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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 115 84
Rank change year-on-year +9 -31 +67
Permanent jobs citing DNS 137 144 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.64% 2.36% 2.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.70% 15.40% 18.36%
Number of salaries quoted 115 80 212
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £24,825
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,813 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -17.65% +6.92%
75th Percentile £40,750 £39,625 £52,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £53,075 £58,850
England median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.65% -4.44%

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 1,575 935 1,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.80% 15.29% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 419 404 1,145
10th Percentile £25,950 £30,575 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £36,250 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,125 £67,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -2 73 £28,500 -12.31% 16
West Midlands +6 63 £37,500 +7.14% 29
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 (21.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (19.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.46%) Confluence
3 2 (1.46%) IIS
4 1 (0.73%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 92 (67.15%) Microsoft 365
2 44 (32.12%) Azure
3 37 (27.01%) Entra ID
4 11 (8.03%) SaaS
5 6 (4.38%) AWS
5 6 (4.38%) iPaaS
6 5 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (3.65%) GCP
6 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Purview
6 5 (3.65%) OneDrive
7 4 (2.92%) IaaS
7 4 (2.92%) PaaS
8 3 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.19%) Datadog
9 2 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.46%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (1.46%) AWS KMS
9 2 (1.46%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 121 (88.32%) DHCP
2 44 (32.12%) VPN
3 39 (28.47%) TCP/IP
4 36 (26.28%) Firewall
5 26 (18.98%) WAN
6 23 (16.79%) VoIP
7 22 (16.06%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (14.60%) LAN
9 19 (13.87%) VLAN
10 17 (12.41%) Wireless
11 15 (10.95%) Internet
12 13 (9.49%) Ethernet
12 13 (9.49%) Network Security
13 10 (7.30%) PBX
14 9 (6.57%) ADSL
14 9 (6.57%) SD-WAN
14 9 (6.57%) VDSL
15 8 (5.84%) Broadband
16 7 (5.11%) SAN
17 6 (4.38%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.73%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.73%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (4.38%) JIRA
2 4 (2.92%) Git
2 4 (2.92%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.46%) GitLab
3 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.46%) Vagrant
General
1 60 (43.80%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.14%) Manufacturing
3 14 (10.22%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.38%) Law
6 5 (3.65%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.92%) Legal
7 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.19%) Automotive
8 3 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.19%) Retail
9 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (47.45%) IT Engineer
2 62 (45.26%) IT Support
2 62 (45.26%) Support Engineer
3 50 (36.50%) IT Support Engineer
4 20 (14.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (12.41%) Technical Support
6 15 (10.95%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (9.49%) Analyst
7 13 (9.49%) Technical Engineer
8 12 (8.76%) 2nd Line Support
9 9 (6.57%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 9 (6.57%) 3rd Line Support
9 9 (6.57%) Support Analyst
9 9 (6.57%) Technical Support Engineer
10 8 (5.84%) Infrastructure Support
10 8 (5.84%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) IT Support Technician
11 7 (5.11%) IT Technician
11 7 (5.11%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.46%) LDAP
2 1 (0.73%) .NET
2 1 (0.73%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (35.77%) Driving Licence
2 20 (14.60%) Onboarding
3 12 (8.76%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (5.11%) Clustering
6 6 (4.38%) iPad
6 6 (4.38%) PMI
7 5 (3.65%) Cloud Native
8 3 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.46%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.73%) iSeries
10 1 (0.73%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 98 (71.53%) Windows
2 69 (50.36%) Windows Server
3 20 (14.60%) Windows 10
4 10 (7.30%) Linux
5 5 (3.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (2.19%) Mac OS
6 3 (2.19%) VMS
7 2 (1.46%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.73%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (50.36%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (44.53%) Customer Service
3 38 (27.74%) Incident Management
4 29 (21.17%) ITIL
5 22 (16.06%) Disaster Recovery
5 22 (16.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (9.49%) Service Delivery
7 12 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (7.30%) Migration
9 9 (6.57%) Cloud Security
9 9 (6.57%) ERP
9 9 (6.57%) ITSM
10 6 (4.38%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (4.38%) Identity Management
10 6 (4.38%) Network Monitoring
10 6 (4.38%) Performance Optimisation
10 6 (4.38%) Preventative Maintenance
10 6 (4.38%) Risk Management
10 6 (4.38%) Server Management
10 6 (4.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (8.76%) PowerShell
2 9 (6.57%) SQL
3 2 (1.46%) Groovy
3 2 (1.46%) Python
4 1 (0.73%) Java
4 1 (0.73%) Perl
4 1 (0.73%) VB
4 1 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (10.95%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (10.22%) Degree
3 8 (5.84%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.84%) Security Cleared
4 6 (4.38%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.65%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.65%) CCNP
5 5 (3.65%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.92%) HNC
6 4 (2.92%) MCSA
6 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (2.19%) A+ Certification
7 3 (2.19%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.46%) CCNA
8 2 (1.46%) CEH
8 2 (1.46%) CISSP
8 2 (1.46%) GSEC
8 2 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.46%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.49%) GDPR
2 12 (8.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (8.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (5.11%) SLA
5 6 (4.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.46%) NIST
7 1 (0.73%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 98 (71.53%) Active Directory
2 24 (17.52%) Hyper-V
3 21 (15.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.92%) Terminal Services
4 4 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.19%) Firmware
6 2 (1.46%) Docker
7 1 (0.73%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.73%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.73%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.73%) Postfix
7 1 (0.73%) Squid
7 1 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (13.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (5.84%) Terraform
3 6 (4.38%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (4.38%) WSUS
4 4 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.19%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (2.19%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.19%) Nagios
5 3 (2.19%) Nessus
6 2 (1.46%) Grafana
6 2 (1.46%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.73%) CASB
7 1 (0.73%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.73%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
7 1 (0.73%) VxRail
Vendors
1 59 (43.07%) Microsoft
2 28 (20.44%) VMware
3 21 (15.33%) Cisco
4 18 (13.14%) Meraki
5 11 (8.03%) Veeam
6 9 (6.57%) Apple
7 8 (5.84%) ServiceNow
8 7 (5.11%) SolarWinds
9 6 (4.38%) Aruba
10 5 (3.65%) Fortinet
10 5 (3.65%) Panasonic
10 5 (3.65%) Samsung
11 4 (2.92%) Google
11 4 (2.92%) HP
12 3 (2.19%) Dell
12 3 (2.19%) Freshdesk
12 3 (2.19%) Juniper
12 3 (2.19%) Logitech
12 3 (2.19%) Yealink
12 3 (2.19%) Zscaler