DNS Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 40 36
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +5
Permanent jobs citing DNS 8 11 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 1.95% 2.48% 3.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.77% 16.67% 41.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile - £26,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £28,125 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £34,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -32.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £37,500 £36,500 £55,625
90th Percentile - £38,200 £61,250
East Midlands median annual salary £28,500 £33,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% -5.00% -26.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 26 66 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 6.33% 14.86% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 21 17 19
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -20.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £50,000 £62,500 £57,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,250 £62,750
East Midlands median annual salary £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -25.00% -5.88% -10.53%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

DNS
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing DNS

DNS
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 29 December 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
Northampton -10 8 £35,000 +13.82% 8
DNS
East Midlands

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (62.50%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (37.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
2 5 (62.50%) VPN
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Applications Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Applications Support
1 5 (62.50%) Applications Support Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Applications Support Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Support
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Support Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) ICT Officer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Mac OS
2 5 (62.50%) Windows 10
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) CRM
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Client Onboarding
2 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
2 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (62.50%) Incident Management
2 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) ITIL
2 5 (62.50%) Process Improvement
2 5 (62.50%) Scrum
2 5 (62.50%) Service Management
3 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
3 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) System Testing
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
1 5 (62.50%) MCP
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (37.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (62.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft