DNS Jobs in England

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 172 200
Rank change year-on-year +46 +28 -41
Permanent jobs citing DNS 1,945 1,967 2,704
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 2.27% 2.18% 2.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.13% 13.90% 15.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,631 1,539 2,119
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,475
25th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £78,750
UK median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 12,058 14,150 17,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.07% 15.71% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8,518 7,301 10,417
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in England

DNS
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for DNS in England

DNS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in England

DNS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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
London +43 502 £55,001 +0.00% 104
South East +2 438 £42,500 +6.25% 81
North of England +26 342 £42,500 - 87
Midlands +69 307 £39,000 +0.65% 72
South West +18 204 £37,500 -8.54% 38
North West +4 185 £45,000 - 55
West Midlands +57 166 £42,500 +9.68% 43
East of England -9 147 £41,500 -2.35% 43
East Midlands +58 137 £37,500 +2.74% 29
Yorkshire +53 115 £32,500 -17.20% 27
North East +8 48 £42,500 +13.33% 5
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 474 (24.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 305 (15.68%) SharePoint
3 118 (6.07%) IIS
4 34 (1.75%) Exchange Server 2013
4 34 (1.75%) WordPress
5 33 (1.70%) CMS
6 28 (1.44%) Exchange Server 2010
6 28 (1.44%) WebLogic
7 23 (1.18%) Apache
7 23 (1.18%) nginx
8 22 (1.13%) Confluence
8 22 (1.13%) Exchange Server 2007
9 11 (0.57%) Skype for Business
10 9 (0.46%) Tomcat
11 7 (0.36%) Umbraco
12 5 (0.26%) SAS
13 4 (0.21%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2003
14 2 (0.10%) Moodle
14 2 (0.10%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 238 (12.24%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.31%) Trello
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.15%) SPSS
7 2 (0.10%) CATIA
7 2 (0.10%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 28 (1.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (0.82%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.21%) Epicor Tropos
5 4 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.21%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.10%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.10%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.10%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.051%) Carpe Diem
7 1 (0.051%) Eikon
7 1 (0.051%) Sage 300 ERP
7 1 (0.051%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.051%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.051%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.051%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,070 (55.01%) Azure
2 918 (47.20%) Microsoft 365
3 392 (20.15%) AWS
4 349 (17.94%) Entra ID
5 112 (5.76%) IaaS
6 106 (5.45%) OneDrive
7 75 (3.86%) PaaS
8 74 (3.80%) SaaS
9 73 (3.75%) Power Platform
10 72 (3.70%) GCP
11 56 (2.88%) Azure DevOps
12 49 (2.52%) Mimecast
13 45 (2.31%) Nutanix
14 43 (2.21%) GitHub
15 35 (1.80%) OpenShift
16 33 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
17 29 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (1.44%) Amazon SQS
19 27 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
20 26 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1,220 (62.72%) DHCP
2 800 (41.13%) Firewall
3 629 (32.34%) TCP/IP
4 394 (20.26%) WAN
5 391 (20.10%) VPN
6 347 (17.84%) LAN
7 256 (13.16%) VLAN
8 213 (10.95%) Wi-Fi
9 191 (9.82%) Wireless
10 183 (9.41%) SAN
11 138 (7.10%) SSL
12 126 (6.48%) HTTP
13 108 (5.55%) Network Security
13 108 (5.55%) VoIP
14 97 (4.99%) Internet
15 93 (4.78%) SD-WAN
16 84 (4.32%) BGP
17 64 (3.29%) OSPF
18 62 (3.19%) SNMP
19 57 (2.93%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (10.54%) SQL Server
2 69 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (2.47%) MySQL
4 39 (2.01%) Oracle Database
5 38 (1.95%) Relational Database
