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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 95 160
Rank change year-on-year -72 +65 -46
Permanent jobs citing DNS 95 311 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.37% 2.42% 1.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.57% 19.57% 9.35%
Number of salaries quoted 78 260 143
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,475 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £28,750 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £37,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -1.32% -1.30%
75th Percentile £43,750 £50,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £56,350 £58,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £44,225 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.90% +4.06% -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 899 1,589 1,722
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.01% 12.35% 19.68%
Number of salaries quoted 467 1,283 717
10th Percentile £26,968 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,125 £30,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £41,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.66% -5.20% -3.89%
75th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -37 52 £35,000 -11.95% 35
East Midlands -38 43 £38,500 +2.67% 27
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 28 (29.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (15.79%) SharePoint
3 9 (9.47%) Confluence
4 7 (7.37%) IIS
5 4 (4.21%) nginx
6 2 (2.11%) Skype for Business
7 1 (1.05%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 27 (28.42%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (17.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 42 (44.21%) Azure
2 40 (42.11%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (17.89%) AWS
4 13 (13.68%) Google Workspace
5 10 (10.53%) Power Platform
6 9 (9.47%) Entra ID
7 8 (8.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (8.42%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (8.42%) Amazon ELB
7 8 (8.42%) Amazon S3
7 8 (8.42%) AWS KMS
7 8 (8.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (7.37%) Power Automate
9 5 (5.26%) Amazon Glacier
10 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (4.21%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.21%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (4.21%) Nutanix
10 4 (4.21%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 72 (75.79%) DHCP
2 63 (66.32%) Firewall
3 36 (37.89%) TCP/IP
4 25 (26.32%) VPN
5 23 (24.21%) WAN
6 21 (22.11%) VLAN
7 13 (13.68%) LAN
7 13 (13.68%) WLAN
8 12 (12.63%) BGP
8 12 (12.63%) SAN
9 11 (11.58%) OSPF
9 11 (11.58%) SD-WAN
10 9 (9.47%) HTTP
10 9 (9.47%) Network Security
10 9 (9.47%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (8.42%) FTP
11 8 (8.42%) SMTP
11 8 (8.42%) SSH
12 7 (7.37%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (4.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.84%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.42%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (7.37%) Power BI
4 5 (5.26%) MySQL
5 4 (4.21%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.16%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.16%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (3.16%) Tableau
7 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.05%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 14 (14.74%) Git
2 10 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.47%) JIRA
4 8 (8.42%) Vagrant
5 3 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.05%) Maven
General
1 36 (37.89%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.63%) Retail
3 11 (11.58%) Automotive
4 7 (7.37%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.21%) Law
8 3 (3.16%) Billing
8 3 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.11%) Finance
9 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.05%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 25 (26.32%) IT Engineer
2 23 (24.21%) Support Engineer
3 19 (20.00%) IT Support
4 18 (18.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (14.74%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 12 (12.63%) Systems Engineer
7 11 (11.58%) Analyst
8 10 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (9.47%) 3rd Line Support
9 9 (9.47%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 8 (8.42%) IT Support Engineer
11 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Support
11 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 6 (6.32%) IT Support Specialist
11 6 (6.32%) Network Engineer
11 6 (6.32%) Support Specialist
12 5 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 4 (4.21%) AWS DevOps
13 4 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
13 4 (4.21%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.21%) LDAP
2 3 (3.16%) Web Services
3 2 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.05%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.74%) Management Information System
2 11 (11.58%) Smartphone
3 8 (8.42%) Driving Licence
4 6 (6.32%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.26%) Replication
6 4 (4.21%) NHS
7 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.05%) CCTV
8 1 (1.05%) Clustering
8 1 (1.05%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.05%) IoT
8 1 (1.05%) iPhone
8 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (80.00%) Windows
2 56 (58.95%) Windows Server
3 33 (34.74%) Linux
4 20 (21.05%) Windows 10
4 20 (21.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (18.95%) Ubuntu
5 18 (18.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (11.58%) Mac OS X
7 9 (9.47%) VMS
8 8 (8.42%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (6.32%) Android
9 6 (6.32%) Windows 7
10 4 (4.21%) CentOS
11 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
11 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (3.16%) Rocky
12 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (1.05%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.74%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (17.89%) Performance Tuning
4 15 (15.79%) DevOps
5 14 (14.74%) Customer Service
5 14 (14.74%) Migration
6 13 (13.68%) Computer Science
6 13 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (11.58%) Business Case
7 11 (11.58%) Configuration Management
7 11 (11.58%) Patch Management
7 11 (11.58%) Systems Engineering
8 10 (10.53%) ITIL
9 9 (9.47%) Agile
9 9 (9.47%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (9.47%) Change Management
9 9 (9.47%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (8.42%) CI/CD
10 8 (8.42%) Cloud Security
11 7 (7.37%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.05%) PowerShell
2 24 (25.26%) SQL
3 12 (12.63%) Python
4 8 (8.42%) Groovy
5 7 (7.37%) Perl
6 6 (6.32%) Java
7 4 (4.21%) Bicep
8 2 (2.11%) Bash
9 1 (1.05%) C++
9 1 (1.05%) Go
9 1 (1.05%) PHP
9 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (24.21%) Degree
2 22 (23.16%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (18.95%) Security Cleared
4 15 (15.79%) Azure Certification
5 13 (13.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (13.68%) MCSE
6 11 (11.58%) HNC
6 11 (11.58%) HND
6 11 (11.58%) MCSA
6 11 (11.58%) SC Cleared
7 9 (9.47%) A+ Certification
8 8 (8.42%) DV Cleared
8 8 (8.42%) MCP
9 7 (7.37%) CCNA
9 7 (7.37%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (5.26%) AWS Certification
11 4 (4.21%) DBS Check
12 3 (3.16%) CompTIA Security+
13 2 (2.11%) JNCIA
13 2 (2.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.42%) GDPR
1 8 (8.42%) SLA
2 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.11%) ISO 9000
4 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.05%) GRC
4 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 60 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 23 (24.21%) Hyper-V
3 15 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (11.58%) Docker
5 6 (6.32%) Terminal Services
5 6 (6.32%) vSphere
6 5 (5.26%) DFS Replication
7 4 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (3.16%) Dovecot
8 3 (3.16%) Postfix
8 3 (3.16%) Squid
9 2 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (2.11%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (2.11%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (1.05%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (11.58%) SCCM
2 10 (10.53%) Terraform
3 8 (8.42%) Grafana
3 8 (8.42%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.37%) Ansible
4 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (7.37%) SCOM
5 4 (4.21%) Nessus
5 4 (4.21%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.16%) Autotask
6 3 (3.16%) Proxmox
6 3 (3.16%) Puppet
7 2 (2.11%) FortiGate
7 2 (2.11%) Kubernetes
7 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.11%) SCOrch
7 2 (2.11%) SCSM
7 2 (2.11%) vCenter Server
8 1 (1.05%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 60 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 28 (29.47%) Cisco
3 18 (18.95%) VMware
4 17 (17.89%) Dell
5 13 (13.68%) Google
5 13 (13.68%) HP
6 12 (12.63%) Fortinet
7 11 (11.58%) Apple
7 11 (11.58%) Ubiquiti
8 10 (10.53%) ServiceNow
9 9 (9.47%) Meraki
10 6 (6.32%) NetApp
11 4 (4.21%) Aruba
11 4 (4.21%) Databricks
11 4 (4.21%) Sophos
12 3 (3.16%) Datto
12 3 (3.16%) Jaspersoft
12 3 (3.16%) Nasuni
12 3 (3.16%) Rapid7
12 3 (3.16%) Red Hat