DNS Job Trends in Leeds

Domain Name System (DNS)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 73 75
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 +65
Permanent jobs citing DNS 12 13 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.90% 1.21% 2.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.62% 13.00% 25.56%
Number of salaries quoted 12 11 32
10th Percentile - £35,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £39,244 £29,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £47,500 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.42% +39.71% -15.00%
75th Percentile £50,188 £53,750 £54,063
90th Percentile £85,627 £57,500 £64,625
West Yorkshire median annual salary £41,500 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year +18.57% +2.94% -8.90%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 113 100 133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 8.52% 9.31% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 89 61 109
10th Percentile - £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% -4.76% +12.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £75,755 £80,000 £85,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £36,500 £45,223 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.29% -9.56% +11.11%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Leeds

DNS
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in Leeds

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (8.33%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) DHCP
1 8 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 5 (41.67%) Firewall
3 4 (33.33%) Network Security
3 4 (33.33%) VPN
4 1 (8.33%) BGP
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) IT Support
2 4 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Technician
2 4 (33.33%) IT Support Technician
2 4 (33.33%) IT Technician
2 4 (33.33%) Support Technician
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Lead
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 4 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
1 5 (41.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Mentoring
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Data Security
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
5 2 (16.67%) Coaching
5 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
6 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
6 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (8.33%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (8.33%) High Availability
6 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
2 5 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 4 (33.33%) Adobe
2 4 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle