DNS Job Trends in the North West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 33 141
Rank change year-on-year -91 +108 -18
Permanent jobs citing DNS 133 461 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.13% 8.96% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.18% 42.92% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 104 62 104
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,500 £26,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £37,500 £46,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -18.92% +2.78%
75th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £58,438
90th Percentile £58,025 £62,500 £74,375
England median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% +5.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 628 1,074 801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.34% 20.87% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 471 313 586
10th Percentile £28,250 £23,504 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £25,087 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £33,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% -29.03% -9.71%
75th Percentile £67,500 £45,000 £60,188
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,250
England median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% -2.91%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

DNS job vacancy trend in the North West

DNS
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the North West over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in the North West

DNS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 August 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
Manchester -28 62 £41,000 +3.80% 15
Lancashire -34 30 £31,500 -47.50% 7
Merseyside -31 23 £29,500 +10.28% 12
Cheshire -21 16 £37,500 - 9
Cumbria -19 1 £30,000 - 8
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 34 (25.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (15.04%) SharePoint
3 18 (13.53%) IIS
4 3 (2.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) HCL Domino
5 1 (0.75%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 88 (66.17%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (45.11%) Azure
3 33 (24.81%) AWS
4 30 (22.56%) Entra ID
5 10 (7.52%) OneDrive
6 9 (6.77%) SaaS
7 7 (5.26%) IaaS
7 7 (5.26%) Mimecast
8 5 (3.76%) Google Workspace
9 4 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.01%) Nutanix
10 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.26%) GitHub
10 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (2.26%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 104 (78.20%) DHCP
2 67 (50.38%) Firewall
3 56 (42.11%) TCP/IP
4 43 (32.33%) VLAN
5 38 (28.57%) VPN
6 26 (19.55%) Wi-Fi
7 17 (12.78%) VoIP
8 13 (9.77%) WAN
9 10 (7.52%) LAN
9 10 (7.52%) Network Security
10 9 (6.77%) SD-WAN
10 9 (6.77%) SNMP
10 9 (6.77%) Structured Cabling
11 5 (3.76%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (3.76%) Wireless
12 4 (3.01%) SAN
12 4 (3.01%) Unified Communications
12 4 (3.01%) VSAN
13 3 (2.26%) DKIM
13 3 (2.26%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.03%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.26%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Git
2 2 (1.50%) Terragrunt
3 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.75%) JIRA
General
1 47 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.03%) Documentation Skills
3 15 (11.28%) Organisational Skills
4 13 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.02%) Retail
6 7 (5.26%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.76%) Legal
8 4 (3.01%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.01%) Law
8 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.50%) Finance
9 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.50%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.75%) Games
10 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 59 (44.36%) IT Support
2 36 (27.07%) Support Engineer
3 24 (18.05%) Analyst
4 22 (16.54%) IT Engineer
5 21 (15.79%) IT Support Engineer
6 20 (15.04%) IT Support Technician
6 20 (15.04%) IT Technician
6 20 (15.04%) Support Technician
7 17 (12.78%) 2nd Line Support
8 13 (9.77%) IT Analyst
8 13 (9.77%) IT Support Analyst
8 13 (9.77%) Support Analyst
9 11 (8.27%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 11 (8.27%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 11 (8.27%) IT Manager
10 9 (6.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 5 (3.76%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.02%) Middleware
2 5 (3.76%) SAML
3 2 (1.50%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 37 (27.82%) Driving Licence
2 17 (12.78%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 9 (6.77%) CCTV
4 9 (6.77%) Data Centre
5 8 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.76%) Virtual Team
7 4 (3.01%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.01%) Replication
8 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Licensing
8 3 (2.26%) Social Media
9 2 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.50%) SystemC
10 1 (0.75%) Clustering
10 1 (0.75%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 109 (81.95%) Windows
2 78 (58.65%) Windows Server
3 36 (27.07%) Windows 10
4 14 (10.53%) Linux
5 13 (9.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (7.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (6.02%) Android
7 8 (6.02%) Apple iOS
8 7 (5.26%) Mac OS
9 5 (3.76%) Ubuntu
9 5 (3.76%) VMS
10 4 (3.01%) CentOS
11 3 (2.26%) CoreOS
11 3 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.75%) Solaris
12 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.35%) Customer Service
2 52 (39.10%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (33.08%) Disaster Recovery
4 26 (19.55%) ITIL
4 26 (19.55%) Service Delivery
5 23 (17.29%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (17.29%) High Availability
6 20 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (15.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (9.77%) Business Continuity
8 13 (9.77%) Change Management
8 13 (9.77%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 12 (9.02%) Time Management
10 11 (8.27%) ITSM
10 11 (8.27%) Server Building
11 10 (7.52%) Incident Management
11 10 (7.52%) Roadmaps
11 10 (7.52%) System Testing
11 10 (7.52%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.56%) PowerShell
2 17 (12.78%) SQL
3 9 (6.77%) Python
4 6 (4.51%) Bash
4 6 (4.51%) Bicep
5 3 (2.26%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.75%) Go
6 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (12.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (7.52%) Azure Certification
3 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 6 (4.51%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.51%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.76%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.26%) Degree
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.75%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.75%) CCNA
8 1 (0.75%) CCNP
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.75%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.75%) RHCE
8 1 (0.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.26%) SLA
2 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 97 (72.93%) Active Directory
2 48 (36.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (21.05%) Hyper-V
4 12 (9.02%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (4.51%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (4.51%) vSphere
6 3 (2.26%) DFS Replication
6 3 (2.26%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.75%) Ceph
8 1 (0.75%) Docker
8 1 (0.75%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (17.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (12.78%) FortiGate
3 11 (8.27%) Terraform
4 10 (7.52%) Ansible
5 5 (3.76%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (3.76%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.76%) WSUS
6 3 (2.26%) cPanel
6 3 (2.26%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (2.26%) Plesk
6 3 (2.26%) SCCM
6 3 (2.26%) SCVMM
7 2 (1.50%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.75%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.75%) Grafana
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.75%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 115 (86.47%) Microsoft
2 63 (47.37%) VMware
3 21 (15.79%) Cisco
4 15 (11.28%) SonicWALL
5 12 (9.02%) Veeam
6 11 (8.27%) Palo Alto
7 9 (6.77%) Sophos
8 8 (6.02%) SolarWinds
9 5 (3.76%) Aderant
9 5 (3.76%) Apple
9 5 (3.76%) Atlassian
9 5 (3.76%) Google
9 5 (3.76%) iManage
9 5 (3.76%) Okta
10 4 (3.01%) Draytek
10 4 (3.01%) Red Hat
10 4 (3.01%) WatchGuard
11 3 (2.26%) Acronis
11 3 (2.26%) Aruba
11 3 (2.26%) NETGEAR