DNS Jobs in Oxfordshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 53 80
Rank change year-on-year +1 +27 +14
Permanent jobs citing DNS 22 64 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 3.18% 3.57% 2.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.05% 27.83% 21.47%
Number of salaries quoted 17 58 41
10th Percentile - £26,043 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £41,250 £31,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +30.95% -42.73%
75th Percentile £38,000 £62,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £72,000 £65,000 £60,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +6.25% -11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 129 230 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 18.64% 12.83% 12.98%
Number of salaries quoted 73 194 151
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £36,000 £35,563 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -23.81%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,750 £52,250
90th Percentile £70,200 £65,000 £60,000
South East median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% -5.26%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Oxfordshire

DNS
Salary Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Salary trend for DNS in Oxfordshire

DNS
Salary Histogram in Oxfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DNS in Oxfordshire

DNS
Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Oxford +5 9 £37,000 -38.33% 18
Banbury - 7 £27,500 - 1
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 7 (31.82%) GCP
3 7 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (27.27%) SaaS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (9.09%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Azure AI
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (4.55%) IaaS
6 1 (4.55%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (63.64%) TCP/IP
2 12 (54.55%) DHCP
3 9 (40.91%) VPN
4 5 (22.73%) Firewall
5 3 (13.64%) InfiniBand
6 2 (9.09%) IP Telephony
6 2 (9.09%) VLAN
6 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (9.09%) Wireless
7 1 (4.55%) SD-WAN
7 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 19 (86.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) IT Engineer
2 9 (40.91%) IT Support
2 9 (40.91%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Service Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Software Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.55%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) Windows
2 7 (31.82%) Mac OS
3 6 (27.27%) Linux
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (22.73%) Data Entry
3 4 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery
4 3 (13.64%) Customer Service
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (13.64%) Load Balancing
4 3 (13.64%) Low Latency
4 3 (13.64%) Project Delivery
4 3 (13.64%) Project Planning
5 2 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
5 2 (9.09%) Data Management
5 2 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (9.09%) Information Security
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (9.09%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Bash
1 4 (18.18%) Python
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) Perl
3 2 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (31.82%) A+ Certification
2 7 (31.82%) MCP
3 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 3 (13.64%) Degree
5 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (9.09%) LPIC
5 2 (9.09%) MCSE
5 2 (9.09%) RHCE
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.55%) CCNA
6 1 (4.55%) CCNP
6 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.64%) NFS
3 2 (9.09%) GPFS
3 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 2 (9.09%) Lustre
4 1 (4.55%) Squid
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) HAProxy
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (31.82%) Google
3 3 (13.64%) HP
4 2 (9.09%) Aruba
5 1 (4.55%) Databricks
5 1 (4.55%) Meraki
5 1 (4.55%) Veeam
5 1 (4.55%) VMware