DNS Jobs in Oxford

Domain Name System (DNS)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxford 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 30 32
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +25
Permanent jobs citing DNS 9 39 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 4.13% 5.99% 4.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.91% 36.11% 29.17%
Number of salaries quoted 6 33 21
10th Percentile £31,000 £26,043 £21,750
25th Percentile £33,188 £36,750 £25,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £60,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -38.33% +71.43% -39.13%
75th Percentile £38,563 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £49,375 £67,000 £60,000
Oxfordshire median annual salary £31,500 £40,000 £31,500
% change year-on-year -21.25% +26.98% -45.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 22 108 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxford 10.09% 16.59% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 15 80 48
10th Percentile £33,750 £28,929 £25,250
25th Percentile £36,125 £36,250 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -22.73% +18.92%
75th Percentile £64,375 £61,563 £60,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £65,000 £72,500
Oxfordshire median annual salary £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -23.81%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Oxford

DNS
Salary Trend in Oxford

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS in Oxford.

Salary trend for DNS in Oxford

DNS
Salary Histogram in Oxford

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Oxford over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DNS in Oxford

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxford 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) nginx
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) SaaS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure AI
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) TCP/IP
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
3 3 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (22.22%) Firewall
4 2 (22.22%) IP Telephony
4 2 (22.22%) VLAN
4 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (22.22%) Wireless
5 1 (11.11%) ADSL
5 1 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) IT Support
1 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) IT Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Technician
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Technician
3 1 (11.11%) IT Technician
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Service Delivery Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Technician
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Support
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Mac OS
3 3 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (11.11%) OpenBSD
5 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Vista
5 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Data Entry
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 3 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) B2B
4 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
4 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
4 1 (11.11%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bicep
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) DBS Check
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Squid
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HAProxy
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) Aruba
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) Databricks
4 1 (11.11%) Meraki
4 1 (11.11%) Veeam
4 1 (11.11%) VMware