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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 120 61
Rank change year-on-year +36 -59 +90
Permanent jobs citing DNS 149 183 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.54% 2.08% 4.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 22.17% 16.58% 21.39%
Number of salaries quoted 118 87 178
10th Percentile £24,775 £29,600 £27,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -17.65% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £53,478
90th Percentile £62,770 £65,000 £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 672 1,104 996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.44% 12.57% 19.91%
Number of salaries quoted 482 431 812
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £46,500 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +8.14% -9.47%
75th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £51,128
% change year-on-year -25.93% +5.62% -2.61%

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 20 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 20 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 +23 76 £40,000 +7.13% 27
East Midlands +19 73 £31,500 -10.00% 25
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 25 (16.78%) SharePoint
2 24 (16.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 21 (14.09%) Confluence
4 8 (5.37%) nginx
5 2 (1.34%) IIS
6 1 (0.67%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (63.09%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (33.56%) Azure
3 26 (17.45%) AWS
4 25 (16.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 22 (14.77%) Amazon EC2
5 22 (14.77%) Amazon ELB
5 22 (14.77%) Amazon S3
5 22 (14.77%) AWS KMS
5 22 (14.77%) Entra ID
5 22 (14.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 15 (10.07%) Amazon Glacier
7 10 (6.71%) SaaS
8 7 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
8 7 (4.70%) Nutanix
8 7 (4.70%) Route 53
9 6 (4.03%) iPaaS
10 5 (3.36%) Mimecast
10 5 (3.36%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 112 (75.17%) DHCP
2 73 (48.99%) Firewall
3 43 (28.86%) VPN
4 38 (25.50%) TCP/IP
5 29 (19.46%) VLAN
6 26 (17.45%) HTTP
7 25 (16.78%) SSH
7 25 (16.78%) WAN
8 23 (15.44%) FTP
8 23 (15.44%) SMTP
9 21 (14.09%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (10.07%) LAN
10 15 (10.07%) VoIP
11 14 (9.40%) Wireless
12 13 (8.72%) SAN
13 12 (8.05%) Ethernet
14 10 (6.71%) Internet
14 10 (6.71%) SD-WAN
15 9 (6.04%) Network Security
15 9 (6.04%) VDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.44%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (4.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.01%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.34%) Power BI
5 1 (0.67%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.67%) MySQL
5 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (16.78%) JIRA
2 23 (15.44%) Jenkins
3 22 (14.77%) Vagrant
4 21 (14.09%) Git
5 5 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.34%) Subversion
General
1 63 (42.28%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.74%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.72%) Manufacturing
3 13 (8.72%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (8.05%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (5.37%) Law
5 8 (5.37%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.68%) Billing
7 3 (2.01%) Back Office
7 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.01%) Legal
7 3 (2.01%) Publishing
7 3 (2.01%) Retail
8 2 (1.34%) Automotive
8 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 70 (46.98%) Support Engineer
2 64 (42.95%) IT Engineer
3 54 (36.24%) IT Support
4 52 (34.90%) IT Support Engineer
5 30 (20.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (13.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (12.75%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (12.75%) Technical Support
8 16 (10.74%) Infrastructure Support
8 16 (10.74%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 12 (8.05%) 2nd Line Support
10 11 (7.38%) Technical Engineer
11 10 (6.71%) 3rd Line Support
11 10 (6.71%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (6.04%) Analyst
12 9 (6.04%) Network Engineer
12 9 (6.04%) Technical Support Engineer
13 7 (4.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 6 (4.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 6 (4.03%) 2nd Line Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.70%) LDAP
2 3 (2.01%) 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 40 (26.85%) Driving Licence
2 23 (15.44%) Onboarding
3 13 (8.72%) Data Centre
4 11 (7.38%) Replication
5 8 (5.37%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.70%) Clustering
7 5 (3.36%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.36%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.34%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.67%) iPad
10 1 (0.67%) iSeries
10 1 (0.67%) PMI
10 1 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 110 (73.83%) Windows
2 71 (47.65%) Windows Server
3 35 (23.49%) Linux
4 23 (15.44%) VMS
5 20 (13.42%) Amazon Linux
6 15 (10.07%) Windows 10
7 11 (7.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (5.37%) Ubuntu
9 7 (4.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (3.36%) Mac OS
11 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.67%) Android
12 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (43.62%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (30.20%) Customer Service
3 36 (24.16%) Incident Management
4 33 (22.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 26 (17.45%) DevOps
6 23 (15.44%) Change Management
6 23 (15.44%) Cloud Security
7 22 (14.77%) Configuration Management
8 21 (14.09%) ITIL
8 21 (14.09%) Patch Management
9 19 (12.75%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (12.08%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (11.41%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (8.72%) CRM
13 11 (7.38%) Agile
14 10 (6.71%) Process Improvement
15 9 (6.04%) Data Security
16 8 (5.37%) CI/CD
17 7 (4.70%) Performance Tuning
17 7 (4.70%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.79%) PowerShell
2 23 (15.44%) Python
3 22 (14.77%) Groovy
4 17 (11.41%) SQL
5 15 (10.07%) Java
5 15 (10.07%) Perl
6 2 (1.34%) C#
6 2 (1.34%) Ruby
7 1 (0.67%) PHP
7 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.67%) VB
7 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (13.42%) Degree
1 20 (13.42%) SC Cleared
1 20 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.40%) Azure Certification
3 13 (8.72%) AWS Certification
4 11 (7.38%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (5.37%) CCNA
6 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (4.03%) CCNP
8 5 (3.36%) MCP
9 4 (2.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.01%) DBS Check
10 3 (2.01%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.34%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.34%) CEH
11 2 (1.34%) CISSP
11 2 (1.34%) GSEC
11 2 (1.34%) OSCP
12 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.72%) GDPR
2 9 (6.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 6 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.36%) SLA
5 2 (1.34%) NIST
System Software
1 104 (69.80%) Active Directory
2 25 (16.78%) Hyper-V
3 21 (14.09%) Docker
4 20 (13.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (7.38%) DFS Replication
6 7 (4.70%) Dovecot
6 7 (4.70%) Postfix
6 7 (4.70%) Squid
7 4 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.01%) Firmware
8 3 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.34%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.34%) vSphere
10 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (18.12%) Terraform
2 20 (13.42%) Grafana
2 20 (13.42%) Prometheus
3 15 (10.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (6.71%) Nessus
5 8 (5.37%) SCCM
6 7 (4.70%) Proxmox
7 6 (4.03%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (2.68%) Autotask
8 4 (2.68%) FortiGate
9 3 (2.01%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (2.01%) Nagios
9 3 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
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 60 (40.27%) Microsoft
2 28 (18.79%) Cisco
3 26 (17.45%) ServiceNow
4 23 (15.44%) VMware
5 17 (11.41%) Meraki
6 11 (7.38%) Aruba
7 10 (6.71%) HP
7 10 (6.71%) Veeam
8 7 (4.70%) Fortinet
8 7 (4.70%) Jaspersoft
9 5 (3.36%) Panasonic
9 5 (3.36%) Samsung
9 5 (3.36%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.68%) Datto
10 4 (2.68%) Google
10 4 (2.68%) Juniper
10 4 (2.68%) Nasuni
10 4 (2.68%) Rapid7
11 3 (2.01%) Dell
11 3 (2.01%) Palo Alto