DNS Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Domain Name System (DNS)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 44 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -14
Permanent jobs citing DNS 16 10 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 2.63% 2.86% 1.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 57.14% 14.93% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 9
10th Percentile £42,900 £34,125 £29,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,313 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £38,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.87% -8.82% +30.77%
75th Percentile £65,000 £43,750 £43,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £48,750 £47,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £48,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +12.94% - +30.77%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 28 67 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 4.61% 19.14% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 22 58 63
10th Percentile £35,075 £35,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,313 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% +9.09% +17.02%
75th Percentile £64,375 £87,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £69,800 £92,000 £77,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +21.05% +3.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DNS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

DNS job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

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Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing DNS

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Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in Milton Keynes

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) TCP/IP
2 10 (62.50%) Firewall
3 7 (43.75%) DHCP
4 6 (37.50%) NAS
4 6 (37.50%) SAN
4 6 (37.50%) VLAN
4 6 (37.50%) Wireless
5 1 (6.25%) LAN
5 1 (6.25%) VPN
5 1 (6.25%) WAN
5 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
General
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) SOC Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Security Manager
3 3 (18.75%) SOC Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support
4 1 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (93.75%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (50.00%) Security Operations
3 7 (43.75%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (43.75%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Business Continuity
4 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (37.50%) Dashboard Development
4 6 (37.50%) High Availability
4 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 6 (37.50%) Proactive Monitoring
4 6 (37.50%) Sprint Planning
4 6 (37.50%) Sprint Retrospective
5 5 (31.25%) Event Correlation
5 5 (31.25%) Incident Response
6 3 (18.75%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
7 1 (6.25%) IT Asset Management
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Bash
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
1 7 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) MCSE
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
1 6 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
1 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (37.50%) vSphere
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 6 (37.50%) LogicMonitor
3 6 (37.50%) Palo Alto