DNS Job Trends in London

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 174 141
Rank change year-on-year -18 -33 +53
Permanent jobs citing DNS 192 297 413
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.37% 1.93% 2.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.13% 15.11% 18.12%
Number of salaries quoted 153 192 355
10th Percentile £30,000 £38,050 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -4.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £70,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £98,600 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £36,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.89% - -5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,725 1,966 2,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 12.32% 12.76% 12.44%
Number of salaries quoted 910 1,092 1,785
10th Percentile £28,697 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,813 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £104,750 £97,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

DNS job vacancy trend in London

DNS
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in London over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in London

DNS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +2 42 £55,000 +2.33% 15
East London -3 11 £34,000 +25.93% 5
North London +10 4 £32,000 - 1
South London +38 2 - - 1
West London +2 2 £32,250 -57.84%
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 62 (32.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (20.31%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.60%) Confluence
3 5 (2.60%) IIS
4 4 (2.08%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.56%) WordPress
6 2 (1.04%) Apache
6 2 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (1.04%) nginx
7 1 (0.52%) CMS
7 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 12 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.56%) CINEMA 4D
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.52%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Carpe Diem
1 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.52%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 121 (63.02%) Azure
2 117 (60.94%) Microsoft 365
3 71 (36.98%) Entra ID
4 34 (17.71%) AWS
5 20 (10.42%) OneDrive
6 19 (9.90%) Google Workspace
6 19 (9.90%) SaaS
7 12 (6.25%) IaaS
7 12 (6.25%) PaaS
8 11 (5.73%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.69%) GCP
11 8 (4.17%) Datadog
12 7 (3.65%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 6 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
13 6 (3.13%) Mimecast
14 5 (2.60%) Amazon S3
14 5 (2.60%) ShareGate
14 5 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 145 (75.52%) DHCP
2 84 (43.75%) TCP/IP
3 72 (37.50%) VPN
4 67 (34.90%) Firewall
5 54 (28.13%) Wi-Fi
6 48 (25.00%) WAN
7 44 (22.92%) LAN
8 36 (18.75%) VLAN
9 19 (9.90%) SAN
10 16 (8.33%) Wireless
11 15 (7.81%) VoIP
12 10 (5.21%) SD-WAN
13 9 (4.69%) Internet
14 7 (3.65%) Network Security
15 6 (3.13%) NAS
16 5 (2.60%) SSL
17 3 (1.56%) BGP
17 3 (1.56%) HTTP
17 3 (1.56%) MPLS
17 3 (1.56%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.08%) MySQL
4 1 (0.52%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (7.81%) JIRA
2 12 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.17%) GitLab
4 7 (3.65%) Chocolatey
5 4 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.08%) Git
6 3 (1.56%) Burp Suite
6 3 (1.56%) Metasploit
7 2 (1.04%) Subversion
7 2 (1.04%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 91 (47.40%) Social Skills
2 66 (34.38%) Finance
3 23 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (8.33%) Banking
5 15 (7.81%) Legal
6 9 (4.69%) Law
7 8 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.08%) Billing
9 4 (2.08%) Marketing
9 4 (2.08%) Public Sector
9 4 (2.08%) Wholesale Banking
10 3 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) Electronics
11 2 (1.04%) Games
11 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (23.44%) IT Engineer
2 44 (22.92%) Support Engineer
3 40 (20.83%) IT Support
4 35 (18.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 34 (17.71%) Senior
6 26 (13.54%) IT Support Engineer
7 22 (11.46%) Analyst
8 19 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (8.85%) 2nd Line Support
9 17 (8.85%) Support Analyst
10 16 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 14 (7.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 14 (7.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (7.29%) Windows Engineer
12 13 (6.77%) Desktop Support
12 13 (6.77%) Network Engineer
13 12 (6.25%) Senior IT Engineer
14 11 (5.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (5.21%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (5.21%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.08%) .NET
1 4 (2.08%) Kafka
1 4 (2.08%) Middleware
2 3 (1.56%) LDAP
3 2 (1.04%) JSON
4 1 (0.52%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.52%) Blazor
