DNS Jobs in the Thames Valley

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 104 114
Rank change year-on-year +29 +10 +6
Permanent jobs citing DNS 222 174 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.29% 2.83% 2.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.20% 17.51% 13.90%
Number of salaries quoted 196 135 156
10th Percentile £29,875 £27,000 £26,313
25th Percentile £34,000 £30,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £32,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -27.78% -8.63%
75th Percentile £59,000 £52,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £62,500 £60,250 £73,750
South East median annual salary £42,500 £39,886 £43,500
% change year-on-year +6.56% -8.31% -8.42%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

DNS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 957 994 1,360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.18% 16.14% 19.92%
Number of salaries quoted 686 562 751
10th Percentile £28,675 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £30,750 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £57,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £78,750
South East median annual salary £46,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -5.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the Thames Valley

DNS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for DNS in the Thames Valley

DNS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 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
Berkshire +84 108 £52,500 +23.53% 13
Oxfordshire +26 66 £42,870 +36.09% 12
Buckinghamshire -43 48 £35,000 +7.69% 11
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 51 (22.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.16%) IIS
3 16 (7.21%) WordPress
4 14 (6.31%) SharePoint
5 12 (5.41%) Apache
5 12 (5.41%) CMS
5 12 (5.41%) nginx
6 4 (1.80%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.35%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 124 (55.86%) Azure
2 102 (45.95%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (14.86%) AWS
4 32 (14.41%) Entra ID
5 22 (9.91%) Azure Monitor
6 14 (6.31%) Azure Storage
7 12 (5.41%) OCI
8 10 (4.50%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.15%) Google Workspace
9 7 (3.15%) WhatsApp
10 5 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.80%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.80%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.80%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.80%) PaaS
12 3 (1.35%) IaaS
13 2 (0.90%) AWS Direct Connect
13 2 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (0.90%) Rubrik
13 2 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 118 (53.15%) DHCP
2 93 (41.89%) Firewall
3 49 (22.07%) TCP/IP
4 27 (12.16%) SSL
4 27 (12.16%) VPN
4 27 (12.16%) WAN
5 26 (11.71%) SAN
6 23 (10.36%) LAN
6 23 (10.36%) Wireless
7 22 (9.91%) VLAN
8 17 (7.66%) OSPF
9 16 (7.21%) Internet
9 16 (7.21%) VoIP
10 15 (6.76%) BGP
10 15 (6.76%) SNMP
11 13 (5.86%) SD-WAN
11 13 (5.86%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (4.95%) NAS
12 11 (4.95%) SMTP
13 10 (4.50%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.01%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.41%) MySQL
3 10 (4.50%) Power BI
4 9 (4.05%) Oracle Database
5 8 (3.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (2.25%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.80%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.90%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (1.80%) JIRA
2 1 (0.45%) Git
General
1 75 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.41%) Marketing
3 8 (3.60%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.35%) Finance
7 2 (0.90%) Electronics
7 2 (0.90%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.45%) Legal
8 1 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (17.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (15.77%) IT Support
3 32 (14.41%) Analyst
4 28 (12.61%) Systems Engineer
5 25 (11.26%) Support Engineer
6 22 (9.91%) IT Analyst
7 20 (9.01%) Active Directory Specialist
7 20 (9.01%) Azure Specialist
8 19 (8.56%) IT Engineer
8 19 (8.56%) IT Support Engineer
9 17 (7.66%) Support Specialist
10 16 (7.21%) Lead
11 15 (6.76%) Windows Engineer
11 15 (6.76%) Windows Systems Engineer
12 14 (6.31%) Active Directory Support
13 13 (5.86%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 13 (5.86%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
13 13 (5.86%) Network Engineer
13 13 (5.86%) Senior
14 12 (5.41%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.31%) ARM Templates
2 10 (4.50%) Web Services
3 9 (4.05%) .NET
4 4 (1.80%) LAMP
4 4 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (1.80%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.35%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.35%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.35%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (1.35%) CSS
