DNS Job Trends in the West Midlands

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 113 61
Rank change year-on-year 0 -52 +90
Permanent jobs citing DNS 66 88 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.25% 2.12% 3.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.41% 12.92% 17.95%
Number of salaries quoted 46 55 120
10th Percentile £27,250 - £28,063
25th Percentile £27,900 £32,500 £35,656
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £57,500 £40,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £70,625 £53,000 £57,385
England median annual salary £36,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.89% - -5.26%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,221 681 752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.10% 16.44% 19.94%
Number of salaries quoted 237 301 670
10th Percentile £26,750 £32,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -4.26%
75th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,600 £74,144 £71,375
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

DNS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DNS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in the West Midlands

DNS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Birmingham +24 22 £52,500 +41.89% 5
Staffordshire -32 13 £29,625 -15.36% 5
Shropshire -7 10 £27,500 -31.25% 1
Solihull +5 5 - -
West Bromwich - 4 £28,600 -
Herefordshire - 4 £57,500 - 1
Coventry - 4 £49,050 - 2
Warwickshire +12 2 £32,000 -
Worcestershire -15 1 £37,500 +2.74% 3
Kingswinford - 1 £30,500 -
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (12.12%) Confluence
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (9.09%) SharePoint
4 4 (6.06%) nginx
5 2 (3.03%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 25 (37.88%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (36.36%) Azure
3 17 (25.76%) Entra ID
4 13 (19.70%) AWS
5 12 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (13.64%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (13.64%) Amazon ELB
6 9 (13.64%) Amazon S3
6 9 (13.64%) AWS KMS
6 9 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon Glacier
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.06%) GCP
8 4 (6.06%) IaaS
8 4 (6.06%) PaaS
8 4 (6.06%) Route 53
8 4 (6.06%) SaaS
9 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (4.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 46 (69.70%) DHCP
2 25 (37.88%) VPN
3 24 (36.36%) Firewall
4 19 (28.79%) Wi-Fi
5 15 (22.73%) WAN
6 14 (21.21%) HTTP
6 14 (21.21%) VoIP
7 13 (19.70%) SSH
7 13 (19.70%) Wireless
8 12 (18.18%) Ethernet
8 12 (18.18%) LAN
9 11 (16.67%) FTP
9 11 (16.67%) SMTP
10 10 (15.15%) TCP/IP
11 9 (13.64%) ADSL
11 9 (13.64%) Internet
11 9 (13.64%) VDSL
12 7 (10.61%) Broadband
12 7 (10.61%) VLAN
13 6 (9.09%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (13.64%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (12.12%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (18.18%) JIRA
2 10 (15.15%) Git
2 10 (15.15%) Jenkins
3 9 (13.64%) Vagrant
4 4 (6.06%) LabVIEW
5 2 (3.03%) GitLab
5 2 (3.03%) Subversion
6 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 17 (25.76%) Manufacturing
3 8 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.58%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Automotive
8 1 (1.52%) Legal
8 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (31.82%) Support Engineer
2 19 (28.79%) Technical Support
3 13 (19.70%) IT Engineer
4 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (18.18%) IT Support
5 11 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (13.64%) Analyst
6 9 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (13.64%) IT Support Engineer
6 9 (13.64%) Technical Engineer
6 9 (13.64%) Technical Support Engineer
7 7 (10.61%) Support Analyst
8 6 (9.09%) 2nd Line Technical Support
8 6 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (9.09%) Network Engineer
9 5 (7.58%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (7.58%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (6.06%) Help Desk Analyst
10 4 (6.06%) Help Desk Support
10 4 (6.06%) Help Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) LDAP
2 1 (1.52%) .NET
2 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.52%) Web Services
2 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (19.70%) Data Centre
1 13 (19.70%) Onboarding
2 6 (9.09%) Driving Licence
3 5 (7.58%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.06%) Replication
5 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.03%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.03%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.52%) Clustering
7 1 (1.52%) iSeries
7 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 32 (48.48%) Windows
2 20 (30.30%) Linux
3 14 (21.21%) Windows Server
4 9 (13.64%) VMS
5 7 (10.61%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (10.61%) Windows 10
6 5 (7.58%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (25.76%) ITIL
3 14 (21.21%) Customer Service
4 12 (18.18%) Cloud Security
4 12 (18.18%) DevOps
4 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (13.64%) Configuration Management
7 8 (12.12%) Patch Management
8 7 (10.61%) Change Management
8 7 (10.61%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (10.61%) Data Security
9 6 (9.09%) Agile
9 6 (9.09%) ERP
9 6 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
9 6 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (9.09%) Security Operations
10 5 (7.58%) Identity Access Management
10 5 (7.58%) Migration
10 5 (7.58%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.15%) Python
2 9 (13.64%) Groovy
3 8 (12.12%) PowerShell
3 8 (12.12%) SQL
4 5 (7.58%) Java
4 5 (7.58%) Perl
5 2 (3.03%) C#
5 2 (3.03%) Ruby
6 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.52%) VB
6 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 11 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.61%) Azure Certification
2 7 (10.61%) Degree
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.06%) CCNP
4 4 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.06%) HNC
4 4 (6.06%) MCP
4 4 (6.06%) MCSA
5 2 (3.03%) A+ Certification
5 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.03%) CEH
5 2 (3.03%) CISSP
5 2 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (3.03%) GSEC
5 2 (3.03%) OSCP
6 1 (1.52%) CCNA
6 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.09%) GDPR
2 5 (7.58%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 3 (4.55%) SLA
4 2 (3.03%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (48.48%) Active Directory
2 15 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (18.18%) Hyper-V
4 8 (12.12%) Docker
5 4 (6.06%) DFS Replication
5 4 (6.06%) Dovecot
5 4 (6.06%) Postfix
5 4 (6.06%) Squid
6 3 (4.55%) Firmware
6 3 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (22.73%) Terraform
2 7 (10.61%) Grafana
2 7 (10.61%) Nessus
2 7 (10.61%) Prometheus
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.06%) Proxmox
4 3 (4.55%) Dell DRAC
4 3 (4.55%) FortiGate
4 3 (4.55%) Nagios
4 3 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.52%) Puppet
5 1 (1.52%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 28 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 22 (33.33%) VMware
3 13 (19.70%) Cisco
4 11 (16.67%) Meraki
5 10 (15.15%) ServiceNow
6 5 (7.58%) Aruba
6 5 (7.58%) Fortinet
6 5 (7.58%) Panasonic
6 5 (7.58%) Samsung
6 5 (7.58%) SolarWinds
6 5 (7.58%) Veeam
7 4 (6.06%) Google
7 4 (6.06%) HP
7 4 (6.06%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (4.55%) Dell
8 3 (4.55%) Palo Alto
8 3 (4.55%) Zscaler
9 2 (3.03%) Juniper
9 2 (3.03%) Oracle
9 2 (3.03%) Qualys