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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 102 62
Rank change year-on-year +1 -40 +84
Permanent jobs citing DNS 144 161 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.83% 2.40% 3.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.96% 16.28% 20.12%
Number of salaries quoted 115 87 169
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -17.65% -3.95%
75th Percentile £47,500 £40,500 £53,478
90th Percentile £58,750 £53,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -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 1,608 989 964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.48% 14.73% 19.10%
Number of salaries quoted 439 413 839
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £27,900 £35,000 £29,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.68% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £51,875 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,160 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.15% +8.32% -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 28 December 2025.

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 28 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
East Midlands +2 75 £28,500 -14.29% 56
West Midlands +11 69 £37,500 +7.14% 67
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 (18.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 10 (6.94%) Confluence
4 4 (2.78%) nginx
5 2 (1.39%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (10.42%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (65.97%) Microsoft 365
2 36 (25.00%) Azure
3 24 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 15 (10.42%) AWS
5 14 (9.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 11 (7.64%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (7.64%) Amazon ELB
6 11 (7.64%) Amazon S3
6 11 (7.64%) AWS KMS
6 11 (7.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (6.94%) SaaS
8 7 (4.86%) Amazon Glacier
8 7 (4.86%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.17%) iPaaS
10 5 (3.47%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (3.47%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.78%) IaaS
11 4 (2.78%) PaaS
11 4 (2.78%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 120 (83.33%) DHCP
2 49 (34.03%) Firewall
3 38 (26.39%) VPN
4 32 (22.22%) TCP/IP
5 24 (16.67%) WAN
6 21 (14.58%) VLAN
7 19 (13.19%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (12.50%) LAN
9 17 (11.81%) VoIP
10 16 (11.11%) HTTP
11 15 (10.42%) Internet
11 15 (10.42%) SSH
12 14 (9.72%) Wireless
13 13 (9.03%) FTP
13 13 (9.03%) SMTP
14 12 (8.33%) Ethernet
14 12 (8.33%) Network Security
15 10 (6.94%) SAN
16 9 (6.25%) ADSL
16 9 (6.25%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.86%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.78%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.08%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (9.72%) JIRA
2 12 (8.33%) Git
2 12 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 11 (7.64%) Vagrant
4 3 (2.08%) LabVIEW
5 2 (1.39%) GitLab
5 2 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.39%) Subversion
General
1 66 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 12 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.17%) Law
8 5 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.08%) Back Office
9 3 (2.08%) Publishing
9 3 (2.08%) Retail
10 2 (1.39%) Automotive
10 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.69%) Finance
11 1 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 69 (47.92%) Support Engineer
2 66 (45.83%) IT Engineer
3 58 (40.28%) IT Support
4 52 (36.11%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (13.19%) Technical Support
7 17 (11.81%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
8 16 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 13 (9.03%) Technical Engineer
10 12 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
11 11 (7.64%) Analyst
12 10 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (6.25%) Support Analyst
13 9 (6.25%) Technical Support Engineer
14 7 (4.86%) Network Engineer
15 6 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 6 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
15 6 (4.17%) Field Engineer
15 6 (4.17%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.78%) LDAP
2 3 (2.08%) EDI
3 1 (0.69%) .NET
3 1 (0.69%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.69%) Web Services
3 1 (0.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (29.17%) Driving Licence
2 23 (15.97%) Onboarding
3 14 (9.72%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.86%) Clustering
6 6 (4.17%) iPad
6 6 (4.17%) PMI
7 5 (3.47%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.47%) Replication
7 5 (3.47%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.39%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.69%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 104 (72.22%) Windows
2 73 (50.69%) Windows Server
3 22 (15.28%) Linux
4 17 (11.81%) Windows 10
5 12 (8.33%) VMS
6 9 (6.25%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (4.17%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (3.47%) Mac OS
8 5 (3.47%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.39%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (47.22%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (40.97%) Customer Service
3 40 (27.78%) Incident Management
4 30 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 25 (17.36%) ITIL
6 23 (15.97%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (9.72%) Cloud Security
8 14 (9.72%) DevOps
9 13 (9.03%) CRM
10 11 (7.64%) Agile
10 11 (7.64%) Configuration Management
11 10 (6.94%) Data Security
11 10 (6.94%) ERP
11 10 (6.94%) Patch Management
12 9 (6.25%) Change Management
12 9 (6.25%) Service Management
13 8 (5.56%) Computer Science
13 8 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
14 7 (4.86%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 14 (9.72%) SQL
2 12 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 12 (8.33%) Python
3 11 (7.64%) Groovy
4 7 (4.86%) Java
4 7 (4.86%) Perl
5 2 (1.39%) C#
5 2 (1.39%) Ruby
6 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.69%) VB
6 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (13.19%) Degree
2 13 (9.03%) SC Cleared
2 13 (9.03%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 8 (5.56%) MCP
5 7 (4.86%) AWS Certification
6 6 (4.17%) PMI Certification
7 5 (3.47%) CCNP
7 5 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.08%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.08%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.08%) HNC
8 3 (2.08%) MCSA
9 2 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.39%) CCNA
9 2 (1.39%) CEH
9 2 (1.39%) CISSP
9 2 (1.39%) GSEC
9 2 (1.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.33%) GDPR
2 10 (6.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (4.86%) SLA
6 2 (1.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 101 (70.14%) Active Directory
2 27 (18.75%) Hyper-V
3 26 (18.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (6.94%) Docker
5 5 (3.47%) DFS Replication
6 4 (2.78%) Dovecot
6 4 (2.78%) Postfix
6 4 (2.78%) Squid
6 4 (2.78%) Terminal Services
6 4 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.08%) Firmware
7 3 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.39%) vSphere
9 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (11.81%) Terraform
2 9 (6.25%) Grafana
2 9 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 7 (4.86%) Nessus
4 6 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
4 6 (4.17%) WSUS
5 4 (2.78%) Proxmox
6 3 (2.08%) Dell DRAC
6 3 (2.08%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.08%) Nagios
6 3 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.69%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 56 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 32 (22.22%) VMware
3 18 (12.50%) Cisco
4 15 (10.42%) Meraki
4 15 (10.42%) ServiceNow
5 13 (9.03%) Veeam
6 6 (4.17%) Apple
6 6 (4.17%) Aruba
6 6 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 5 (3.47%) Panasonic
7 5 (3.47%) Samsung
7 5 (3.47%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.78%) Google
8 4 (2.78%) HP
8 4 (2.78%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (2.08%) Dell
9 3 (2.08%) Freshdesk
9 3 (2.08%) Juniper
9 3 (2.08%) Palo Alto
9 3 (2.08%) Zscaler