DNS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 150 159
Rank change year-on-year +20 +9 -24
Permanent jobs citing DNS 1,548 1,371 1,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.16% 2.32% 2.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.87% 12.69% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,269 1,067 1,401
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +2.41%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,755 10,808 11,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.64% 18.31% 15.43%
Number of salaries quoted 7,074 4,700 6,477
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,680
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.26% +4.44%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £74,952
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the UK excluding London

DNS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
South East 0 433 £42,500 +6.25% 70
North of England +22 339 £42,500 - 82
Midlands +67 308 £37,500 -2.60% 60
South West +12 192 £37,500 -6.25% 37
North West -5 181 £45,000 - 48
West Midlands +55 165 £39,750 +2.58% 31
East of England -11 147 £41,500 -2.35% 43
East Midlands +54 139 £37,500 +2.74% 29
Yorkshire +44 114 £32,500 -18.75% 30
Wales +40 59 £34,000 -4.67% 7
Scotland -45 59 £42,500 +17.24% 19
North East +8 50 £42,500 +13.33% 4
Northern Ireland +20 13 £32,500 -4.41% 5
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 370 (23.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 251 (16.21%) SharePoint
3 93 (6.01%) IIS
4 40 (2.58%) WebLogic
5 33 (2.13%) CMS
6 27 (1.74%) WordPress
7 23 (1.49%) Exchange Server 2013
8 21 (1.36%) Exchange Server 2010
9 20 (1.29%) Exchange Server 2007
10 16 (1.03%) Skype for Business
11 14 (0.90%) Confluence
11 14 (0.90%) nginx
12 13 (0.84%) Apache
13 7 (0.45%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.32%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2003
16 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
16 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 1 (0.065%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 200 (12.92%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.39%) Trello
5 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.13%) CATIA
7 2 (0.13%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 40 (2.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Epicor Tropos
3 4 (0.26%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.065%) Sage 300 ERP
5 1 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.065%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 854 (55.17%) Azure
2 793 (51.23%) Microsoft 365
3 296 (19.12%) Entra ID
4 288 (18.60%) AWS
5 102 (6.59%) OneDrive
6 74 (4.78%) IaaS
7 67 (4.33%) SaaS
8 53 (3.42%) Power Platform
9 44 (2.84%) PaaS
10 41 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (2.58%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (2.33%) OpenShift
13 35 (2.26%) Mimecast
14 30 (1.94%) Nutanix
15 27 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
16 26 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
16 26 (1.68%) WhatsApp
17 24 (1.55%) GitHub
18 23 (1.49%) GCP
19 21 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 983 (63.50%) DHCP
2 618 (39.92%) Firewall
3 522 (33.72%) TCP/IP
4 301 (19.44%) VPN
5 295 (19.06%) WAN
6 253 (16.34%) LAN
7 203 (13.11%) VLAN
8 150 (9.69%) Wi-Fi
9 130 (8.40%) SAN
9 130 (8.40%) Wireless
10 121 (7.82%) SSL
11 81 (5.23%) HTTP
12 80 (5.17%) VoIP
13 73 (4.72%) BGP
14 72 (4.65%) Network Security
15 70 (4.52%) Internet
16 66 (4.26%) SD-WAN
17 39 (2.52%) iSCSI
18 38 (2.45%) DKIM
18 38 (2.45%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 70 (4.52%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (3.10%) Oracle Database
4 43 (2.78%) Relational Database
5 40 (2.58%) RDBMS
6 28 (1.81%) MySQL
7 26 (1.68%) Power BI
8 14 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.52%) Redis
12 7 (0.45%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.39%) GIS
14 3 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
15 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.13%) OLAP
15 2 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
15 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (2.00%) JIRA
2 21 (1.36%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.29%) Git
4 10 (0.65%) Trac
5 3 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.13%) GitLab
6 2 (0.13%) Grunt
6 2 (0.13%) Hudson
6 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.13%) webpack
7 1 (0.065%) Log4Net
7 1 (0.065%) Selenium
7 1 (0.065%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.065%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 437 (28.23%) Social Skills
2 140 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
3 104 (6.72%) Finance
4 56 (3.62%) Telecoms
5 43 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 38 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 34 (2.20%) Marketing
9 33 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (1.94%) Law
10 30 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (1.36%) Retail
13 17 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.90%) Legal
15 10 (0.65%) Electronics
16 9 (0.58%) Automotive
17 8 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.52%) Local Government
18 7 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 322 (20.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 224 (14.47%) IT Support
2 224 (14.47%) Senior
3 201 (12.98%) IT Engineer
4 198 (12.79%) Support Engineer
5 190 (12.27%) Analyst
6 110 (7.11%) Lead
7 98 (6.33%) IT Support Engineer
8 94 (6.07%) Network Engineer
8 94 (6.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 87 (5.62%) IT Technician
10 86 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 80 (5.17%) 2nd Line Support
12 75 (4.84%) 3rd Line Support
13 74 (4.78%) Architect
14 72 (4.65%) Support Technician
15 69 (4.46%) Support Analyst
16 62 (4.01%) Administrator
17 61 (3.94%) Developer
17 61 (3.94%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (3.10%) .NET
2 46 (2.97%) HTML
2 46 (2.97%) REST
3 44 (2.84%) CSS
3 44 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
4 40 (2.58%) Spring Boot
5 28 (1.81%) ASP.NET
5 28 (1.81%) jQuery
5 28 (1.81%) React
6 24 (1.55%) Vue
7 22 (1.42%) AngularJS
7 22 (1.42%) ASP.NET MVC
8 21 (1.36%) SAML
9 19 (1.23%) Tailwind CSS
9 19 (1.23%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 19 (1.23%) WPF
10 18 (1.16%) ARM Templates
10 18 (1.16%) OAuth
10 18 (1.16%) OpenID
11 17 (1.10%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.95%) Data Centre
2 112 (7.24%) Driving Licence
3 108 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
4 83 (5.36%) Public Cloud
5 58 (3.75%) PKI
6 57 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
7 51 (3.29%) Replication
8 42 (2.71%) Management Information System
9 39 (2.52%) Onboarding
10 32 (2.07%) Cyberattack
11 28 (1.81%) Clustering
12 19 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.16%) IoT
14 15 (0.97%) Client/Server
15 14 (0.90%) CCTV
15 14 (0.90%) CMDB
16 12 (0.78%) PMI
17 11 (0.71%) Tandem
18 9 (0.58%) NHS
19 8 (0.52%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 1,040 (67.18%) Windows
2 663 (42.83%) Windows Server
3 340 (21.96%) Linux
4 205 (13.24%) Windows 10
5 195 (12.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 164 (10.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 145 (9.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 88 (5.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (4.07%) Android
10 59 (3.81%) Apple iOS
11 44 (2.84%) Windows Server 2008
12 35 (2.26%) Mac OS
13 32 (2.07%) Windows 7
14 29 (1.87%) Windows 8
15 26 (1.68%) VMS
16 21 (1.36%) Mac OS X
16 21 (1.36%) Ubuntu
17 20 (1.29%) Unix
18 19 (1.23%) Windows XP
19 18 (1.16%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (24.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 328 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
3 310 (20.03%) ITIL
4 244 (15.76%) Customer Service
5 168 (10.85%) Agile
6 149 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
7 146 (9.43%) DevOps
8 145 (9.37%) Disaster Recovery
9 126 (8.14%) Migration
10 124 (8.01%) Project Management
11 101 (6.52%) Collaborative Working
12 96 (6.20%) Actionable Insight
13 86 (5.56%) Service Management
14 85 (5.49%) Mentoring
15 74 (4.78%) Information Security
16 73 (4.72%) Incident Management
17 70 (4.52%) Server Management
18 69 (4.46%) Open Source
19 68 (4.39%) Computer Science
20 67 (4.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 302 (19.51%) PowerShell
2 137 (8.85%) SQL
3 100 (6.46%) Python
4 65 (4.20%) Bash
4 65 (4.20%) C#
5 63 (4.07%) Java
6 44 (2.84%) JavaScript
7 31 (2.00%) VBScript
8 22 (1.42%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.29%) VB
10 19 (1.23%) XAML
11 18 (1.16%) Bicep
12 16 (1.03%) PHP
13 15 (0.97%) Perl
14 11 (0.71%) C++
15 10 (0.65%) C
16 8 (0.52%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.32%) Ruby
17 5 (0.32%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 240 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 190 (12.27%) Degree
3 152 (9.82%) SC Cleared
4 113 (7.30%) DV Cleared
5 103 (6.65%) Cisco Certification
6 92 (5.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 90 (5.81%) CCNA
8 89 (5.75%) Azure Certification
9 51 (3.29%) AWS Certification
10 47 (3.04%) CCNP
11 46 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 38 (2.45%) DBS Check
13 38 (2.45%) MCSE
14 32 (2.07%) A+ Certification
15 31 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 26 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
17 25 (1.61%) MCP
18 20 (1.29%) MCSA
19 17 (1.10%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (6.27%) SLA
2 40 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (1.68%) GDPR
4 13 (0.84%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.26%) QA
8 3 (0.19%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.065%) GxP
10 1 (0.065%) NCSC
10 1 (0.065%) PMO
System Software
1 1,001 (64.66%) Active Directory
2 361 (23.32%) Hyper-V
3 334 (21.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (4.52%) VMware ESXi
5 69 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
6 66 (4.26%) Docker
7 56 (3.62%) vSphere
8 39 (2.52%) Virtual Servers
9 35 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 19 (1.23%) Terminal Services
11 18 (1.16%) pfSense
12 16 (1.03%) NFS
13 15 (0.97%) Firmware
14 11 (0.71%) XenApp
15 8 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
16 7 (0.45%) VMware Server
16 7 (0.45%) XenDesktop
17 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 6 (0.39%) VMware NSX
18 4 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 273 (17.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 128 (8.27%) SCCM
3 92 (5.94%) WSUS
4 76 (4.91%) Kubernetes
4 76 (4.91%) SCOM
5 63 (4.07%) Ansible
6 55 (3.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 40 (2.58%) Terraform
8 36 (2.33%) Puppet
9 34 (2.20%) vCenter Server
10 26 (1.68%) CASB
11 24 (1.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 23 (1.49%) ZABBIX
13 21 (1.36%) FortiGate
13 21 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
14 20 (1.29%) Grafana
15 17 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
16 16 (1.03%) SCDPM
17 13 (0.84%) NetBackup
17 13 (0.84%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 866 (55.94%) Microsoft
2 506 (32.69%) VMware
3 236 (15.25%) Cisco
4 148 (9.56%) Veeam
5 107 (6.91%) Citrix
6 87 (5.62%) Dell
7 74 (4.78%) HP
8 72 (4.65%) Oracle
9 68 (4.39%) Juniper
10 67 (4.33%) Apple
11 63 (4.07%) Meraki
12 52 (3.36%) Fortinet
12 52 (3.36%) Red Hat
13 44 (2.84%) Palo Alto
13 44 (2.84%) SolarWinds
14 40 (2.58%) Sophos
14 40 (2.58%) Sparx
15 33 (2.13%) Acronis
16 30 (1.94%) NetApp
16 30 (1.94%) WatchGuard