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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 124 149
Rank change year-on-year +17 +25 +7
Permanent jobs citing DNS 943 1,605 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.58% 2.29% 2.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.89% 16.38% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 492 1,297 1,099
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £63,750
UK median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year - - -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 4,991 9,796 11,025
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.64% 13.97% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,082 7,129 4,890
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,889 £31,250 £31,576
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year - -5.94% -3.81%

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 27 April 2025.

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 27 April 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
North of England +71 523 £42,317 +1.97% 113
North West +90 468 £42,500 -5.56% 58
South East -48 135 £37,500 -11.76% 116
Midlands -60 91 £35,000 -11.11% 61
South West +12 78 £40,000 +6.67% 58
East of England +11 75 £42,500 +6.25% 47
West Midlands -50 48 £35,000 -17.65% 32
Yorkshire +5 46 £35,000 +7.69% 41
East Midlands -27 43 £35,000 -6.67% 26
Scotland +88 17 £37,500 -11.76% 14
Wales -4 16 £45,637 +25.12% 10
North East +7 9 £32,000 -24.71% 17
Northern Ireland +32 8 £85,000 +161.54% 2
Isle of Man +12 1 £34,500 -19.77% 2
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
1 152 (16.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 85 (9.01%) SharePoint
3 38 (4.03%) IIS
4 12 (1.27%) Apache
5 11 (1.17%) nginx
6 10 (1.06%) Apache Solr
7 6 (0.64%) Confluence
8 4 (0.42%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.32%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.21%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2003
11 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
11 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.11%) Office Communications Server
11 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.11%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 94 (9.97%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.11%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (0.32%) Sage 50
2 2 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 290 (30.75%) Azure
2 278 (29.48%) Microsoft 365
3 118 (12.51%) Entra ID
4 80 (8.48%) AWS
5 35 (3.71%) GCP
6 31 (3.29%) OneDrive
7 28 (2.97%) SaaS
8 20 (2.12%) Google Workspace
9 19 (2.01%) IaaS
10 18 (1.91%) PaaS
11 16 (1.70%) Mimecast
12 15 (1.59%) Power Platform
13 13 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (1.17%) Nutanix
15 10 (1.06%) GitHub
16 9 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (0.74%) PowerApps
18 6 (0.64%) Azure Key Vault
19 4 (0.42%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 570 (60.45%) VPN
2 389 (41.25%) DHCP
3 293 (31.07%) Firewall
4 193 (20.47%) TCP/IP
5 119 (12.62%) VLAN
6 90 (9.54%) LAN
7 85 (9.01%) WAN
8 49 (5.20%) Wi-Fi
9 48 (5.09%) Network Security
10 45 (4.77%) VoIP
11 37 (3.92%) SAN
12 29 (3.08%) Wireless
13 25 (2.65%) BGP
14 24 (2.55%) OSPF
15 21 (2.23%) Remote Desktop
15 21 (2.23%) WLAN
16 20 (2.12%) IPsec
17 18 (1.91%) NAS
18 17 (1.80%) MPLS
18 17 (1.80%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (1.70%) MySQL
4 14 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (1.38%) NoSQL
6 10 (1.06%) Couchbase
6 10 (1.06%) Power BI
7 7 (0.74%) MongoDB
7 7 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (0.64%) Relational Database
9 5 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.42%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.42%) Tableau
11 3 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.32%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.32%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 19 (2.01%) JIRA
2 13 (1.38%) Git
3 10 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.32%) GitLab
6 3 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (0.21%) Apache Archiva
7 2 (0.21%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.21%) Subversion
7 2 (0.21%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.11%) Grunt
8 1 (0.11%) Log4Net
8 1 (0.11%) Maven
8 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.11%) webpack
General
1 439 (46.55%) Analytical Skills
2 418 (44.33%) Finance
3 415 (44.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 218 (23.12%) Social Skills
5 40 (4.24%) Retail
6 23 (2.44%) Automotive
7 20 (2.12%) Telecoms
8 17 (1.80%) Law
8 17 (1.80%) Manufacturing
9 15 (1.59%) Public Sector
10 11 (1.17%) Legal
11 10 (1.06%) Local Government
12 8 (0.85%) Welsh Language
13 5 (0.53%) Back Office
13 5 (0.53%) Banking
13 5 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.32%) Marketing
15 3 (0.32%) Police
16 2 (0.21%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 393 (41.68%) Developer
2 391 (41.46%) Software Developer
3 102 (10.82%) IT Support
4 89 (9.44%) Support Engineer
5 84 (8.91%) Analyst
6 83 (8.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 76 (8.06%) IT Engineer
8 62 (6.57%) Senior
9 53 (5.62%) 2nd Line Support
10 42 (4.45%) Network Engineer
11 40 (4.24%) Support Analyst
12 32 (3.39%) IT Technician
13 31 (3.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 31 (3.29%) 3rd Line Support
14 30 (3.18%) IT Support Engineer
15 27 (2.86%) IT Analyst
15 27 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
16 26 (2.76%) Technical Support
17 23 (2.44%) IT Support Analyst
18 20 (2.12%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
2 8 (0.85%) HTML
3 7 (0.74%) AngularJS
3 7 (0.74%) Node.js
3 7 (0.74%) YAML
4 6 (0.64%) LDAP
5 5 (0.53%) HTML5
5 5 (0.53%) Middleware
5 5 (0.53%) Sass
6 4 (0.42%) 802.1X
6 4 (0.42%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (0.42%) Web Services
6 4 (0.42%) WebRTC
7 3 (0.32%) SAML
7 3 (0.32%) XML
8 2 (0.21%) CSS
8 2 (0.21%) Django
8 2 (0.21%) EDI
8 2 (0.21%) LAMP
8 2 (0.21%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 393 (41.68%) Cyberattack
2 51 (5.41%) Driving Licence
3 43 (4.56%) Management Information System
4 40 (4.24%) Data Centre
5 24 (2.55%) Replication
6 20 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 18 (1.91%) Clustering
7 18 (1.91%) Smartphone
8 16 (1.70%) PKI
9 14 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.17%) Client/Server
11 10 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
11 10 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.06%) IoT
12 9 (0.95%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.74%) CCTV
13 7 (0.74%) Cloud Native
13 7 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
14 6 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 519 (55.04%) Linux
2 406 (43.05%) Android
3 400 (42.42%) Windows
4 265 (28.10%) Windows Server
5 66 (7.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 55 (5.83%) Windows 10
7 54 (5.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 44 (4.67%) Mac OS
9 22 (2.33%) Ubuntu
10 19 (2.01%) Mac OS X
10 19 (2.01%) Unix
11 14 (1.48%) VMS
12 12 (1.27%) Windows 7
13 10 (1.06%) Apple iOS
14 9 (0.95%) Windows Server 2012
15 8 (0.85%) CentOS
15 8 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 5 (0.53%) SUSE
16 5 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
16 5 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (43.90%) Agile
2 399 (42.31%) Line Management
3 391 (41.46%) Android Development
3 391 (41.46%) Design Patterns
3 391 (41.46%) Mathematics
3 391 (41.46%) OO
3 391 (41.46%) OOP
4 192 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
5 111 (11.77%) Customer Service
6 97 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
7 94 (9.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 92 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
9 88 (9.33%) ITIL
10 51 (5.41%) Incident Management
11 44 (4.67%) High Availability
12 37 (3.92%) Computer Science
12 37 (3.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (3.82%) DevOps
14 33 (3.50%) Migration
15 31 (3.29%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 443 (46.98%) Python
2 397 (42.10%) Java
3 396 (41.99%) Go
4 395 (41.89%) C++
5 129 (13.68%) PowerShell
6 78 (8.27%) SQL
7 15 (1.59%) Bash
8 14 (1.48%) PHP
9 9 (0.95%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.85%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.74%) Bicep
12 6 (0.64%) C#
13 5 (0.53%) Perl
14 3 (0.32%) VBScript
15 2 (0.21%) AWK
15 2 (0.21%) C
15 2 (0.21%) Korn
16 1 (0.11%) R
16 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 441 (46.77%) Security Cleared
2 415 (44.01%) DV Cleared
3 97 (10.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 81 (8.59%) Degree
5 39 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 38 (4.03%) Network+ Certification
7 37 (3.92%) A+ Certification
8 35 (3.71%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (3.50%) Azure Certification
10 32 (3.39%) CCNA
11 31 (3.29%) MCSE
12 30 (3.18%) MCSA
13 26 (2.76%) MCP
14 23 (2.44%) SC Cleared
15 18 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (1.70%) CCNP
16 16 (1.70%) DBS Check
16 16 (1.70%) HNC
16 16 (1.70%) HND
17 13 (1.38%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.18%) SLA
2 15 (1.59%) GDPR
3 14 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (0.74%) NIST
5 7 (0.74%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.74%) QA
6 4 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.32%) NCSC
7 3 (0.32%) PMO
8 2 (0.21%) GRC
8 2 (0.21%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.11%) COBIT
9 1 (0.11%) FISMA
9 1 (0.11%) GLBA
System Software
1 422 (44.75%) Docker
2 356 (37.75%) Active Directory
3 130 (13.79%) Hyper-V
4 129 (13.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 35 (3.71%) VMware ESXi
6 33 (3.50%) vSphere
7 30 (3.18%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (1.70%) Virtual Desktop
9 13 (1.38%) Terminal Services
9 13 (1.38%) VMware NSX
10 12 (1.27%) DFS Replication
11 11 (1.17%) Firmware
12 7 (0.74%) BitLocker
12 7 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 3 (0.32%) KVM
15 2 (0.21%) pfSense
15 2 (0.21%) Postfix
15 2 (0.21%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 442 (46.87%) Ansible
2 63 (6.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (4.14%) Terraform
4 38 (4.03%) Kubernetes
5 33 (3.50%) vCenter Server
6 15 (1.59%) SCCM
7 14 (1.48%) Puppet
8 12 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 11 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.06%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.06%) SCOM
10 10 (1.06%) vMotion
11 9 (0.95%) WSUS
12 8 (0.85%) vRealize
13 7 (0.74%) VxRail
14 6 (0.64%) Autotask
14 6 (0.64%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.64%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.64%) Nagios
14 6 (0.64%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 336 (35.63%) Microsoft
2 167 (17.71%) VMware
3 100 (10.60%) Cisco
4 51 (5.41%) Google
5 38 (4.03%) Dell
6 37 (3.92%) Apple
7 34 (3.61%) Veeam
8 33 (3.50%) HP
9 27 (2.86%) Fortinet
10 25 (2.65%) Citrix
11 23 (2.44%) Ubiquiti
12 18 (1.91%) SolarWinds
13 16 (1.70%) ServiceNow
14 15 (1.59%) Oracle
15 14 (1.48%) Meraki
15 14 (1.48%) Sophos
16 11 (1.17%) SonicWALL
17 10 (1.06%) Juniper
18 9 (0.95%) Aruba
18 9 (0.95%) SAP