DNS Jobs in Reading

Domain Name System (DNS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 67 110
Rank change year-on-year +22 +43 -3
Permanent jobs citing DNS 18 60 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 3.63% 3.35% 1.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 40.91% 20.98% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 17 53 22
10th Percentile £32,400 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £52,000 £35,287
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £59,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% -9.23% +62.50%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £74,250
90th Percentile £61,500 £63,750 £74,925
Berkshire median annual salary £37,250 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -21.58% -13.64% +37.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 44 286 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 8.87% 15.98% 14.57%
Number of salaries quoted 33 188 91
10th Percentile £30,250 £31,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,188 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,000 £51,300
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.26% -6.73%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £74,250
90th Percentile £86,500 £78,750 £80,000
Berkshire median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Reading

DNS
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for DNS in Reading

DNS
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Reading over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DNS in Reading

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.11%) IIS
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Azure AI
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (66.67%) DHCP
2 11 (61.11%) Firewall
3 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 6 (33.33%) VPN
4 5 (27.78%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (11.11%) Broadband
5 2 (11.11%) VoIP
5 2 (11.11%) WAN
6 1 (5.56%) BGP
6 1 (5.56%) iSCSI
6 1 (5.56%) LAN
6 1 (5.56%) Network Security
6 1 (5.56%) OSPF
6 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.56%) SMTP
6 1 (5.56%) VLAN
6 1 (5.56%) VSAN
6 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Technical Support
2 5 (27.78%) Help Desk Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Help Desk Support
2 5 (27.78%) Help Desk Support Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Support Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Technical Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Support Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Support Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Coordinator
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Project Coordinator
4 1 (5.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
2 11 (61.11%) Windows Server
3 5 (27.78%) Mac OS
4 3 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) CRM
2 5 (27.78%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
4 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Service Management
4 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (5.56%) Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.56%) Threat Detection
5 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) Bicep
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) A+ Certification
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) MCSA
4 1 (5.56%) MCSE
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Active Directory
2 10 (55.56%) Hyper-V
2 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (11.11%) NFS
4 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (11.11%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (11.11%) vSphere
5 1 (5.56%) Docker
5 1 (5.56%) Firmware
5 1 (5.56%) vCloud
5 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 2 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) PowerCLI
2 2 (11.11%) vRealize
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 10 (55.56%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Sophos
3 5 (27.78%) Ubiquiti
4 3 (16.67%) Cisco
5 1 (5.56%) Databricks
5 1 (5.56%) Dell
5 1 (5.56%) Juniper
5 1 (5.56%) Meraki