DNS Jobs in the North of England

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 133 154
Rank change year-on-year +68 +21 -12
Permanent jobs citing DNS 523 342 387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.46% 1.94% 2.28%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.25% 15.72% 12.22%
Number of salaries quoted 105 274 290
10th Percentile £26,050 £26,000 £28,300
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,156 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £69,000 £67,968 £63,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £43,742 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.84% +2.92% -5.56%

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 2,071 2,176 3,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 17.66% 12.34% 18.66%
Number of salaries quoted 893 1,669 1,249
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -5.56% -3.23%
75th Percentile £53,750 £61,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,858 £72,500 £72,529
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%

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 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 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
North West +78 465 £42,134 -6.37% 78
Yorkshire +3 51 £35,000 +7.69% 60
North East 0 7 £32,000 -24.71% 19
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 22 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 10 (1.91%) IIS
4 2 (0.38%) Apache
4 2 (0.38%) CMS
4 2 (0.38%) WordPress
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.19%) Confluence
5 1 (0.19%) nginx
5 1 (0.19%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 29 (5.54%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Sage 50
2 2 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 78 (14.91%) Azure
2 63 (12.05%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (4.97%) AWS
4 17 (3.25%) Entra ID
5 11 (2.10%) GCP
6 9 (1.72%) SaaS
7 8 (1.53%) Nutanix
8 7 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.34%) IaaS
8 7 (1.34%) Power Platform
9 6 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (1.15%) PaaS
10 5 (0.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (0.76%) Azure AI
11 4 (0.76%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (0.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 4 (0.76%) OneDrive
11 4 (0.76%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.57%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 437 (83.56%) VPN
2 91 (17.40%) DHCP
3 66 (12.62%) Firewall
4 39 (7.46%) WAN
5 38 (7.27%) TCP/IP
6 33 (6.31%) LAN
7 18 (3.44%) VLAN
8 12 (2.29%) SD-WAN
9 11 (2.10%) SAN
10 10 (1.91%) Wireless
11 9 (1.72%) HTTP
12 8 (1.53%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (1.34%) NAS
13 7 (1.34%) Network Security
13 7 (1.34%) VoIP
13 7 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (1.15%) DWDM
14 6 (1.15%) MPLS
14 6 (1.15%) SSH
14 6 (1.15%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (2.87%) SQL Server
2 9 (1.72%) MySQL
3 7 (1.34%) MongoDB
3 7 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.34%) Power BI
4 5 (0.96%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.38%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.19%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.19%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 8 (1.53%) Git
2 7 (1.34%) JIRA
3 6 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.96%) Oracle Forms
General
1 403 (77.06%) Analytical Skills
2 396 (75.72%) Finance
3 388 (74.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 63 (12.05%) Social Skills
5 11 (2.10%) Retail
6 8 (1.53%) Manufacturing
7 5 (0.96%) Banking
8 4 (0.76%) Automotive
8 4 (0.76%) Local Government
9 3 (0.57%) Legal
10 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.38%) Games
10 2 (0.38%) Law
10 2 (0.38%) Marketing
10 2 (0.38%) Police
10 2 (0.38%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.19%) Aviation
11 1 (0.19%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 388 (74.19%) Developer
1 388 (74.19%) Software Developer
2 26 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (3.63%) IT Support
3 19 (3.63%) Senior
4 18 (3.44%) Network Engineer
5 17 (3.25%) Support Engineer
6 15 (2.87%) Analyst
7 13 (2.49%) Technical Support
8 10 (1.91%) Architect
9 9 (1.72%) 2nd Line Support
9 9 (1.72%) IT Engineer
9 9 (1.72%) Technical Engineer
9 9 (1.72%) Technical Support Engineer
10 8 (1.53%) Support Analyst
11 7 (1.34%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (1.34%) Junior
11 7 (1.34%) Senior Technical Support
12 6 (1.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (1.15%) Junior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.96%) Middleware
2 4 (0.76%) LDAP
3 2 (0.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.38%) CSS
3 2 (0.38%) Django
3 2 (0.38%) EDI
3 2 (0.38%) HTML
3 2 (0.38%) LAMP
3 2 (0.38%) Loki
3 2 (0.38%) Node.js
3 2 (0.38%) React
