Domain Name System (DNS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 184 213
Rank change year-on-year +54 +29 -47
Permanent jobs citing DNS 2,148 2,153 3,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.19% 2.06% 1.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.81% 13.41% 14.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,779 1,661 2,338
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £57,750 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +1.19%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the UK

DNS
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +52 1,976 £43,500 +2.35% 410
UK excluding London +28 1,595 £40,000 - 333
Work from Home +55 804 £50,000 +8.75% 162
London +55 507 £55,000 - 100
South East +1 445 £42,500 +6.56% 85
North of England +39 348 £41,500 +3.75% 83
Midlands +79 311 £39,750 +2.58% 71
South West +40 219 £37,500 -10.71% 29
North West +14 182 £45,000 - 52
West Midlands +65 171 £42,500 +9.68% 47
East of England -15 141 £40,000 -5.88% 41
East Midlands +52 136 £37,500 +2.74% 24
Yorkshire +60 121 £32,500 -10.34% 25
Wales +39 61 £36,476 -2.73% 6
Scotland -48 59 £42,500 +21.43% 19
North East +10 51 £42,500 +13.33% 8
Northern Ireland +28 13 £32,500 - 7
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 520 (24.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 323 (15.04%) SharePoint
3 125 (5.82%) IIS
4 46 (2.14%) WebLogic
5 36 (1.68%) CMS
5 36 (1.68%) WordPress
6 34 (1.58%) Exchange Server 2013
7 32 (1.49%) Exchange Server 2010
8 26 (1.21%) Confluence
9 25 (1.16%) Skype for Business
10 23 (1.07%) nginx
11 22 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2007
12 21 (0.98%) Apache
13 13 (0.61%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.33%) Umbraco
15 5 (0.23%) SAS
16 4 (0.19%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2003
17 2 (0.093%) Moodle
Applications
1 255 (11.87%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.28%) Trello
5 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.14%) SPSS
7 2 (0.093%) CATIA
7 2 (0.093%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 46 (2.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (0.74%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
4 4 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
4 4 (0.19%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
5 3 (0.14%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.093%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.093%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.047%) Carpe Diem
7 1 (0.047%) Eikon
7 1 (0.047%) Sage 300 ERP
7 1 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.047%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.047%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,181 (54.98%) Azure
2 1,006 (46.83%) Microsoft 365
3 451 (21.00%) AWS
4 367 (17.09%) Entra ID
5 122 (5.68%) OneDrive
6 117 (5.45%) IaaS
7 82 (3.82%) SaaS
8 78 (3.63%) GCP
8 78 (3.63%) PaaS
8 78 (3.63%) Power Platform
9 64 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
10 54 (2.51%) Nutanix
11 53 (2.47%) Mimecast
12 51 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
13 46 (2.14%) Amazon SQS
14 42 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 40 (1.86%) GitHub
16 37 (1.72%) OpenShift
17 31 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
18 30 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1,333 (62.06%) DHCP
2 882 (41.06%) Firewall
3 716 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 439 (20.44%) VPN
5 420 (19.55%) WAN
6 374 (17.41%) LAN
7 285 (13.27%) VLAN
8 234 (10.89%) Wi-Fi
9 208 (9.68%) Wireless
10 196 (9.12%) SAN
11 164 (7.64%) SSL
12 150 (6.98%) HTTP
13 116 (5.40%) Network Security
14 114 (5.31%) VoIP
15 110 (5.12%) Internet
16 107 (4.98%) BGP
17 91 (4.24%) SD-WAN
18 67 (3.12%) IPsec
19 66 (3.07%) OSPF
20 62 (2.89%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (9.92%) SQL Server
2 97 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (2.61%) Oracle Database
3 56 (2.61%) Relational Database
4 55 (2.56%) MySQL
5 51 (2.37%) RDBMS
6 43 (2.00%) Power BI
7 22 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (0.61%) Redis
11 12 (0.56%) MongoDB
