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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 109 74
Rank change year-on-year +5 -35 +88
Permanent jobs citing DNS 135 153 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.73% 2.39% 3.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.50% 16.02% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 109 82 168
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,125 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -17.65% -
75th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £53,478
90th Percentile £58,750 £52,700 £60,000
England median annual salary £36,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.89% - -5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 1,588 955 1,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.38% 14.91% 17.93%
Number of salaries quoted 422 397 875
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £27,788 £36,250 £29,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £48,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +6.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £52,161 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £69,550
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 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 10 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 10 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 +5 70 £28,500 -12.31% 16
West Midlands +2 65 £32,500 -7.14% 19
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 23 (17.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (14.07%) SharePoint
3 8 (5.93%) Confluence
4 4 (2.96%) nginx
5 2 (1.48%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 87 (64.44%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (26.67%) Azure
3 26 (19.26%) Entra ID
4 13 (9.63%) AWS
5 12 (8.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (7.41%) SaaS
7 9 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
7 9 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
7 9 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.67%) AWS KMS
7 9 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (4.44%) iPaaS
9 5 (3.70%) Amazon Glacier
9 5 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.96%) GCP
10 4 (2.96%) IaaS
10 4 (2.96%) PaaS
10 4 (2.96%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 113 (83.70%) DHCP
2 43 (31.85%) Firewall
3 35 (25.93%) VPN
4 30 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 21 (15.56%) WAN
6 19 (14.07%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (13.33%) LAN
7 18 (13.33%) VoIP
8 17 (12.59%) VLAN
9 15 (11.11%) Internet
10 14 (10.37%) HTTP
10 14 (10.37%) Wireless
11 13 (9.63%) SSH
12 12 (8.89%) Ethernet
12 12 (8.89%) Network Security
13 11 (8.15%) FTP
13 11 (8.15%) SMTP
14 9 (6.67%) ADSL
14 9 (6.67%) PBX
14 9 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.93%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.96%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.48%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (8.89%) JIRA
2 10 (7.41%) Git
2 10 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 9 (6.67%) Vagrant
4 4 (2.96%) LabVIEW
5 2 (1.48%) GitLab
5 2 (1.48%) Subversion
6 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (45.93%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.59%) Manufacturing
3 12 (8.89%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.44%) Law
5 6 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Retail
8 2 (1.48%) Automotive
9 1 (0.74%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Legal
Job Titles
1 65 (48.15%) Support Engineer
2 62 (45.93%) IT Engineer
3 56 (41.48%) IT Support
4 49 (36.30%) IT Support Engineer
5 23 (17.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (14.07%) Technical Support
7 13 (9.63%) 2nd Line Support
7 13 (9.63%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (9.63%) Technical Engineer
8 12 (8.89%) Analyst
8 12 (8.89%) Infrastructure Support
8 12 (8.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 10 (7.41%) Support Analyst
10 9 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (6.67%) Technical Support Engineer
11 7 (5.19%) Network Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 6 (4.44%) 2nd Line Technical Support
12 6 (4.44%) 3rd Line Support
12 6 (4.44%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.96%) LDAP
2 1 (0.74%) .NET
2 1 (0.74%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.74%) Web Services
2 1 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (30.37%) Driving Licence
2 23 (17.04%) Onboarding
3 13 (9.63%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.19%) Clustering
6 6 (4.44%) iPad
6 6 (4.44%) PMI
7 5 (3.70%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.96%) Replication
9 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.48%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.48%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.74%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 98 (72.59%) Windows
2 68 (50.37%) Windows Server
3 20 (14.81%) Linux
4 18 (13.33%) Windows 10
5 10 (7.41%) VMS
6 7 (5.19%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (3.70%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.96%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (48.15%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (42.22%) Customer Service
3 38 (28.15%) Incident Management
4 25 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 25 (18.52%) ITIL
5 18 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (8.89%) Cloud Security
7 12 (8.89%) DevOps
8 10 (7.41%) Agile
9 9 (6.67%) Configuration Management
10 8 (5.93%) Computer Science
10 8 (5.93%) Patch Management
10 8 (5.93%) Service Management
11 7 (5.19%) Change Management
11 7 (5.19%) Data Security
11 7 (5.19%) ERP
11 7 (5.19%) Service Delivery
12 6 (4.44%) Data Protection
12 6 (4.44%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (9.63%) SQL
2 10 (7.41%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.41%) Python
3 9 (6.67%) Groovy
4 5 (3.70%) Java
4 5 (3.70%) Perl
5 2 (1.48%) C#
5 2 (1.48%) Ruby
6 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.74%) VB
6 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (12.59%) Degree
2 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (8.15%) SC Cleared
2 11 (8.15%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.93%) MCP
4 7 (5.19%) Azure Certification
5 6 (4.44%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.44%) PMI Certification
6 5 (3.70%) CCNP
6 5 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.96%) HNC
7 4 (2.96%) MCSA
8 2 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.48%) CCNA
8 2 (1.48%) CEH
8 2 (1.48%) CISSP
8 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.48%) GSEC
8 2 (1.48%) OSCP
9 1 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.89%) GDPR
2 9 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 7 (5.19%) SLA
4 2 (1.48%) NIST
5 1 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 95 (70.37%) Active Directory
2 26 (19.26%) Hyper-V
3 24 (17.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (5.93%) Docker
5 4 (2.96%) DFS Replication
5 4 (2.96%) Dovecot
5 4 (2.96%) Postfix
5 4 (2.96%) Squid
5 4 (2.96%) Terminal Services
5 4 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.22%) Firmware
7 2 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (11.11%) Terraform
2 10 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (5.19%) Grafana
3 7 (5.19%) Nessus
3 7 (5.19%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.44%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (4.44%) WSUS
5 4 (2.96%) Proxmox
6 3 (2.22%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (2.22%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.22%) Nagios
6 3 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.74%) Puppet
7 1 (0.74%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.74%) VxRail
Vendors
1 50 (37.04%) Microsoft
2 31 (22.96%) VMware
3 16 (11.85%) Cisco
4 15 (11.11%) Meraki
5 13 (9.63%) ServiceNow
6 12 (8.89%) Veeam
7 6 (4.44%) Apple
7 6 (4.44%) Aruba
7 6 (4.44%) Fortinet
8 5 (3.70%) Panasonic
8 5 (3.70%) Samsung
8 5 (3.70%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.96%) Google
9 4 (2.96%) HP
9 4 (2.96%) Jaspersoft
10 3 (2.22%) Dell
10 3 (2.22%) Freshdesk
10 3 (2.22%) Juniper
10 3 (2.22%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.22%) Zscaler