DNS Job Trends in Surrey

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 92 71
Rank change year-on-year +11 -21 +35
Permanent jobs citing DNS 19 14 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.13% 1.14% 2.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.88% 8.43% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 14 12 22
10th Percentile £34,000 - £33,500
25th Percentile £35,313 £43,750 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% - +29.41%
75th Percentile £41,563 £64,063 £63,750
90th Percentile £50,325 £77,000 -
South East median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £45,625
% change year-on-year -16.67% -1.37% +7.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 490 166 202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 29.24% 13.47% 20.16%
Number of salaries quoted 132 66 151
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £42,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £53,750 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.58% +4.37% -6.36%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,438 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Surrey

DNS
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Surrey over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for DNS in Surrey

DNS
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 29 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
Reigate - 7 £37,500 - 2
Farnham -6 1 £35,000 +7.69%
Staines - 1 £47,500 - 1
Redhill - 1 £40,000 -
Woking - 1 £37,500 - 1
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (68.42%) Azure
3 12 (63.16%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.79%) SaaS
5 2 (10.53%) OneDrive
6 1 (5.26%) AWS
6 1 (5.26%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 17 (89.47%) DHCP
2 13 (68.42%) TCP/IP
3 9 (47.37%) Firewall
4 3 (15.79%) VPN
5 2 (10.53%) VLAN
5 2 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.26%) HTTP
6 1 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (73.68%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Local Government
2 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) IT Support
2 8 (42.11%) Analyst
3 7 (36.84%) 2nd Line Support
3 7 (36.84%) Support Analyst
4 5 (26.32%) IT Analyst
4 5 (26.32%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) IT Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Network Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Support Technician
6 1 (5.26%) 1st Line Support Technician
6 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support Technician
6 1 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Linux Support
6 1 (5.26%) Linux Support Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Senior IT Support
6 1 (5.26%) Senior Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Client/Server
1 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (84.21%) Windows
2 12 (63.16%) Windows 10
3 11 (57.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (10.53%) Linux
5 1 (5.26%) CentOS
5 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (42.11%) Customer Service
3 5 (26.32%) Asset Management
4 2 (10.53%) Client Onboarding
4 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (10.53%) Identity Management
5 1 (5.26%) Capacity Management
5 1 (5.26%) Change Management
5 1 (5.26%) Information Management
5 1 (5.26%) IT Strategy
5 1 (5.26%) ITIL
5 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.26%) Migration
5 1 (5.26%) Process Improvement
5 1 (5.26%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.26%) Project Management
5 1 (5.26%) Security Patching
5 1 (5.26%) User Experience
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Perl
2 1 (5.26%) PHP
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (84.21%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.53%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Citrix
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle