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 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 113 58
Rank change year-on-year +12 -55 +105
Permanent jobs citing DNS 148 179 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.08% 2.27% 4.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.05% 16.65% 21.86%
Number of salaries quoted 118 94 181
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,625 £27,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £53,478
90th Percentile £59,125 £57,500 £60,000
England median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +4.65% -9.47%

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 1,339 1,075 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.79% 13.62% 20.25%
Number of salaries quoted 456 437 837
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,900 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £51,313 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £66,500 £72,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year -25.93% +4.85% -1.90%

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 12 December 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 12 December 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
East Midlands +12 76 £30,000 -14.29% 15
West Midlands +8 72 £40,000 +14.29% 27
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 27 (18.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (16.89%) SharePoint
3 17 (11.49%) Confluence
4 5 (3.38%) nginx
5 2 (1.35%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 97 (65.54%) Microsoft 365
2 45 (30.41%) Azure
3 24 (16.22%) Entra ID
4 22 (14.86%) AWS
5 21 (14.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 18 (12.16%) Amazon EC2
6 18 (12.16%) Amazon ELB
6 18 (12.16%) Amazon S3
6 18 (12.16%) AWS KMS
6 18 (12.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 13 (8.78%) Amazon Glacier
8 10 (6.76%) SaaS
9 7 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.05%) iPaaS
11 5 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.38%) Nutanix
11 5 (3.38%) OneDrive
11 5 (3.38%) Route 53
12 4 (2.70%) GCP
12 4 (2.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 117 (79.05%) DHCP
2 64 (43.24%) Firewall
3 41 (27.70%) VPN
4 35 (23.65%) TCP/IP
5 25 (16.89%) VLAN
6 24 (16.22%) WAN
7 22 (14.86%) HTTP
8 21 (14.19%) SSH
9 19 (12.84%) FTP
9 19 (12.84%) SMTP
9 19 (12.84%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (10.81%) LAN
10 16 (10.81%) VoIP
11 13 (8.78%) Wireless
12 12 (8.11%) Ethernet
12 12 (8.11%) Internet
13 11 (7.43%) SAN
14 10 (6.76%) Network Security
15 9 (6.08%) ADSL
15 9 (6.08%) VDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.84%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 5 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (14.19%) JIRA
2 19 (12.84%) Jenkins
3 18 (12.16%) Git
3 18 (12.16%) Vagrant
4 5 (3.38%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.35%) Subversion
6 1 (0.68%) GitLab
General
1 66 (44.59%) Social Skills
2 13 (8.78%) Manufacturing
2 13 (8.78%) Public Sector
3 12 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (7.43%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (5.41%) Law
5 8 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.03%) Back Office
6 3 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.03%) Legal
6 3 (2.03%) Publishing
6 3 (2.03%) Retail
7 2 (1.35%) Automotive
7 2 (1.35%) Billing
7 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Finance
Job Titles
1 72 (48.65%) Support Engineer
2 67 (45.27%) IT Engineer
3 60 (40.54%) IT Support
4 55 (37.16%) IT Support Engineer
5 30 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (12.84%) Technical Support
7 18 (12.16%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (10.81%) Infrastructure Support
8 16 (10.81%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 12 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support
9 12 (8.11%) Technical Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Network Engineer
10 9 (6.08%) Technical Support Engineer
11 8 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support
11 8 (5.41%) Analyst
11 8 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.38%) LDAP
2 3 (2.03%) EDI
3 1 (0.68%) .NET
3 1 (0.68%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.68%) Web Services
3 1 (0.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (29.05%) Driving Licence
2 23 (15.54%) Onboarding
3 13 (8.78%) Data Centre
4 9 (6.08%) Replication
5 8 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (4.73%) Clustering
7 5 (3.38%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.38%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.03%) iPad
8 3 (2.03%) PMI
8 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
9 2 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.68%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 111 (75.00%) Windows
2 75 (50.68%) Windows Server
3 30 (20.27%) Linux
4 19 (12.84%) VMS
5 17 (11.49%) Windows 10
6 16 (10.81%) Amazon Linux
7 11 (7.43%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (4.05%) Ubuntu
9 5 (3.38%) Mac OS
9 5 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (46.62%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (35.14%) Customer Service
3 39 (26.35%) Incident Management
4 32 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (14.19%) DevOps
5 21 (14.19%) ITIL
6 20 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (12.84%) Cloud Security
7 19 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (12.16%) Change Management
8 18 (12.16%) Configuration Management
9 17 (11.49%) Patch Management
10 13 (8.78%) CRM
10 13 (8.78%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (8.11%) Agile
12 10 (6.76%) Data Security
13 9 (6.08%) Process Improvement
14 8 (5.41%) Service Management
15 7 (4.73%) ERP
16 6 (4.05%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.86%) PowerShell
2 19 (12.84%) Python
3 18 (12.16%) Groovy
4 15 (10.14%) SQL
5 13 (8.78%) Java
5 13 (8.78%) Perl
6 2 (1.35%) C#
6 2 (1.35%) Ruby
7 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.68%) VB
7 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (12.16%) Degree
2 16 (10.81%) SC Cleared
2 16 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 12 (8.11%) Azure Certification
4 11 (7.43%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.73%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (3.38%) CCNP
7 5 (3.38%) MCP
8 4 (2.70%) CCNA
9 3 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (2.03%) DBS Check
9 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.35%) CEH
10 2 (1.35%) CISSP
10 2 (1.35%) GSEC
10 2 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.35%) OSCP
11 1 (0.68%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.78%) GDPR
2 9 (6.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 6 (4.05%) SLA
5 2 (1.35%) NIST
System Software
1 105 (70.95%) Active Directory
2 26 (17.57%) Hyper-V
3 23 (15.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (11.49%) Docker
5 9 (6.08%) DFS Replication
6 5 (3.38%) Dovecot
6 5 (3.38%) Postfix
6 5 (3.38%) Squid
7 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (2.03%) Firmware
8 3 (2.03%) Terminal Services
8 3 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (1.35%) vSphere
10 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (15.54%) Terraform
2 16 (10.81%) Grafana
2 16 (10.81%) Prometheus
3 13 (8.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (5.41%) Nessus
5 6 (4.05%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (3.38%) Proxmox
7 4 (2.70%) FortiGate
7 4 (2.70%) SCCM
8 3 (2.03%) Dell DRAC
8 3 (2.03%) Nagios
8 3 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.03%) WSUS
9 2 (1.35%) Autotask
10 1 (0.68%) Puppet
10 1 (0.68%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 1 (0.68%) VxRail
Vendors
1 58 (39.19%) Microsoft
2 26 (17.57%) VMware
3 22 (14.86%) Cisco
3 22 (14.86%) ServiceNow
4 15 (10.14%) Meraki
5 10 (6.76%) Veeam
6 9 (6.08%) Aruba
7 7 (4.73%) Fortinet
7 7 (4.73%) HP
8 5 (3.38%) Jaspersoft
8 5 (3.38%) Panasonic
8 5 (3.38%) Samsung
8 5 (3.38%) SolarWinds
9 4 (2.70%) Google
10 3 (2.03%) Apple
10 3 (2.03%) Dell
10 3 (2.03%) Freshdesk
10 3 (2.03%) Juniper
10 3 (2.03%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.03%) Zscaler