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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 107 65
Rank change year-on-year +14 -42 +80
Permanent jobs citing DNS 150 184 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.68% 2.07% 4.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.55% 17.71% 21.27%
Number of salaries quoted 114 87 171
10th Percentile £24,475 £29,600 £27,500
25th Percentile £26,750 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £41,234
Median % change year-on-year - -15.12% -2.98%
75th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £53,478
90th Percentile £71,875 £63,500 £60,000
England median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -10.53%

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 637 1,039 978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.40% 11.72% 19.41%
Number of salaries quoted 495 425 803
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +4.65% -9.47%
75th Percentile £53,625 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,850 £73,250 £68,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £53,300 £52,000
% change year-on-year -24.95% +2.50% -0.95%

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 6 November 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 6 November 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
West Midlands +28 81 £40,000 +7.13% 42
East Midlands +17 69 £32,500 -6.74% 35
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 (17.33%) Confluence
2 22 (14.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (14.67%) SharePoint
3 9 (6.00%) nginx
4 2 (1.33%) IIS
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 10 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 86 (57.33%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (36.67%) Azure
3 34 (22.67%) AWS
4 29 (19.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 27 (18.00%) Amazon EC2
5 27 (18.00%) Amazon ELB
5 27 (18.00%) Amazon S3
5 27 (18.00%) AWS KMS
5 27 (18.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 21 (14.00%) Entra ID
7 19 (12.67%) Amazon Glacier
8 13 (8.67%) SaaS
9 9 (6.00%) Nutanix
10 8 (5.33%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (5.33%) Route 53
11 7 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.67%) Dynamics 365
11 7 (4.67%) IaaS
11 7 (4.67%) PaaS
12 6 (4.00%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 103 (68.67%) DHCP
2 81 (54.00%) Firewall
3 42 (28.00%) VPN
4 37 (24.67%) TCP/IP
5 30 (20.00%) HTTP
5 30 (20.00%) VLAN
5 30 (20.00%) WAN
6 29 (19.33%) SSH
7 28 (18.67%) FTP
7 28 (18.67%) SMTP
8 21 (14.00%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (12.00%) SD-WAN
10 14 (9.33%) SAN
10 14 (9.33%) Wireless
11 13 (8.67%) LAN
12 12 (8.00%) VoIP
13 11 (7.33%) Ethernet
14 9 (6.00%) iSCSI
15 8 (5.33%) Network Security
15 8 (5.33%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (18.67%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (4.00%) Power BI
4 5 (3.33%) MySQL
5 4 (2.67%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.67%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (20.00%) Git
2 29 (19.33%) JIRA
3 28 (18.67%) Jenkins
4 27 (18.00%) Vagrant
5 7 (4.67%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.33%) Subversion
General
1 57 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.67%) Public Sector
3 16 (10.67%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (8.00%) Manufacturing
5 11 (7.33%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (5.33%) Law
6 8 (5.33%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.33%) Billing
8 3 (2.00%) Back Office
8 3 (2.00%) Legal
8 3 (2.00%) Publishing
8 3 (2.00%) Retail
9 2 (1.33%) Automotive
9 2 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Finance
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 65 (43.33%) Support Engineer
2 57 (38.00%) IT Engineer
3 48 (32.00%) IT Support
4 46 (30.67%) IT Support Engineer
5 30 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (12.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (12.00%) Technical Support
9 15 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
9 15 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 13 (8.67%) 2nd Line Support
11 11 (7.33%) 3rd Line Support
11 11 (7.33%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (6.67%) Analyst
13 9 (6.00%) Network Engineer
14 8 (5.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 8 (5.33%) Technical Engineer
14 8 (5.33%) Technical Support Engineer
15 7 (4.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 7 (4.67%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.33%) LDAP
2 3 (2.00%) EDI
3 1 (0.67%) .NET
3 1 (0.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.67%) Web Services
3 1 (0.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (24.67%) Driving Licence
2 21 (14.00%) Onboarding
3 17 (11.33%) Data Centre
4 14 (9.33%) Replication
5 7 (4.67%) Clustering
5 7 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.67%) NHS
6 4 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.67%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.67%) iSeries
9 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 108 (72.00%) Windows
2 66 (44.00%) Windows Server
3 43 (28.67%) Linux
4 28 (18.67%) VMS
5 25 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (8.00%) Windows 10
7 10 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (6.00%) Ubuntu
9 8 (5.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (3.33%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.67%) Android
12 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (38.00%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (25.33%) Customer Service
3 35 (23.33%) DevOps
4 33 (22.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 32 (21.33%) Incident Management
6 28 (18.67%) Change Management
7 27 (18.00%) Cloud Security
7 27 (18.00%) Configuration Management
8 26 (17.33%) Patch Management
9 22 (14.67%) ITIL
10 20 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (12.67%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (10.67%) Agile
14 13 (8.67%) CI/CD
14 13 (8.67%) CRM
15 11 (7.33%) Migration
16 10 (6.67%) Process Improvement
17 9 (6.00%) Data Security
17 9 (6.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (25.33%) PowerShell
2 28 (18.67%) Python
3 27 (18.00%) Groovy
4 22 (14.67%) SQL
5 19 (12.67%) Java
5 19 (12.67%) Perl
6 4 (2.67%) Bicep
7 2 (1.33%) C#
7 2 (1.33%) Ruby
8 1 (0.67%) PHP
8 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.67%) VB
8 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 25 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 23 (15.33%) Degree
3 21 (14.00%) Azure Certification
4 16 (10.67%) AWS Certification
5 12 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (6.00%) CCNA
7 7 (4.67%) DBS Check
8 6 (4.00%) CCNP
8 6 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (3.33%) MCP
10 3 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.33%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.67%) CEH
12 1 (0.67%) CISSP
12 1 (0.67%) GSEC
12 1 (0.67%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.67%) MCSA
12 1 (0.67%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.67%) GDPR
2 7 (4.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.00%) SLA
5 2 (1.33%) ISO 9000
5 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) NIST
System Software
1 101 (67.33%) Active Directory
2 26 (17.33%) Docker
3 25 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 20 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (9.33%) DFS Replication
6 8 (5.33%) Dovecot
6 8 (5.33%) Postfix
6 8 (5.33%) Squid
7 7 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.00%) Firmware
8 3 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.33%) vSphere
10 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (21.33%) Terraform
2 25 (16.67%) Grafana
2 25 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 14 (9.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (6.67%) Nessus
4 10 (6.67%) SCCM
5 8 (5.33%) Proxmox
6 6 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
6 6 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (3.33%) Autotask
8 4 (2.67%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.67%) Nagios
9 3 (2.00%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.67%) Ansible
10 1 (0.67%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.67%) Puppet
10 1 (0.67%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 1 (0.67%) VxRail
10 1 (0.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 54 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (21.33%) Cisco
3 29 (19.33%) ServiceNow
4 23 (15.33%) VMware
5 22 (14.67%) Meraki
6 12 (8.00%) Aruba
7 11 (7.33%) HP
8 10 (6.67%) Veeam
9 8 (5.33%) Fortinet
9 8 (5.33%) Jaspersoft
10 6 (4.00%) SolarWinds
11 5 (3.33%) Datto
11 5 (3.33%) Nasuni
11 5 (3.33%) Panasonic
11 5 (3.33%) Rapid7
11 5 (3.33%) Samsung
12 4 (2.67%) Databricks
12 4 (2.67%) Juniper
13 3 (2.00%) Dell
13 3 (2.00%) Zscaler