DNS Job Trends in the Midlands

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 101 79
Rank change year-on-year -5 -22 +76
Permanent jobs citing DNS 139 148 230
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.70% 2.39% 3.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.81% 15.51% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 114 80 202
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £24,750
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,375 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £53,075 £60,000
England median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.65% -6.06%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,578 954 1,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 19.34% 15.38% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 416 412 1,078
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,525 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £36,250 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.18%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

DNS job vacancy trend in the Midlands

DNS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in the Midlands

DNS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
East Midlands -7 72 £28,500 -12.31% 21
West Midlands +12 66 £32,500 -7.14% 24
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 26 (18.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (17.27%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.60%) Confluence
4 3 (2.16%) nginx
5 2 (1.44%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (66.19%) Microsoft 365
2 43 (30.94%) Azure
3 34 (24.46%) Entra ID
4 11 (7.91%) SaaS
5 10 (7.19%) AWS
6 9 (6.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (4.32%) Amazon ELB
7 6 (4.32%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.32%) AWS KMS
7 6 (4.32%) iPaaS
7 6 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (3.60%) GCP
8 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (2.88%) IaaS
9 4 (2.88%) OneDrive
9 4 (2.88%) PaaS
10 3 (2.16%) Amazon Glacier
10 3 (2.16%) Datadog
10 3 (2.16%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 119 (85.61%) DHCP
2 41 (29.50%) VPN
3 39 (28.06%) Firewall
4 37 (26.62%) TCP/IP
5 24 (17.27%) WAN
6 21 (15.11%) VoIP
6 21 (15.11%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (13.67%) LAN
8 18 (12.95%) VLAN
9 16 (11.51%) Wireless
10 15 (10.79%) Internet
11 13 (9.35%) Network Security
12 12 (8.63%) Ethernet
13 10 (7.19%) HTTP
13 10 (7.19%) SSH
14 9 (6.47%) ADSL
14 9 (6.47%) PBX
14 9 (6.47%) VDSL
15 8 (5.76%) FTP
15 8 (5.76%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.04%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.16%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (6.47%) JIRA
2 7 (5.04%) Git
3 6 (4.32%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.32%) Vagrant
4 4 (2.88%) LabVIEW
5 2 (1.44%) GitLab
6 1 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 61 (43.88%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.23%) Manufacturing
3 14 (10.07%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (5.04%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.32%) Law
6 5 (3.60%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.16%) Automotive
8 3 (2.16%) Legal
8 3 (2.16%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (46.04%) IT Engineer
2 63 (45.32%) Support Engineer
3 60 (43.17%) IT Support
4 50 (35.97%) IT Support Engineer
5 20 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (13.67%) Technical Support
7 14 (10.07%) 2nd Line Support
7 14 (10.07%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (9.35%) Technical Engineer
9 12 (8.63%) Analyst
10 9 (6.47%) Infrastructure Support
10 9 (6.47%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 9 (6.47%) Support Analyst
10 9 (6.47%) Technical Support Engineer
11 8 (5.76%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
11 8 (5.76%) 3rd Line Support
12 7 (5.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 7 (5.04%) Network Engineer
13 6 (4.32%) 2nd Line Technical Support
13 6 (4.32%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.88%) LDAP
2 1 (0.72%) .NET
2 1 (0.72%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (33.81%) Driving Licence
2 20 (14.39%) Onboarding
3 14 (10.07%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.76%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.04%) Clustering
6 6 (4.32%) iPad
6 6 (4.32%) PMI
7 5 (3.60%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.16%) Replication
8 3 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.44%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.44%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.72%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 100 (71.94%) Windows
2 70 (50.36%) Windows Server
3 19 (13.67%) Windows 10
4 16 (11.51%) Linux
5 7 (5.04%) VMS
6 5 (3.60%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (3.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.16%) Mac OS
7 3 (2.16%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (49.64%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (43.88%) Customer Service
3 39 (28.06%) Incident Management
4 28 (20.14%) ITIL
5 22 (15.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (15.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 13 (9.35%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (8.63%) Cloud Security
9 11 (7.91%) Service Delivery
10 9 (6.47%) DevOps
10 9 (6.47%) Migration
11 8 (5.76%) ERP
12 7 (5.04%) Data Security
12 7 (5.04%) ITSM
12 7 (5.04%) Patch Management
12 7 (5.04%) Service Management
13 6 (4.32%) Identity Access Management
13 6 (4.32%) Preventative Maintenance
13 6 (4.32%) Security Operations
13 6 (4.32%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.63%) PowerShell
2 11 (7.91%) SQL
3 6 (4.32%) Groovy
3 6 (4.32%) Python
4 3 (2.16%) Java
4 3 (2.16%) Perl
5 1 (0.72%) C#
5 1 (0.72%) Ruby
5 1 (0.72%) VB
5 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (10.79%) Degree
2 13 (9.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (7.91%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.91%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.04%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.32%) PMI Certification
6 5 (3.60%) CCNP
6 5 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.60%) MCP
7 4 (2.88%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.88%) HNC
7 4 (2.88%) MCSA
8 3 (2.16%) A+ Certification
8 3 (2.16%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.44%) CCNA
9 2 (1.44%) CEH
9 2 (1.44%) CISSP
9 2 (1.44%) GSEC
9 2 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.07%) GDPR
2 11 (7.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (7.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (5.04%) SLA
5 6 (4.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.44%) NIST
7 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 99 (71.22%) Active Directory
2 26 (18.71%) Hyper-V
3 23 (16.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (3.60%) Docker
5 4 (2.88%) Terminal Services
5 4 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.16%) DFS Replication
6 3 (2.16%) Dovecot
6 3 (2.16%) Firmware
6 3 (2.16%) Postfix
6 3 (2.16%) Squid
7 1 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (10.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (8.63%) Terraform
3 6 (4.32%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (4.32%) WSUS
4 5 (3.60%) Grafana
4 5 (3.60%) Nessus
4 5 (3.60%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.88%) Nagios
5 4 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.16%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (2.16%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.16%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.72%) CASB
8 1 (0.72%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.72%) VxRail
Vendors
1 55 (39.57%) Microsoft
2 29 (20.86%) VMware
3 20 (14.39%) Cisco
4 17 (12.23%) Meraki
5 11 (7.91%) ServiceNow
5 11 (7.91%) Veeam
6 8 (5.76%) Apple
7 7 (5.04%) SolarWinds
8 6 (4.32%) Aruba
9 5 (3.60%) Fortinet
9 5 (3.60%) Panasonic
9 5 (3.60%) Samsung
10 4 (2.88%) Google
10 4 (2.88%) HP
11 3 (2.16%) Dell
11 3 (2.16%) Freshdesk
11 3 (2.16%) Jaspersoft
11 3 (2.16%) Juniper
11 3 (2.16%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.16%) Zscaler