DNS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 145 158
Rank change year-on-year +18 +13 -28
Permanent jobs citing DNS 1,582 1,408 1,694
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.23% 2.34% 2.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.19% 12.91% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,276 1,097 1,383
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +2.41%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,769 10,906 10,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.78% 18.13% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,090 4,776 6,432
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,886 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -5 436 £42,500 +6.25% 74
North of England +28 343 £42,000 +5.00% 81
Midlands +66 309 £39,000 +0.65% 65
South West +18 219 £37,500 -6.25% 36
North West +3 184 £45,000 - 52
West Midlands +51 168 £42,500 +9.68% 38
East of England -7 146 £41,500 -2.35% 36
East Midlands +51 137 £37,500 +2.74% 27
Yorkshire +63 116 £32,500 -13.33% 23
Wales +30 60 £34,000 -9.33% 6
Scotland -54 58 £42,500 +21.43% 18
North East +5 49 £42,500 +13.33% 7
Northern Ireland +24 13 £32,500 - 6
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
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
1 379 (23.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 251 (15.87%) SharePoint
3 95 (6.01%) IIS
4 40 (2.53%) WebLogic
5 33 (2.09%) CMS
6 27 (1.71%) WordPress
7 23 (1.45%) Exchange Server 2013
8 21 (1.33%) Exchange Server 2010
9 20 (1.26%) Exchange Server 2007
10 16 (1.01%) Skype for Business
11 14 (0.88%) nginx
12 13 (0.82%) Apache
12 13 (0.82%) Confluence
13 7 (0.44%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.32%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2003
16 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
16 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 197 (12.45%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.38%) Trello
5 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.13%) CATIA
7 2 (0.13%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 40 (2.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.25%) Epicor Tropos
3 4 (0.25%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.063%) Sage 300 ERP
5 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.063%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 865 (54.68%) Azure
2 802 (50.70%) Microsoft 365
3 323 (20.42%) AWS
4 295 (18.65%) Entra ID
5 102 (6.45%) OneDrive
6 69 (4.36%) IaaS
7 64 (4.05%) SaaS
8 56 (3.54%) Power Platform
9 43 (2.72%) PaaS
10 41 (2.59%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (2.53%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (2.21%) Mimecast
12 35 (2.21%) OpenShift
13 30 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
15 28 (1.77%) Nutanix
16 27 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
16 27 (1.71%) WhatsApp
17 25 (1.58%) GCP
18 24 (1.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1,018 (64.35%) DHCP
2 624 (39.44%) Firewall
3 552 (34.89%) TCP/IP
4 306 (19.34%) VPN
5 295 (18.65%) WAN
6 255 (16.12%) LAN
7 204 (12.90%) VLAN
8 146 (9.23%) Wi-Fi
9 131 (8.28%) Wireless
10 128 (8.09%) SAN
11 122 (7.71%) SSL
12 113 (7.14%) HTTP
13 86 (5.44%) VoIP
14 74 (4.68%) BGP
15 71 (4.49%) Network Security
16 70 (4.42%) Internet
17 65 (4.11%) SD-WAN
18 39 (2.47%) iSCSI
19 38 (2.40%) DKIM
19 38 (2.40%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (8.66%) SQL Server
2 71 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (3.03%) Oracle Database
4 43 (2.72%) Relational Database
5 40 (2.53%) RDBMS
6 30 (1.90%) MySQL
7 27 (1.71%) Power BI
8 14 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.51%) Redis
12 7 (0.44%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.38%) GIS
14 3 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
15 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.13%) MongoDB
15 2 (0.13%) OLAP
15 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 30 (1.90%) JIRA
2 21 (1.33%) Git
2 21 (1.33%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.63%) Trac
4 3 (0.19%) GitLab
4 3 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.13%) Grunt
5 2 (0.13%) Hudson
5 2 (0.13%) MSBuild
5 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.13%) webpack
6 1 (0.063%) Log4Net
6 1 (0.063%) Selenium
6 1 (0.063%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.063%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 471 (29.77%) Social Skills
2 137 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
3 133 (8.41%) Finance
4 62 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (3.48%) Telecoms
6 42 (2.65%) Public Sector
7 38 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 34 (2.15%) Marketing
9 33 (2.09%) Aerospace
10 30 (1.90%) Law
10 30 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (1.33%) Retail
13 17 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.01%) Legal
15 10 (0.63%) Electronics
16 8 (0.51%) Automotive
16 8 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.51%) Local Government
17 7 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 326 (20.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 241 (15.23%) Senior
3 224 (14.16%) IT Support
4 201 (12.71%) IT Engineer
5 198 (12.52%) Support Engineer
6 194 (12.26%) Analyst
7 109 (6.89%) Lead
8 99 (6.26%) IT Support Engineer
9 95 (6.01%) Network Engineer
9 95 (6.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 90 (5.69%) Architect
11 86 (5.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 85 (5.37%) IT Technician
13 81 (5.12%) 2nd Line Support
14 77 (4.87%) 3rd Line Support
15 72 (4.55%) Support Analyst
16 70 (4.42%) Support Technician
17 62 (3.92%) Administrator
17 62 (3.92%) Developer
17 62 (3.92%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (4.74%) HTML
2 50 (3.16%) .NET
2 50 (3.16%) SAML
3 47 (2.97%) OpenID
4 46 (2.91%) REST
5 44 (2.78%) CSS
5 44 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
6 40 (2.53%) Spring Boot
7 30 (1.90%) ASP.NET
8 28 (1.77%) jQuery
8 28 (1.77%) React
9 24 (1.52%) Vue
10 22 (1.39%) AngularJS
10 22 (1.39%) ASP.NET MVC
11 19 (1.20%) Tailwind CSS
11 19 (1.20%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 19 (1.20%) WPF
12 18 (1.14%) ARM Templates
12 18 (1.14%) LDAP
12 18 (1.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 122 (7.71%) Data Centre
2 112 (7.08%) Driving Licence
3 110 (6.95%) Self-Motivation
4 83 (5.25%) Public Cloud
5 61 (3.86%) Cyberattack
6 57 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (3.60%) PKI
7 49 (3.10%) Replication
8 42 (2.65%) Management Information System
9 40 (2.53%) Onboarding
10 36 (2.28%) Cloud Native
11 29 (1.83%) Clustering
12 19 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.07%) IoT
14 15 (0.95%) CCTV
14 15 (0.95%) CMDB
15 14 (0.88%) Client/Server
16 12 (0.76%) PMI
17 11 (0.70%) Tandem
18 8 (0.51%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1,040 (65.74%) Windows
2 664 (41.97%) Windows Server
3 341 (21.55%) Linux
4 203 (12.83%) Windows 10
5 194 (12.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 167 (10.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 145 (9.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 87 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 62 (3.92%) Android
10 57 (3.60%) Apple iOS
11 44 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
12 34 (2.15%) Mac OS
13 31 (1.96%) Windows 7
14 30 (1.90%) Windows 8
15 26 (1.64%) VMS
16 21 (1.33%) Ubuntu
17 20 (1.26%) Mac OS X
18 19 (1.20%) Unix
18 19 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
18 19 (1.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (24.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 329 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
3 312 (19.72%) ITIL
4 244 (15.42%) Customer Service
5 194 (12.26%) Agile
6 152 (9.61%) Cybersecurity
7 148 (9.36%) Disaster Recovery
8 147 (9.29%) DevOps
9 129 (8.15%) Migration
10 124 (7.84%) Project Management
11 98 (6.19%) Actionable Insight
11 98 (6.19%) Collaborative Working
12 88 (5.56%) Service Management
13 84 (5.31%) Mentoring
14 77 (4.87%) Line Management
15 74 (4.68%) Information Security
16 73 (4.61%) Incident Management
17 72 (4.55%) Server Management
18 70 (4.42%) Open Source
19 69 (4.36%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 307 (19.41%) PowerShell
2 139 (8.79%) SQL
3 102 (6.45%) Python
4 67 (4.24%) C#
5 65 (4.11%) Bash
6 63 (3.98%) Java
7 44 (2.78%) JavaScript
8 30 (1.90%) VBScript
9 22 (1.39%) T-SQL
10 20 (1.26%) VB
11 19 (1.20%) Bicep
11 19 (1.20%) PHP
11 19 (1.20%) XAML
12 15 (0.95%) Perl
13 12 (0.76%) C++
14 10 (0.63%) C
15 8 (0.51%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.32%) Ruby
16 5 (0.32%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 268 (16.94%) Security Cleared
2 192 (12.14%) Degree
3 149 (9.42%) SC Cleared
4 142 (8.98%) DV Cleared
5 102 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
6 94 (5.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 91 (5.75%) Azure Certification
8 90 (5.69%) CCNA
9 80 (5.06%) AWS Certification
10 69 (4.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 46 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 45 (2.84%) CCNP
13 39 (2.47%) DBS Check
13 39 (2.47%) MCSE
14 35 (2.21%) A+ Certification
15 32 (2.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 28 (1.77%) Network+ Certification
17 24 (1.52%) MCP
18 20 (1.26%) MCSA
19 17 (1.07%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.26%) SLA
2 40 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (1.64%) GDPR
4 12 (0.76%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.25%) QA
8 3 (0.19%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.063%) GxP
10 1 (0.063%) NCSC
10 1 (0.063%) PMO
System Software
1 1,002 (63.34%) Active Directory
2 365 (23.07%) Hyper-V
3 335 (21.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
5 68 (4.30%) VMware ESXi
6 66 (4.17%) Docker
7 54 (3.41%) vSphere
8 39 (2.47%) Virtual Servers
9 35 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 19 (1.20%) Terminal Services
11 18 (1.14%) pfSense
12 16 (1.01%) Firmware
12 16 (1.01%) NFS
13 11 (0.70%) XenApp
14 8 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
15 7 (0.44%) VMware Server
15 7 (0.44%) XenDesktop
16 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 6 (0.38%) VMware NSX
17 4 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 279 (17.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 127 (8.03%) SCCM
3 92 (5.82%) WSUS
4 77 (4.87%) SCOM
5 76 (4.80%) Kubernetes
6 70 (4.42%) Terraform
7 63 (3.98%) Ansible
8 56 (3.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 36 (2.28%) Puppet
10 34 (2.15%) vCenter Server
11 26 (1.64%) CASB
11 26 (1.64%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 24 (1.52%) FortiGate
13 22 (1.39%) ZABBIX
14 21 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
15 20 (1.26%) Grafana
16 17 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
17 16 (1.01%) SCDPM
18 13 (0.82%) NetBackup
18 13 (0.82%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 873 (55.18%) Microsoft
2 502 (31.73%) VMware
3 239 (15.11%) Cisco
4 148 (9.36%) Veeam
5 112 (7.08%) Citrix
6 86 (5.44%) Dell
7 75 (4.74%) HP
8 72 (4.55%) Oracle
9 69 (4.36%) Juniper
10 66 (4.17%) Apple
11 63 (3.98%) Meraki
12 54 (3.41%) Fortinet
13 51 (3.22%) Red Hat
14 45 (2.84%) SolarWinds
15 44 (2.78%) Palo Alto
16 40 (2.53%) Sophos
16 40 (2.53%) Sparx
17 34 (2.15%) Acronis
18 30 (1.90%) NetApp
19 28 (1.77%) WatchGuard