DNS Jobs in the Midlands

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 166 112
Rank change year-on-year +72 -54 +6
Permanent jobs citing DNS 308 161 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.43% 1.82% 2.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.46% 9.52% 19.04%
Number of salaries quoted 261 144 277
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £25,300
25th Percentile £28,750 £31,813 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% -8.54%
75th Percentile £50,250 £47,813 £52,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £58,150
England median annual salary £44,225 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.06% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,583 1,691 1,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.48% 19.07% 15.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 716 1,087
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the Midlands

DNS
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for DNS in the Midlands

DNS
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the Midlands

DNS
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
West Midlands +51 165 £39,750 +3.25% 31
East Midlands +55 139 £37,500 +2.74% 19
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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
1 111 (36.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 78 (25.32%) SharePoint
3 26 (8.44%) IIS
4 5 (1.62%) Confluence
5 4 (1.30%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (1.30%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.97%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (17.21%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.65%) CATIA
3 2 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.65%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (1.30%) Sage 200
1 4 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.65%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.32%) Sage 300 ERP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 186 (60.39%) Microsoft 365
2 179 (58.12%) Azure
3 96 (31.17%) Entra ID
4 35 (11.36%) AWS
5 28 (9.09%) OneDrive
6 16 (5.19%) Mimecast
7 9 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.92%) IaaS
8 8 (2.60%) Nutanix
9 6 (1.95%) Google Workspace
10 5 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.62%) ChatGPT
10 5 (1.62%) PaaS
11 4 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.30%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.30%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.30%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.97%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 241 (78.25%) DHCP
2 141 (45.78%) Firewall
3 127 (41.23%) TCP/IP
4 69 (22.40%) WAN
5 68 (22.08%) VLAN
6 59 (19.16%) LAN
7 57 (18.51%) VPN
8 50 (16.23%) SAN
9 37 (12.01%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (7.47%) SSL
10 23 (7.47%) Wireless
11 21 (6.82%) SD-WAN
12 14 (4.55%) BGP
13 12 (3.90%) Remote Desktop
13 12 (3.90%) SMTP
14 11 (3.57%) iSCSI
14 11 (3.57%) SNMP
15 10 (3.25%) Fibre Channel
15 10 (3.25%) HTTP
15 10 (3.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.69%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.27%) Oracle Database
4 6 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.30%) Power BI
6 4 (1.30%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.30%) Redis
6 4 (1.30%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.65%) MySQL
7 2 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.60%) JIRA
2 5 (1.62%) Git
3 3 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.65%) GitLab
5 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 80 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 30 (9.74%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (6.82%) Finance
4 15 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.27%) Retail
10 6 (1.95%) Automotive
10 6 (1.95%) Law
11 5 (1.62%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.30%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.97%) Military
14 2 (0.65%) Back Office
14 2 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.65%) Legal
15 1 (0.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 64 (20.78%) IT Engineer
2 58 (18.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 58 (18.83%) IT Support
3 53 (17.21%) Support Engineer
4 43 (13.96%) Senior
5 34 (11.04%) Analyst
6 30 (9.74%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 30 (9.74%) IT Support Engineer
7 23 (7.47%) Administrator
8 21 (6.82%) Network Engineer
9 20 (6.49%) Lead
10 19 (6.17%) IT Technician
10 19 (6.17%) Service Analyst
10 19 (6.17%) Service Desk Analyst
10 19 (6.17%) Support Technician
11 16 (5.19%) Network Manager
12 15 (4.87%) IT Support Technician
12 15 (4.87%) Systems Administrator
13 14 (4.55%) 3rd Line Support
13 14 (4.55%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.87%) .NET
2 9 (2.92%) AngularJS
2 9 (2.92%) ASP.NET
2 9 (2.92%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (2.92%) CSS
2 9 (2.92%) HTML
2 9 (2.92%) jQuery
2 9 (2.92%) React
2 9 (2.92%) REST
2 9 (2.92%) Tailwind CSS
2 9 (2.92%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 9 (2.92%) Vue
2 9 (2.92%) WPF
3 8 (2.60%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.62%) JSON
4 5 (1.62%) YAML
5 4 (1.30%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (1.30%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.97%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.77%) Data Centre
2 24 (7.79%) Driving Licence
3 16 (5.19%) Public Cloud
3 16 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (4.87%) PKI
5 10 (3.25%) Clustering
5 10 (3.25%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.25%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.27%) EFT
7 6 (1.95%) Cyberattack
7 6 (1.95%) Replication
8 4 (1.30%) CCTV
8 4 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.30%) FMCG
8 4 (1.30%) IoT
8 4 (1.30%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (0.65%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.65%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 247 (80.19%) Windows
2 170 (55.19%) Windows Server
3 53 (17.21%) Windows Server 2016
4 51 (16.56%) Windows Server 2019
5 47 (15.26%) Windows 10
6 31 (10.06%) Linux
7 29 (9.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (4.55%) Apple iOS
9 12 (3.90%) Mac OS
10 8 (2.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (2.60%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (2.27%) Android
11 7 (2.27%) Ubuntu
12 6 (1.95%) CentOS
12 6 (1.95%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (1.62%) Mac OS X
14 4 (1.30%) VMS
15 2 (0.65%) Unix
15 2 (0.65%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (22.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 62 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (17.53%) Cybersecurity
4 47 (15.26%) ITIL
5 33 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 31 (10.06%) Customer Service
7 24 (7.79%) Migration
8 23 (7.47%) Change Control
8 23 (7.47%) Project Delivery
9 19 (6.17%) Patch Management
10 18 (5.84%) Agile
11 16 (5.19%) Change Management
11 16 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (5.19%) Project Management
12 15 (4.87%) Collaborative Working
12 15 (4.87%) Kalman Filter
12 15 (4.87%) Server Management
13 14 (4.55%) ERP
13 14 (4.55%) Load Balancing
14 13 (4.22%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (24.68%) PowerShell
2 28 (9.09%) SQL
3 9 (2.92%) C#
3 9 (2.92%) XAML
4 6 (1.95%) Bash
4 6 (1.95%) T-SQL
5 5 (1.62%) Python
6 3 (0.97%) Java
6 3 (0.97%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.97%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.97%) R
7 2 (0.65%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.32%) C
8 1 (0.32%) C++
8 1 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (11.69%) Degree
2 28 (9.09%) CCNA
2 28 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
3 23 (7.47%) Security Cleared
4 16 (5.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.55%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.90%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.90%) Network+ Certification
7 9 (2.92%) A+ Certification
7 9 (2.92%) CCNP
8 8 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 8 (2.60%) MCSE
8 8 (2.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (1.95%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.62%) CCA
10 5 (1.62%) CCDA
10 5 (1.62%) Citrix Certification
10 5 (1.62%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.30%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.55%) SLA
2 6 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (0.97%) GDPR
3 3 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.97%) JSP 440
4 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 243 (78.90%) Active Directory
2 99 (32.14%) Hyper-V
3 81 (26.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (5.84%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (4.87%) vSphere
6 11 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (2.60%) pfSense
7 8 (2.60%) Terminal Services
7 8 (2.60%) VMware Server
8 6 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.62%) NFS
10 4 (1.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 4 (1.30%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.30%) XenApp
10 4 (1.30%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.65%) Docker
12 1 (0.32%) Firmware
12 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 73 (23.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (10.06%) SCCM
3 13 (4.22%) Terraform
4 12 (3.90%) vCenter Server
5 11 (3.57%) SmoothWall
6 10 (3.25%) SCOM
7 5 (1.62%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.62%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.30%) SCOrch
8 4 (1.30%) vMotion
9 3 (0.97%) Autotask
9 3 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.97%) WSUS
10 2 (0.65%) Nagios
10 2 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 203 (65.91%) Microsoft
2 127 (41.23%) VMware
3 60 (19.48%) Veeam
4 58 (18.83%) Cisco
5 28 (9.09%) Dell
6 24 (7.79%) Apple
7 22 (7.14%) Citrix
8 19 (6.17%) HP
9 18 (5.84%) Acronis
10 16 (5.19%) Fortinet
11 15 (4.87%) Aruba
12 14 (4.55%) Sophos
13 13 (4.22%) Meraki
13 13 (4.22%) SonicWALL
14 11 (3.57%) WatchGuard
15 10 (3.25%) Juniper
15 10 (3.25%) Sage
15 10 (3.25%) Zerto
16 8 (2.60%) Datto
16 8 (2.60%) Oracle