DNS Job Trends in the North of England

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 119 96
Rank change year-on-year -13 -23 +51
Permanent jobs citing DNS 145 177 293
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.28% 1.96% 2.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.50% 18.27% 22.26%
Number of salaries quoted 122 102 257
10th Percentile £26,650 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,250 £42,500 £39,794
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +6.80% -0.52%
75th Percentile £43,250 £52,188 £47,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £62,500
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,636 969 1,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.34% 10.73% 12.94%
Number of salaries quoted 786 545 1,103
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £34,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.22% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £47,500 £61,250 £61,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £72,500
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 North of England

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

DNS job vacancy trend in the North of England

DNS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in the North of England

DNS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 January 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
North West -24 67 £33,000 -26.67% 27
Yorkshire -14 61 £33,000 -2.94% 40
North East +7 17 £55,000 +33.33% 12
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 40 (27.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (16.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.38%) IIS
3 2 (1.38%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.69%) CMS
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.69%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (15.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 92 (63.45%) Microsoft 365
2 79 (54.48%) Azure
3 29 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 22 (15.17%) AWS
5 10 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.52%) Azure Sentinel
6 8 (5.52%) GCP
7 7 (4.83%) GitHub
7 7 (4.83%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (4.14%) OneDrive
8 6 (4.14%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.14%) SaaS
9 4 (2.76%) Google Workspace
9 4 (2.76%) PaaS
10 3 (2.07%) Nutanix
11 2 (1.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.38%) IaaS
11 2 (1.38%) iPaaS
12 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 107 (73.79%) DHCP
2 62 (42.76%) VPN
3 59 (40.69%) Firewall
4 58 (40.00%) TCP/IP
5 36 (24.83%) WAN
6 34 (23.45%) LAN
7 29 (20.00%) VLAN
8 22 (15.17%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (11.03%) VoIP
10 15 (10.34%) HTTP
11 10 (6.90%) Remote Desktop
11 10 (6.90%) SSL
11 10 (6.90%) Wireless
12 9 (6.21%) Network Security
13 4 (2.76%) SD-WAN
14 3 (2.07%) BGP
15 2 (1.38%) Asterisk PBX
15 2 (1.38%) MPLS
15 2 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
15 2 (1.38%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.14%) Power BI
3 5 (3.45%) MySQL
4 3 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 10 (6.90%) GitLab
2 9 (6.21%) Git
3 6 (4.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.69%) JIRA
General
1 40 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 12 (8.28%) Documentation Skills
2 12 (8.28%) Manufacturing
3 10 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 9 (6.21%) Marketing
5 8 (5.52%) Law
6 6 (4.14%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.07%) Automotive
8 3 (2.07%) Finance
8 3 (2.07%) Retail
9 2 (1.38%) Banking
9 2 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.69%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 54 (37.24%) IT Support
2 33 (22.76%) Support Engineer
3 32 (22.07%) IT Engineer
4 30 (20.69%) 2nd Line Support
5 26 (17.93%) IT Support Engineer
6 16 (11.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 16 (11.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (10.34%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 14 (9.66%) Analyst
9 13 (8.97%) 1st Line Support
10 12 (8.28%) IT Analyst
11 11 (7.59%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (7.59%) IT Support Analyst
11 11 (7.59%) Support Analyst
12 10 (6.90%) Technical Support
13 9 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (6.21%) Lead
14 8 (5.52%) Lead Cloud Engineer
14 8 (5.52%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.52%) .NET
2 6 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.38%) DPDK
3 2 (1.38%) eBPF
3 2 (1.38%) Middleware
3 2 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.38%) React
4 1 (0.69%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.69%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (0.69%) JSON
4 1 (0.69%) OAuth
4 1 (0.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.69%) OpenID
4 1 (0.69%) React Native
4 1 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (24.83%) Driving Licence
2 13 (8.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (7.59%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.52%) iPad
4 8 (5.52%) LIMS
5 7 (4.83%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.07%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.38%) PKI
8 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.69%) FMCG
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.69%) Life Science
9 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 106 (73.10%) Windows
2 70 (48.28%) Windows Server
3 29 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 27 (18.62%) Linux
4 27 (18.62%) Mac OS
5 10 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (5.52%) Android
6 8 (5.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (4.83%) Apple iOS
8 3 (2.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.69%) CentOS
9 1 (0.69%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.69%) VMS
9 1 (0.69%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.69%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (35.17%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (29.66%) Customer Service
3 29 (20.00%) ITIL
4 27 (18.62%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 26 (17.93%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (15.17%) ITSM
7 21 (14.48%) Disaster Recovery
7 21 (14.48%) Mentoring
8 20 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (10.34%) Service Delivery
10 15 (10.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (9.66%) CI/CD
12 12 (8.28%) Agile
12 12 (8.28%) DevOps
12 12 (8.28%) Migration
12 12 (8.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (7.59%) Coaching
13 11 (7.59%) High Availability
13 11 (7.59%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (13.79%) PowerShell
2 17 (11.72%) SQL
3 9 (6.21%) Python
4 7 (4.83%) Bash
5 6 (4.14%) Go
6 2 (1.38%) Bicep
6 2 (1.38%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.69%) C#
7 1 (0.69%) Java
7 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 14 (9.66%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.97%) Degree
4 8 (5.52%) HNC
4 8 (5.52%) HND
5 7 (4.83%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.38%) CCNA
7 2 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.38%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.69%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.83%) GDPR
2 6 (4.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (4.14%) SLA
3 4 (2.76%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 109 (75.17%) Active Directory
2 36 (24.83%) Hyper-V
3 22 (15.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.76%) Firmware
4 4 (2.76%) vSphere
5 3 (2.07%) Docker
5 3 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.38%) KVM
6 2 (1.38%) QEMU
6 2 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.38%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (18.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (13.10%) Terraform
3 13 (8.97%) Prometheus
4 12 (8.28%) Grafana
5 11 (7.59%) Ansible
6 5 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 5 (3.45%) FortiGate
6 5 (3.45%) Kubernetes
7 3 (2.07%) SCCM
8 2 (1.38%) Plesk
8 2 (1.38%) WSUS
9 1 (0.69%) Autotask
9 1 (0.69%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.69%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 97 (66.90%) Microsoft
2 34 (23.45%) VMware
3 14 (9.66%) Apple
3 14 (9.66%) Datto
4 9 (6.21%) Citrix
5 8 (5.52%) Splunk
6 7 (4.83%) Adobe
6 7 (4.83%) Freshdesk
7 6 (4.14%) SolarWinds
7 6 (4.14%) SonicWALL
8 5 (3.45%) Fortinet
8 5 (3.45%) Google
9 4 (2.76%) Sage
10 3 (2.07%) Dell
10 3 (2.07%) Dell Compellent
10 3 (2.07%) HP
10 3 (2.07%) Nimble Storage
10 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.38%) SaltStack
11 2 (1.38%) Veeam