DNS Jobs in Kent

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 58 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 -24 +35
Permanent jobs citing DNS 20 51 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 2.47% 3.41% 6.78%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.74% 27.13% 21.84%
Number of salaries quoted 20 49 75
10th Percentile £22,750 - £25,750
25th Percentile £27,438 £23,000 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £36,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.70% -8.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £40,625 £43,750 £49,375
90th Percentile £53,000 £48,000 £61,250
South East median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% -9.60%

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 92 188 348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 11.34% 12.57% 31.04%
Number of salaries quoted 75 149 179
10th Percentile - £23,000 £25,950
25th Percentile £23,731 £29,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.76% +6.25% +4.58%
75th Percentile £38,750 £57,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £49,500 £62,500 £63,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -5.26%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Kent

DNS
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS in Kent.

Salary trend for DNS in Kent

DNS
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Kent over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

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 14 May 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
Maidstone +4 5 £23,500 -44.71% 3
Tunbridge Wells - 5 £31,500 -
Canterbury - 2 £42,500 - 1
Dartford - 1 £35,000 - 2
West Malling - 1 £55,000 -
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (5.00%) AutoCAD
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (25.00%) OneDrive
3 4 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (65.00%) DHCP
1 13 (65.00%) TCP/IP
2 10 (50.00%) VoIP
3 9 (45.00%) VPN
4 8 (40.00%) Firewall
5 6 (30.00%) LAN
5 6 (30.00%) VLAN
5 6 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (15.00%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (10.00%) Internet
8 1 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (5.00%) iSCSI
8 1 (5.00%) NAS
8 1 (5.00%) SAN
8 1 (5.00%) Wireless
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Automotive
5 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
2 5 (25.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Desktop Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Desktop Support
3 3 (15.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) IT Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) IT Support
3 3 (15.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Technical Support
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (15.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (25.00%) Mac OS
2 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (15.00%) Mac OS X
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (10.00%) Debian
4 2 (10.00%) Linux
4 2 (10.00%) SUSE
4 2 (10.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (15.00%) Inventory Management
2 3 (15.00%) Time Management
3 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (10.00%) High Availability
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (10.00%) Proactive Maintenance
3 2 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (5.00%) BCP
4 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.00%) ERP
4 1 (5.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.00%) Migration
4 1 (5.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (5.00%) Project Management
4 1 (5.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (55.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) VMware
3 3 (15.00%) Cisco
3 3 (15.00%) MobileIron
3 3 (15.00%) Riverbed
3 3 (15.00%) SAP
3 3 (15.00%) Trend Micro
4 2 (10.00%) Dell
4 2 (10.00%) HP
4 2 (10.00%) Salesforce