5 3 (1.35%) HTML
5 3 (1.35%) jQuery
5 3 (1.35%) React
5 3 (1.35%) REST
5 3 (1.35%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (1.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (1.35%) Vue
5 3 (1.35%) WPF
6 2 (0.90%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.96%) PKI
2 22 (9.91%) Data Centre
2 22 (9.91%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (7.21%) CMDB
4 10 (4.50%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.60%) Cyberattack
5 8 (3.60%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.70%) Replication
7 5 (2.25%) CCTV
8 4 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.80%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.90%) Clustering
10 2 (0.90%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.90%) Molecular Biology
10 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.45%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 141 (63.51%) Windows
2 105 (47.30%) Windows Server
3 76 (34.23%) Linux
4 45 (20.27%) Windows 10
5 44 (19.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 38 (17.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (8.11%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (7.21%) Windows XP
9 11 (4.95%) Android
9 11 (4.95%) Mac OS X
10 6 (2.70%) Apple iOS
10 6 (2.70%) VMS
10 6 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (1.80%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.80%) Windows 8
12 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (19.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (18.02%) ITIL
4 39 (17.57%) Agile
5 31 (13.96%) Customer Service
6 22 (9.91%) Release Management
7 20 (9.01%) Analytics
7 20 (9.01%) Log Analytics
7 20 (9.01%) Service Management
8 19 (8.56%) Information Security
8 19 (8.56%) Performance Tuning
8 19 (8.56%) Project Management
9 17 (7.66%) DevOps
10 16 (7.21%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (7.21%) Server Management
11 15 (6.76%) Configuration Management
11 15 (6.76%) Multi-Factor Authentication
11 15 (6.76%) Waterfall
11 15 (6.76%) Web Development
12 14 (6.31%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 47 (21.17%) PowerShell
2 37 (16.67%) SQL
3 29 (13.06%) C#
4 20 (9.01%) VB
4 20 (9.01%) VBScript
5 14 (6.31%) Bicep
6 12 (5.41%) PHP
7 7 (3.15%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.25%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.25%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.25%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.35%) XAML
10 1 (0.45%) C
10 1 (0.45%) C++
10 1 (0.45%) Java
10 1 (0.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 61 (27.48%) Security Cleared
2 48 (21.62%) DV Cleared
3 39 (17.57%) SC Cleared
4 37 (16.67%) Degree
5 26 (11.71%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (9.01%) CCNA
7 18 (8.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 14 (6.31%) CCNP
9 13 (5.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (4.95%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.70%) MCSE
12 4 (1.80%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.80%) MCP
13 2 (0.90%) CCIE
13 2 (0.90%) MCITP
14 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.45%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.45%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.95%) SLA
2 7 (3.15%) GDPR
3 6 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.35%) QA
System Software
1 128 (57.66%) Active Directory
2 37 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (15.32%) Hyper-V
4 16 (7.21%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (6.31%) Virtual Desktop
5 14 (6.31%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (4.50%) vSphere
7 3 (1.35%) XenApp
7 3 (1.35%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.90%) Docker
9 1 (0.45%) NFS
9 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 41 (18.47%) SCOM
2 38 (17.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (16.67%) SCCM
4 28 (12.61%) WSUS
5 23 (10.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (7.66%) Kubernetes
7 12 (5.41%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (5.41%) NetBackup
7 12 (5.41%) vCenter Server
8 8 (3.60%) CASB
9 3 (1.35%) Grafana
10 2 (0.90%) Nessus
10 2 (0.90%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.45%) IBM BigFix
11 1 (0.45%) Icinga
Vendors
1 131 (59.01%) Microsoft
2 74 (33.33%) VMware
3 32 (14.41%) Cisco
4 21 (9.46%) Oracle
5 19 (8.56%) Dell
6 17 (7.66%) Veeam
7 16 (7.21%) HP
7 16 (7.21%) Juniper
7 16 (7.21%) Palo Alto
8 15 (6.76%) Dynatrace
9 12 (5.41%) 3PAR
9 12 (5.41%) Citrix
9 12 (5.41%) EMC
9 12 (5.41%) Extreme Networks
9 12 (5.41%) Symantec
10 5 (2.25%) Adaptive Insights
10 5 (2.25%) Anaplan
10 5 (2.25%) Aruba
10 5 (2.25%) Jedox
10 5 (2.25%) Tagetik