3 2 (0.38%) XML
4 1 (0.19%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.19%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 390 (74.57%) Cyberattack
2 10 (1.91%) Data Centre
3 9 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 8 (1.53%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.15%) Private Cloud
5 6 (1.15%) Replication
5 6 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (0.76%) Anti-Spyware
6 4 (0.76%) Driving Licence
6 4 (0.76%) NHS
7 3 (0.57%) Clustering
8 2 (0.38%) CCTV
8 2 (0.38%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.38%) HP Storage
8 2 (0.38%) Life Science
8 2 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.38%) PKI
8 2 (0.38%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 417 (79.73%) Linux
2 393 (75.14%) Android
3 81 (15.49%) Windows
4 52 (9.94%) Windows Server
5 12 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (1.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (1.72%) Mac OS
7 9 (1.72%) Windows 10
8 8 (1.53%) Unix
9 5 (0.96%) CentOS
9 5 (0.96%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.96%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.38%) AIX
10 2 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.38%) VMS
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.19%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (76.48%) Agile
2 391 (74.76%) Line Management
3 388 (74.19%) Android Development
3 388 (74.19%) Design Patterns
3 388 (74.19%) Mathematics
3 388 (74.19%) OO
3 388 (74.19%) OOP
4 48 (9.18%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (6.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 25 (4.78%) Customer Service
7 24 (4.59%) ITIL
8 21 (4.02%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (3.63%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (3.63%) Mentoring
10 16 (3.06%) Migration
11 14 (2.68%) Patch Management
12 12 (2.29%) Network Architecture
13 11 (2.10%) Service Management
14 10 (1.91%) Incident Management
14 10 (1.91%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 407 (77.82%) Python
2 392 (74.95%) C++
3 391 (74.76%) Java
4 389 (74.38%) Go
5 23 (4.40%) PowerShell
6 19 (3.63%) SQL
7 5 (0.96%) Bicep
7 5 (0.96%) PHP
8 3 (0.57%) Bash
8 3 (0.57%) Perl
9 2 (0.38%) AWK
9 2 (0.38%) C
9 2 (0.38%) C#
9 2 (0.38%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.38%) Korn
10 1 (0.19%) VB
10 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 395 (75.53%) Security Cleared
2 388 (74.19%) DV Cleared
3 18 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (2.87%) Degree
5 12 (2.29%) CCNA
5 12 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (1.91%) Azure Certification
7 8 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.34%) JNCIA
8 7 (1.34%) Network+ Certification
8 7 (1.34%) SC Cleared
9 6 (1.15%) CCNP
9 6 (1.15%) JNCIS
9 6 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (0.96%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.76%) CISM
11 4 (0.76%) CISSP
11 4 (0.76%) MCSE
12 3 (0.57%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (0.76%) NIST
3 3 (0.57%) NCSC
4 2 (0.38%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.38%) SLA
5 1 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 390 (74.57%) Docker
2 74 (14.15%) Active Directory
3 36 (6.88%) Hyper-V
3 36 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (3.25%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.34%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.34%) vSphere
6 3 (0.57%) DFS Replication
6 3 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.38%) KVM
7 2 (0.38%) Postfix
7 2 (0.38%) Sendmail
7 2 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.19%) Firmware
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.19%) RHEV
8 1 (0.19%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 409 (78.20%) Ansible
2 18 (3.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (3.25%) Terraform
4 9 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.34%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.15%) Proxmox
7 5 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.76%) SCCM
9 3 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.57%) Autotask
9 3 (0.57%) WSUS
10 2 (0.38%) Grafana
10 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.38%) Nagios
10 2 (0.38%) Nessus
10 2 (0.38%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.38%) SCOM
11 1 (0.19%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 75 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 59 (11.28%) VMware
3 29 (5.54%) Cisco
4 17 (3.25%) Veeam
5 10 (1.91%) Meraki
6 9 (1.72%) Oracle
6 9 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.53%) Google
8 6 (1.15%) Arista
9 5 (0.96%) Databricks
9 5 (0.96%) SonicWALL
10 4 (0.76%) Datto
10 4 (0.76%) IBM
10 4 (0.76%) Kaseya
10 4 (0.76%) Okta
10 4 (0.76%) Perforce
10 4 (0.76%) Red Hat
10 4 (0.76%) Zscaler
11 3 (0.57%) Acronis
11 3 (0.57%) Synology