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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 68 54
Rank change year-on-year +12 -14 +60
Permanent jobs citing DNS 4 25 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.73% 2.27% 4.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.16% 16.13% 24.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 21
10th Percentile - £28,600 £23,750
25th Percentile £21,000 - £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,250 £31,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.16% -11.43% +25.00%
75th Percentile £57,188 £40,000 £42,500
90th Percentile £58,875 £48,250 £51,250
South West median annual salary £32,500 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -35.00% +25.00% -

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 49 155 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.96% 14.08% 20.13%
Number of salaries quoted 26 102 94
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,100 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,438 £40,000 £32,092
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +17.65% -16.67%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,688 £61,250
90th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £78,250
South West median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -30.00% +5.26% +2.15%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +15 2 £56,250 +39.75% 5
DNS
South West

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) VSAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) IT Support Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Junior
1 2 (50.00%) Junior IT Support
1 2 (50.00%) Support Specialist
1 2 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) CentOS
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (25.00%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) McAfee ePO
1 2 (50.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) McAfee
1 2 (50.00%) Red Hat