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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 93 79
Rank change year-on-year -16 -14 +63
Permanent jobs citing DNS 142 243 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.54% 2.44% 3.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.11% 22.19% 17.07%
Number of salaries quoted 107 150 155
10th Percentile £24,250 £26,813 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £32,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £50,572 £50,000 £53,478
90th Percentile £73,750 £58,750 £59,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +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 830 1,095 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.85% 10.98% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 494 601 766
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,750 £42,500 £44,246
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% -3.95% -7.82%
75th Percentile £52,500 £56,000 £57,688
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -17.00% -2.91% -1.90%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DNS 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +4 78 £41,500 +6.41% 32
East Midlands -5 64 £35,000 - 25
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (26.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (18.31%) Confluence
3 25 (17.61%) SharePoint
4 9 (6.34%) nginx
5 5 (3.52%) IIS
6 2 (1.41%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.70%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 20 (14.08%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.63%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 79 (55.63%) Microsoft 365
2 57 (40.14%) Azure
3 35 (24.65%) AWS
4 27 (19.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 27 (19.01%) Amazon EC2
4 27 (19.01%) Amazon ELB
4 27 (19.01%) Amazon S3
4 27 (19.01%) AWS KMS
4 27 (19.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 19 (13.38%) Amazon Glacier
6 12 (8.45%) Power Platform
7 10 (7.04%) Entra ID
8 8 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (5.63%) Nutanix
8 8 (5.63%) Route 53
9 7 (4.93%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (4.93%) Power Automate
9 7 (4.93%) SaaS
10 6 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.23%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 97 (68.31%) DHCP
2 86 (60.56%) Firewall
3 38 (26.76%) VPN
4 33 (23.24%) WAN
5 32 (22.54%) TCP/IP
6 28 (19.72%) HTTP
7 27 (19.01%) FTP
7 27 (19.01%) SMTP
7 27 (19.01%) SSH
8 25 (17.61%) VLAN
9 19 (13.38%) SD-WAN
10 18 (12.68%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (11.97%) SAN
12 15 (10.56%) LAN
13 11 (7.75%) Network Security
14 8 (5.63%) IMAP
14 8 (5.63%) OpenLDAP
15 5 (3.52%) iSCSI
15 5 (3.52%) Remote Desktop
15 5 (3.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.72%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (9.15%) SQL Server
3 9 (6.34%) Power BI
4 8 (5.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.52%) MySQL
6 4 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.11%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (2.11%) Tableau
8 1 (0.70%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (21.13%) Git
2 28 (19.72%) Jenkins
3 27 (19.01%) Vagrant
4 26 (18.31%) JIRA
5 7 (4.93%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (2.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.41%) Subversion
General
1 53 (37.32%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.08%) Public Sector
3 16 (11.27%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (6.34%) Law
5 6 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.23%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.23%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.52%) Billing
7 3 (2.11%) Back Office
7 3 (2.11%) Finance
7 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.11%) Legal
7 3 (2.11%) Publishing
8 2 (1.41%) Automotive
8 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (33.80%) Support Engineer
2 39 (27.46%) IT Engineer
3 37 (26.06%) IT Support
4 31 (21.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 28 (19.72%) IT Support Engineer
6 25 (17.61%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (10.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 15 (10.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (9.86%) Analyst
8 14 (9.86%) Infrastructure Support
8 14 (9.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 12 (8.45%) 3rd Line Support
10 11 (7.75%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (7.04%) 2nd Line Support
