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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 61 64
Rank change year-on-year +20 +3 +40
Permanent jobs citing DNS 28 26 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 3.39% 1.70% 3.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 19.55% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 19 18 28
10th Percentile - £26,400 £30,000
25th Percentile £25,438 £27,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £28,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -23.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £39,018 £44,500 £52,188
90th Percentile - £51,350 £59,300
UK median annual salary £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -14.44% +5.88% -10.53%

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 196 133 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 23.70% 8.71% 16.48%
Number of salaries quoted 156 72 101
10th Percentile £21,620 £23,750 £25,000
25th Percentile - £26,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,087 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.32% -12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £31,688 £50,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £69,800
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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
South Wales +13 15 £38,094 +32.50% 2
North Wales +6 7 £25,875 -23.90%
Mid Wales - 2 £32,500 - 1
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 21 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (60.71%) Azure
3 8 (28.57%) IaaS
3 8 (28.57%) PaaS
3 8 (28.57%) SaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (46.43%) DHCP
1 13 (46.43%) TCP/IP
2 9 (32.14%) Firewall
3 8 (28.57%) VoIP
3 8 (28.57%) VPN
4 6 (21.43%) Broadband
4 6 (21.43%) IP Telephony
5 2 (7.14%) Internet
5 2 (7.14%) LAN
5 2 (7.14%) Network Security
5 2 (7.14%) VLAN
5 2 (7.14%) WAN
5 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
General
1 24 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
2 8 (28.57%) Welsh Language
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Analyst
2 8 (28.57%) Server Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Technical Support
3 6 (21.43%) Support Analyst
3 6 (21.43%) Systems Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Technical Analyst
3 6 (21.43%) Technical Support Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) Service Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Service Desk Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Service Desk Support
7 1 (3.57%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) IoT
2 6 (21.43%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 22 (78.57%) Windows
2 18 (64.29%) Windows Server
3 6 (21.43%) Linux
3 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 5 (17.86%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.57%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (67.86%) Customer Service
3 12 (42.86%) ITIL
4 8 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (28.57%) Data Collection
4 8 (28.57%) Incident Management
4 8 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
4 8 (28.57%) Proactive Maintenance
4 8 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
4 8 (28.57%) Problem Management
4 8 (28.57%) Server Migrations
4 8 (28.57%) Service Management
5 6 (21.43%) Customer Experience
5 6 (21.43%) Email Filtering
5 6 (21.43%) Kalman Filter
5 6 (21.43%) Migration
5 6 (21.43%) Time Management
5 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 6 (21.43%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 6 (21.43%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 8 (28.57%) DBS Check
1 8 (28.57%) MCSA
1 8 (28.57%) MCSE
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (32.14%) SLA
2 6 (21.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (21.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (78.57%) Active Directory
2 8 (28.57%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (21.43%) Hyper-V
3 6 (21.43%) Terminal Server
4 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) SCCM
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 7 (25.00%) VMware
3 6 (21.43%) Brocade
3 6 (21.43%) Nimble Storage
3 6 (21.43%) Splunk
3 6 (21.43%) Tanium
3 6 (21.43%) Veeam
4 4 (14.29%) Citrix
4 4 (14.29%) ServiceNow