DNS Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 63 64
Rank change year-on-year -45 +1 +37
Permanent jobs citing DNS 35 48 70
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.86% 3.10% 2.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.23% 24.24% 22.29%
Number of salaries quoted 24 44 46
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,063 £32,750 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £46,100 £34,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.50% +35.59% -2.86%
75th Percentile £51,178 £48,750 £44,795
90th Percentile £64,875 £67,500 £55,625
Yorkshire median annual salary £32,500 £41,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year -21.69% +27.69% -5.80%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 182 198 314
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.47% 12.77% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 120 145 208
10th Percentile £27,225 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £38,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.88% -23.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,910 £58,750 £65,625
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £78,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £35,500 £32,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +10.94% -24.71% -5.56%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

DNS job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

DNS
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in West Yorkshire

DNS
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 August 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
Leeds -36 26 £32,500 -31.58% 3
Wakefield -5 6 £31,000 - 2
Bradford -13 2 £43,161 +4.00% 1
Huddersfield - 1 £42,500 -
DNS
Yorkshire

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (11.43%) IIS
3 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (48.57%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (45.71%) Azure
3 6 (17.14%) AWS
4 5 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 5 (14.29%) IaaS
5 3 (8.57%) PaaS
6 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (5.71%) Cloudflare
6 2 (5.71%) GitHub
6 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (5.71%) Kong
6 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.86%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
7 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.86%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.86%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 29 (82.86%) DHCP
2 21 (60.00%) LAN
3 20 (57.14%) WAN
4 18 (51.43%) TCP/IP
5 12 (34.29%) VPN
6 9 (25.71%) Firewall
7 6 (17.14%) VLAN
8 5 (14.29%) HTTP
8 5 (14.29%) NAS
8 5 (14.29%) SAN
9 4 (11.43%) BGP
9 4 (11.43%) OSPF
9 4 (11.43%) SSL
9 4 (11.43%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
11 2 (5.71%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (5.71%) Network Security
11 2 (5.71%) NGFW
11 2 (5.71%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Finance
3 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.86%) Legal
3 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) IT Support
2 11 (31.43%) Senior
3 6 (17.14%) IT Support Technician
3 6 (17.14%) IT Technician
3 6 (17.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (17.14%) Support Technician
4 5 (14.29%) Analyst
4 5 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) IT Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Service Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Service Desk Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Service Desk Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Service Desk Support Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Services Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Support
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Support Analyst
5 4 (11.43%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Web Services
2 1 (2.86%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) Driving Licence
2 7 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.86%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (74.29%) Windows
2 23 (65.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.43%) Linux
4 3 (8.57%) VMS
5 1 (2.86%) Android
5 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (28.57%) ITIL
3 10 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 9 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (25.71%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (22.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 7 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (20.00%) ITSM
6 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 6 (17.14%) ERP
7 6 (17.14%) Knowledge Transfer
8 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
8 4 (11.43%) Data Loss Prevention
8 4 (11.43%) Patch Management
9 3 (8.57%) Coaching
9 3 (8.57%) DevOps
9 3 (8.57%) Project Delivery
9 3 (8.57%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.71%) Bicep
2 2 (5.71%) Groovy
2 2 (5.71%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) A+ Certification
1 6 (17.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 6 (17.14%) Network+ Certification
2 3 (8.57%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.71%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (8.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 28 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.71%) Docker
4 2 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) WSUS
2 5 (14.29%) VxRail
3 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (8.57%) Terraform
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.71%) SCCM
5 2 (5.71%) SCOM
6 1 (2.86%) Avamar
6 1 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 26 (74.29%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.71%) VMware
3 7 (20.00%) Cisco
4 6 (17.14%) Meraki
5 5 (14.29%) Dell
5 5 (14.29%) Veeam
5 5 (14.29%) Zerto
6 4 (11.43%) Commvault
6 4 (11.43%) HP
6 4 (11.43%) SAP
6 4 (11.43%) Tenable
7 3 (8.57%) Citrix
8 2 (5.71%) Arista
8 2 (5.71%) F5
8 2 (5.71%) Oracle
8 2 (5.71%) Palo Alto
8 2 (5.71%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.86%) Apple
9 1 (2.86%) Google
9 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds