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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 103 65
Rank change year-on-year +67 -38 +59
Permanent jobs citing DNS 210 102 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 4.19% 2.35% 4.40%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.65% 20.61% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 97 49 123
10th Percentile £26,200 £32,200 £28,700
25th Percentile £30,500 £34,404 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £52,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% +38.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £48,750 £81,250 £48,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £89,000 £58,140
England median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +2.27% -7.37%

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 624 495 776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.45% 11.41% 17.77%
Number of salaries quoted 370 289 594
10th Percentile £25,375 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £52,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% +6.12% +3.16%
75th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £60,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £86,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 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
Wiltshire +48 61 £55,000 -34.52% 1
Somerset +14 44 £28,000 -30.00%
Bristol +24 43 £39,250 -24.15% 11
Devon +15 22 £25,000 -64.91% 7
Dorset +15 18 £35,000 -44.88% 4
Gloucestershire +4 13 £40,000 +26.98% 7
Cornwall -6 9 £31,250 -9.42% 2
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
1 129 (61.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (20.48%) SharePoint
3 18 (8.57%) IIS
4 1 (0.48%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 159 (75.71%) Microsoft 365
2 149 (70.95%) Azure
3 50 (23.81%) Entra ID
4 33 (15.71%) OneDrive
5 6 (2.86%) AWS
6 5 (2.38%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.43%) IaaS
8 2 (0.95%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.95%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.95%) PaaS
8 2 (0.95%) Rubrik
8 2 (0.95%) SaaS
8 2 (0.95%) Serverless
9 1 (0.48%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.48%) Logz.io
Communications & Networking
1 186 (88.57%) DHCP
2 42 (20.00%) Firewall
2 42 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 37 (17.62%) LAN
4 32 (15.24%) VPN
5 26 (12.38%) WAN
6 23 (10.95%) VLAN
6 23 (10.95%) VoIP
7 21 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (7.62%) Internet
9 15 (7.14%) Remote Desktop
10 13 (6.19%) IPsec
10 13 (6.19%) Wireless
11 12 (5.71%) Kerberos
12 9 (4.29%) HTTP
13 6 (2.86%) Cisco IOS
14 4 (1.90%) Intranet
14 4 (1.90%) SMTP
15 3 (1.43%) NAS
15 3 (1.43%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (3.81%) Git
2 2 (0.95%) IDA Disassembler
3 1 (0.48%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.48%) GitLab
General
1 154 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 94 (44.76%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (11.43%) Law
4 22 (10.48%) Manufacturing
5 17 (8.10%) Advertising
6 12 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (4.29%) Finance
7 9 (4.29%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.81%) Electronics
8 8 (3.81%) Marketing
8 8 (3.81%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.86%) Legal
10 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.95%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 86 (40.95%) Systems Engineer
2 50 (23.81%) IT Support
3 30 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 29 (13.81%) Support Technician
5 26 (12.38%) Analyst
5 26 (12.38%) IT Technician
6 24 (11.43%) Support Analyst
7 22 (10.48%) IT Support Technician
7 22 (10.48%) Support Engineer
8 19 (9.05%) IT Engineer
9 16 (7.62%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 13 (6.19%) Senior
12 12 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (5.71%) Senior IT Support
13 11 (5.24%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
13 11 (5.24%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (5.24%) 3rd Line Support
14 10 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 9 (4.29%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.71%) LDAP
2 2 (0.95%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.48%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.48%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 84 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 27 (12.86%) Driving Licence
3 12 (5.71%) PKI
4 11 (5.24%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.86%) Clustering
5 6 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.90%) GNSS
6 4 (1.90%) Satnav
6 4 (1.90%) Smartphone
7 3 (1.43%) e-Learning
8 2 (0.95%) Arduino
8 2 (0.95%) BYOD
8 2 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.95%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.95%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.95%) Raspberry Pi
9 1 (0.48%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.48%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 182 (86.67%) Windows
2 154 (73.33%) Windows Server
3 102 (48.57%) Linux
4 101 (48.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 28 (13.33%) Windows 10
6 17 (8.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (6.67%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.86%) Android
8 6 (2.86%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.43%) CentOS
9 3 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.48%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (54.76%) Customer Service
2 110 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
3 94 (44.76%) Migration
4 86 (40.95%) Customer Experience
5 85 (40.48%) Email Filtering
5 85 (40.48%) Kalman Filter
5 85 (40.48%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 85 (40.48%) Web Filtering
6 84 (40.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 45 (21.43%) ITIL
8 23 (10.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (8.10%) Mentoring
10 14 (6.67%) ITSM
11 13 (6.19%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (5.71%) Data Loss Prevention
13 11 (5.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 10 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
14 10 (4.76%) Server Management
15 9 (4.29%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 48 (22.86%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.71%) Python
2 12 (5.71%) VB
3 7 (3.33%) Bash
4 6 (2.86%) C++
5 2 (0.95%) C
6 1 (0.48%) SQL
Qualifications
1 99 (47.14%) Security Cleared
2 89 (42.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.76%) MCP
4 9 (4.29%) Degree
5 8 (3.81%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.86%) ACMT
6 6 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (1.90%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.43%) CCNA
9 3 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.95%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.48%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.48%) CCNP
11 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (45.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 85 (40.48%) PCI DSS
3 20 (9.52%) SLA
4 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (1.43%) GDPR
System Software
1 181 (86.19%) Active Directory
2 117 (55.71%) Hyper-V
3 84 (40.00%) Terminal Server
4 25 (11.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (2.86%) Docker
5 6 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.90%) vSphere
7 3 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (16.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (6.67%) WSUS
3 12 (5.71%) Autotask
4 7 (3.33%) Kubernetes
5 6 (2.86%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.90%) SCVMM
7 3 (1.43%) Ansible
7 3 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.43%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.43%) SCCM
8 2 (0.95%) Terraform
9 1 (0.48%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 170 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 112 (53.33%) VMware
3 95 (45.24%) Veeam
4 88 (41.90%) SolarWinds
5 84 (40.00%) Brocade
5 84 (40.00%) Nimble Storage
5 84 (40.00%) Splunk
5 84 (40.00%) Tanium
6 11 (5.24%) Cisco
7 9 (4.29%) Apple
8 8 (3.81%) Datto
8 8 (3.81%) SAP
8 8 (3.81%) Sophos
9 7 (3.33%) Meraki
9 7 (3.33%) Oracle
10 4 (1.90%) HP
10 4 (1.90%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.43%) McAfee
12 2 (0.95%) Dell
12 2 (0.95%) Nokia