DNS Job Trends in the South West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 81 112
Rank change year-on-year +16 +31 +19
Permanent jobs citing DNS 162 78 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.28% 2.96% 2.45%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.52% 22.74% 17.88%
Number of salaries quoted 88 68 143
10th Percentile £24,500 £29,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,938 £31,188 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +6.67% -11.24%
75th Percentile £42,500 £49,000 £51,750
90th Percentile £58,850 £64,125 £57,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -1.16%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 568 343 1,169
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.01% 13.04% 13.71%
Number of salaries quoted 333 255 945
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £47,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -28.42% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £48,750 £64,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £51,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -17.48% +8.42% -5.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

DNS job vacancy trend in the South West

DNS
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the South West over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in the South West

DNS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 April 2026. 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
Wiltshire +14 38 £55,000 +17.02% 1
Somerset -9 35 £28,000 -30.00% 4
Devon -3 31 £26,500 -15.87% 6
Gloucestershire -4 21 £52,500 +75.00% 14
Cornwall -5 15 £31,250 -9.42% 2
Dorset -19 11 £35,000 -42.86% 1
Bristol -20 11 £72,709 +53.07% 5
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 87 (53.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 48 (29.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.23%) Confluence
3 2 (1.23%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 130 (80.25%) Microsoft 365
2 128 (79.01%) Azure
3 56 (34.57%) Entra ID
4 38 (23.46%) OneDrive
5 5 (3.09%) AWS
6 4 (2.47%) IaaS
6 4 (2.47%) PaaS
7 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.85%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.23%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (1.23%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.23%) Serverless
9 1 (0.62%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 143 (88.27%) DHCP
2 36 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 31 (19.14%) Wi-Fi
4 28 (17.28%) VPN
5 27 (16.67%) Firewall
6 26 (16.05%) LAN
7 25 (15.43%) VLAN
7 25 (15.43%) WAN
8 9 (5.56%) IPsec
9 6 (3.70%) HTTP
9 6 (3.70%) Network Security
10 5 (3.09%) VoIP
11 4 (2.47%) NAS
11 4 (2.47%) SMTP
12 3 (1.85%) DMZ
12 3 (1.85%) SAN
12 3 (1.85%) SD-WAN
12 3 (1.85%) SSL
13 2 (1.23%) BGP
13 2 (1.23%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (38.89%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (4.32%) Git
2 2 (1.23%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.23%) GitLab
2 2 (1.23%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 96 (59.26%) Social Skills
2 72 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (9.26%) Law
4 9 (5.56%) Advertising
5 8 (4.94%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.70%) Finance
6 6 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.85%) Electronics
7 3 (1.85%) Marketing
7 3 (1.85%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.85%) Retail
7 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 65 (40.12%) Systems Engineer
2 46 (28.40%) IT Support
3 32 (19.75%) Support Technician
4 27 (16.67%) IT Support Technician
4 27 (16.67%) IT Technician
5 24 (14.81%) IT Engineer
6 23 (14.20%) Support Engineer
7 19 (11.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (10.49%) IT Support Engineer
9 13 (8.02%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 10 (6.17%) Senior
11 9 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
11 9 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 7 (4.32%) Infrastructure Support
13 6 (3.70%) Analyst
13 6 (3.70%) Network Engineer
13 6 (3.70%) Senior IT Support
13 6 (3.70%) Support Analyst
14 5 (3.09%) ICT Support Technician
14 5 (3.09%) ICT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.23%) 802.1X
1 2 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.62%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.62%) OAuth
2 1 (0.62%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.62%) OpenID
2 1 (0.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 64 (39.51%) Legacy Systems
2 28 (17.28%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.47%) Digital Signage
4 4 (2.47%) Educational Technology
4 4 (2.47%) GNSS
4 4 (2.47%) Replication
4 4 (2.47%) Satnav
5 3 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.85%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.23%) Arduino
6 2 (1.23%) BYOD
6 2 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.23%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.23%) Raspberry Pi
7 1 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.62%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 143 (88.27%) Windows
2 120 (74.07%) Windows Server
3 84 (51.85%) Linux
4 67 (41.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (8.64%) Windows 10
6 11 (6.79%) Mac OS
7 5 (3.09%) Android
7 5 (3.09%) Apple iOS
7 5 (3.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.85%) VMS
9 2 (1.23%) CentOS
9 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.62%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (61.73%) Customer Service
2 91 (56.17%) Problem-Solving
3 67 (41.36%) Email Filtering
3 67 (41.36%) Kalman Filter
3 67 (41.36%) Web Filtering
4 66 (40.74%) Migration
5 64 (39.51%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 63 (38.89%) Customer Experience
6 63 (38.89%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 40 (24.69%) ITIL
8 21 (12.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (8.02%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (7.41%) Cloud Security
10 12 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (4.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (4.32%) Service Management
12 6 (3.70%) Agile
12 6 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (3.70%) High Availability
12 6 (3.70%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.20%) PowerShell
2 14 (8.64%) Python
3 10 (6.17%) Bash
4 6 (3.70%) C++
5 2 (1.23%) C
5 2 (1.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (51.23%) Security Cleared
2 71 (43.83%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 7 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (3.70%) Degree
5 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 4 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.47%) CCNA
6 4 (2.47%) CCNP
6 4 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (1.23%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.62%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (43.21%) Cyber Essentials
2 63 (38.89%) PCI DSS
3 10 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.09%) GDPR
5 3 (1.85%) SLA
6 2 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 139 (85.80%) Active Directory
2 89 (54.94%) Hyper-V
3 63 (38.89%) Terminal Server
4 16 (9.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.23%) vSphere
8 1 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (13.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (4.32%) Ansible
3 5 (3.09%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (1.85%) NetBackup
4 3 (1.85%) SCVMM
5 2 (1.23%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (1.23%) SCCM
5 2 (1.23%) Terraform
6 1 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.62%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 117 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 87 (53.70%) VMware
3 75 (46.30%) Veeam
4 64 (39.51%) SolarWinds
5 63 (38.89%) Brocade
5 63 (38.89%) Nimble Storage
5 63 (38.89%) Splunk
5 63 (38.89%) Tanium
6 9 (5.56%) Cisco
7 8 (4.94%) Dell
8 7 (4.32%) Apple
9 5 (3.09%) HP
10 3 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
10 3 (1.85%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.85%) Juniper
10 3 (1.85%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.85%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.85%) SAP
11 2 (1.23%) F5
11 2 (1.23%) Meraki