DNS Job Trends in Yorkshire

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 88 98
Rank change year-on-year -33 +10 +35
Permanent jobs citing DNS 78 78 125
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.13% 2.26% 2.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.29% 13.76% 17.19%
Number of salaries quoted 70 61 86
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £27,375 £29,250 £28,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £32,750
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +22.14% -9.66%
75th Percentile £44,688 £48,750 £42,875
90th Percentile £56,500 £67,500 £55,000
England median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -8.05% +2.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 510 567 727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 7.38% 16.46% 12.06%
Number of salaries quoted 312 374 529
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,087 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £32,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -23.53% -5.56%
75th Percentile £57,239 £48,750 £60,352
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

DNS
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing DNS

DNS
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in Yorkshire

DNS
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
West Yorkshire -27 46 £32,500 -21.69% 10
East Yorkshire -13 12 £27,500 -1.79% 3
South Yorkshire -41 6 £37,500 +15.38% 4
Humberside - 1 £42,500 - 2
DNS
England

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 25 (32.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (29.49%) SharePoint
3 6 (7.69%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (25.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (69.23%) Microsoft 365
2 40 (51.28%) Azure
3 13 (16.67%) AWS
4 11 (14.10%) Entra ID
5 8 (10.26%) Power Platform
6 5 (6.41%) GitHub
6 5 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.85%) GCP
7 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (2.56%) Cloudflare
8 2 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.56%) Google Workspace
8 2 (2.56%) IaaS
8 2 (2.56%) Kong
8 2 (2.56%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 70 (89.74%) DHCP
2 39 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 35 (44.87%) LAN
4 34 (43.59%) WAN
5 26 (33.33%) VPN
6 20 (25.64%) Firewall
7 13 (16.67%) VLAN
8 8 (10.26%) BGP
8 8 (10.26%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (8.97%) HTTP
10 6 (7.69%) NAS
10 6 (7.69%) SAN
10 6 (7.69%) SD-WAN
10 6 (7.69%) VoIP
11 4 (5.13%) Asterisk PBX
11 4 (5.13%) MPLS
11 4 (5.13%) OSPF
11 4 (5.13%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (5.13%) VPLS
12 3 (3.85%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (10.26%) Power BI
4 6 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.13%) GitLab
General
1 23 (29.49%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.82%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (10.26%) Advertising
4 6 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Law
6 3 (3.85%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.28%) Legal
7 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (60.26%) IT Support
2 22 (28.21%) IT Technician
3 21 (26.92%) IT Support Technician
3 21 (26.92%) Support Technician
4 16 (20.51%) Senior
5 15 (19.23%) Support Engineer
6 14 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (17.95%) IT Engineer
7 12 (15.38%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (11.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (10.26%) Infrastructure Support
10 4 (5.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (5.13%) Analyst
11 3 (3.85%) Network Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) Service Analyst
11 3 (3.85%) Service Desk Analyst
11 3 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (3.85%) Technical Engineer
11 3 (3.85%) Technical Support Analyst
11 3 (3.85%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.13%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.56%) Web Services
4 1 (1.28%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.28%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.79%) Driving Licence
2 10 (12.82%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.13%) PKI
4 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.28%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 59 (75.64%) Windows
2 46 (58.97%) Windows Server
3 7 (8.97%) Linux
4 6 (7.69%) Mac OS
4 6 (7.69%) Windows 10
5 4 (5.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (3.85%) Android
6 3 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.56%) Apple iOS
7 2 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.18%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (32.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (24.36%) Service Delivery
5 15 (19.23%) ERP
5 15 (19.23%) Incident Management
6 14 (17.95%) ITIL
7 13 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (15.38%) Customer Service
8 12 (15.38%) Patch Management
9 11 (14.10%) Mentoring
10 10 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (11.54%) ITSM
11 9 (11.54%) Knowledge Transfer
12 8 (10.26%) Analytics
12 8 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (10.26%) Data Analytics
12 8 (10.26%) E-Commerce
13 7 (8.97%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.79%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.41%) Python
3 3 (3.85%) Bash
3 3 (3.85%) Bicep
3 3 (3.85%) Go
4 2 (2.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 9 (11.54%) A+ Certification
2 9 (11.54%) Network+ Certification
2 9 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 8 (10.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 5 (6.41%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.13%) CCNA
5 4 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.56%) DBS Check
6 2 (2.56%) Degree
7 1 (1.28%) ACSP
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 3 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 65 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 16 (20.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (17.95%) Hyper-V
4 7 (8.97%) vSphere
5 6 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (5.13%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.56%) Docker
7 2 (2.56%) Terminal Services
7 2 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (12.82%) WSUS
2 7 (8.97%) Ansible
2 7 (8.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.97%) Terraform
3 6 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (7.69%) VxRail
4 3 (3.85%) Grafana
4 3 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.56%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 55 (70.51%) Microsoft
2 29 (37.18%) VMware
3 13 (16.67%) Citrix
4 11 (14.10%) Cisco
5 10 (12.82%) Veeam
6 9 (11.54%) Meraki
7 6 (7.69%) Commvault
7 6 (7.69%) Dell
7 6 (7.69%) HP
7 6 (7.69%) Tenable
7 6 (7.69%) Zerto
8 4 (5.13%) Splunk
9 3 (3.85%) Google
9 3 (3.85%) SAP
10 2 (2.56%) Apple
10 2 (2.56%) Arista
10 2 (2.56%) F5
10 2 (2.56%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.56%) WatchGuard
11 1 (1.28%) SonicWALL