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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 133 90
Rank change year-on-year -17 -43 +69
Permanent jobs citing DNS 115 94 304
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.89% 1.85% 2.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.21% 10.99% 19.80%
Number of salaries quoted 96 79 264
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,550 £25,325
25th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,250 £35,000 £38,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% -8.50% -1.29%
75th Percentile £53,750 £43,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £54,000 £57,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £44,225
% change year-on-year - -3.90% +4.06%

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 1,594 855 1,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.29% 16.84% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 464 479 1,292
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -0.58%
75th Percentile £58,450 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -6 68 £32,500 -7.14% 12
West Midlands -28 46 £41,000 +17.14% 21
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 33 (28.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (20.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (66.96%) Microsoft 365
2 63 (54.78%) Azure
3 42 (36.52%) Entra ID
4 8 (6.96%) IaaS
5 7 (6.09%) Azure AKS
5 7 (6.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 7 (6.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (6.09%) Azure Storage
6 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (5.22%) OneDrive
7 4 (3.48%) AWS
8 2 (1.74%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.74%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.74%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.87%) Cloudflare
9 1 (0.87%) GCP
9 1 (0.87%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.87%) PaaS
9 1 (0.87%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (77.39%) DHCP
2 41 (35.65%) VPN
3 32 (27.83%) TCP/IP
4 20 (17.39%) VoIP
5 19 (16.52%) Firewall
5 19 (16.52%) WAN
6 13 (11.30%) LAN
6 13 (11.30%) VLAN
7 9 (7.83%) Internet
7 9 (7.83%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (6.96%) Wireless
9 7 (6.09%) Network Security
9 7 (6.09%) SD-WAN
10 6 (5.22%) PBX
11 4 (3.48%) FTP
11 4 (3.48%) MQTT
11 4 (3.48%) RFID
11 4 (3.48%) SSL
11 4 (3.48%) WLAN
12 2 (1.74%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (3.48%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.74%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.48%) LabVIEW
2 2 (1.74%) Git
2 2 (1.74%) GitLab
General
1 51 (44.35%) Social Skills
2 10 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (8.70%) Manufacturing
3 9 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (6.96%) Law
4 8 (6.96%) Legal
5 5 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.48%) Retail
7 3 (2.61%) Finance
7 3 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.74%) Automotive
8 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.87%) Marketing
9 1 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (40.00%) IT Support
2 40 (34.78%) IT Engineer
3 37 (32.17%) Support Engineer
4 27 (23.48%) IT Support Engineer
5 17 (14.78%) Analyst
6 11 (9.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) IT Support Technician
7 10 (8.70%) IT Technician
7 10 (8.70%) Support Analyst
7 10 (8.70%) Support Technician
8 8 (6.96%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
8 8 (6.96%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (6.96%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (6.96%) Senior
9 7 (6.09%) IT Analyst
10 6 (5.22%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.22%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.87%) LDAP
1 1 (0.87%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 31 (26.96%) Driving Licence
2 13 (11.30%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.22%) iPad
3 6 (5.22%) PMI
4 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.48%) IoT
5 4 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.74%) PKI
7 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.87%) CCTV
7 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 86 (74.78%) Windows
2 47 (40.87%) Windows Server
3 29 (25.22%) Windows 10
4 13 (11.30%) Linux
4 13 (11.30%) Mac OS
5 5 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (3.48%) VMS
7 1 (0.87%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (46.09%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (34.78%) Customer Service
3 31 (26.96%) ITIL
4 23 (20.00%) ITSM
5 20 (17.39%) Incident Management
6 19 (16.52%) Service Delivery
7 17 (14.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (13.91%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
10 12 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (10.43%) High Availability
11 11 (9.57%) ERP
12 10 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (8.70%) Identity Management
13 9 (7.83%) Agile
13 9 (7.83%) E-Commerce
13 9 (7.83%) Migration
13 9 (7.83%) Remote Monitoring and Management
14 8 (6.96%) Roadmaps
14 8 (6.96%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (32.17%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.57%) SQL
3 6 (5.22%) Python
4 5 (4.35%) Bicep
5 4 (3.48%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 22 (19.13%) Degree
3 12 (10.43%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.43%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.83%) Azure Certification
5 7 (6.09%) MCSA
5 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 6 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (5.22%) PMI Certification
7 4 (3.48%) A+ Certification
7 4 (3.48%) HNC
8 3 (2.61%) DBS Check
8 3 (2.61%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.74%) CISSP
9 2 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.74%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.87%) CEH
10 1 (0.87%) GSEC
10 1 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.65%) Cyber Essentials
2 14 (12.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (8.70%) SLA
4 9 (7.83%) GDPR
5 7 (6.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.74%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 78 (67.83%) Active Directory
2 21 (18.26%) Hyper-V
3 15 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.48%) Terminal Services
5 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (2.61%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (1.74%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.87%) Docker
7 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (26.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (6.96%) Jamf Pro
2 8 (6.96%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.09%) Terraform
4 6 (5.22%) WSUS
5 3 (2.61%) Ansible
6 2 (1.74%) Nagios
6 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.87%) CASB
7 1 (0.87%) Nessus
7 1 (0.87%) Podman
Vendors
1 77 (66.96%) Microsoft
2 23 (20.00%) VMware
3 17 (14.78%) Apple
4 10 (8.70%) Cisco
5 8 (6.96%) Logitech
5 8 (6.96%) Meraki
5 8 (6.96%) Yealink
6 7 (6.09%) Veeam
7 6 (5.22%) Citrix
8 4 (3.48%) Kaseya
8 4 (3.48%) ServiceNow
9 3 (2.61%) Freshdesk
10 2 (1.74%) Epicor
10 2 (1.74%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.74%) TP-LINK
11 1 (0.87%) Autodesk
11 1 (0.87%) Commvault
11 1 (0.87%) HP
11 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.87%) SAP