DNS Jobs in the Thames Valley

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 76 110
Rank change year-on-year -44 +34 +20
Permanent jobs citing DNS 65 217 160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.90% 3.23% 2.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.86% 22.58% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 55 191 125
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £34,000 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £42,500 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% +25.00% -24.44%
75th Percentile £48,750 £59,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £66,500
South East median annual salary £38,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -9.41% +6.25% -11.11%

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 548 961 932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.00% 14.30% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 222 677 522
10th Percentile £25,750 £28,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,375 £34,500 £30,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £73,875
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%

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 17 May 2025.

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 17 May 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
Berkshire -15 44 £37,000 -22.11% 22
Oxfordshire -6 19 £31,500 -21.25% 26
Buckinghamshire -8 2 £47,500 +35.71% 9
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 18 (27.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (15.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (12.31%) IIS
4 7 (10.77%) Apache
5 1 (1.54%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.54%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.54%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.54%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (1.54%) nginx
5 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.08%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (35.38%) Azure
3 16 (24.62%) AWS
4 7 (10.77%) GCP
4 7 (10.77%) SaaS
5 5 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.08%) Azure AI
6 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.08%) Cloudflare
6 2 (3.08%) IaaS
6 2 (3.08%) PaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Power Automate
6 2 (3.08%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 42 (64.62%) DHCP
2 35 (53.85%) TCP/IP
3 27 (41.54%) Firewall
4 21 (32.31%) VPN
5 12 (18.46%) VLAN
6 9 (13.85%) WAN
7 7 (10.77%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (9.23%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (9.23%) VoIP
9 5 (7.69%) LAN
10 4 (6.15%) SD-WAN
10 4 (6.15%) SMTP
11 3 (4.62%) Internet
11 3 (4.62%) Wireless
12 2 (3.08%) Broadband
12 2 (3.08%) IP Telephony
12 2 (3.08%) Network Security
12 2 (3.08%) SSL
13 1 (1.54%) ADSL
13 1 (1.54%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.54%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.08%) MySQL
3 2 (3.08%) Power BI
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Git
General
1 38 (58.46%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.69%) Back Office
3 5 (7.69%) Local Government
4 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (41.54%) Support Engineer
2 16 (24.62%) IT Engineer
2 16 (24.62%) IT Support
3 15 (23.08%) IT Support Engineer
4 10 (15.38%) Analyst
5 8 (12.31%) Technical Support
6 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Desktop Support
8 5 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Help Desk Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Help Desk Support
8 5 (7.69%) Help Desk Support Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Senior
8 5 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Security Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Manager
10 3 (4.62%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.54%) Data Centre
2 8 (12.31%) Onboarding
3 7 (10.77%) Client/Server
4 5 (7.69%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.15%) Driving Licence
6 3 (4.62%) Clustering
6 3 (4.62%) Replication
7 2 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (3.08%) NHS
7 2 (3.08%) PKI
7 2 (3.08%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.54%) Life Science
8 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (84.62%) Windows
2 27 (41.54%) Windows Server
3 21 (32.31%) Mac OS
4 11 (16.92%) Linux
5 9 (13.85%) Windows 10
6 3 (4.62%) Android
6 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.54%) OpenBSD
7 1 (1.54%) Unix
7 1 (1.54%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.54%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.54%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (49.23%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (30.77%) Customer Service
3 13 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 10 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (15.38%) ITIL
5 9 (13.85%) Analytics
6 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (12.31%) Service Management
7 7 (10.77%) Information Security
7 7 (10.77%) Project Management
8 6 (9.23%) Service Delivery
9 5 (7.69%) Change Control
9 5 (7.69%) Change Management
9 5 (7.69%) Client Onboarding
9 5 (7.69%) CRM
9 5 (7.69%) Data Entry
9 5 (7.69%) Incident Management
9 5 (7.69%) ITSM
10 4 (6.15%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (6.15%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (29.23%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.31%) Python
3 7 (10.77%) SQL
4 2 (3.08%) Bicep
4 2 (3.08%) C#
4 2 (3.08%) Go
5 1 (1.54%) Bash
5 1 (1.54%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (21.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (18.46%) A+ Certification
2 12 (18.46%) Security Cleared
3 10 (15.38%) MCP
3 10 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 8 (12.31%) Degree
5 5 (7.69%) DBS Check
6 4 (6.15%) MCSA
7 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.08%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.54%) CISSP
8 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.54%) MCSE
8 1 (1.54%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) GDPR
1 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
1 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (64.62%) Active Directory
2 26 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (35.38%) Hyper-V
4 9 (13.85%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (10.77%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.08%) NFS
6 2 (3.08%) vSphere
7 1 (1.54%) Docker
7 1 (1.54%) Firmware
7 1 (1.54%) Squid
7 1 (1.54%) vCloud
7 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.54%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (15.38%) vCenter Server
2 7 (10.77%) WSUS
3 5 (7.69%) ZABBIX
4 3 (4.62%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (3.08%) Ansible
5 2 (3.08%) Graylog
5 2 (3.08%) PowerCLI
5 2 (3.08%) Terraform
5 2 (3.08%) vRealize
6 1 (1.54%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.54%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 29 (44.62%) VMware
3 12 (18.46%) Cisco
4 10 (15.38%) Google
5 6 (9.23%) Apple
5 6 (9.23%) Sophos
6 5 (7.69%) Oracle
6 5 (7.69%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (6.15%) HP
8 3 (4.62%) Citrix
8 3 (4.62%) Meraki
8 3 (4.62%) SonicWALL
9 2 (3.08%) Aruba
9 2 (3.08%) Databricks
10 1 (1.54%) Dell
10 1 (1.54%) Draytek
10 1 (1.54%) Juniper
10 1 (1.54%) Veeam