11 12 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.42%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.28%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.28%) GIS
14 3 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.14%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 57 (2.65%) Jenkins
2 51 (2.37%) JIRA
3 40 (1.86%) Git
4 17 (0.79%) GitLab
5 10 (0.47%) Trac
6 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (0.23%) Katalon Studio
7 5 (0.23%) Subversion
8 4 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
8 4 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.14%) webpack
10 2 (0.093%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.093%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.093%) git-flow
10 2 (0.093%) Grunt
10 2 (0.093%) Hudson
10 2 (0.093%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.093%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 628 (29.24%) Social Skills
2 257 (11.96%) Finance
3 212 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (4.00%) Telecoms
5 73 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (2.56%) Public Sector
7 53 (2.47%) Law
8 50 (2.33%) Banking
9 45 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
10 43 (2.00%) Marketing
11 35 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 28 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 28 (1.30%) Legal
13 26 (1.21%) Aerospace
13 26 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (1.16%) Retail
15 16 (0.74%) Games
16 13 (0.61%) Electronics
17 12 (0.56%) Publishing
18 10 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 391 (18.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 326 (15.18%) Senior
3 271 (12.62%) IT Support
3 271 (12.62%) Support Engineer
4 268 (12.48%) Analyst
5 241 (11.22%) IT Engineer
6 156 (7.26%) Network Engineer
7 135 (6.28%) Lead
8 126 (5.87%) Architect
8 126 (5.87%) IT Support Engineer
9 112 (5.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 110 (5.12%) 2nd Line Support
11 97 (4.52%) Support Analyst
12 93 (4.33%) 3rd Line Support
13 91 (4.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 88 (4.10%) IT Technician
15 78 (3.63%) Administrator
16 75 (3.49%) IT Analyst
17 74 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
18 69 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (4.05%) HTML
2 66 (3.07%) .NET
3 64 (2.98%) SAML
4 54 (2.51%) REST
5 53 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
6 50 (2.33%) CSS
7 48 (2.23%) OpenID
8 46 (2.14%) Spring Boot
9 39 (1.82%) ARM Templates
10 36 (1.68%) React
11 33 (1.54%) LDAP
12 32 (1.49%) 802.1X
13 31 (1.44%) ASP.NET
14 30 (1.40%) YAML
15 28 (1.30%) jQuery
16 24 (1.12%) Vue
17 23 (1.07%) RESTful
18 22 (1.02%) AngularJS
18 22 (1.02%) ASP.NET MVC
19 20 (0.93%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 209 (9.73%) Data Centre
2 129 (6.01%) Self-Motivation
3 123 (5.73%) Driving Licence
4 110 (5.12%) Public Cloud
5 104 (4.84%) PKI
6 86 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
7 77 (3.58%) Replication
8 67 (3.12%) Onboarding
9 63 (2.93%) Cyberattack
10 53 (2.47%) Management Information System
11 40 (1.86%) Clustering
12 37 (1.72%) Client/Server
12 37 (1.72%) Cloud Native
13 32 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
14 30 (1.40%) Security Posture
15 25 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
16 22 (1.02%) IoT
16 22 (1.02%) Smartphone
17 19 (0.88%) CCTV
18 18 (0.84%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1,372 (63.87%) Windows
2 852 (39.66%) Windows Server
3 463 (21.55%) Linux
4 277 (12.90%) Windows 10
5 224 (10.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 204 (9.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 179 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
8 110 (5.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 81 (3.77%) Windows Server 2008
10 72 (3.35%) Android
11 69 (3.21%) Apple iOS
12 63 (2.93%) Unix
13 48 (2.23%) Mac OS
14 39 (1.82%) CentOS
15 38 (1.77%) Ubuntu
16 37 (1.72%) Windows 7
17 35 (1.63%) VMS
18 31 (1.44%) Windows 8
19 22 (1.02%) Mac OS X
20 20 (0.93%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (22.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 446 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
3 443 (20.62%) ITIL