6 37 (1.90%) Power BI
7 33 (1.70%) RDBMS
8 21 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
11 13 (0.67%) Redis
12 11 (0.57%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.46%) NoSQL
14 6 (0.31%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.21%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.15%) Amazon Aurora
16 3 (0.15%) Crystal Reports
16 3 (0.15%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 60 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 47 (2.42%) JIRA
3 38 (1.95%) Git
4 19 (0.98%) GitLab
5 10 (0.51%) Trac
6 7 (0.36%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.36%) Katalon Studio
7 6 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.26%) Subversion
9 4 (0.21%) Charles Proxy
9 4 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.10%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.10%) git-flow
11 2 (0.10%) Hudson
11 2 (0.10%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.051%) Selenium
12 1 (0.051%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.051%) Zephyr
General
1 548 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 225 (11.57%) Finance
3 197 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (3.60%) Telecoms
5 52 (2.67%) Law
5 52 (2.67%) Public Sector
6 48 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 44 (2.26%) Banking
8 36 (1.85%) Marketing
9 34 (1.75%) Aerospace
10 31 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (1.59%) Legal
10 31 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 29 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
13 24 (1.23%) Retail
14 15 (0.77%) Games
15 9 (0.46%) Automotive
15 9 (0.46%) Electronics
16 7 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 382 (19.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 267 (13.73%) Senior
3 243 (12.49%) Analyst
3 243 (12.49%) IT Support
4 241 (12.39%) Support Engineer
5 219 (11.26%) IT Engineer
6 129 (6.63%) Network Engineer
7 116 (5.96%) IT Support Engineer
8 109 (5.60%) Lead
9 108 (5.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 95 (4.88%) 2nd Line Support
11 86 (4.42%) Architect
12 85 (4.37%) Support Analyst
13 82 (4.22%) 3rd Line Support
14 80 (4.11%) IT Technician
15 76 (3.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 76 (3.91%) Administrator
16 75 (3.86%) Systems Engineer
17 71 (3.65%) IT Analyst
18 66 (3.39%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (3.70%) HTML
2 69 (3.55%) .NET
3 52 (2.67%) REST
4 50 (2.57%) SAML
5 46 (2.37%) CSS
6 38 (1.95%) ARM Templates
7 36 (1.85%) React
8 35 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
9 34 (1.75%) OpenID
10 33 (1.70%) YAML
11 32 (1.65%) 802.1X
11 32 (1.65%) LDAP
12 31 (1.59%) ASP.NET
13 28 (1.44%) jQuery
13 28 (1.44%) Spring Boot
14 23 (1.18%) ASP.NET MVC
14 23 (1.18%) RESTful
15 22 (1.13%) AngularJS
15 22 (1.13%) Vue
16 20 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 149 (7.66%) Data Centre
2 120 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
3 108 (5.55%) Driving Licence
4 105 (5.40%) PKI
5 87 (4.47%) Public Cloud
6 66 (3.39%) Replication
7 61 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
8 55 (2.83%) Onboarding
9 52 (2.67%) Management Information System
10 42 (2.16%) Cyberattack
11 39 (2.01%) Client/Server
12 36 (1.85%) Clustering
13 31 (1.59%) Security Posture
14 30 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
15 25 (1.29%) Cloud Native
15 25 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
16 20 (1.03%) IoT
17 17 (0.87%) CCTV
18 16 (0.82%) Eurex
18 16 (0.82%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1,291 (66.38%) Windows
2 788 (40.51%) Windows Server
3 418 (21.49%) Linux
4 251 (12.90%) Windows 10
5 216 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 183 (9.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 157 (8.07%) Windows Server 2012
8 89 (4.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 70 (3.60%) Windows Server 2008
10 67 (3.44%) Android
11 61 (3.14%) Apple iOS
12 59 (3.03%) Unix
13 48 (2.47%) Mac OS
14 37 (1.90%) CentOS
14 37 (1.90%) Windows 7
15 35 (1.80%) Ubuntu
16 31 (1.59%) VMS
17 30 (1.54%) Windows 8
18 20 (1.03%) Mac OS X
18 20 (1.03%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (23.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 414 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
3 401 (20.62%) ITIL
4 253 (13.01%) Customer Service
5 241 (12.39%) Agile
6 238 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
7 232 (11.93%) DevOps
8 203 (10.44%) Disaster Recovery
9 158 (8.12%) Migration
10 127 (6.53%) Project Management
11 107 (5.50%) Infrastructure as Code
12 101 (5.19%) Information Security
13 100 (5.14%) Load Balancing
14 99 (5.09%) Collaborative Working
15 96 (4.94%) Continuous Improvement
16 95 (4.88%) Mentoring
17 93 (4.78%) CI/CD
18 88 (4.52%) Service Management
19 82 (4.22%) Computer Science
20 81 (4.16%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 439 (22.57%) PowerShell
2 209 (10.75%) Python
3 196 (10.08%) SQL
4 121 (6.22%) Bash
5 85 (4.37%) Java
6 74 (3.80%) C#
7 62 (3.19%) JavaScript
8 53 (2.72%) Perl
9 34 (1.75%) T-SQL
10 30 (1.54%) VBScript
11 23 (1.18%) Ruby
12 21 (1.08%) VB
13 20 (1.03%) PHP
14 19 (0.98%) XAML
15 18 (0.93%) Bicep
16 17 (0.87%) C++
17 12 (0.62%) C
18 10 (0.51%) PL/SQL
19 5 (0.26%) Shell Script
19 5 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 255 (13.11%) Degree
2 241 (12.39%) Security Cleared
3 131 (6.74%) SC Cleared
4 129 (6.63%) Cisco Certification
4 129 (6.63%) DV Cleared
5 128 (6.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 110 (5.66%) CCNA
7 93 (4.78%) Azure Certification
8 64 (3.29%) AWS Certification
9 56 (2.88%) MCSE
10 49 (2.52%) CCNP
11 48 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 46 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
12 46 (2.37%) DBS Check
13 38 (1.95%) MCSA
14 36 (1.85%) A+ Certification
15 34 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
16 32 (1.65%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 31 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 26 (1.34%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (5.96%) SLA
2 63 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
4 32 (1.65%) GDPR
5 16 (0.82%) COBIT
5 16 (0.82%) NIST
6 14 (0.72%) SOC 2
7 13 (0.67%) Data Quality
8 9 (0.46%) PMO
9 8 (0.41%) Accessibility
9 8 (0.41%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.36%) NCSC
11 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.31%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.31%) QA
12 3 (0.15%) JSP 440
13 2 (0.10%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.051%) GxP
14 1 (0.051%) ISO 20022
14 1 (0.051%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,230 (63.24%) Active Directory
2 456 (23.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 396 (20.36%) Hyper-V
4 114 (5.86%) VMware ESXi
5 92 (4.73%) Docker
6 86 (4.42%) Virtual Machines
7 73 (3.75%) vSphere
8 67 (3.44%) Virtual Servers
9 43 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 20 (1.03%) Firmware
10 20 (1.03%) NFS
10 20 (1.03%) Terminal Services
11 18 (0.93%) pfSense
12 15 (0.77%) XenApp
13 9 (0.46%) VMware NSX
13 9 (0.46%) XenDesktop
14 8 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
14 8 (0.41%) VMware Server
15 7 (0.36%) DFS Replication
15 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 295 (15.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 144 (7.40%) SCCM
3 131 (6.74%) Terraform
4 127 (6.53%) Ansible
5 119 (6.12%) WSUS
6 107 (5.50%) Kubernetes
7 78 (4.01%) Puppet
8 76 (3.91%) SCOM
9 74 (3.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 60 (3.08%) vCenter Server
11 52 (2.67%) Single Sign-On
12 36 (1.85%) Grafana
13 28 (1.44%) FortiGate
14 25 (1.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 23 (1.18%) ZABBIX
16 22 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
16 22 (1.13%) NetBackup
17 20 (1.03%) Nagios
17 20 (1.03%) Progress Chef
18 18 (0.93%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,045 (53.73%) Microsoft
2 644 (33.11%) VMware
3 288 (14.81%) Cisco
4 184 (9.46%) Veeam
5 161 (8.28%) Citrix
6 101 (5.19%) Dell
7 100 (5.14%) HP
8 95 (4.88%) Oracle
9 87 (4.47%) Red Hat
10 83 (4.27%) Juniper
11 82 (4.22%) Apple
12 80 (4.11%) Fortinet
13 70 (3.60%) SolarWinds
14 60 (3.08%) Google
14 60 (3.08%) Meraki
15 48 (2.47%) Palo Alto
16 43 (2.21%) Sophos
17 39 (2.01%) Bloomberg
18 36 (1.85%) Aruba
19 35 (1.80%) ServiceNow