DNS Jobs in Wales

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 97 97
Rank change year-on-year +37 0 -33
Permanent jobs citing DNS 60 31 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.92% 1.87% 2.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.17% 12.06% 15.94%
Number of salaries quoted 34 27 35
10th Percentile £25,025 £30,000 £38,650
25th Percentile £28,344 £31,000 £43,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £37,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -25.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £55,625
90th Percentile £52,500 £46,500 £69,750
UK median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 259 257 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 12.62% 15.54% 14.44%
Number of salaries quoted 148 80 139
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,113 £27,600
25th Percentile £28,290 £30,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £37,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% -16.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile £47,500 £55,563 £55,625
90th Percentile £57,500 £69,196 £75,000
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 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

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

Salary trend for DNS in Wales

DNS
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Wales over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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 8 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 Wales +32 49 £36,476 -2.73% 4
North Wales +7 11 £34,000 +6.25% 2
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 14 (23.33%) Skype for Business
2 10 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (11.67%) OpenStack
4 4 (6.67%) WebLogic
5 2 (3.33%) CMS
5 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.67%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.67%) Azure
2 16 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (16.67%) AWS
4 7 (11.67%) Nutanix
5 5 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.33%) npm
7 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.67%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.67%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 27 (45.00%) Firewall
2 25 (41.67%) DHCP
3 14 (23.33%) IP Telephony
3 14 (23.33%) Wireless
4 12 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (10.00%) SAN
6 5 (8.33%) Extranet
6 5 (8.33%) Internet
6 5 (8.33%) Unified Communications
7 4 (6.67%) BGP
7 4 (6.67%) MPLS
7 4 (6.67%) SSL
7 4 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (5.00%) LAN
8 3 (5.00%) Network Security
8 3 (5.00%) VPN
8 3 (5.00%) WAN
9 2 (3.33%) VLAN
9 2 (3.33%) VoIP
10 1 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) GIS
2 4 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle Database
2 4 (6.67%) RDBMS
2 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.33%) MySQL
4 2 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Git
1 2 (3.33%) Grunt
1 2 (3.33%) webpack
General
1 24 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 6 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (8.33%) Local Government
3 5 (8.33%) Police
4 4 (6.67%) Finance
5 3 (5.00%) Advertising
6 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (56.67%) Senior
2 19 (31.67%) Network Engineer
3 14 (23.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 14 (23.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 14 (23.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 13 (21.67%) IT Support
5 7 (11.67%) IT Support Specialist
5 7 (11.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 7 (11.67%) Senior IT Support
5 7 (11.67%) Support Specialist
6 5 (8.33%) ICT Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) IT Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Lead
6 5 (8.33%) Performance Specialist
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior Technical Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (6.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (3.33%) Doctrine
2 2 (3.33%) HTML
2 2 (3.33%) Sass
2 2 (3.33%) Symfony
2 2 (3.33%) Vue
3 1 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 32 (53.33%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (8.33%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Clustering
6 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Life Science
6 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.67%) Replication
6 1 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.67%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (51.67%) Windows
2 25 (41.67%) Windows Server
3 17 (28.33%) Linux
4 7 (11.67%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (5.00%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
7 2 (3.33%) VMS
7 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.67%) Android
8 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
2 16 (26.67%) Business Continuity
3 15 (25.00%) Network Management
3 15 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (23.33%) Customer Service
4 14 (23.33%) Incident Management
5 13 (21.67%) Agile
6 12 (20.00%) ITIL
6 12 (20.00%) Project Management
7 10 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 8 (13.33%) Mentoring
9 7 (11.67%) Agile Project Management
9 7 (11.67%) Hardware Maintenance
9 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Maintenance
10 6 (10.00%) Business Development
10 6 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (10.00%) Economics
11 5 (8.33%) Load Balancing
11 5 (8.33%) Power Management
11 5 (8.33%) Re-Platforming
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.67%) Bash
3 1 (1.67%) Bicep
3 1 (1.67%) Python
3 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (15.00%) Degree
3 4 (6.67%) A+ Certification
3 4 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 4 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.00%) CCNA
4 3 (5.00%) CCNP
4 3 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.67%) CISMP
5 1 (1.67%) CISSP
5 1 (1.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) SLA
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 9 (15.00%) Docker
3 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (21.67%) SCCM
2 7 (11.67%) Ansible
2 7 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (8.33%) SCOM
4 2 (3.33%) Terraform
5 1 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.67%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 49 (81.67%) Microsoft
2 18 (30.00%) Cisco
3 14 (23.33%) Avaya
3 14 (23.33%) Mitel
4 8 (13.33%) VMware
5 6 (10.00%) HP
6 5 (8.33%) Citrix
6 5 (8.33%) NetApp
7 4 (6.67%) Oracle
7 4 (6.67%) Sparx
8 3 (5.00%) Veeam
9 2 (3.33%) Dell
9 2 (3.33%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.67%) Canon
10 1 (1.67%) IBM
10 1 (1.67%) Meraki
10 1 (1.67%) Sophos