DNS Jobs in the South East

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 107 103
Rank change year-on-year -59 -4 +50
Permanent jobs citing DNS 158 431 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.63% 2.45% 3.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.58% 15.46% 17.07%
Number of salaries quoted 139 365 346
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £58,125 £58,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £68,250 £63,750 £68,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £44,225 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.90% +4.06% -5.56%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,493 2,788 2,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 15.42% 15.82% 17.69%
Number of salaries quoted 763 1,884 1,438
10th Percentile £25,250 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the South East

DNS
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS in the South East.

Salary trend for DNS in the South East

DNS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DNS in the South East

DNS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the South East region over the 6 months to 31 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
Thames Valley -36 70 £37,000 -12.94% 44
Berkshire -11 48 £37,500 -25.00% 20
Hampshire +34 45 £53,750 +15.59% 20
Kent +6 24 £36,250 -3.33% 17
Oxfordshire 0 22 £31,500 -23.64% 22
Surrey +22 12 £66,750 +6.80% 10
Middlesex -14 3 - - 3
East Sussex +7 2 £37,500 -
West Sussex +19 1 - - 7
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 33 (20.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (9.49%) SharePoint
3 10 (6.33%) Apache
4 9 (5.70%) IIS
5 5 (3.16%) nginx
6 4 (2.53%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.63%) Confluence
7 1 (0.63%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.63%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (0.63%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.63%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (8.23%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.63%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 56 (35.44%) Azure
2 41 (25.95%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (24.68%) AWS
4 20 (12.66%) Entra ID
5 13 (8.23%) GCP
6 10 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (6.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 10 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
6 10 (6.33%) SaaS
7 6 (3.80%) GitHub
7 6 (3.80%) OpenShift
8 5 (3.16%) OneDrive
8 5 (3.16%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.53%) Azure AI
9 4 (2.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (2.53%) IaaS
9 4 (2.53%) PaaS
9 4 (2.53%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 101 (63.92%) DHCP
2 74 (46.84%) Firewall
3 68 (43.04%) TCP/IP
4 54 (34.18%) VPN
5 32 (20.25%) VLAN
6 22 (13.92%) VoIP
7 20 (12.66%) SMTP
8 17 (10.76%) WAN
8 17 (10.76%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (10.13%) LAN
10 14 (8.86%) SAN
11 13 (8.23%) Network Security
12 12 (7.59%) NAS
12 12 (7.59%) Remote Desktop
13 9 (5.70%) Wireless
14 8 (5.06%) iSCSI
14 8 (5.06%) VSAN
15 7 (4.43%) IPsec
15 7 (4.43%) SD-WAN
16 6 (3.80%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.76%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.70%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (5.06%) MySQL
4 5 (3.16%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.53%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.53%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.53%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.53%) Power BI
6 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.53%) Git
2 1 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.63%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 74 (46.84%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.39%) Telecoms
3 16 (10.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.16%) Back Office
6 5 (3.16%) Local Government
7 4 (2.53%) Legal
7 4 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.90%) Law
8 3 (1.90%) Retail
9 2 (1.27%) Advertising
9 2 (1.27%) Finance
10 1 (0.63%) Automotive
10 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (27.85%) Support Engineer
2 23 (14.56%) Senior
3 21 (13.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (12.03%) IT Engineer
5 18 (11.39%) IT Support
6 15 (9.49%) IT Support Engineer
6 15 (9.49%) Technical Support
7 13 (8.23%) Analyst
8 11 (6.96%) 3rd Line Support
8 11 (6.96%) Infrastructure Support
9 9 (5.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Desktop Support
10 8 (5.06%) Network Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Support Specialist
11 7 (4.43%) 2nd Line Support
11 7 (4.43%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) Support Analyst