4 288 (13.41%) Customer Service
5 287 (13.36%) Agile
6 251 (11.69%) Cybersecurity
7 248 (11.55%) DevOps
8 214 (9.96%) Disaster Recovery
9 201 (9.36%) Migration
10 152 (7.08%) Project Management
11 125 (5.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 122 (5.68%) Load Balancing
13 117 (5.45%) Collaborative Working
14 113 (5.26%) Mentoring
15 110 (5.12%) CI/CD
16 109 (5.07%) Actionable Insight
17 104 (4.84%) Information Security
18 95 (4.42%) Service Management
19 93 (4.33%) Continuous Improvement
20 92 (4.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 460 (21.42%) PowerShell
2 209 (9.73%) Python
3 196 (9.12%) SQL
4 128 (5.96%) Bash
5 87 (4.05%) Java
6 75 (3.49%) C#
7 70 (3.26%) JavaScript
8 54 (2.51%) Perl
9 31 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 30 (1.40%) VBScript
11 24 (1.12%) PHP
12 23 (1.07%) Ruby
13 21 (0.98%) VB
14 20 (0.93%) Bicep
15 19 (0.88%) XAML
16 16 (0.74%) C++
17 11 (0.51%) C
18 10 (0.47%) PL/SQL
19 6 (0.28%) Go
20 5 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 283 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 274 (12.76%) Degree
3 166 (7.73%) SC Cleared
4 146 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
5 145 (6.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 137 (6.38%) DV Cleared
7 124 (5.77%) CCNA
8 113 (5.26%) Azure Certification
9 101 (4.70%) AWS Certification
10 79 (3.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 60 (2.79%) CCNP
11 60 (2.79%) MCSE
12 59 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
13 48 (2.23%) DBS Check
14 47 (2.19%) A+ Certification
15 45 (2.09%) MCSA
16 35 (1.63%) Network+ Certification
17 32 (1.49%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 32 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 27 (1.26%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (6.01%) SLA
2 71 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
4 32 (1.49%) GDPR
5 15 (0.70%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.65%) COBIT
6 14 (0.65%) NIST
7 13 (0.61%) PCI DSS
7 13 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 9 (0.42%) PMO
9 7 (0.33%) QA
10 6 (0.28%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.28%) NCSC
11 4 (0.19%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.093%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.047%) GxP
13 1 (0.047%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.047%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1,321 (61.50%) Active Directory
2 503 (23.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 422 (19.65%) Hyper-V
4 116 (5.40%) VMware ESXi
5 104 (4.84%) Docker
6 90 (4.19%) Virtual Machines
7 76 (3.54%) vSphere
8 68 (3.17%) Virtual Servers
9 51 (2.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (1.12%) Terminal Services
11 20 (0.93%) Firmware
12 19 (0.88%) NFS
13 18 (0.84%) pfSense
14 13 (0.61%) XenApp
15 12 (0.56%) DFS Replication
16 9 (0.42%) VMware NSX
17 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 8 (0.37%) VMware Server
18 7 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
18 7 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 326 (15.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 159 (7.40%) SCCM
3 144 (6.70%) Terraform
4 132 (6.15%) Ansible
5 124 (5.77%) WSUS
6 114 (5.31%) Kubernetes
7 86 (4.00%) SCOM
8 77 (3.58%) Puppet
9 70 (3.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 58 (2.70%) vCenter Server
11 49 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
12 37 (1.72%) Grafana
13 33 (1.54%) FortiGate
14 27 (1.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 26 (1.21%) CASB
16 24 (1.12%) ZABBIX
17 23 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
18 22 (1.02%) NetBackup
19 20 (0.93%) Progress Chef
20 19 (0.88%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,161 (54.05%) Microsoft
2 696 (32.40%) VMware
3 332 (15.46%) Cisco
4 196 (9.12%) Veeam
5 174 (8.10%) Citrix
6 110 (5.12%) Oracle
7 108 (5.03%) HP
8 99 (4.61%) Dell
9 90 (4.19%) Meraki
10 89 (4.14%) Juniper
11 84 (3.91%) Red Hat
12 81 (3.77%) Apple
13 78 (3.63%) Fortinet
14 71 (3.31%) SolarWinds
15 56 (2.61%) Google
16 54 (2.51%) Palo Alto
17 48 (2.23%) Sophos
18 46 (2.14%) Sparx
19 43 (2.00%) Aruba
20 40 (1.86%) Bloomberg