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 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 125 144 155
Rank change year-on-year +19 +11 -22
Permanent jobs citing DNS 1,569 1,388 1,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.21% 2.33% 2.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.10% 12.79% 15.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,278 1,079 1,407
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +1.80%
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 9,748 10,852 11,072
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.76% 18.20% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,064 4,738 6,524
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
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 14 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 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
South East -1 438 £42,500 +6.25% 77
North of England +25 344 £42,500 - 87
Midlands +73 305 £37,500 -3.23% 66
South West +17 204 £37,500 -6.25% 36
North West 0 187 £45,000 - 56
West Midlands +45 163 £41,125 +6.13% 38
East of England -16 148 £41,500 -2.35% 42
East Midlands +52 138 £37,500 +2.74% 28
Yorkshire +59 114 £32,500 -15.58% 28
Wales +39 60 £34,000 -7.06% 6
Scotland -42 59 £42,500 +17.24% 21
North East +7 49 £42,500 +13.33% 3
Northern Ireland +28 13 £32,500 -2.26% 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
1 376 (23.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 253 (16.12%) SharePoint
3 94 (5.99%) IIS
4 40 (2.55%) WebLogic
5 33 (2.10%) CMS
6 27 (1.72%) WordPress
7 23 (1.47%) Exchange Server 2013
8 21 (1.34%) Exchange Server 2010
9 20 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2007
10 16 (1.02%) Skype for Business
11 14 (0.89%) nginx
12 13 (0.83%) Apache
12 13 (0.83%) Confluence
13 7 (0.45%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.32%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2003
16 2 (0.13%) Apache Solr
16 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
17 1 (0.064%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 200 (12.75%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.38%) Trello
5 4 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.13%) CATIA
7 2 (0.13%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 40 (2.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.25%) Epicor Tropos
3 4 (0.25%) Sage 200
4 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.064%) Sage 300 ERP
5 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.064%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 863 (55.00%) Azure
2 799 (50.92%) Microsoft 365
3 307 (19.57%) AWS
4 295 (18.80%) Entra ID
5 101 (6.44%) OneDrive
6 72 (4.59%) IaaS
7 64 (4.08%) SaaS
8 56 (3.57%) Power Platform
9 44 (2.80%) PaaS
10 41 (2.61%) Amazon EKS
11 40 (2.55%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (2.23%) Mimecast
13 34 (2.17%) OpenShift
14 29 (1.85%) Nutanix
15 28 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
16 27 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
16 27 (1.72%) WhatsApp
17 24 (1.53%) GCP
17 24 (1.53%) GitHub
18 22 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1,001 (63.80%) DHCP
2 623 (39.71%) Firewall
3 538 (34.29%) TCP/IP
4 306 (19.50%) VPN
5 298 (18.99%) WAN
6 256 (16.32%) LAN
7 204 (13.00%) VLAN
8 147 (9.37%) Wi-Fi
9 130 (8.29%) SAN
9 130 (8.29%) Wireless
10 121 (7.71%) SSL
11 96 (6.12%) HTTP
12 83 (5.29%) VoIP
13 74 (4.72%) BGP
14 73 (4.65%) Network Security
15 70 (4.46%) Internet
16 66 (4.21%) SD-WAN
17 39 (2.49%) iSCSI
18 38 (2.42%) DKIM
18 38 (2.42%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (8.67%) SQL Server
2 70 (4.46%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (3.06%) Oracle Database
4 43 (2.74%) Relational Database
5 40 (2.55%) RDBMS
6 30 (1.91%) MySQL
7 27 (1.72%) Power BI
8 14 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 8 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.51%) Redis
12 7 (0.45%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.38%) GIS
14 3 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
15 2 (0.13%) Couchbase
15 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.13%) OLAP
15 2 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 31 (1.98%) JIRA
2 21 (1.34%) Jenkins
3 20 (1.27%) Git
4 10 (0.64%) 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 (0.064%) Log4Net
7 1 (0.064%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.064%) Selenium
7 1 (0.064%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.064%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 456 (29.06%) Social Skills
2 139 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
3 120 (7.65%) Finance
4 56 (3.57%) Telecoms
5 47 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (2.74%) Public Sector
7 38 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
8 34 (2.17%) Aerospace
8 34 (2.17%) Marketing
9 30 (1.91%) Law
9 30 (1.91%) Manufacturing
10 23 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
11 20 (1.27%) Retail
12 17 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.02%) Legal
14 10 (0.64%) Electronics
15 9 (0.57%) Automotive
16 8 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
16 8 (0.51%) Local Government
17 7 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 325 (20.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 239 (15.23%) Senior