11 10 (7.04%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 9 (6.34%) Technical Support
13 8 (5.63%) Network Engineer
13 8 (5.63%) Support Analyst
14 7 (4.93%) AWS DevOps
14 7 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.63%) LDAP
2 3 (2.11%) EDI
2 3 (2.11%) Web Services
3 2 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (16.20%) Driving Licence
2 14 (9.86%) Replication
3 13 (9.15%) Data Centre
4 12 (8.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.82%) Clustering
5 4 (2.82%) NHS
6 3 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.11%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.41%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.70%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 107 (75.35%) Windows
2 71 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 48 (33.80%) Linux
4 28 (19.72%) VMS
5 25 (17.61%) Amazon Linux
6 15 (10.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (9.15%) Windows 10
7 13 (9.15%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (7.75%) Ubuntu
9 6 (4.23%) Windows 7
10 5 (3.52%) Mac OS
11 3 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (1.41%) Android
12 2 (1.41%) CentOS
12 2 (1.41%) Rocky
12 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (36.62%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (23.94%) DevOps
3 32 (22.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 31 (21.83%) Customer Service
5 29 (20.42%) Configuration Management
6 28 (19.72%) Change Management
6 28 (19.72%) Patch Management
7 27 (19.01%) Cloud Security
8 26 (18.31%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (13.38%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (13.38%) Incident Management
10 19 (13.38%) ITIL
11 18 (12.68%) Agile
12 17 (11.97%) Migration
13 13 (9.15%) CI/CD
13 13 (9.15%) CRM
14 11 (7.75%) Process Improvement
14 11 (7.75%) Service Management
15 10 (7.04%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 46 (32.39%) PowerShell
2 31 (21.83%) Python
3 27 (19.01%) Groovy
4 22 (15.49%) SQL
5 21 (14.79%) Perl
6 20 (14.08%) Java
7 4 (2.82%) Bicep
8 2 (1.41%) Bash
8 2 (1.41%) C#
8 2 (1.41%) Ruby
9 1 (0.70%) C++
9 1 (0.70%) Go
9 1 (0.70%) PHP
9 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (23.24%) Security Cleared
2 28 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 26 (18.31%) Azure Certification
4 25 (17.61%) Degree
5 16 (11.27%) AWS Certification
6 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (7.75%) MCP
8 10 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (5.63%) CCNA
10 7 (4.93%) DBS Check
10 7 (4.93%) DV Cleared
10 7 (4.93%) MCSA
11 6 (4.23%) A+ Certification
12 4 (2.82%) CCNP
13 3 (2.11%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (1.41%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
14 2 (1.41%) MCSE
15 1 (0.70%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.97%) GDPR
2 7 (4.93%) SLA
3 6 (4.23%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.41%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 91 (64.08%) Active Directory
2 28 (19.72%) Hyper-V
3 27 (19.01%) Docker
4 24 (16.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (9.86%) DFS Replication
6 8 (5.63%) Dovecot
6 8 (5.63%) Postfix
6 8 (5.63%) Squid
7 6 (4.23%) vSphere
8 5 (3.52%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (3.52%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (2.82%) Terminal Services
10 2 (1.41%) Firmware
10 2 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (21.13%) Terraform
2 25 (17.61%) Grafana
2 25 (17.61%) Prometheus
3 13 (9.15%) SCCM
4 12 (8.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (6.34%) Nessus
6 8 (5.63%) Proxmox
7 6 (4.23%) Ansible
8 5 (3.52%) Autotask
8 5 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.82%) Nagios
9 4 (2.82%) SCOM
10 3 (2.11%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (2.11%) FortiGate
10 3 (2.11%) Puppet
11 2 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (1.41%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.41%) SCOrch
11 2 (1.41%) SCSM
11 2 (1.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 63 (44.37%) Microsoft
2 28 (19.72%) Cisco
3 27 (19.01%) ServiceNow
3 27 (19.01%) VMware
4 17 (11.97%) Meraki
5 11 (7.75%) HP
6 8 (5.63%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (4.93%) Aruba
7 7 (4.93%) Veeam
8 6 (4.23%) Dell
8 6 (4.23%) Nasuni
8 6 (4.23%) Rapid7
9 5 (3.52%) Datto
9 5 (3.52%) Fortinet
10 4 (2.82%) Databricks
10 4 (2.82%) NetApp
10 4 (2.82%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.11%) Juniper
11 3 (2.11%) Samsung
11 3 (2.11%) SAP