DNS Jobs in the North of England

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 163 144
Rank change year-on-year +38 -19 -34
Permanent jobs citing DNS 352 392 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.04% 2.23% 2.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.36% 12.23% 16.21%
Number of salaries quoted 283 287 383
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,125 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £53,125
90th Percentile £67,968 £63,750 £73,750
England median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

DNS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,152 3,205 2,844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.50% 18.21% 15.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,658 1,310 1,741
10th Percentile £25,875 £26,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £34,490
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £73,675
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the North of England

DNS
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS in the North of England.

Salary trend for DNS in the North of England

DNS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the North of England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +11 185 £45,000 - 47
Yorkshire +60 121 £32,500 -12.50% 26
North East +17 52 £42,500 +13.33% 7
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 100 (28.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (11.65%) SharePoint
3 24 (6.82%) IIS
4 12 (3.41%) WebLogic
5 11 (3.13%) CMS
6 5 (1.42%) WordPress
7 4 (1.14%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.57%) Confluence
8 2 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.57%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 53 (15.06%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.14%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 204 (57.95%) Azure
2 184 (52.27%) Microsoft 365
3 77 (21.88%) AWS
4 64 (18.18%) Entra ID
5 20 (5.68%) IaaS
6 19 (5.40%) OneDrive
6 19 (5.40%) Power Platform
7 14 (3.98%) GCP
7 14 (3.98%) PaaS
8 13 (3.69%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (3.41%) AWS KMS
9 12 (3.41%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.27%) GitHub
10 8 (2.27%) SaaS
11 7 (1.99%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (1.99%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.42%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 242 (68.75%) DHCP
2 121 (34.38%) Firewall
3 91 (25.85%) WAN
4 88 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 85 (24.15%) VPN
6 76 (21.59%) LAN
7 47 (13.35%) SSL
8 31 (8.81%) VoIP
9 29 (8.24%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (7.95%) VLAN
11 25 (7.10%) Internet
12 24 (6.82%) Network Security
12 24 (6.82%) SD-WAN
13 23 (6.53%) SAN
14 22 (6.25%) Wireless
15 19 (5.40%) BGP
16 17 (4.83%) WLAN
17 13 (3.69%) iSCSI
18 12 (3.41%) DKIM
18 12 (3.41%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (14.20%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.68%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.69%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.41%) Oracle Database
4 12 (3.41%) RDBMS
5 8 (2.27%) Power BI
6 7 (1.99%) MySQL
7 6 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.42%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.42%) Redis
9 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.85%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 4 (1.14%) JIRA
2 3 (0.85%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.28%) Git
3 1 (0.28%) GitLab
General
1 89 (25.28%) Social Skills
2 35 (9.94%) Finance
3 22 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (3.98%) Retail
5 13 (3.69%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.70%) French Language
6 6 (1.70%) German Language
6 6 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.70%) Italian Language
6 6 (1.70%) Portuguese Language
6 6 (1.70%) Spanish Language
6 6 (1.70%) Swedish Language
6 6 (1.70%) Turkish Language
7 5 (1.42%) Law
8 4 (1.14%) Agriculture
8 4 (1.14%) Legal
8 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.85%) Local Government
9 3 (0.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 86 (24.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 60 (17.05%) Analyst
3 47 (13.35%) IT Support
4 46 (13.07%) Senior
5 32 (9.09%) IT Engineer
6 27 (7.67%) Lead
6 27 (7.67%) Network Engineer
7 25 (7.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (7.10%) Support Engineer
8 22 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
9 20 (5.68%) IT Analyst
9 20 (5.68%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 20 (5.68%) Support Analyst
10 19 (5.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 18 (5.11%) Administrator
11 18 (5.11%) IT Technician
11 18 (5.11%) Systems Administrator
12 17 (4.83%) Architect
12 17 (4.83%) Infrastructure Manager
13 14 (3.98%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
1 12 (3.41%) Spring Boot
2 11 (3.13%) CSS
2 11 (3.13%) HTML
2 11 (3.13%) React
3 8 (2.27%) .NET
4 7 (1.99%) jQuery
4 7 (1.99%) Node.js
4 7 (1.99%) Vue
5 6 (1.70%) LDAP
6 5 (1.42%) Middleware
7 4 (1.14%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.14%) ASP.NET
