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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 105 64
Rank change year-on-year -2 -41 +83
Permanent jobs citing DNS 147 200 201
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.66% 2.14% 3.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.04% 18.23% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 108 100 162
10th Percentile £24,250 £27,438 £27,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £32,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £53,682
90th Percentile £73,750 £60,000 £59,000
England median annual salary £37,625 £45,548 £43,500
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.71% -8.42%

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 815 1,097 972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.74% 11.76% 18.57%
Number of salaries quoted 493 478 804
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,175 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £34,175 £29,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £45,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +4.05% -8.95%
75th Percentile £53,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,050 £72,500 £69,235
England median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% - -

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 15 October 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 October 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 +12 76 £42,500 +13.33% 26
East Midlands +6 71 £35,000 - 17
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 29 (19.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (17.69%) Confluence
3 24 (16.33%) SharePoint
4 9 (6.12%) nginx
5 3 (2.04%) IIS
6 2 (1.36%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 13 (8.84%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (5.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 81 (55.10%) Microsoft 365
2 55 (37.41%) Azure
3 32 (21.77%) AWS
4 27 (18.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 27 (18.37%) Amazon EC2
4 27 (18.37%) Amazon ELB
4 27 (18.37%) Amazon S3
4 27 (18.37%) AWS KMS
4 27 (18.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 19 (12.93%) Amazon Glacier
6 11 (7.48%) Entra ID
6 11 (7.48%) SaaS
7 9 (6.12%) Nutanix
8 8 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (5.44%) Route 53
9 7 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.08%) iPaaS
10 6 (4.08%) Mimecast
10 6 (4.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 100 (68.03%) DHCP
2 85 (57.82%) Firewall
3 39 (26.53%) TCP/IP
4 38 (25.85%) VPN
5 33 (22.45%) WAN
6 30 (20.41%) VLAN
7 29 (19.73%) HTTP
8 28 (19.05%) FTP
8 28 (19.05%) SMTP
8 28 (19.05%) SSH
9 20 (13.61%) SD-WAN
10 18 (12.24%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (11.56%) SAN
12 14 (9.52%) LAN
13 10 (6.80%) Network Security
14 9 (6.12%) VoIP
15 8 (5.44%) Ethernet
15 8 (5.44%) IMAP
15 8 (5.44%) OpenLDAP
16 7 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (5.44%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (5.44%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.08%) Power BI
4 5 (3.40%) MySQL
5 4 (2.72%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.68%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (20.41%) Git
2 28 (19.05%) Jenkins
3 27 (18.37%) JIRA
3 27 (18.37%) Vagrant
4 7 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.36%) Subversion
General
1 58 (39.46%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 16 (10.88%) Presentation Skills
4 12 (8.16%) Law
5 10 (6.80%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (5.44%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.44%) Telecoms
7 6 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (3.40%) Billing
9 3 (2.04%) Back Office
9 3 (2.04%) Finance
9 3 (2.04%) Legal
9 3 (2.04%) Publishing
9 3 (2.04%) Retail
10 2 (1.36%) Automotive
10 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (38.10%) Support Engineer
2 50 (34.01%) IT Engineer
3 43 (29.25%) IT Support
4 39 (26.53%) IT Support Engineer
5 32 (21.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (17.01%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (12.24%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (8.84%) Infrastructure Support
8 13 (8.84%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 12 (8.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 12 (8.16%) 3rd Line Support
10 11 (7.48%) 2nd Line Support
10 11 (7.48%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (7.48%) Technical Support
11 9 (6.12%) Analyst
11 9 (6.12%) Network Engineer
12 7 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 7 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.44%) LDAP
