DNS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 118 81
Rank change year-on-year +49 -37 +24
Permanent jobs citing DNS 120 73 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 2.08% 2.16% 2.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.65% 13.06% 22.48%
Number of salaries quoted 97 60 186
10th Percentile £31,900 £25,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £36,750 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +63.27% -13.53% +26.87%
75th Percentile £68,750 £50,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £62,500
South East median annual salary £47,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +26.67% -11.76% +6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 434 559 952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.51% 16.55% 13.20%
Number of salaries quoted 309 253 684
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,750 £76,250 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +5.56%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

DNS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

DNS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in the Thames Valley

DNS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
Berkshire +9 51 £67,500 +80.00% 14
Buckinghamshire - 43 £55,000 - 10
Oxfordshire -6 26 £50,000 +81.82% 11
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 16 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 16 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (49.17%) Azure
2 31 (25.83%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (19.17%) Entra ID
4 22 (18.33%) AWS
5 15 (12.50%) IaaS
6 13 (10.83%) GCP
7 11 (9.17%) Azure AKS
7 11 (9.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 11 (9.17%) Azure Key Vault
7 11 (9.17%) Azure Storage
8 9 (7.50%) Azure Sentinel
9 7 (5.83%) Google Workspace
10 6 (5.00%) OneDrive
11 5 (4.17%) Cloudflare
12 4 (3.33%) Sumo Logic
13 3 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (2.50%) SaaS
14 2 (1.67%) PaaS
15 1 (0.83%) Mimecast
15 1 (0.83%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 77 (64.17%) Firewall
2 40 (33.33%) VPN
3 38 (31.67%) DHCP
4 28 (23.33%) TCP/IP
5 23 (19.17%) WAN
6 20 (16.67%) SSL
7 19 (15.83%) HTTP
8 18 (15.00%) VLAN
9 15 (12.50%) LAN
10 12 (10.00%) Network Security
11 11 (9.17%) NetScaler
12 8 (6.67%) NAS
12 8 (6.67%) SAN
12 8 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (6.67%) Wireshark
13 7 (5.83%) BGP
13 7 (5.83%) ICMP
13 7 (5.83%) IPsec
13 7 (5.83%) MPLS
13 7 (5.83%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.33%) GitLab
2 2 (1.67%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) Git
General
1 32 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.17%) Law
4 7 (5.83%) Finance
5 6 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.50%) Retail
8 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Aviation
9 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 33 (27.50%) Architect
2 24 (20.00%) Analyst
3 21 (17.50%) Security Architect
3 21 (17.50%) Senior
4 20 (16.67%) Applications Architect
5 16 (13.33%) SOC Analyst
6 12 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 12 (10.00%) Support Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) IT Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) IT Support
7 11 (9.17%) IT Support Engineer
8 10 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.67%) Security Analyst
9 8 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (5.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 7 (5.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.83%) Network Architect
10 7 (5.83%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.33%) Regular Expression
2 18 (15.00%) LDAP
2 18 (15.00%) XMPP
3 8 (6.67%) SAML
4 7 (5.83%) OAuth
5 6 (5.00%) JSON
5 6 (5.00%) JSON Schema
5 6 (5.00%) XML
6 1 (0.83%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.17%) Cyber Defence
2 13 (10.83%) Security Operations Centre
3 11 (9.17%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (9.17%) PKI
4 10 (8.33%) Security Posture
5 9 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (6.67%) Driving Licence
7 7 (5.83%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
8 4 (3.33%) Public Cloud
9 3 (2.50%) CSOC
9 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (2.50%) EPoS
9 3 (2.50%) Life Science
9 3 (2.50%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (2.50%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 80 (66.67%) Windows
2 60 (50.00%) Linux
3 54 (45.00%) Windows Server
4 26 (21.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (9.17%) Mac OS
6 5 (4.17%) Windows 10
7 4 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (2.50%) Android
8 3 (2.50%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.83%) FreeBSD
9 1 (0.83%) OpenBSD
9 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (35.83%) SIEM
2 41 (34.17%) Cybersecurity
3 34 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (20.83%) Validation
6 24 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 21 (17.50%) Incident Response
8 20 (16.67%) High Availability
8 20 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (15.00%) Agile
9 18 (15.00%) Containerisation
9 18 (15.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 18 (15.00%) Security Operations
10 17 (14.17%) Disaster Recovery
10 17 (14.17%) MITRE ATT&CK
11 16 (13.33%) Antivirus Management
11 16 (13.33%) Application Security
11 16 (13.33%) Pattern Matching
12 14 (11.67%) Architectural Design
12 14 (11.67%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 38 (31.67%) PowerShell
2 22 (18.33%) Python
3 7 (5.83%) Bash
3 7 (5.83%) Search Processing Language
4 6 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.67%) C#
6 2 (1.67%) Go
7 1 (0.83%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 51 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 27 (22.50%) DV Cleared
3 17 (14.17%) SC Cleared
4 15 (12.50%) CompTIA Security+
5 13 (10.83%) Azure Certification
6 12 (10.00%) Degree
7 10 (8.33%) GIAC
7 10 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (7.50%) GCIA
9 8 (6.67%) CREST Certified
9 8 (6.67%) GCIH
10 7 (5.83%) GCED
10 7 (5.83%) SANS
11 6 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (5.00%) OSCP
12 5 (4.17%) CCNA
12 5 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (4.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (6.67%) NIST
3 5 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (3.33%) SOC 2
5 3 (2.50%) QA
6 2 (1.67%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.67%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.83%) GDPR
7 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (57.50%) Active Directory
2 26 (21.67%) vSphere
3 16 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (10.83%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.33%) Docker
6 1 (0.83%) KVM
6 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (6.67%) FortiGate
3 8 (6.67%) Kibana
4 7 (5.83%) CASB
5 6 (5.00%) Graylog
5 6 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (4.17%) Terraform
7 4 (3.33%) Ansible
8 3 (2.50%) Grafana
8 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.83%) Autotask
10 1 (0.83%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.83%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.83%) QRadar
Vendors
1 94 (78.33%) Microsoft
2 51 (42.50%) VMware
3 18 (15.00%) Red Hat
4 17 (14.17%) Cisco
5 14 (11.67%) CrowdStrike
5 14 (11.67%) McAfee
6 13 (10.83%) Palo Alto
7 11 (9.17%) Citrix
7 11 (9.17%) Splunk
8 8 (6.67%) NetApp
9 7 (5.83%) Carbon Black
9 7 (5.83%) Google
10 5 (4.17%) Apple
10 5 (4.17%) Datto
10 5 (4.17%) Veeam
11 4 (3.33%) Fortinet
11 4 (3.33%) SonicWALL
12 3 (2.50%) Aruba
13 2 (1.67%) Atlassian
13 2 (1.67%) CheckPoint