DNS Job Trends in Reading

Domain Name System (DNS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Reading requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 64 44
Rank change year-on-year +16 -20 +57
Permanent jobs citing DNS 4 12 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 0.69% 1.66% 5.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.26% 14.81% 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 57
10th Percentile - - £32,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -2.70% -5.79%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £59,000
90th Percentile - - £74,250
Berkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -8.70%

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 76 81 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 13.04% 11.20% 14.80%
Number of salaries quoted 40 34 139
10th Percentile - £40,013 £33,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £52,500 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £60,000 £56,525
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +6.15% -4.60%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,813 £73,125
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
Berkshire median annual salary £40,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -30.43% +9.52% -4.55%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Reading

DNS
Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing DNS

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
4 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Maintenance
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) HND
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) MCSA
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco