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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 49 31
Rank change year-on-year +4 -18 +53
Permanent jobs citing DNS 17 25 101
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 2.45% 3.97% 9.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 29.82% 32.89% 43.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13 7 35
10th Percentile £22,275 £27,000 £25,050
25th Percentile £27,375 £27,375 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £30,000 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -4.76% -33.68%
75th Percentile £60,000 £33,500 £40,625
90th Percentile £65,000 - £56,250
South West median annual salary £35,000 £50,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -30.69% +34.67% -16.67%

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 57 76 232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.23% 12.08% 21.03%
Number of salaries quoted 32 34 131
10th Percentile £16,000 £29,700 £28,500
25th Percentile £19,750 £36,563 £31,921
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,750 £53,195 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.79% +8.56% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57,500 £69,500 £56,875
90th Percentile £70,750 £73,500 £67,500
South West median annual salary £33,000 £51,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year -35.29% +4.62% +2.63%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +9 5 £53,750 +91.96% 4
Gloucester +1 3 £92,500 +180.30% 2
Stroud - 2 £42,500 -
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 4 (23.53%) AWS
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (94.12%) DHCP
2 13 (76.47%) TCP/IP
3 10 (58.82%) LAN
4 8 (47.06%) WAN
5 6 (35.29%) VPN
6 4 (23.53%) VSAN
7 3 (17.65%) Firewall
8 2 (11.76%) NAS
8 2 (11.76%) SAN
8 2 (11.76%) VLAN
8 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (5.88%) HTTP
9 1 (5.88%) ICMP
9 1 (5.88%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (5.88%) Telnet
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 6 (35.29%) Organisational Skills
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
3 3 (17.65%) Electronics
3 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Marketing
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) IT Support
3 3 (17.65%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Support Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) IT Support Technician
4 2 (11.76%) IT Technician
4 2 (11.76%) Junior
4 2 (11.76%) Junior IT Support
4 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Support Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) Support Technician
5 1 (5.88%) Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Support
5 1 (5.88%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Arduino
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Raspberry Pi
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Linux
3 6 (35.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (23.53%) CentOS
4 4 (23.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (11.76%) CoreOS
5 2 (11.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (23.53%) ITIL
3 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (23.53%) Time Management
4 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Digital Marketing
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Management
4 3 (17.65%) Patch Management
4 3 (17.65%) Programme Management
4 3 (17.65%) RBAC
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (11.76%) Data Management
5 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (11.76%) Software Licensing
5 2 (11.76%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 7 (41.18%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) C
4 1 (5.88%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) A+ Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) MCP
3 1 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 8 (47.06%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Ansible
1 4 (23.53%) McAfee ePO
1 4 (23.53%) SCVMM
2 2 (11.76%) NetBackup
3 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) McAfee
2 4 (23.53%) Red Hat
3 3 (17.65%) SAP
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco
4 2 (11.76%) Dell
4 2 (11.76%) HP
4 2 (11.76%) Juniper
4 2 (11.76%) Veeam
4 2 (11.76%) VMware