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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 118 87
Rank change year-on-year +9 -31 +71
Permanent jobs citing DNS 133 141 248
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.57% 2.33% 2.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.47% 15.13% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 111 78 217
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £26,500 £32,125 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -17.65% +7.27%
75th Percentile £39,750 £39,875 £52,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £54,875 £58,100
England median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -5.56%

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 1,571 932 1,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.52% 15.43% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 415 403 1,159
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,550 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £36,250 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £40,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.36% +10.00% -3.85%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -6 71 £28,500 -14.29% 13
West Midlands +8 61 £37,500 +7.14% 29
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 29 (21.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (20.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.50%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 89 (66.92%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (33.08%) Azure
3 37 (27.82%) Entra ID
4 11 (8.27%) SaaS
5 6 (4.51%) iPaaS
6 5 (3.76%) AWS
6 5 (3.76%) GCP
6 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (3.76%) OneDrive
7 4 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.01%) IaaS
7 4 (3.01%) PaaS
8 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.26%) Datadog
9 2 (1.50%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (0.75%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.75%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.75%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 118 (88.72%) DHCP
2 44 (33.08%) VPN
3 40 (30.08%) TCP/IP
4 34 (25.56%) Firewall
5 25 (18.80%) WAN
6 23 (17.29%) VoIP
7 21 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (13.53%) LAN
8 18 (13.53%) VLAN
8 18 (13.53%) Wireless
9 15 (11.28%) Internet
10 13 (9.77%) Ethernet
11 12 (9.02%) Network Security
12 10 (7.52%) PBX
12 10 (7.52%) SD-WAN
13 9 (6.77%) ADSL
13 9 (6.77%) VDSL
14 8 (6.02%) Broadband
15 7 (5.26%) SAN
16 5 (3.76%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.51%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.75%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (3.76%) JIRA
2 4 (3.01%) LabVIEW
3 3 (2.26%) Git
4 2 (1.50%) GitLab
5 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.75%) Vagrant
General
1 59 (44.36%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.53%) Manufacturing
3 14 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.51%) Law
6 5 (3.76%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.01%) Legal
7 4 (3.01%) Retail
8 3 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Automotive
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (46.62%) IT Engineer
2 60 (45.11%) IT Support
3 59 (44.36%) Support Engineer
4 47 (35.34%) IT Support Engineer
5 20 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (12.03%) Technical Support
7 15 (11.28%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (10.53%) Analyst
9 13 (9.77%) Technical Engineer
10 11 (8.27%) 2nd Line Support
11 9 (6.77%) Support Analyst
11 9 (6.77%) Technical Support Engineer
12 8 (6.02%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
12 8 (6.02%) 3rd Line Support
12 8 (6.02%) Infrastructure Support
12 8 (6.02%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 8 (6.02%) IT Support Technician
12 8 (6.02%) IT Technician
12 8 (6.02%) Support Technician
13 7 (5.26%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.50%) LDAP
2 1 (0.75%) .NET
2 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (36.09%) Driving Licence
2 20 (15.04%) Onboarding
3 12 (9.02%) Data Centre
4 8 (6.02%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.26%) Clustering
6 6 (4.51%) iPad
6 6 (4.51%) PMI
7 5 (3.76%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.50%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.75%) iSeries
10 1 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 96 (72.18%) Windows
2 65 (48.87%) Windows Server
3 20 (15.04%) Windows 10
4 7 (5.26%) Linux
5 4 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.26%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.50%) VMS
8 1 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (50.38%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (44.36%) Customer Service
3 36 (27.07%) Incident Management
4 30 (22.56%) ITIL
5 22 (16.54%) Disaster Recovery
5 22 (16.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (9.77%) Service Delivery
7 11 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (7.52%) ERP
8 10 (7.52%) ITSM
8 10 (7.52%) Migration
9 8 (6.02%) Cloud Security
10 7 (5.26%) Network Monitoring
11 6 (4.51%) Data Migration
11 6 (4.51%) Data Protection
11 6 (4.51%) Identity Management
11 6 (4.51%) Preventative Maintenance
11 6 (4.51%) Risk Management
11 6 (4.51%) Server Management
11 6 (4.51%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.27%) PowerShell
2 10 (7.52%) SQL
3 1 (0.75%) Groovy
3 1 (0.75%) Python
3 1 (0.75%) VB
3 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (12.03%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (11.28%) Degree
3 7 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.51%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.76%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.76%) MCSA
5 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (3.01%) CCNP
6 4 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.01%) HNC
7 3 (2.26%) A+ Certification
7 3 (2.26%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.50%) CEH
8 2 (1.50%) CISSP
8 2 (1.50%) GSEC
8 2 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.50%) OSCP
9 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.02%) GDPR
1 12 (9.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (8.27%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (5.26%) SLA
4 6 (4.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 95 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 23 (17.29%) Hyper-V
3 20 (15.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.01%) Terminal Services
4 4 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.26%) Firmware
6 2 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.75%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.75%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.75%) Docker
7 1 (0.75%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.75%) Postfix
7 1 (0.75%) Squid
7 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (13.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (5.26%) Terraform
3 6 (4.51%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (4.51%) WSUS
4 4 (3.01%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.26%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (2.26%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.26%) Nagios
5 3 (2.26%) Nessus
6 1 (0.75%) CASB
6 1 (0.75%) Grafana
6 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.75%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.75%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 1 (0.75%) VxRail
Vendors
1 60 (45.11%) Microsoft
2 26 (19.55%) VMware
3 20 (15.04%) Cisco
4 18 (13.53%) Meraki
5 11 (8.27%) Veeam
6 9 (6.77%) Apple
7 7 (5.26%) ServiceNow
7 7 (5.26%) SolarWinds
8 5 (3.76%) Aruba
8 5 (3.76%) Fortinet
8 5 (3.76%) Panasonic
8 5 (3.76%) Samsung
9 4 (3.01%) Google
9 4 (3.01%) HP
10 3 (2.26%) Citrix
10 3 (2.26%) Dell
10 3 (2.26%) Freshdesk
10 3 (2.26%) Kaseya
10 3 (2.26%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.26%) Yealink