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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 107 60
Rank change year-on-year 0 -47 +92
Permanent jobs citing DNS 148 163 202
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.92% 2.35% 4.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.18% 16.35% 21.29%
Number of salaries quoted 118 89 174
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,650
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £32,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -17.65% -2.30%
75th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £53,233
90th Percentile £59,125 £53,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +3.45% -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 1,613 997 949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 20.88% 14.40% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 447 418 824
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £27,900 £35,063 £29,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £47,000 £44,750
Median % change year-on-year -32.98% +5.03% -5.79%
75th Percentile £51,197 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £66,500 £73,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.93% +8.00% -4.76%

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 19 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 19 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 -3 77 £28,500 -18.22% 30
West Midlands +12 71 £38,750 +10.71% 60
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 24 (16.22%) SharePoint
3 12 (8.11%) Confluence
4 4 (2.70%) nginx
5 2 (1.35%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (10.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.70%) 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 38 (25.68%) Azure
3 25 (16.89%) Entra ID
4 17 (11.49%) AWS
5 16 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 13 (8.78%) Amazon EC2
6 13 (8.78%) Amazon ELB
6 13 (8.78%) Amazon S3
6 13 (8.78%) AWS KMS
6 13 (8.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (6.76%) SaaS
8 9 (6.08%) Amazon Glacier
9 7 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.05%) iPaaS
11 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (3.38%) OneDrive
12 4 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.70%) IaaS
12 4 (2.70%) PaaS
12 4 (2.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 122 (82.43%) DHCP
2 53 (35.81%) Firewall
3 39 (26.35%) VPN
4 34 (22.97%) TCP/IP
5 24 (16.22%) WAN
6 22 (14.86%) VLAN
7 18 (12.16%) HTTP
7 18 (12.16%) LAN
7 18 (12.16%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (11.49%) SSH
8 17 (11.49%) VoIP
9 15 (10.14%) FTP
9 15 (10.14%) Internet
9 15 (10.14%) SMTP
10 14 (9.46%) Wireless
11 13 (8.78%) Network Security
12 12 (8.11%) Ethernet
13 10 (6.76%) SAN
14 9 (6.08%) ADSL
14 9 (6.08%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.46%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 4 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (10.81%) JIRA
2 14 (9.46%) Git
2 14 (9.46%) Jenkins
3 13 (8.78%) Vagrant
4 3 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.35%) GitLab
5 2 (1.35%) LabVIEW
5 2 (1.35%) Subversion
General
1 67 (45.27%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.14%) Manufacturing
3 12 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (7.43%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.73%) Law
7 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.03%) Back Office
8 3 (2.03%) Publishing
8 3 (2.03%) Retail
9 2 (1.35%) Automotive
9 2 (1.35%) Legal
9 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Finance
Job Titles
1 71 (47.97%) Support Engineer
2 67 (45.27%) IT Engineer
3 60 (40.54%) IT Support
4 54 (36.49%) IT Support Engineer
5 28 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (12.84%) Technical Support
7 16 (10.81%) Infrastructure Support
7 16 (10.81%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 16 (10.81%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 13 (8.78%) Technical Engineer
9 12 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support
10 11 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
11 10 (6.76%) Analyst
12 9 (6.08%) Technical Support Engineer
13 8 (5.41%) Network Engineer
13 8 (5.41%) Support Analyst
14 6 (4.05%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 6 (4.05%) 3rd Line Support
14 6 (4.05%) Field Engineer
14 6 (4.05%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.70%) 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 14 (9.46%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.73%) Clustering
6 6 (4.05%) iPad
6 6 (4.05%) PMI
6 6 (4.05%) Replication
7 5 (3.38%) Cloud Native
7 5 (3.38%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
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
1 108 (72.97%) Windows
2 75 (50.68%) Windows Server
3 24 (16.22%) Linux
4 18 (12.16%) Windows 10
5 14 (9.46%) VMS
6 11 (7.43%) Amazon Linux
7 7 (4.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (3.38%) Mac OS
8 5 (3.38%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (47.30%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (39.86%) Customer Service
3 41 (27.70%) Incident Management
4 30 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 24 (16.22%) ITIL
6 22 (14.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (12.16%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (10.81%) DevOps
9 15 (10.14%) Cloud Security
10 13 (8.78%) Configuration Management
10 13 (8.78%) CRM
11 12 (8.11%) Patch Management
12 11 (7.43%) Agile
12 11 (7.43%) Change Management
13 10 (6.76%) Data Security
13 10 (6.76%) Platform Engineering
14 9 (6.08%) ERP
14 9 (6.08%) Service Management
15 7 (4.73%) Computer Science
15 7 (4.73%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.14%) PowerShell
2 14 (9.46%) Python
2 14 (9.46%) SQL
3 13 (8.78%) Groovy
4 9 (6.08%) Java
4 9 (6.08%) Perl
5 2 (1.35%) C#
5 2 (1.35%) Ruby
6 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.68%) VB
6 1 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (12.84%) Degree
2 14 (9.46%) SC Cleared
2 14 (9.46%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.08%) Azure Certification
3 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (5.41%) AWS Certification
5 7 (4.73%) MCP
6 6 (4.05%) PMI Certification
7 5 (3.38%) CCNP
7 5 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
8 3 (2.03%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.35%) CCNA
9 2 (1.35%) CEH
9 2 (1.35%) CISSP
9 2 (1.35%) GSEC
9 2 (1.35%) HNC
9 2 (1.35%) MCSA
9 2 (1.35%) OSCP
10 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.11%) GDPR
2 9 (6.08%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 7 (4.73%) SLA
5 2 (1.35%) NIST
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 105 (70.95%) Active Directory
2 27 (18.24%) Hyper-V
3 26 (17.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (8.11%) Docker
5 6 (4.05%) DFS Replication
6 4 (2.70%) Dovecot
6 4 (2.70%) Postfix
6 4 (2.70%) Squid
6 4 (2.70%) Terminal Services
6 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (2.03%) Firmware
7 3 (2.03%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.35%) vSphere
9 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (12.84%) Terraform
2 11 (7.43%) Grafana
2 11 (7.43%) Prometheus
3 10 (6.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (4.73%) Nessus
5 6 (4.05%) Failover Clustering
5 6 (4.05%) WSUS
6 4 (2.70%) Proxmox
7 3 (2.03%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (2.03%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.03%) Nagios
7 3 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.68%) Puppet
8 1 (0.68%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
8 1 (0.68%) VxRail
Vendors
1 56 (37.84%) Microsoft
2 31 (20.95%) VMware
3 18 (12.16%) Cisco
4 17 (11.49%) ServiceNow
5 15 (10.14%) Meraki
6 12 (8.11%) Veeam
7 7 (4.73%) Aruba
8 6 (4.05%) Apple
8 6 (4.05%) Fortinet
9 5 (3.38%) HP
9 5 (3.38%) Panasonic
9 5 (3.38%) Samsung
9 5 (3.38%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.70%) Google
10 4 (2.70%) Jaspersoft
11 3 (2.03%) Dell
11 3 (2.03%) Freshdesk
11 3 (2.03%) Juniper
11 3 (2.03%) Palo Alto
11 3 (2.03%) Zscaler