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) IT Support
2 2 (25.00%) IT Support Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Junior
2 2 (25.00%) Junior IT Support
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Support
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Arduino
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (12.50%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) CentOS
3 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (12.50%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Time Management
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (25.00%) RBAC
3 2 (25.00%) Software Licensing
4 1 (12.50%) Business Development
4 1 (12.50%) Embedded Software Development
4 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
4 1 (12.50%) Rapid Prototyping
4 1 (12.50%) Reverse Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) C
4 1 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) A+ Certification
2 1 (12.50%) MCP
2 1 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
1 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) McAfee ePO
1 3 (37.50%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) McAfee
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft