DNS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 144 136 159
Rank change year-on-year -8 +23 -13
Permanent jobs citing DNS 1,192 1,228 1,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.83% 2.55% 2.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.82% 13.54% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 905 958 1,454
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +2.41%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,000 £55,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,042 9,068 11,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.32% 18.83% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,374 4,409 6,985
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the UK excluding London 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
South East -35 311 £42,500 +6.25% 62
North of England +8 279 £42,500 +6.21% 77
Midlands +25 275 £38,250 +2.00% 38
North West -14 139 £47,500 +5.56% 37
West Midlands +11 138 £39,750 +6.00% 26
South West -9 134 £40,000 - 26
East Midlands +25 133 £38,250 +8.62% 12
Yorkshire +45 116 £33,000 -4.35% 29
East of England -10 99 £42,500 +16.44% 28
Wales +39 46 £34,000 -10.53% 5
Scotland -42 46 £35,000 - 15
North East -8 30 £44,274 +10.97% 14
Northern Ireland +11 9 £32,500 -13.33% 6
Channel Islands - 2 £85,000 -
Isle of Man - 1 £36,000 - 1
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 278 (23.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 184 (15.44%) SharePoint
3 70 (5.87%) IIS
4 40 (3.36%) WebLogic
5 16 (1.34%) CMS
5 16 (1.34%) Confluence
6 14 (1.17%) WordPress
7 11 (0.92%) Exchange Server 2013
8 9 (0.76%) Skype for Business
9 8 (0.67%) Apache
9 8 (0.67%) Exchange Server 2010
10 7 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2007
11 4 (0.34%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.084%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 166 (13.93%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.34%) Trello
5 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.084%) CATIA
6 1 (0.084%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 40 (3.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.34%) Sage 200
3 3 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.084%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.084%) Epicor Tropos
4 1 (0.084%) Sage 300 ERP
4 1 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.084%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 647 (54.28%) Azure
2 585 (49.08%) Microsoft 365
3 242 (20.30%) Entra ID
4 208 (17.45%) AWS
5 79 (6.63%) IaaS
6 69 (5.79%) OneDrive
7 54 (4.53%) SaaS
8 45 (3.78%) PaaS
9 40 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
9 40 (3.36%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (3.10%) Nutanix
11 31 (2.60%) Mimecast
12 30 (2.52%) Power Platform
13 24 (2.01%) OpenShift
14 23 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (1.93%) GitHub
15 22 (1.85%) Google Workspace
16 21 (1.76%) WhatsApp
17 18 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 755 (63.34%) DHCP
2 482 (40.44%) Firewall
3 430 (36.07%) TCP/IP
4 245 (20.55%) VPN
5 231 (19.38%) WAN
6 188 (15.77%) LAN
7 152 (12.75%) VLAN
8 107 (8.98%) Wireless
9 106 (8.89%) SAN
10 94 (7.89%) Wi-Fi
11 89 (7.47%) SSL
12 74 (6.21%) Network Security
13 66 (5.54%) BGP
14 53 (4.45%) HTTP
14 53 (4.45%) VoIP
15 52 (4.36%) SD-WAN
16 36 (3.02%) iSCSI
17 32 (2.68%) Internet
18 31 (2.60%) SMTP
19 30 (2.52%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 74 (6.21%) Amazon RDS
3 44 (3.69%) Relational Database
4 43 (3.61%) Oracle Database
5 40 (3.36%) RDBMS
6 15 (1.26%) Power BI
7 11 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (0.76%) Redis
9 8 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (0.42%) MySQL
11 5 (0.42%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.17%) OLAP
12 2 (0.17%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (0.17%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 1 (0.084%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 30 (2.52%) JIRA
2 20 (1.68%) Git
2 20 (1.68%) Jenkins
3 9 (0.76%) Trac
4 5 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (0.34%) GitLab
6 3 (0.25%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.084%) Grunt
8 1 (0.084%) Hudson
8 1 (0.084%) Selenium
8 1 (0.084%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.084%) webpack
General
1 341 (28.61%) Social Skills
2 104 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (7.30%) Finance
4 47 (3.94%) Public Sector
5 40 (3.36%) Aerospace
6 38 (3.19%) Telecoms
7 35 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 30 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (2.01%) Marketing
9 24 (2.01%) Retail
10 20 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 14 (1.17%) Law
12 12 (1.01%) Games
13 10 (0.84%) Automotive
13 10 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.59%) Legal
15 6 (0.50%) Electronics
15 6 (0.50%) Local Government
16 5 (0.42%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 267 (22.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 160 (13.42%) Senior
3 144 (12.08%) IT Support
4 142 (11.91%) Support Engineer
5 134 (11.24%) IT Engineer
6 119 (9.98%) Analyst
7 103 (8.64%) Lead
8 79 (6.63%) Architect
8 79 (6.63%) Network Engineer
9 72 (6.04%) 2nd Line Support
10 65 (5.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 61 (5.12%) Support Technician
12 60 (5.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 60 (5.03%) IT Technician
13 54 (4.53%) IT Support Engineer
14 52 (4.36%) IT Analyst
15 50 (4.19%) 3rd Line Support
16 49 (4.11%) Administrator
17 48 (4.03%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 47 (3.94%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (4.19%) REST
2 41 (3.44%) RabbitMQ
3 40 (3.36%) Spring Boot
4 37 (3.10%) .NET
4 37 (3.10%) HTML
5 36 (3.02%) CSS
6 27 (2.27%) React
7 24 (2.01%) jQuery
8 23 (1.93%) Vue
9 22 (1.85%) ASP.NET
10 21 (1.76%) SAML
11 20 (1.68%) AngularJS
11 20 (1.68%) ASP.NET MVC
12 19 (1.59%) Tailwind CSS
12 19 (1.59%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 19 (1.59%) WPF
13 18 (1.51%) ARM Templates
14 16 (1.34%) OAuth
14 16 (1.34%) OpenID
15 15 (1.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 96 (8.05%) Data Centre
2 87 (7.30%) Public Cloud
2 87 (7.30%) Self-Motivation
3 77 (6.46%) Driving Licence
4 58 (4.87%) Enterprise Software
5 57 (4.78%) PKI
6 46 (3.86%) Replication
7 45 (3.78%) Management Information System
8 39 (3.27%) Clustering
9 30 (2.52%) Onboarding
10 26 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
11 14 (1.17%) NHS
12 13 (1.09%) Client/Server
13 12 (1.01%) IoT
13 12 (1.01%) Smartphone
14 11 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
15 10 (0.84%) Cloud Native
15 10 (0.84%) Enterprise Cloud
16 8 (0.67%) CUDA
16 8 (0.67%) GNSS
Operating Systems
1 804 (67.45%) Windows
2 520 (43.62%) Windows Server
3 257 (21.56%) Linux
4 196 (16.44%) Windows 10
5 149 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 133 (11.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 93 (7.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 80 (6.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 48 (4.03%) Android
9 48 (4.03%) Apple iOS
10 32 (2.68%) Windows Server 2008
11 24 (2.01%) Mac OS
11 24 (2.01%) VMS
12 22 (1.85%) Mac OS X
12 22 (1.85%) Ubuntu
13 21 (1.76%) Windows 7
14 16 (1.34%) Unix
15 11 (0.92%) Windows 8
16 9 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
17 7 (0.59%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (25.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 264 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
3 230 (19.30%) ITIL
4 200 (16.78%) Customer Service
5 137 (11.49%) Agile
6 120 (10.07%) DevOps
7 117 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
8 105 (8.81%) Project Management
9 99 (8.31%) Disaster Recovery
