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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 55 66
Rank change year-on-year -32 +11 -12
Permanent jobs citing DNS 32 4 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 1.32% 0.74% 2.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.33% 8.51% 16.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 6
10th Percentile £30,500 - £29,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £21,000 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,250 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.09% +16.41% -8.57%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,188 £38,375
90th Percentile £68,750 £58,875 £46,875
South West median annual salary £37,500 £32,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -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 150 47 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 6.18% 8.64% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 91 26 99
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,250 £28,800
25th Percentile £39,500 £33,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £73,250 £58,750 £66,625
90th Percentile £81,250 £66,250 £70,000
South West median annual salary £42,500 £34,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +23.19% -31.00% +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 22 September 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 September 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 - 19 £31,000 - 9
Cheltenham -33 7 £58,750 +4.44% 14
Tewkesbury - 1 £52,500 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (9.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (43.75%) Azure
3 12 (37.50%) Entra ID
4 9 (28.13%) AWS
5 2 (6.25%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.13%) AWS KMS
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (3.13%) Route 53
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (81.25%) DHCP
2 16 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 14 (43.75%) VPN
4 13 (40.63%) Firewall
5 11 (34.38%) LAN
5 11 (34.38%) WAN
5 11 (34.38%) Wireless
6 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (15.63%) BGP
7 5 (15.63%) OSPF
8 4 (12.50%) SD-WAN
8 4 (12.50%) VoIP
8 4 (12.50%) WLAN
9 2 (6.25%) MPLS
9 2 (6.25%) NAS
9 2 (6.25%) SAN
9 2 (6.25%) VSAN
10 1 (3.13%) EIGRP
10 1 (3.13%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 6 (18.75%) Manufacturing
4 4 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Support Engineer
2 14 (43.75%) IT Engineer
2 14 (43.75%) IT Support
2 14 (43.75%) IT Support Engineer
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Network Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Senior
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Technical Support
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Technical Support
6 3 (9.38%) Technical Support Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Administrator
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Onboarding
2 6 (18.75%) Driving Licence
2 6 (18.75%) Replication
3 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
4 4 (12.50%) CMDB
5 2 (6.25%) PKI
6 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 23 (71.88%) Windows
2 11 (34.38%) Windows Server
3 9 (28.13%) Linux
4 7 (21.88%) Mac OS
5 6 (18.75%) Apple iOS
6 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (6.25%) CentOS
7 2 (6.25%) CoreOS
7 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (6.25%) VMS
7 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (40.63%) Cybersecurity
3 11 (34.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (31.25%) Disaster Recovery
5 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 9 (28.13%) Project Delivery
6 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
7 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 6 (18.75%) Customer Service
7 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (18.75%) Process Improvement
8 5 (15.63%) Business Continuity
8 5 (15.63%) Cloud Security
8 5 (15.63%) Collaborative Culture
8 5 (15.63%) ITIL
8 5 (15.63%) Load Balancing
8 5 (15.63%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (12.50%) Customer Experience
9 4 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (9.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) CCNP
2 4 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (6.25%) Degree
3 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.25%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 21 (65.63%) Active Directory
2 11 (34.38%) Hyper-V
2 11 (34.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (12.50%) Firmware
4 3 (9.38%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.13%) KVM
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.13%) vSphere
5 1 (3.13%) XenApp
5 1 (3.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 13 (40.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (21.88%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) FortiGate
3 2 (6.25%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (6.25%) Proxmox
3 2 (6.25%) SCVMM
4 1 (3.13%) NetBackup
4 1 (3.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) Microsoft
2 11 (34.38%) VMware
3 7 (21.88%) Cisco
3 7 (21.88%) Fortinet
4 5 (15.63%) SolarWinds
5 4 (12.50%) Avaya
5 4 (12.50%) F5
5 4 (12.50%) Infoblox
5 4 (12.50%) Meraki
5 4 (12.50%) Netskope
5 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
6 3 (9.38%) Veeam
7 2 (6.25%) Dell
7 2 (6.25%) Juniper
7 2 (6.25%) McAfee
7 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.13%) Citrix
8 1 (3.13%) HP
8 1 (3.13%) NetApp
8 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto