DNS Jobs in the North of England

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 158 141
Rank change year-on-year +25 -17 -24
Permanent jobs citing DNS 344 392 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.97% 2.29% 2.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.86% 12.35% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 276 291 365
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,219 £34,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.19%
75th Percentile £53,750 £52,750 £51,250
90th Percentile £67,968 £63,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £44,225 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.06% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,169 3,173 2,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.40% 18.53% 15.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,659 1,255 1,701
10th Percentile £25,875 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,025 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £46,223
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.64% +2.72%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £73,225
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the North of England

DNS
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for DNS in the North of England

DNS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the North of England

DNS
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
North West 0 187 £45,000 - 54
Yorkshire +59 114 £32,500 -15.58% 27
North East +7 49 £42,500 +13.33% 5
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 95 (27.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (11.63%) SharePoint
3 24 (6.98%) IIS
4 12 (3.49%) WebLogic
5 11 (3.20%) CMS
6 5 (1.45%) WordPress
7 4 (1.16%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 55 (15.99%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 4 (1.16%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 199 (57.85%) Azure
2 179 (52.03%) Microsoft 365
3 75 (21.80%) AWS
4 63 (18.31%) Entra ID
5 18 (5.23%) IaaS
5 18 (5.23%) OneDrive
6 17 (4.94%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.07%) PaaS
8 13 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (3.49%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (3.49%) AWS KMS
9 12 (3.49%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (3.49%) GCP
10 8 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (2.33%) GitHub
10 8 (2.33%) SaaS
11 7 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (2.03%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (1.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 236 (68.60%) DHCP
2 114 (33.14%) Firewall
3 88 (25.58%) WAN
4 82 (23.84%) TCP/IP
5 79 (22.97%) VPN
6 73 (21.22%) LAN
7 43 (12.50%) SSL
8 29 (8.43%) VoIP
9 28 (8.14%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (7.56%) Network Security
11 25 (7.27%) Internet
11 25 (7.27%) SAN
11 25 (7.27%) VLAN
12 22 (6.40%) SD-WAN
13 21 (6.10%) Wireless
14 19 (5.52%) BGP
15 17 (4.94%) WLAN
16 13 (3.78%) iSCSI
17 12 (3.49%) DKIM
17 12 (3.49%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (13.95%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.78%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.49%) Oracle Database
4 12 (3.49%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (1.74%) Power BI
6 5 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.45%) MySQL
6 5 (1.45%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.45%) Redis
7 4 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.87%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
1 3 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (0.58%) JIRA
General
1 81 (23.55%) Social Skills
2 30 (8.72%) Finance
3 20 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (3.78%) Public Sector
4 13 (3.78%) Retail
5 6 (1.74%) French Language
5 6 (1.74%) German Language
5 6 (1.74%) Italian Language
5 6 (1.74%) Portuguese Language
5 6 (1.74%) Spanish Language
5 6 (1.74%) Swedish Language
5 6 (1.74%) Turkish Language
6 5 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.45%) Legal
7 4 (1.16%) Agriculture
7 4 (1.16%) Law
7 4 (1.16%) Marketing
7 4 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (0.87%) Local Government
9 2 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 59 (17.15%) Analyst
3 50 (14.53%) Senior
4 45 (13.08%) IT Support
5 33 (9.59%) IT Engineer
6 27 (7.85%) Lead
6 27 (7.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (7.27%) Network Engineer
8 24 (6.98%) Support Engineer
9 22 (6.40%) 2nd Line Support
10 19 (5.52%) Architect
10 19 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 19 (5.52%) IT Analyst
10 19 (5.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 19 (5.52%) Support Analyst
11 18 (5.23%) Administrator
11 18 (5.23%) Systems Administrator
12 17 (4.94%) Infrastructure Manager
12 17 (4.94%) IT Technician
13 14 (4.07%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
1 12 (3.49%) Spring Boot
2 11 (3.20%) CSS
2 11 (3.20%) HTML
2 11 (3.20%) React
3 8 (2.33%) .NET
4 7 (2.03%) jQuery
4 7 (2.03%) Node.js
4 7 (2.03%) Vue
5 6 (1.74%) LDAP
6 5 (1.45%) Middleware
7 4 (1.16%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.16%) ASP.NET
7 4 (1.16%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (1.16%) JWT
7 4 (1.16%) REST
7 4 (1.16%) RESTful
7 4 (1.16%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (1.16%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 4 (1.16%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.59%) Public Cloud
2 25 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (5.81%) Data Centre
3 20 (5.81%) Driving Licence
4 19 (5.52%) PKI
5 17 (4.94%) Management Information System
6 15 (4.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 12 (3.49%) PMI
7 12 (3.49%) Replication
7 12 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.91%) Cyberattack
8 10 (2.91%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.74%) Clustering
10 4 (1.16%) Fat Client
10 4 (1.16%) Thin Client
11 3 (0.87%) Client/Server
11 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Storage
11 3 (0.87%) Mobile Computing
12 2 (0.58%) NHS
12 2 (0.58%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 211 (61.34%) Windows
2 140 (40.70%) Windows Server
3 70 (20.35%) Linux
4 37 (10.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 34 (9.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 33 (9.59%) Windows 10
7 26 (7.56%) Android
8 19 (5.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (4.65%) Apple iOS
10 13 (3.78%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (2.91%) VMS
11 10 (2.91%) Windows Server 2008
12 9 (2.62%) Windows 7
13 7 (2.03%) Mac OS
14 6 (1.74%) Unix
15 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.58%) Windows 8
16 2 (0.58%) Windows XP
17 1 (0.29%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (33.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 78 (22.67%) ITIL
3 64 (18.60%) Disaster Recovery
4 61 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (12.21%) Customer Service
6 36 (10.47%) Capacity Planning
6 36 (10.47%) Migration
7 33 (9.59%) Agile
8 32 (9.30%) Project Management
9 31 (9.01%) DevOps
10 30 (8.72%) Mentoring
11 29 (8.43%) Cybersecurity
12 27 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (7.56%) Computer Science
14 25 (7.27%) Server Management
15 23 (6.69%) Proactive Monitoring
16 21 (6.10%) Coaching
16 21 (6.10%) Information Security
17 20 (5.81%) Incident Management
18 17 (4.94%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 61 (17.73%) PowerShell
2 34 (9.88%) SQL
3 16 (4.65%) Python
4 11 (3.20%) VBScript
5 9 (2.62%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.33%) C#
7 4 (1.16%) T-SQL
7 4 (1.16%) XAML
8 3 (0.87%) Bash
8 3 (0.87%) Go
8 3 (0.87%) Ruby
9 1 (0.29%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 44 (12.79%) Degree
2 25 (7.27%) Azure Certification
3 21 (6.10%) Security Cleared
4 18 (5.23%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.65%) AWS Certification
6 16 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.07%) CCNA
7 14 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (3.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 12 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.49%) PMI Certification
10 8 (2.33%) CCNP
11 6 (1.74%) Network+ Certification
12 5 (1.45%) CISSP
12 5 (1.45%) DBS Check
12 5 (1.45%) MCSE
12 5 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (1.16%) MCP
13 4 (1.16%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.10%) SLA
2 8 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.58%) GDPR
3 2 (0.58%) NIST
4 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.29%) NCSC
4 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 249 (72.38%) Active Directory
2 69 (20.06%) Hyper-V
3 65 (18.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (4.94%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (4.65%) vSphere
6 13 (3.78%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.87%) Firmware
9 2 (0.58%) Docker
9 2 (0.58%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.58%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.29%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.29%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 61 (17.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (8.43%) SCCM
3 22 (6.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 18 (5.23%) SCOM
5 17 (4.94%) WSUS
6 15 (4.36%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (4.36%) Terraform
7 12 (3.49%) CA Single Sign-On
7 12 (3.49%) Opsgenie
7 12 (3.49%) VxRail
7 12 (3.49%) ZABBIX
8 10 (2.91%) CASB
8 10 (2.91%) Kubernetes
9 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 8 (2.33%) FortiGate
11 7 (2.03%) Ansible
12 6 (1.74%) Failover Clustering
12 6 (1.74%) Grafana
12 6 (1.74%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 211 (61.34%) Microsoft
2 110 (31.98%) VMware
3 57 (16.57%) Cisco
4 36 (10.47%) Citrix
5 30 (8.72%) SolarWinds
6 28 (8.14%) Veeam
7 23 (6.69%) Oracle
8 19 (5.52%) Fortinet
9 17 (4.94%) CA
9 17 (4.94%) Dell
10 16 (4.65%) ServiceNow
11 15 (4.36%) Apple
12 13 (3.78%) NetApp
13 12 (3.49%) CyberArk
13 12 (3.49%) Sparx
14 11 (3.20%) SAP
15 8 (2.33%) F5
15 8 (2.33%) Juniper
16 7 (2.03%) Epicor
17 6 (1.74%) Red Hat