DNS Job Trends in Wales

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 45 62
Rank change year-on-year -11 +17 +25
Permanent jobs citing DNS 35 19 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 2.12% 3.54% 2.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.97% 13.29% 25.37%
Number of salaries quoted 29 16 34
10th Percentile £25,000 £28,344 £25,025
25th Percentile £36,750 £36,378 £28,344
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £38,094 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.13% +12.04% -9.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £53,063 £45,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £53,252 £52,500
UK median annual salary £42,000 £42,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year -1.18% -2.30% +2.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 146 143 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 8.83% 26.68% 11.01%
Number of salaries quoted 100 117 147
10th Percentile £21,620 £23,504 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,290
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £47,500 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.74% +17.28% +6.58%
75th Percentile £51,875 £60,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £75,120 £78,750 £57,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DNS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wales.

DNS job vacancy trend in Wales

DNS
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Wales over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in Wales

DNS
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 10 May 2026. 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 Wales -7 31 £43,000 +2.71% 5
West Wales -15 3 £45,000 -8.36% 1
North Wales -11 1 £34,000 +31.40% 1
Dyfed - 1 £45,000 -
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.86%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (40.00%) Azure
3 9 (25.71%) AWS
4 6 (17.14%) SaaS
5 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
5 4 (11.43%) GCP
6 3 (8.57%) OneDrive
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.71%) Cloudflare
7 2 (5.71%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (71.43%) DHCP
2 16 (45.71%) Firewall
3 14 (40.00%) WAN
4 11 (31.43%) TCP/IP
4 11 (31.43%) VPN
5 10 (28.57%) LAN
6 8 (22.86%) BGP
6 8 (22.86%) MPLS
7 7 (20.00%) SSL
8 4 (11.43%) HSRP
8 4 (11.43%) SD-WAN
8 4 (11.43%) VLAN
8 4 (11.43%) VoIP
8 4 (11.43%) VPLS
8 4 (11.43%) VRRP
9 3 (8.57%) IPsec
9 3 (8.57%) Network Security
9 3 (8.57%) SSH
9 3 (8.57%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Amazon RDS
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Senior
2 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 11 (31.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (20.00%) Network Engineer
5 7 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Head of Cybersecurity
6 4 (11.43%) Head of IT
6 4 (11.43%) Help Desk Technician
6 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) IT Technician
6 4 (11.43%) Senior IT Technician
6 4 (11.43%) Senior Technician
6 4 (11.43%) Support Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) IT Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) IT Support
7 3 (8.57%) IT Support Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 1 (2.86%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) PKI
2 6 (17.14%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (11.43%) CMDB
3 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
3 4 (11.43%) Digital Media
3 4 (11.43%) Driving Licence
3 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (77.14%) Windows
2 21 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 12 (34.29%) Linux
4 10 (28.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (11.43%) Unix
5 4 (11.43%) Windows 10
5 4 (11.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.86%) Windows 7
6 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (34.29%) Computer Science
2 12 (34.29%) ITIL
2 12 (34.29%) SIEM
3 10 (28.57%) Customer Service
4 9 (25.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (22.86%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (20.00%) Incident Response
6 7 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 7 (20.00%) Service Management
7 6 (17.14%) Customer Experience
7 6 (17.14%) Email Filtering
7 6 (17.14%) Kalman Filter
7 6 (17.14%) Migration
7 6 (17.14%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 6 (17.14%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 6 (17.14%) Web Filtering
8 4 (11.43%) Security Operations
8 4 (11.43%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (34.29%) Degree
3 8 (22.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
4 7 (20.00%) CCIE
4 7 (20.00%) CCNP
4 7 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (11.43%) CEH
5 4 (11.43%) CISM
5 4 (11.43%) CISSP
6 3 (8.57%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (22.86%) NIST
2 6 (17.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (17.14%) PCI DSS
3 4 (11.43%) GDPR
3 4 (11.43%) SOC 2
4 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (54.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (51.43%) Active Directory
3 13 (37.14%) Hyper-V
4 8 (22.86%) VMware NSX
5 7 (20.00%) vSphere
6 6 (17.14%) Terminal Server
7 4 (11.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Ansible
2 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (71.43%) VMware
2 22 (62.86%) Microsoft
3 10 (28.57%) Splunk
4 7 (20.00%) SolarWinds
5 6 (17.14%) Brocade
5 6 (17.14%) Nimble Storage
5 6 (17.14%) Tanium
5 6 (17.14%) Veeam
6 4 (11.43%) Cisco