DNS Jobs in the Midlands

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 125 132
Rank change year-on-year +25 +7 -27
Permanent jobs citing DNS 275 180 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.37% 2.37% 2.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.84% 12.52% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 216 145 264
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.25% -3.77%
75th Percentile £50,813 £48,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £61,250
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +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 1,386 1,438 1,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.93% 18.94% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 947 710 1,127
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,813 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £44,625 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -6.05% +7.95%
75th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,819 £75,000
England median annual salary £48,500 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% -2.89% +5.00%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS in the Midlands.

Salary trend for DNS in the Midlands

DNS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +11 138 £39,750 +6.00% 26
East Midlands +25 133 £38,250 +8.62% 12
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 95 (34.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 67 (24.36%) SharePoint
3 18 (6.55%) IIS
4 5 (1.82%) Confluence
5 4 (1.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 56 (20.36%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.73%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.36%) CATIA
5 1 (0.36%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (1.45%) Sage 200
1 4 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Sage 300 ERP
3 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 164 (59.64%) Azure
2 162 (58.91%) Microsoft 365
3 87 (31.64%) Entra ID
4 27 (9.82%) AWS
5 26 (9.45%) OneDrive
6 18 (6.55%) Mimecast
7 15 (5.45%) IaaS
8 13 (4.73%) Google Workspace
9 10 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (3.64%) PaaS
10 8 (2.91%) Nutanix
11 5 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
11 5 (1.82%) ChatGPT
12 4 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.45%) WhatsApp
13 2 (0.73%) Azure Stack
13 2 (0.73%) Power Platform
13 2 (0.73%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 211 (76.73%) DHCP
2 121 (44.00%) Firewall
3 111 (40.36%) TCP/IP
4 60 (21.82%) VLAN
5 55 (20.00%) WAN
6 51 (18.55%) VPN
7 43 (15.64%) SAN
8 40 (14.55%) LAN
9 30 (10.91%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (7.64%) SSL
11 20 (7.27%) Wireless
12 18 (6.55%) SD-WAN
13 17 (6.18%) BGP
14 10 (3.64%) Network Security
14 10 (3.64%) SMTP
15 9 (3.27%) OSPF
15 9 (3.27%) SNMP
16 8 (2.91%) Fibre Channel
16 8 (2.91%) iSCSI
16 8 (2.91%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.55%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.82%) Oracle Database
5 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (1.45%) RDBMS
5 4 (1.45%) Redis
5 4 (1.45%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.73%) MySQL
7 2 (0.73%) Power BI
7 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Git
1 7 (2.55%) JIRA
2 5 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (0.73%) GitLab
General
1 84 (30.55%) Social Skills
2 21 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
3 20 (7.27%) Finance
4 13 (4.73%) Manufacturing
5 12 (4.36%) Retail
6 9 (3.27%) Automotive
6 9 (3.27%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.91%) Aerospace
7 8 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.18%) Law
8 6 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.45%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.09%) Military
11 2 (0.73%) Advertising
11 2 (0.73%) Legal
12 1 (0.36%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 57 (20.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 57 (20.73%) IT Engineer
2 42 (15.27%) IT Support
3 35 (12.73%) Support Engineer
4 31 (11.27%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (11.27%) Senior
5 25 (9.09%) Administrator
6 24 (8.73%) Analyst
7 21 (7.64%) Support Technician
8 20 (7.27%) Lead
9 18 (6.55%) IT Technician
10 16 (5.82%) IT Support Engineer
10 16 (5.82%) Network Engineer
11 15 (5.45%) IT Support Technician
12 14 (5.09%) IT Manager
13 13 (4.73%) Architect
13 13 (4.73%) Service Analyst
13 13 (4.73%) Service Desk Analyst
14 12 (4.36%) Systems Administrator
15 11 (4.00%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.73%) .NET
2 9 (3.27%) AngularJS
2 9 (3.27%) ASP.NET
2 9 (3.27%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (3.27%) CSS
2 9 (3.27%) HTML
2 9 (3.27%) jQuery
2 9 (3.27%) React
2 9 (3.27%) REST
2 9 (3.27%) Tailwind CSS
2 9 (3.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 9 (3.27%) Vue
2 9 (3.27%) WPF
3 7 (2.55%) JSON
3 7 (2.55%) YAML
4 5 (1.82%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.82%) ADO
