DNS Job Trends in Kent

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Kent requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 55 56
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 +9
Permanent jobs citing DNS 44 22 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Kent 4.24% 3.06% 2.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.72% 25.29% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 27 9 9
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,150 -
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £40,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +33.33% -29.41%
75th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £44,750 - £70,000
South East median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year -16.67% -2.70% +8.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 235 87 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 22.66% 12.12% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 59 33 92
10th Percentile £25,375 £30,850 -
25th Percentile £26,750 £34,000 £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.73% +37.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £41,250 £72,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £50,050 £75,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DNS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Kent.

DNS job vacancy trend in Kent

DNS
Salary Trend in Kent

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Kent over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in Kent

DNS
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Kent region over the 6 months to 10 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
Whitstable - 5 £28,500 -
Sittingbourne -4 1 £37,500 +7.14% 1
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 13 (29.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (29.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 21 (47.73%) Azure
1 21 (47.73%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (31.82%) Entra ID
3 3 (6.82%) AWS
3 3 (6.82%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 44 (100.00%) DHCP
2 17 (38.64%) TCP/IP
3 15 (34.09%) Firewall
3 15 (34.09%) SAN
4 14 (31.82%) VPN
5 13 (29.55%) VLAN
6 11 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (6.82%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (6.82%) Wireless
8 2 (4.55%) Internet
8 2 (4.55%) LAN
8 2 (4.55%) NetScaler
8 2 (4.55%) VSAN
8 2 (4.55%) WAN
9 1 (2.27%) DMZ
9 1 (2.27%) IPv4
9 1 (2.27%) MPLS
9 1 (2.27%) VRRP
9 1 (2.27%) Wireshark
9 1 (2.27%) WLAN
General
1 35 (79.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Games
3 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (2.27%) Automotive
4 1 (2.27%) Electronics
4 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 16 (36.36%) IT Support
2 11 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (13.64%) Analyst
3 6 (13.64%) Support Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) 2nd Line Technical Support
4 5 (11.36%) 2nd Line Technical Support Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (11.36%) IT Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) IT Support Analyst
4 5 (11.36%) Support Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Technical Support
4 5 (11.36%) Technical Support Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (6.82%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Clustering
3 1 (2.27%) CCTV
3 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.27%) FMCG
3 1 (2.27%) PKI
3 1 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 37 (84.09%) Windows
2 30 (68.18%) Windows Server
3 14 (31.82%) Windows Server 2012
4 13 (29.55%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (25.00%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (40.91%) DevOps
3 16 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (29.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (29.55%) Performance Tuning
4 13 (29.55%) Security Operations
5 8 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (11.36%) ITIL
6 5 (11.36%) Storage Management
7 4 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 3 (6.82%) Business Continuity
8 3 (6.82%) Business Strategy
8 3 (6.82%) Change Management
8 3 (6.82%) Coaching
8 3 (6.82%) High Availability
8 3 (6.82%) ITSM
8 3 (6.82%) Knowledge Transfer
8 3 (6.82%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.36%) Bicep
3 2 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) CCNP
2 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) SLA
2 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
2 2 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (97.73%) Active Directory
2 15 (34.09%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (31.82%) Hyper-V
4 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (4.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (72.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (40.91%) SCCM
3 15 (34.09%) vCenter Server
4 5 (11.36%) MaaS360
5 2 (4.55%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (4.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 35 (79.55%) Microsoft
2 19 (43.18%) VMware
3 16 (36.36%) NetApp
4 15 (34.09%) Veeam
5 14 (31.82%) SolarWinds
6 13 (29.55%) 3PAR
7 12 (27.27%) Cisco
7 12 (27.27%) Meraki
8 5 (11.36%) Dell
8 5 (11.36%) McAfee
8 5 (11.36%) Sophos
9 3 (6.82%) Dell Compellent
9 3 (6.82%) HP
9 3 (6.82%) Nimble Storage
10 2 (4.55%) Citrix
10 2 (4.55%) WatchGuard
11 1 (2.27%) Splunk