2 3 (2.04%) EDI
3 2 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.68%) .NET
4 1 (0.68%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.68%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.68%) Web Services
4 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (21.77%) Driving Licence
2 18 (12.24%) Onboarding
3 17 (11.56%) Data Centre
4 14 (9.52%) Replication
5 7 (4.76%) Clustering
6 6 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.72%) NHS
7 4 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.04%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.04%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.68%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 110 (74.83%) Windows
2 72 (48.98%) Windows Server
3 48 (32.65%) Linux
4 28 (19.05%) VMS
5 25 (17.01%) Amazon Linux
6 15 (10.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 10 (6.80%) Ubuntu
7 10 (6.80%) Windows 10
8 9 (6.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (3.40%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (2.04%) Windows 7
11 2 (1.36%) Android
11 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.36%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.68%) CentOS
12 1 (0.68%) Rocky
12 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (36.73%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (23.81%) DevOps
3 34 (23.13%) Customer Service
3 34 (23.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 29 (19.73%) Configuration Management
5 28 (19.05%) Change Management
5 28 (19.05%) Patch Management
6 27 (18.37%) Cloud Security
7 26 (17.69%) Cybersecurity
7 26 (17.69%) Incident Management
8 22 (14.97%) ITIL
9 21 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (13.61%) Platform Engineering
11 19 (12.93%) Agile
12 15 (10.20%) Migration
13 13 (8.84%) CI/CD
13 13 (8.84%) CRM
14 11 (7.48%) Service Management
15 10 (6.80%) Performance Tuning
15 10 (6.80%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 44 (29.93%) PowerShell
2 31 (21.09%) Python
3 27 (18.37%) Groovy
4 23 (15.65%) SQL
5 21 (14.29%) Perl
6 20 (13.61%) Java
7 4 (2.72%) Bicep
8 2 (1.36%) Bash
8 2 (1.36%) C#
8 2 (1.36%) Ruby
9 1 (0.68%) C++
9 1 (0.68%) Go
9 1 (0.68%) PHP
9 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (22.45%) Security Cleared
2 28 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 26 (17.69%) Degree
4 24 (16.33%) Azure Certification
5 16 (10.88%) AWS Certification
6 12 (8.16%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (6.12%) CCNA
8 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (4.76%) DBS Check
9 7 (4.76%) DV Cleared
9 7 (4.76%) MCP
10 6 (4.08%) CCNP
11 3 (2.04%) MCSA
11 3 (2.04%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (1.36%) A+ Certification
12 2 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.36%) MCSE
13 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 1 (0.68%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.88%) GDPR
2 6 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (3.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.04%) SLA
5 2 (1.36%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 97 (65.99%) Active Directory
2 27 (18.37%) Docker
3 26 (17.69%) Hyper-V
4 24 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (9.52%) DFS Replication
6 8 (5.44%) Dovecot
6 8 (5.44%) Postfix
6 8 (5.44%) Squid
7 5 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (3.40%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (2.04%) Firmware
8 3 (2.04%) vSphere
9 2 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.68%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (21.77%) Terraform
2 25 (17.01%) Grafana
2 25 (17.01%) Prometheus
3 13 (8.84%) SCCM
4 12 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (6.12%) Nessus
6 8 (5.44%) Proxmox
7 6 (4.08%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (3.40%) Ansible
8 5 (3.40%) Autotask
8 5 (3.40%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.72%) FortiGate
9 4 (2.72%) Nagios
9 4 (2.72%) SCOM
10 3 (2.04%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (2.04%) Puppet
11 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.36%) SCOrch
11 2 (1.36%) SCSM
11 2 (1.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (36.73%) Microsoft
2 30 (20.41%) Cisco
3 27 (18.37%) ServiceNow
3 27 (18.37%) VMware
4 19 (12.93%) Meraki
5 10 (6.80%) Veeam
6 8 (5.44%) Aruba
6 8 (5.44%) Fortinet
6 8 (5.44%) HP
6 8 (5.44%) Jaspersoft
7 6 (4.08%) Nasuni
7 6 (4.08%) Rapid7
7 6 (4.08%) SolarWinds
8 5 (3.40%) Datto
8 5 (3.40%) Panasonic
8 5 (3.40%) Samsung
9 4 (2.72%) Databricks
9 4 (2.72%) Dell
9 4 (2.72%) Juniper
10 3 (2.04%) Red Hat