DNS Job Trends in Leicestershire

Domain Name System (DNS)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 56 43
Rank change year-on-year +13 -13 +5
Permanent jobs citing DNS 8 4 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 1.41% 0.88% 3.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.04% 6.90% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 13
10th Percentile £40,400 - £26,250
25th Percentile £42,500 - £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £33,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.25%
75th Percentile £47,500 - £53,750
90th Percentile £49,375 - £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £28,500 £33,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -5.00% -26.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 57 58 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 10.07% 12.80% 16.33%
Number of salaries quoted 44 15 47
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £28,813 £33,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -15.00% +25.93%
75th Percentile £43,750 £56,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £47,500 £57,300 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% -5.88% -10.53%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

DNS
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for DNS in Leicestershire

DNS
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Leicester -1 2 £44,250 - 11
DNS
East Midlands

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (75.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (75.00%) iPaaS
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (75.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) SAN
1 7 (87.50%) VLAN
2 6 (75.00%) DHCP
2 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 6 (75.00%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (75.00%) Law
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) IT Engineer
1 6 (75.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Support
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) IT Support
2 5 (62.50%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Clustering
1 6 (75.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (75.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (12.50%) Email Filtering
3 1 (12.50%) Information Governance
3 1 (12.50%) IT Audit
3 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (12.50%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (75.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Veeam
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) VMware