7 4 (1.14%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (1.14%) JWT
7 4 (1.14%) REST
7 4 (1.14%) RESTful
7 4 (1.14%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (1.14%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 4 (1.14%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.94%) Public Cloud
2 25 (7.10%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (6.53%) Driving Licence
4 20 (5.68%) Data Centre
5 18 (5.11%) PKI
6 17 (4.83%) Management Information System
7 16 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (3.41%) PMI
8 12 (3.41%) Replication
8 12 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (3.13%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.84%) Cyberattack
11 8 (2.27%) Clustering
12 4 (1.14%) Fat Client
12 4 (1.14%) Thin Client
13 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
13 3 (0.85%) Mobile Computing
14 2 (0.57%) CCTV
14 2 (0.57%) Security Operations Centre
14 2 (0.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 214 (60.80%) Windows
2 142 (40.34%) Windows Server
3 72 (20.45%) Linux
4 39 (11.08%) Windows Server 2012
5 36 (10.23%) Windows Server 2016
6 35 (9.94%) Windows 10
7 27 (7.67%) Android
8 18 (5.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (4.83%) Apple iOS
9 17 (4.83%) Windows Server 2019
10 12 (3.41%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (2.84%) VMS
12 9 (2.56%) Windows 7
13 8 (2.27%) Unix
14 7 (1.99%) Mac OS
15 5 (1.42%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.57%) Windows 8
16 2 (0.57%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (32.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (22.73%) ITIL
3 68 (19.32%) Disaster Recovery
4 63 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (12.78%) Customer Service
6 36 (10.23%) Capacity Planning
6 36 (10.23%) Migration
7 35 (9.94%) Agile
8 33 (9.38%) DevOps
8 33 (9.38%) Project Management
9 31 (8.81%) Cybersecurity
9 31 (8.81%) Mentoring
10 27 (7.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (7.39%) Computer Science
12 25 (7.10%) Server Management
13 21 (5.97%) Information Security
14 20 (5.68%) Coaching
14 20 (5.68%) Incident Management
14 20 (5.68%) Proactive Monitoring
15 18 (5.11%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 60 (17.05%) PowerShell
2 34 (9.66%) SQL
3 17 (4.83%) Python
4 10 (2.84%) VBScript
5 9 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.27%) C#
7 4 (1.14%) Bash
7 4 (1.14%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.14%) XAML
8 3 (0.85%) Go
8 3 (0.85%) Ruby
9 2 (0.57%) Java
10 1 (0.28%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 44 (12.50%) Degree
2 27 (7.67%) Azure Certification
3 21 (5.97%) Security Cleared
4 17 (4.83%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (4.83%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.55%) AWS Certification
5 16 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (4.26%) CCNA
6 15 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (3.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 12 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.41%) PMI Certification
9 9 (2.56%) CCNP
10 6 (1.70%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.42%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.42%) CISSP
11 5 (1.42%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.42%) MCSE
11 5 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.14%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.10%) SLA
2 9 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.57%) GDPR
3 2 (0.57%) NIST
4 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 250 (71.02%) Active Directory
2 74 (21.02%) Hyper-V
3 70 (19.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (4.55%) vSphere
5 15 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (1.42%) Firmware
8 3 (0.85%) Docker
9 2 (0.57%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.57%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.28%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.28%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.28%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 65 (18.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (8.24%) SCCM
3 21 (5.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 19 (5.40%) SCOM
5 17 (4.83%) WSUS
6 16 (4.55%) Terraform
7 15 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (3.41%) CA Single Sign-On
8 12 (3.41%) Opsgenie
8 12 (3.41%) VxRail
8 12 (3.41%) ZABBIX
9 11 (3.13%) Kubernetes
9 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 10 (2.84%) CASB
10 10 (2.84%) FortiGate
11 8 (2.27%) Ansible
11 8 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (1.70%) Grafana
12 6 (1.70%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 210 (59.66%) Microsoft
2 113 (32.10%) VMware
3 64 (18.18%) Cisco
4 38 (10.80%) Citrix
5 33 (9.38%) Veeam
6 29 (8.24%) SolarWinds
7 23 (6.53%) Oracle
8 19 (5.40%) Fortinet
9 17 (4.83%) CA
9 17 (4.83%) ServiceNow
10 16 (4.55%) Dell
11 15 (4.26%) Apple
12 12 (3.41%) CyberArk
12 12 (3.41%) NetApp
12 12 (3.41%) Sparx
13 11 (3.13%) SAP
14 10 (2.84%) Meraki
15 8 (2.27%) Aruba
15 8 (2.27%) F5
15 8 (2.27%) Juniper