DNS Jobs in the South West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 128 173
Rank change year-on-year -9 +45 -37
Permanent jobs citing DNS 134 142 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.52% 2.28% 1.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.87% 12.72% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 86 94 123
10th Percentile £26,734 £30,825 £27,375
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £39,550
Median % change year-on-year - +1.14% -1.13%
75th Percentile £53,000 £46,875 £52,500
90th Percentile £58,125 £55,000 £62,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -

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 1,041 1,116 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 11.84% 17.93% 14.87%
Number of salaries quoted 751 565 807
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £24,770
25th Percentile £31,750 £33,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,839 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,500 £64,330
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £48,500 £50,985 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.87% -2.89% +5.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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
Gloucestershire -2 47 £31,000 -11.43% 6
Bristol +17 32 £47,500 +5.56% 2
Wiltshire -13 22 £50,500 +34.67% 2
Devon +1 15 £25,500 -27.14% 4
Somerset -2 8 £42,500 +0.59% 4
Dorset -24 6 £52,000 +26.83% 6
Cornwall -13 3 £28,500 -10.24% 1
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 22 (16.42%) SharePoint
2 10 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (4.48%) IIS
4 5 (3.73%) Confluence
5 4 (2.99%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.75%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.99%) Trello
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.99%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (55.97%) Azure
2 56 (41.79%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (33.58%) AWS
4 39 (29.10%) SaaS
5 24 (17.91%) OpenShift
6 18 (13.43%) IaaS
7 16 (11.94%) Entra ID
8 13 (9.70%) PaaS
9 12 (8.96%) Power Platform
10 9 (6.72%) OneDrive
11 6 (4.48%) WhatsApp
12 4 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.99%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.99%) GCP
12 4 (2.99%) GitHub
12 4 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.99%) Slack
13 2 (1.49%) Azure Stack
13 2 (1.49%) Cohesity
13 2 (1.49%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 81 (60.45%) DHCP
2 71 (52.99%) TCP/IP
3 41 (30.60%) Firewall
4 32 (23.88%) HTTP
5 30 (22.39%) WAN
6 19 (14.18%) LAN
7 16 (11.94%) VPN
8 12 (8.96%) Internet
8 12 (8.96%) Wireless
9 11 (8.21%) SD-WAN
9 11 (8.21%) VLAN
10 8 (5.97%) SMTP
10 8 (5.97%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (5.22%) SSL
12 6 (4.48%) SAN
12 6 (4.48%) VSAN
13 4 (2.99%) BGP
14 3 (2.24%) IPsec
14 3 (2.24%) NGFW
14 3 (2.24%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (2.99%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.99%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.99%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.75%) Power BI
4 1 (0.75%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 8 (5.97%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.48%) JIRA
General
1 33 (24.63%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.18%) Aerospace
3 13 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (5.22%) Marketing
6 5 (3.73%) Finance
6 5 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.24%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.49%) Retail
8 2 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 43 (32.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 37 (27.61%) Senior
3 24 (17.91%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (13.43%) Support Engineer
5 16 (11.94%) 3rd Line Support
6 14 (10.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 13 (9.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 13 (9.70%) Infrastructure Support
8 12 (8.96%) Lead
9 11 (8.21%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (8.21%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
9 11 (8.21%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
9 11 (8.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (8.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 11 (8.21%) Developer
9 11 (8.21%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 11 (8.21%) IT Engineer
10 8 (5.97%) Architect
10 8 (5.97%) Embedded Developer
10 8 (5.97%) Firmware Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.22%) REST
2 5 (3.73%) LDAP
3 4 (2.99%) CSS
3 4 (2.99%) HTML
3 4 (2.99%) OAuth
3 4 (2.99%) OpenID
3 4 (2.99%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (2.99%) SAML
