DNS Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 32 55
Rank change year-on-year -56 +23 +2
Permanent jobs citing DNS 4 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.35% 0.34% 1.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.65% 3.57% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £55,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year - +69.23% -7.14%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £33,750
90th Percentile - - £35,625
UK median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 151 28 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 13.32% 9.46% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 12 9 32
10th Percentile £30,750 £41,701 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,938 £47,500 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,750 £57,500 £34,814
Median % change year-on-year -29.13% +65.16% -12.97%
75th Percentile £53,125 £74,258 £42,000
90th Percentile £65,875 £93,666 £64,500
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.50%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

DNS
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing DNS

DNS
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
County Antrim -34 4 - - 8
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 4 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 4 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 4 (100.00%) Change Management
1 4 (100.00%) Coaching
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) High Availability
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 4 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 4 (100.00%) Server Management
1 4 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 4 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Dell
1 4 (100.00%) Dell Compellent
1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) Nimble Storage
1 4 (100.00%) VMware