11 7 (4.43%) Support Technician
11 7 (4.43%) Technical Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.70%) YAML
2 4 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (0.63%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.63%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (0.63%) Node.js
3 1 (0.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.92%) Data Centre
2 18 (11.39%) PKI
3 16 (10.13%) Clustering
3 16 (10.13%) Driving Licence
4 8 (5.06%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.80%) Replication
6 5 (3.16%) Client/Server
6 5 (3.16%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.53%) NHS
8 3 (1.90%) CCTV
8 3 (1.90%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.63%) iPad
10 1 (0.63%) Life Science
10 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 97 (61.39%) Windows
2 55 (34.81%) Windows Server
3 33 (20.89%) Linux
4 23 (14.56%) Mac OS
5 10 (6.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (5.70%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.90%) Android
7 3 (1.90%) Mac OS X
7 3 (1.90%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.27%) Debian
8 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.27%) SUSE
8 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
8 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.63%) CentOS
9 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.71%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (17.09%) Customer Service
3 24 (15.19%) High Availability
3 24 (15.19%) Incident Management
4 23 (14.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (13.92%) Task Automation
6 19 (12.03%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (12.03%) DevOps
7 18 (11.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (11.39%) ITIL
7 18 (11.39%) Project Delivery
8 16 (10.13%) CI/CD
9 15 (9.49%) Analytics
9 15 (9.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 12 (7.59%) Project Management
11 11 (6.96%) Information Security
12 10 (6.33%) Log Analytics
12 10 (6.33%) RBAC
12 10 (6.33%) Service Management
13 9 (5.70%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (29.11%) PowerShell
2 20 (12.66%) Python
2 20 (12.66%) SQL
3 10 (6.33%) Bicep
4 5 (3.16%) Bash
5 4 (2.53%) PHP
6 2 (1.27%) Perl
7 1 (0.63%) Java
7 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.63%) R
7 1 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (22.15%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.82%) Degree
3 19 (12.03%) DV Cleared
4 17 (10.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (9.49%) SC Cleared
6 12 (7.59%) A+ Certification
7 10 (6.33%) MCP
8 9 (5.70%) DBS Check
9 8 (5.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 6 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (3.16%) Azure Certification
12 4 (2.53%) CCNA
12 4 (2.53%) CCNP
12 4 (2.53%) MCSA
13 3 (1.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (1.90%) JNCIS
13 3 (1.90%) MCSE
14 2 (1.27%) LPIC
14 2 (1.27%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.53%) SLA
2 2 (1.27%) GDPR
3 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 81 (51.27%) Active Directory
2 54 (34.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 47 (29.75%) Hyper-V
4 33 (20.89%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (10.13%) vSphere
6 14 (8.86%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (8.23%) Docker
8 8 (5.06%) BitLocker
8 8 (5.06%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (5.06%) Terminal Services
9 5 (3.16%) NFS
10 2 (1.27%) GPFS
10 2 (1.27%) Lustre
10 2 (1.27%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.63%) Firmware
11 1 (0.63%) ISA Server
11 1 (0.63%) KVM
11 1 (0.63%) Squid
11 1 (0.63%) vCloud
11 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (15.19%) vCenter Server
2 23 (14.56%) Ansible
3 19 (12.03%) Kubernetes
4 14 (8.86%) vMotion
5 12 (7.59%) Puppet
6 10 (6.33%) Terraform
7 8 (5.06%) PowerCLI
7 8 (5.06%) vRealize
7 8 (5.06%) WSUS
8 6 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (3.80%) Nagios
9 5 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (3.16%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.90%) SCCM
11 2 (1.27%) Proxmox
12 1 (0.63%) Autotask
12 1 (0.63%) Failover Clustering
12 1 (0.63%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.63%) Packer
12 1 (0.63%) VxRail
Vendors
1 85 (53.80%) Microsoft
2 65 (41.14%) VMware
3 20 (12.66%) Google
4 19 (12.03%) Cisco
4 19 (12.03%) Citrix
5 18 (11.39%) HP
6 11 (6.96%) Veeam
7 10 (6.33%) Databricks
8 6 (3.80%) Atlassian
8 6 (3.80%) Sophos
8 6 (3.80%) Symantec
9 5 (3.16%) Apple
9 5 (3.16%) Meraki
9 5 (3.16%) Oracle
9 5 (3.16%) Ubiquiti
10 4 (2.53%) Dell
10 4 (2.53%) Juniper
10 4 (2.53%) Riverbed
10 4 (2.53%) SonicWALL
11 3 (1.90%) Trend Micro