4 1 (0.52%) CSS
4 1 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.52%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.52%) HTML
4 1 (0.52%) HTML5
4 1 (0.52%) REST
4 1 (0.52%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.52%) Sass
4 1 (0.52%) Web Services
4 1 (0.52%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.52%) WPF
4 1 (0.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (19.79%) Onboarding
2 20 (10.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 19 (9.90%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (5.73%) CCTV
5 10 (5.21%) Data Centre
6 9 (4.69%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (4.69%) Hedge funds
6 9 (4.69%) iPhone
6 9 (4.69%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (3.65%) Security Posture
8 6 (3.13%) Cloud Native
8 6 (3.13%) Cloud Security Posture
8 6 (3.13%) iPad
8 6 (3.13%) Mobile App
9 5 (2.60%) IoT
9 5 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.56%) Replication
10 3 (1.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 154 (80.21%) Windows
2 89 (46.35%) Windows Server
3 39 (20.31%) Windows 10
4 33 (17.19%) Linux
5 30 (15.63%) Mac OS
6 24 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (11.98%) Windows Server 2012
8 22 (11.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (7.29%) Apple iOS
10 8 (4.17%) Mac OS X
11 7 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (3.13%) Android
12 6 (3.13%) VMS
13 4 (2.08%) CentOS
14 3 (1.56%) Ubuntu
15 2 (1.04%) OpenVMS
15 2 (1.04%) Oracle Linux
15 2 (1.04%) Windows 7
15 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (32.29%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (23.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 45 (23.44%) Disaster Recovery
4 42 (21.88%) ITIL
5 29 (15.10%) Customer Service
6 28 (14.58%) Migration
7 24 (12.50%) DevOps
7 24 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 22 (11.46%) Change Management
8 22 (11.46%) Service Delivery
9 20 (10.42%) Task Automation
10 19 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (9.90%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (9.38%) Identity Access Management
11 18 (9.38%) ITSM
12 17 (8.85%) Patch Management
13 16 (8.33%) Computer Science
14 15 (7.81%) CI/CD
14 15 (7.81%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 51 (26.56%) PowerShell
2 24 (12.50%) Python
3 18 (9.38%) Bash
4 10 (5.21%) Bicep
5 9 (4.69%) SQL
6 6 (3.13%) C#
7 4 (2.08%) Java
7 4 (2.08%) Perl
8 2 (1.04%) Groovy
8 2 (1.04%) Ruby
8 2 (1.04%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.52%) Go
9 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.52%) PHP
9 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 27 (14.06%) Degree
2 22 (11.46%) Azure Certification
3 18 (9.38%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (5.73%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (5.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.69%) A+ Certification
5 9 (4.69%) Security Cleared
6 8 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.17%) CCNP
7 7 (3.65%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.56%) CCNA
9 3 (1.56%) CCSP
9 3 (1.56%) CISSP
9 3 (1.56%) GCIH
9 3 (1.56%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.04%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.29%) SLA
2 9 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.60%) GDPR
4 3 (1.56%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.04%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 147 (76.56%) Active Directory
2 48 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (15.10%) Hyper-V
4 12 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (5.21%) Docker
5 10 (5.21%) Firmware
6 6 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.08%) BitLocker
7 4 (2.08%) vSphere
8 2 (1.04%) KVM
9 1 (0.52%) iptables
9 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 75 (39.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (15.10%) Terraform
3 22 (11.46%) SCCM
4 20 (10.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 16 (8.33%) Ansible
5 16 (8.33%) Kubernetes
6 11 (5.73%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (4.17%) Prometheus
8 7 (3.65%) Nagios
9 6 (3.13%) FortiGate
9 6 (3.13%) Grafana
10 4 (2.08%) Autotask
10 4 (2.08%) Progress Chef
10 4 (2.08%) Puppet
10 4 (2.08%) SCOM
11 3 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.56%) Nmap
12 2 (1.04%) NetBackup
12 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 136 (70.83%) Microsoft
2 65 (33.85%) VMware
3 24 (12.50%) Cisco
4 19 (9.90%) Google
5 11 (5.73%) Fortinet
5 11 (5.73%) Palo Alto
6 10 (5.21%) Bloomberg
6 10 (5.21%) Oracle
6 10 (5.21%) Red Hat
6 10 (5.21%) Reuters
6 10 (5.21%) ServiceNow
7 9 (4.69%) Juniper
7 9 (4.69%) Veeam
8 7 (3.65%) AppDynamics
8 7 (3.65%) Citrix
8 7 (3.65%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.65%) Tenable
9 6 (3.13%) Apple
9 6 (3.13%) Genesys
10 5 (2.60%) Zscaler