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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 135 98
Rank change year-on-year -3 -37 +49
Permanent jobs citing DNS 114 98 312
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.93% 1.97% 2.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.98% 11.60% 19.09%
Number of salaries quoted 98 81 256
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £29,375 £29,750 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,250 £35,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £59,500 £58,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £44,225
% change year-on-year - -3.90% +4.06%

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 634 845 1,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.18% 16.98% 11.90%
Number of salaries quoted 492 477 1,265
10th Percentile £27,694 £26,968 £25,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year - +3.66% -5.20%
75th Percentile £58,450 £57,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,250 £65,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

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 June 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 June 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 -9 63 £32,500 -11.56% 12
West Midlands -19 50 £37,000 +5.71% 22
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 31 (27.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (20.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 69 (60.53%) Azure
3 38 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 9 (7.89%) IaaS
5 8 (7.02%) Azure AKS
5 8 (7.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 8 (7.02%) Azure Key Vault
5 8 (7.02%) Azure Storage
6 5 (4.39%) OneDrive
7 4 (3.51%) AWS
8 2 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.75%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.88%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.88%) GCP
9 1 (0.88%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.88%) PaaS
9 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (78.07%) DHCP
2 53 (46.49%) VPN
3 42 (36.84%) TCP/IP
4 28 (24.56%) Firewall
5 25 (21.93%) VLAN
6 16 (14.04%) VoIP
6 16 (14.04%) WAN
7 11 (9.65%) Wireless
8 10 (8.77%) LAN
9 7 (6.14%) SD-WAN
9 7 (6.14%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (4.39%) Internet
10 5 (4.39%) Network Security
11 4 (3.51%) MQTT
12 3 (2.63%) FTP
12 3 (2.63%) Remote Desktop
12 3 (2.63%) RFID
12 3 (2.63%) SAN
12 3 (2.63%) SSL
13 2 (1.75%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (3.51%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.88%) KNIME
3 1 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (2.63%) LabVIEW
2 1 (0.88%) Carbide.c++
2 1 (0.88%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) GitLab
2 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 58 (50.88%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (7.89%) Law
3 9 (7.89%) Manufacturing
4 8 (7.02%) Legal
5 7 (6.14%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.26%) Finance
6 6 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.51%) Retail
8 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.75%) Automotive
9 2 (1.75%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.88%) Marketing
10 1 (0.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 51 (44.74%) IT Support
2 37 (32.46%) Support Engineer
3 36 (31.58%) IT Engineer
4 27 (23.68%) IT Support Engineer
5 19 (16.67%) Analyst
6 15 (13.16%) IT Support Technician
6 15 (13.16%) IT Technician
6 15 (13.16%) Support Technician
7 11 (9.65%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (9.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (9.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (8.77%) Support Analyst
9 9 (7.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 9 (7.89%) Senior
10 8 (7.02%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 8 (7.02%) 3rd Line Support
10 8 (7.02%) IT Analyst
11 7 (6.14%) IT Support Analyst
12 6 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
12 6 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.88%) LDAP
1 1 (0.88%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.04%) Driving Licence
2 14 (12.28%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.51%) IoT
5 4 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.75%) iPad
6 2 (1.75%) PKI
6 2 (1.75%) PMI
7 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.88%) CCTV
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 86 (75.44%) Windows
2 38 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 35 (30.70%) Windows 10
4 18 (15.79%) Linux
5 16 (14.04%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.51%) VMS
7 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (48.25%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (23.68%) ITIL
3 26 (22.81%) Customer Service
4 25 (21.93%) ITSM
5 21 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (16.67%) Service Delivery
7 17 (14.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (14.04%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (14.04%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (13.16%) High Availability
10 11 (9.65%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (9.65%) Mentoring
11 10 (8.77%) Agile
11 10 (8.77%) Incident Management
11 10 (8.77%) Project Delivery
11 10 (8.77%) Task Automation
12 9 (7.89%) E-Commerce
12 9 (7.89%) ERP
12 9 (7.89%) Identity Management
13 8 (7.02%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 44 (38.60%) PowerShell
2 19 (16.67%) SQL
3 8 (7.02%) VBA
4 6 (5.26%) Bicep
4 6 (5.26%) Python
5 4 (3.51%) Bash
Qualifications
1 23 (20.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (14.91%) Degree
3 11 (9.65%) Azure Certification
3 11 (9.65%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.65%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.14%) DBS Check
5 6 (5.26%) MCSA
5 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 5 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.51%) A+ Certification
8 3 (2.63%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.63%) HNC
9 2 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.75%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.88%) CISSP
10 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.88%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (20.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 14 (12.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (10.53%) SLA
4 9 (7.89%) GDPR
5 7 (6.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 6 (5.26%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.88%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.88%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.88%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 77 (67.54%) Active Directory
2 30 (26.32%) Hyper-V
3 17 (14.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.63%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (2.63%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.75%) Docker
5 2 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (28.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (8.77%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.02%) Jamf Pro
4 6 (5.26%) Terraform
5 3 (2.63%) Ansible
6 2 (1.75%) Nagios
6 2 (1.75%) WSUS
7 1 (0.88%) CASB
7 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.88%) Podman
7 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (78.95%) Microsoft
2 24 (21.05%) VMware
3 13 (11.40%) Apple
4 12 (10.53%) Cisco
5 8 (7.02%) Logitech
5 8 (7.02%) Meraki
5 8 (7.02%) Veeam
5 8 (7.02%) Yealink
6 6 (5.26%) Citrix
7 5 (4.39%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.51%) Freshdesk
8 4 (3.51%) Kaseya
9 3 (2.63%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.75%) Epicor
10 2 (1.75%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.75%) TP-LINK
11 1 (0.88%) Commvault
11 1 (0.88%) Netskope
11 1 (0.88%) Okta
11 1 (0.88%) Salesforce