5 4 (1.45%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (1.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.45%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.64%) Driving Licence
3 20 (7.27%) Management Information System
4 19 (6.91%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.73%) PKI
6 11 (4.00%) Clustering
7 10 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 9 (3.27%) Replication
8 9 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.18%) Cyberattack
9 6 (2.18%) Smartphone
10 5 (1.82%) EFT
10 5 (1.82%) NHS
11 4 (1.45%) CCTV
11 4 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.45%) FMCG
12 3 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.73%) Digital Media
13 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
13 2 (0.73%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 225 (81.82%) Windows
2 155 (56.36%) Windows Server
3 59 (21.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 56 (20.36%) Windows 10
5 53 (19.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 37 (13.45%) Linux
7 22 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 13 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (4.00%) Apple iOS
9 11 (4.00%) Ubuntu
10 10 (3.64%) Mac OS X
11 7 (2.55%) Windows Server 2008
12 6 (2.18%) Mac OS
13 5 (1.82%) Android
13 5 (1.82%) CentOS
14 4 (1.45%) VMS
15 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.73%) Unix
17 1 (0.36%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (23.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 57 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (17.45%) ITIL
4 45 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
5 33 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 31 (11.27%) Customer Service
7 23 (8.36%) Project Delivery
8 18 (6.55%) Change Control
8 18 (6.55%) Migration
9 17 (6.18%) Patch Management
9 17 (6.18%) Project Management
10 14 (5.09%) Agile
10 14 (5.09%) Incident Management
10 14 (5.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (5.09%) Service Management
11 13 (4.73%) CI/CD
11 13 (4.73%) Computer Science
11 13 (4.73%) DevOps
11 13 (4.73%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (4.73%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 68 (24.73%) PowerShell
2 38 (13.82%) SQL
3 9 (3.27%) C#
3 9 (3.27%) XAML
4 6 (2.18%) Bash
5 4 (1.45%) Python
6 3 (1.09%) R
7 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.36%) C
8 1 (0.36%) C++
8 1 (0.36%) Java
8 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.36%) Perl
8 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (13.09%) Degree
2 27 (9.82%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.36%) CCNA
3 23 (8.36%) Cisco Certification
4 19 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (6.91%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.45%) MCSE
6 12 (4.36%) Azure Certification
6 12 (4.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (4.00%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (2.55%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (2.18%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.18%) CCNP
10 6 (2.18%) HNC
10 6 (2.18%) HND
11 5 (1.82%) MCITP
11 5 (1.82%) RHCSA
12 4 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.45%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.09%) SLA
2 5 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.82%) QA
3 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.09%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 221 (80.36%) Active Directory
2 77 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (25.09%) Hyper-V
4 17 (6.18%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (5.82%) vSphere
6 13 (4.73%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (3.64%) XenDesktop
8 8 (2.91%) VMware Server
9 6 (2.18%) pfSense
9 6 (2.18%) VMware NSX
10 5 (1.82%) XenApp
11 4 (1.45%) NFS
12 2 (0.73%) Firmware
12 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.73%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.73%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (23.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 37 (13.45%) SCCM
3 14 (5.09%) Terraform
3 14 (5.09%) vCenter Server
4 12 (4.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 12 (4.36%) SCOM
5 9 (3.27%) SmoothWall
6 6 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.82%) EMC NetWorker
8 4 (1.45%) SCOrch
8 4 (1.45%) vMotion
9 3 (1.09%) Autotask
9 3 (1.09%) Backup Exec
9 3 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.73%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.73%) VxRail
10 2 (0.73%) WSUS
11 1 (0.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 182 (66.18%) Microsoft
2 115 (41.82%) VMware
3 55 (20.00%) Cisco
3 55 (20.00%) Veeam
4 36 (13.09%) Dell
5 25 (9.09%) Apple
6 21 (7.64%) Citrix
7 20 (7.27%) Fortinet
8 15 (5.45%) Acronis
8 15 (5.45%) Meraki
9 12 (4.36%) Ubiquiti
10 11 (4.00%) Google
11 10 (3.64%) Red Hat
11 10 (3.64%) Sage
11 10 (3.64%) SonicWALL
11 10 (3.64%) Sophos
12 9 (3.27%) HP
12 9 (3.27%) Zerto
13 8 (2.91%) Nasuni
13 8 (2.91%) Rapid7