Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DNSSEC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DNSSEC over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 680 901 -
Rank change year-on-year +221 - -
Permanent jobs citing DNSSEC 10 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.001% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% 0.007% -
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £67,500 - -
25th Percentile £69,447 £61,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £62,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.19% - -
75th Percentile £73,886 £63,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £71,991 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

DNSSEC 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,867 13,519 15,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.52% 13.64% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,307 9,433 8,018
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,625 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.31% -3.06% -2.64%

DNSSEC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DNSSEC in the UK

DNSSEC
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DNSSEC in the UK

DNSSEC
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNSSEC within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +169 10 £71,991 +15.19% 1
UK excluding London - 10 £71,991 -
North of England - 10 £71,991 -
Yorkshire - 10 £71,991 -
Work from Home +151 8 £71,991 +15.19% 1

DNSSEC
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 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 10 (100.00%) SaaS
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DKIM
1 10 (100.00%) DMARC
1 10 (100.00%) Internet
1 10 (100.00%) SMTP
General
1 10 (100.00%) Finance
2 8 (80.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Lead
1 10 (100.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Online Security
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
1 10 (100.00%) IronPort
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) Veritas