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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 114 94
Rank change year-on-year -21 -20 -6
Permanent jobs citing DNS 149 139 258
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.00% 2.40% 2.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.18% 16.22% 21.72%
Number of salaries quoted 124 105 179
10th Percentile £27,500 £24,250 £26,150
25th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,847 £37,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% -1.33% -3.72%
75th Percentile £48,688 £50,000 £50,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £60,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £39,398 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.87% -12.45% +5.88%

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 777 857 1,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.24% 14.79% 11.29%
Number of salaries quoted 604 516 740
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,816 £35,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -15.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £59,063 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £72,125 £71,250 £68,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% -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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -4 85 £39,194 +11.98% 23
West Midlands -39 64 £38,000 -8.43% 32
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 36 (24.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (19.46%) SharePoint
3 12 (8.05%) IIS
4 7 (4.70%) Apache
4 7 (4.70%) nginx
5 1 (0.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.67%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 97 (65.10%) Microsoft 365
2 84 (56.38%) Azure
3 55 (36.91%) Entra ID
4 10 (6.71%) OneDrive
5 8 (5.37%) AWS
6 7 (4.70%) Azure AKS
6 7 (4.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 7 (4.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 7 (4.70%) Azure Storage
6 7 (4.70%) IaaS
6 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (4.70%) Power Automate
7 5 (3.36%) Cloudflare
7 5 (3.36%) SaaS
8 2 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.34%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.67%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 107 (71.81%) DHCP
2 79 (53.02%) Firewall
3 70 (46.98%) VPN
4 67 (44.97%) TCP/IP
5 37 (24.83%) VLAN
6 19 (12.75%) LAN
7 17 (11.41%) Wireless
8 13 (8.72%) WAN
9 11 (7.38%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (6.71%) VoIP
11 8 (5.37%) Network Security
12 5 (3.36%) SSL
13 4 (2.68%) Internet
13 4 (2.68%) MQTT
13 4 (2.68%) Remote Desktop
14 3 (2.01%) NX-OS
14 3 (2.01%) SAN
14 3 (2.01%) Structured Cabling
15 2 (1.34%) Ethernet
15 2 (1.34%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.68%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.34%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (1.34%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (1.34%) KNIME
4 1 (0.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (5.37%) JIRA
2 5 (3.36%) Git
3 3 (2.01%) GitLab
4 2 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.67%) Carbide.c++
General
1 82 (55.03%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (7.38%) Law
4 8 (5.37%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.70%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.36%) Finance
6 5 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.36%) Retail
7 3 (2.01%) Legal
7 3 (2.01%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.34%) Banking
8 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.34%) Marketing
9 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.67%) Automotive
9 1 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (39.60%) IT Support
2 51 (34.23%) Support Engineer
3 41 (27.52%) IT Engineer
4 34 (22.82%) IT Support Engineer
5 24 (16.11%) Senior
6 22 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (14.09%) IT Technician
8 20 (13.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 19 (12.75%) IT Support Technician
9 19 (12.75%) Support Technician
10 15 (10.07%) Administrator
11 14 (9.40%) Senior Support Engineer
12 11 (7.38%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (7.38%) Network Engineer
12 11 (7.38%) Systems Administrator
13 10 (6.71%) Azure Engineer
13 10 (6.71%) Network Administrator
13 10 (6.71%) Technical Support
14 9 (6.04%) 2nd Line Support
15 8 (5.37%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.04%) Terraform
2 4 (2.68%) REST
3 2 (1.34%) Pulumi
3 2 (1.34%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.05%) Driving Licence
2 10 (6.71%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.04%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.37%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.70%) Clustering
6 5 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.36%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.68%) IoT
7 4 (2.68%) PMI
8 3 (2.01%) PKI
9 2 (1.34%) Replication
10 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.67%) CCTV
10 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.67%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.67%) iPad
10 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.67%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 122 (81.88%) Windows
2 78 (52.35%) Windows Server
3 39 (26.17%) Linux
4 29 (19.46%) Windows 10
5 13 (8.72%) Mac OS
6 8 (5.37%) Apple iOS
6 8 (5.37%) Ubuntu
7 7 (4.70%) Android
8 4 (2.68%) VMS
9 3 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (2.01%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (45.64%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (30.87%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (21.48%) Customer Service
4 31 (20.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 27 (18.12%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (14.77%) ITSM
7 21 (14.09%) Mentoring
7 21 (14.09%) Patch Management
7 21 (14.09%) Service Delivery
8 20 (13.42%) Cybersecurity
8 20 (13.42%) Project Delivery
9 19 (12.75%) ITIL
10 18 (12.08%) High Availability
11 16 (10.74%) AI
11 16 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (9.40%) Load Balancing
13 13 (8.72%) Root Cause Analysis
14 12 (8.05%) Virtual Environments
15 11 (7.38%) Business Continuity
15 11 (7.38%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 48 (32.21%) PowerShell
2 32 (21.48%) SQL
3 13 (8.72%) Python
4 12 (8.05%) VBA
5 6 (4.03%) Bicep
6 4 (2.68%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (12.08%) Degree
2 13 (8.72%) Azure Certification
2 13 (8.72%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (6.71%) CCNA
3 10 (6.71%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (5.37%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.70%) DBS Check
5 7 (4.70%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.68%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.01%) MCSE
7 3 (2.01%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.34%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.34%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.67%) CISSP
9 1 (0.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.67%) MCSA
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.12%) SLA
2 13 (8.72%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.03%) GDPR
5 5 (3.36%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.67%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.67%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 103 (69.13%) Active Directory
2 57 (38.26%) Hyper-V
3 39 (26.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.03%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (3.36%) Docker
6 4 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (2.68%) vSphere
7 3 (2.01%) Firmware
8 2 (1.34%) BitLocker
8 2 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (21.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (8.05%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.70%) Failover Clustering
3 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Clustering
4 4 (2.68%) Ansible
4 4 (2.68%) FortiGate
4 4 (2.68%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.34%) Grafana
6 1 (0.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 120 (80.54%) Microsoft
2 40 (26.85%) VMware
3 19 (12.75%) Cisco
4 11 (7.38%) SonicWALL
5 10 (6.71%) ServiceNow
6 8 (5.37%) Citrix
6 8 (5.37%) Veeam
7 7 (4.70%) Apple
8 6 (4.03%) Fortinet
9 5 (3.36%) Palo Alto
10 4 (2.68%) Freshdesk
10 4 (2.68%) Sophos
10 4 (2.68%) WatchGuard
11 3 (2.01%) Sage
12 2 (1.34%) Acronis
12 2 (1.34%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.34%) FIS
12 2 (1.34%) Google
12 2 (1.34%) Meraki
12 2 (1.34%) SAP