3 4 (2.99%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.24%) .NET
4 3 (2.24%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.24%) ASP.NET
4 3 (2.24%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (2.24%) jQuery
4 3 (2.24%) React
4 3 (2.24%) Tailwind CSS
4 3 (2.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 3 (2.24%) Vue
4 3 (2.24%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.67%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (12.69%) Driving Licence
3 9 (6.72%) Public Cloud
4 8 (5.97%) CUDA
4 8 (5.97%) GNSS
4 8 (5.97%) Replication
4 8 (5.97%) Tandem
5 5 (3.73%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.99%) Clustering
6 4 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.24%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) iPhone
8 1 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.75%) PKI
8 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 87 (64.93%) Windows
2 56 (41.79%) Linux
3 39 (29.10%) Windows Server
4 28 (20.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (12.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (11.94%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (10.45%) Windows Server 2012
8 9 (6.72%) Unix
9 8 (5.97%) Windows 10
10 7 (5.22%) Mac OS
11 6 (4.48%) Apple iOS
12 4 (2.99%) Android
13 3 (2.24%) Windows 7
14 2 (1.49%) Debian
14 2 (1.49%) Ubuntu
14 2 (1.49%) Windows 8
14 2 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.75%) CentOS
15 1 (0.75%) Fedora
15 1 (0.75%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (35.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (24.63%) Agile
3 32 (23.88%) Software Architecture
4 29 (21.64%) DevOps
5 27 (20.15%) ITIL
6 26 (19.40%) Collaborative Working
7 21 (15.67%) Actionable Insight
8 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (11.94%) Customer Service
9 16 (11.94%) Open Source
10 13 (9.70%) Computer Science
10 13 (9.70%) Containerisation
11 11 (8.21%) Service Management
11 11 (8.21%) Time Management
12 9 (6.72%) Project Management
13 8 (5.97%) B2B
13 8 (5.97%) Kanban
13 8 (5.97%) Load Balancing
13 8 (5.97%) Scrum
13 8 (5.97%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (35.82%) PowerShell
2 36 (26.87%) Python
3 31 (23.13%) Java
4 25 (18.66%) Bash
5 16 (11.94%) SQL
6 8 (5.97%) C
6 8 (5.97%) C++
7 6 (4.48%) C#
8 3 (2.24%) XAML
9 1 (0.75%) Bicep
9 1 (0.75%) Perl
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 32 (23.88%) Degree
3 30 (22.39%) SC Cleared
4 25 (18.66%) DV Cleared
5 11 (8.21%) DBS Check
6 9 (6.72%) Azure Certification
7 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.73%) PMI Certification
8 5 (3.73%) PMP
8 5 (3.73%) RHCE
8 5 (3.73%) RHCSA
9 4 (2.99%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.24%) MCSA
11 2 (1.49%) A+ Certification
11 2 (1.49%) CCNA
11 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.49%) MCSE
12 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (3.73%) SLA
3 4 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) GDPR
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 56 (41.79%) Active Directory
2 46 (34.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (27.61%) Hyper-V
4 24 (17.91%) Docker
5 8 (5.97%) Embedded Firmware
5 8 (5.97%) Firmware
6 7 (5.22%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.73%) vSphere
8 4 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (2.99%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (2.24%) Terminal Services
10 2 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (1.49%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (1.49%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.75%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.75%) KVM
11 1 (0.75%) Samba
Systems Management
1 28 (20.90%) Kubernetes
2 24 (17.91%) Ansible
2 24 (17.91%) Puppet
3 19 (14.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (6.72%) SCCM
5 7 (5.22%) Jamf Pro
5 7 (5.22%) SCOM
6 5 (3.73%) Rancher
6 5 (3.73%) Terraform
7 4 (2.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (2.99%) Istio
7 4 (2.99%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.99%) SCVMM
8 3 (2.24%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Clustering
8 3 (2.24%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.24%) WSUS
9 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.75%) Host Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 50 (37.31%) Microsoft
2 49 (36.57%) VMware
3 26 (19.40%) Red Hat
4 15 (11.19%) HP
5 8 (5.97%) Cisco
5 8 (5.97%) Veeam
6 6 (4.48%) Citrix
6 6 (4.48%) Sophos
7 5 (3.73%) Apple
7 5 (3.73%) Oracle
8 4 (2.99%) Dell
8 4 (2.99%) Sparx
9 3 (2.24%) Bomgar
9 3 (2.24%) CA
9 3 (2.24%) Canon
9 3 (2.24%) McAfee
9 3 (2.24%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.49%) Meraki
10 2 (1.49%) Meru Networks
10 2 (1.49%) NetApp