DNS Jobs in Lancashire

Domain Name System (DNS)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 75 74
Rank change year-on-year +42 -1 +34
Permanent jobs citing DNS 311 17 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 13.47% 1.27% 0.70%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 53.99% 13.49% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 5
10th Percentile - - £22,600
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,000 £23,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £35,000 £26,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +34.62% -42.22%
75th Percentile £53,000 £67,968 £31,000
90th Percentile £54,200 - £36,400
North West median annual salary £39,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -12.22% - +5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 576 126 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 24.96% 9.40% 23.91%
Number of salaries quoted 67 119 68
10th Percentile £20,280 £25,800 £23,750
25th Percentile £23,504 £32,000 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +25.00% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £61,250 £67,968 £55,000
North West median annual salary £32,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -27.78% -5.26% +5.56%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Lancashire

DNS
Salary Trend in Lancashire

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

Salary trend for DNS in Lancashire

DNS
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Lancashire over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DNS in Lancashire

DNS
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 28 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
Blackburn -24 10 £42,500 +32.81%
Preston -23 6 - - 12
Chorley - 5 - - 2
Darwen - 5 - - 1
Accrington - 4 - -
Blackpool -31 3 - -
Burnley - 3 - -
Rossendale - 3 - -
Skelmersdale - 3 - -
Colne - 3 - -
Nelson - 3 - -
Ormskirk - 3 - -
Poulton-le-Fylde - 2 - -
Newton-le-Willows - 2 - -
Bacup - 2 - -
Clitheroe - 2 - -
Fleetwood - 1 - -
Morecambe - 1 - -
Barnoldswick - 1 - -
DNS
North West

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.32%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 6 (1.93%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (0.96%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 305 (98.07%) VPN
2 5 (1.61%) DHCP
2 5 (1.61%) Firewall
3 3 (0.96%) IPv4
3 3 (0.96%) LAN
3 3 (0.96%) VLAN
4 2 (0.64%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (0.64%) SAN
4 2 (0.64%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.32%) FTP
5 1 (0.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.32%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.32%) SSH
5 1 (0.32%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.32%) MySQL
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
General
1 306 (98.39%) Analytical Skills
2 305 (98.07%) Finance
2 305 (98.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (0.96%) Retail
4 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
4 1 (0.32%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 305 (98.07%) Developer
1 305 (98.07%) Software Developer
2 5 (1.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (0.96%) IT Engineer
3 3 (0.96%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (0.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (0.32%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (0.32%) Administrator
4 1 (0.32%) Network Engineer
4 1 (0.32%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (0.32%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (0.32%) Unix Administrator
4 1 (0.32%) Unix Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.32%) EDI
1 1 (0.32%) LAMP
1 1 (0.32%) Loki
1 1 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 305 (98.07%) Cyberattack
2 1 (0.32%) Life Science
2 1 (0.32%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (0.32%) Management Information System
2 1 (0.32%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (0.32%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 309 (99.36%) Linux
2 305 (98.07%) Android
3 5 (1.61%) Windows
4 4 (1.29%) Unix
5 3 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.32%) AIX
6 1 (0.32%) CentOS
6 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (98.07%) Agile
1 305 (98.07%) Android Development
1 305 (98.07%) Design Patterns
1 305 (98.07%) Line Management
1 305 (98.07%) Mathematics
1 305 (98.07%) OO
1 305 (98.07%) OOP
2 5 (1.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (0.96%) Business Continuity
3 3 (0.96%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (0.96%) Incident Management
3 3 (0.96%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (0.64%) Patch Management
4 2 (0.64%) Project Delivery
5 1 (0.32%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (0.32%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (0.32%) Roadmaps
5 1 (0.32%) Server Building
5 1 (0.32%) Supplier Management
5 1 (0.32%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 306 (98.39%) C++
1 306 (98.39%) Python
2 305 (98.07%) Go
2 305 (98.07%) Java
3 3 (0.96%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.32%) AWK
4 1 (0.32%) C
4 1 (0.32%) Korn
4 1 (0.32%) Perl
4 1 (0.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 305 (98.07%) DV Cleared
1 305 (98.07%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 305 (98.07%) Docker
2 5 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.32%) KVM
5 1 (0.32%) Postfix
5 1 (0.32%) Sendmail
5 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 305 (98.07%) Ansible
2 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.32%) Grafana
3 1 (0.32%) Nagios
3 1 (0.32%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (1.61%) Veeam
2 4 (1.29%) VMware
3 3 (0.96%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.64%) Cisco
4 2 (0.64%) Meraki
4 2 (0.64%) Sophos
4 2 (0.64%) Synology
5 1 (0.32%) IBM
5 1 (0.32%) Oracle
5 1 (0.32%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.32%) SAP
5 1 (0.32%) Tenable