10 83 (6.96%) Migration
11 78 (6.54%) Collaborative Working
12 77 (6.46%) Service Management
13 75 (6.29%) Actionable Insight
14 69 (5.79%) Open Source
15 68 (5.70%) Computer Science
16 66 (5.54%) Load Balancing
17 65 (5.45%) Mentoring
18 62 (5.20%) Scrum
19 57 (4.78%) Kanban
20 49 (4.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 262 (21.98%) PowerShell
2 117 (9.82%) SQL
3 94 (7.89%) Python
4 60 (5.03%) Bash
5 53 (4.45%) C#
6 47 (3.94%) Java
7 27 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 27 (2.27%) VBScript
8 20 (1.68%) VB
9 19 (1.59%) Bicep
9 19 (1.59%) XAML
10 13 (1.09%) Perl
11 10 (0.84%) C
11 10 (0.84%) C++
12 7 (0.59%) Go
12 7 (0.59%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.25%) PHP
13 3 (0.25%) R
13 3 (0.25%) Ruby
13 3 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 191 (16.02%) Security Cleared
2 166 (13.93%) Degree
3 134 (11.24%) SC Cleared
4 89 (7.47%) Azure Certification
5 83 (6.96%) DV Cleared
6 75 (6.29%) Cisco Certification
7 70 (5.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 60 (5.03%) CCNA
9 52 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 47 (3.94%) AWS Certification
11 40 (3.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 34 (2.85%) CCNP
13 27 (2.27%) DBS Check
13 27 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 24 (2.01%) MCSE
15 21 (1.76%) MCP
16 18 (1.51%) MCSA
17 16 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
18 13 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 11 (0.92%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (6.88%) SLA
2 35 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (2.68%) GDPR
4 22 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (0.92%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.59%) QA
7 6 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.25%) JSP 440
9 3 (0.25%) NIST
10 2 (0.17%) NCSC
11 1 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.084%) GxP
11 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.084%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.084%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.084%) PMO
11 1 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 784 (65.77%) Active Directory
2 256 (21.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 240 (20.13%) Hyper-V
4 59 (4.95%) VMware ESXi
5 57 (4.78%) Virtual Machines
6 51 (4.28%) vSphere
7 41 (3.44%) Docker
8 37 (3.10%) Virtual Servers
9 35 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 16 (1.34%) pfSense
11 15 (1.26%) XenDesktop
12 13 (1.09%) NFS
13 12 (1.01%) Firmware
13 12 (1.01%) Terminal Services
14 11 (0.92%) XenApp
15 8 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
15 8 (0.67%) VMware NSX
15 8 (0.67%) VMware Server
16 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 212 (17.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 119 (9.98%) SCCM
3 68 (5.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 68 (5.70%) WSUS
4 64 (5.37%) Kubernetes
5 62 (5.20%) Ansible
5 62 (5.20%) SCOM
6 40 (3.36%) Terraform
7 27 (2.27%) Puppet
8 24 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (2.01%) vCenter Server
9 23 (1.93%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 21 (1.76%) Grafana
11 19 (1.59%) ZABBIX
12 16 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
13 15 (1.26%) FortiGate
13 15 (1.26%) SCDPM
14 14 (1.17%) Failover Clustering
15 12 (1.01%) Microsoft Clustering
16 10 (0.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 681 (57.13%) Microsoft
2 412 (34.56%) VMware
3 196 (16.44%) Cisco
4 125 (10.49%) Veeam
5 81 (6.80%) Citrix
6 71 (5.96%) Dell
7 61 (5.12%) Oracle
8 54 (4.53%) Apple
9 51 (4.28%) Fortinet
10 46 (3.86%) Juniper
10 46 (3.86%) Meraki
11 43 (3.61%) Red Hat
12 40 (3.36%) HP
12 40 (3.36%) Palo Alto
12 40 (3.36%) Sparx
13 34 (2.85%) SolarWinds
14 27 (2.27%) ServiceNow
15 26 (2.18%) Sophos
16 23 (1.93%) WatchGuard
17 19 (1.59%) SonicWALL