3 225 (14.34%) IT Support
4 202 (12.87%) IT Engineer
5 199 (12.68%) Support Engineer
6 193 (12.30%) Analyst
7 110 (7.01%) Lead
8 100 (6.37%) IT Support Engineer
9 96 (6.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 95 (6.05%) Network Engineer
11 86 (5.48%) IT Technician
12 85 (5.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 81 (5.16%) 2nd Line Support
14 80 (5.10%) Architect
15 76 (4.84%) 3rd Line Support
16 72 (4.59%) Support Analyst
17 71 (4.53%) Support Technician
18 62 (3.95%) Developer
18 62 (3.95%) IT Analyst
19 61 (3.89%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.95%) HTML
2 49 (3.12%) .NET
3 46 (2.93%) REST
4 44 (2.80%) CSS
4 44 (2.80%) RabbitMQ
5 40 (2.55%) Spring Boot
6 37 (2.36%) SAML
7 34 (2.17%) OpenID
8 29 (1.85%) ASP.NET
9 28 (1.78%) jQuery
9 28 (1.78%) React
10 24 (1.53%) Vue
11 22 (1.40%) AngularJS
11 22 (1.40%) ASP.NET MVC
12 19 (1.21%) Tailwind CSS
12 19 (1.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 19 (1.21%) WPF
13 18 (1.15%) ARM Templates
13 18 (1.15%) LDAP
13 18 (1.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 124 (7.90%) Data Centre
2 111 (7.07%) Driving Licence
3 109 (6.95%) Self-Motivation
4 83 (5.29%) Public Cloud
5 57 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
5 57 (3.63%) PKI
6 50 (3.19%) Replication
7 48 (3.06%) Cyberattack
8 42 (2.68%) Management Information System
9 40 (2.55%) Onboarding
10 29 (1.85%) Clustering
11 24 (1.53%) Cloud Native
12 19 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 18 (1.15%) IoT
14 15 (0.96%) CCTV
14 15 (0.96%) Client/Server
14 15 (0.96%) CMDB
15 12 (0.76%) PMI
16 11 (0.70%) Tandem
17 9 (0.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,040 (66.28%) Windows
2 665 (42.38%) Windows Server
3 338 (21.54%) Linux
4 202 (12.87%) Windows 10
5 195 (12.43%) Windows Server 2016
6 166 (10.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 146 (9.31%) Windows Server 2012
8 86 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 63 (4.02%) Android
10 58 (3.70%) Apple iOS
11 44 (2.80%) Windows Server 2008
12 34 (2.17%) Mac OS
13 32 (2.04%) Windows 7
14 30 (1.91%) Windows 8
15 26 (1.66%) VMS
16 21 (1.34%) Ubuntu
17 20 (1.27%) Mac OS X
18 19 (1.21%) Unix
18 19 (1.21%) Windows Server 2003
18 19 (1.21%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (24.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 329 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
3 312 (19.89%) ITIL
4 245 (15.62%) Customer Service
5 183 (11.66%) Agile
6 151 (9.62%) Cybersecurity
7 149 (9.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 147 (9.37%) DevOps
9 127 (8.09%) Migration
10 124 (7.90%) Project Management
11 99 (6.31%) Collaborative Working
12 96 (6.12%) Actionable Insight
13 88 (5.61%) Service Management
14 85 (5.42%) Mentoring
15 74 (4.72%) Information Security
16 73 (4.65%) Incident Management
17 72 (4.59%) Server Management
18 70 (4.46%) Open Source
19 68 (4.33%) Computer Science
20 67 (4.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 306 (19.50%) PowerShell
2 137 (8.73%) SQL
3 101 (6.44%) Python
4 66 (4.21%) C#
5 65 (4.14%) Bash
6 61 (3.89%) Java
7 44 (2.80%) JavaScript
8 31 (1.98%) VBScript
9 22 (1.40%) T-SQL
10 20 (1.27%) VB
11 19 (1.21%) Bicep
11 19 (1.21%) XAML
12 17 (1.08%) PHP
13 15 (0.96%) Perl
14 12 (0.76%) C++
15 10 (0.64%) C
16 8 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 5 (0.32%) Ruby
17 5 (0.32%) VB.NET
18 4 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 255 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 190 (12.11%) Degree
3 150 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 128 (8.16%) DV Cleared
5 103 (6.56%) Cisco Certification
6 93 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 90 (5.74%) Azure Certification
7 90 (5.74%) CCNA
8 67 (4.27%) AWS Certification
9 56 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 46 (2.93%) CCNP
10 46 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
11 38 (2.42%) DBS Check
11 38 (2.42%) MCSE
12 32 (2.04%) A+ Certification
12 32 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 27 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
14 24 (1.53%) MCP
15 19 (1.21%) MCSA
16 17 (1.08%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (6.25%) SLA
2 40 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
3 26 (1.66%) GDPR
4 13 (0.83%) Data Quality
5 7 (0.45%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.25%) QA
8 3 (0.19%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.13%) NIST
10 1 (0.064%) GxP
10 1 (0.064%) NCSC
10 1 (0.064%) PMO
System Software
1 1,004 (63.99%) Active Directory
2 364 (23.20%) Hyper-V
3 333 (21.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 70 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
5 69 (4.40%) VMware ESXi
6 64 (4.08%) Docker
7 54 (3.44%) vSphere
8 39 (2.49%) Virtual Servers
9 35 (2.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 19 (1.21%) Terminal Services
11 18 (1.15%) pfSense
12 16 (1.02%) NFS
13 15 (0.96%) Firmware
14 11 (0.70%) XenApp
15 8 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
16 7 (0.45%) VMware Server
16 7 (0.45%) XenDesktop
17 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 6 (0.38%) VMware NSX
18 4 (0.25%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 277 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 126 (8.03%) SCCM
3 93 (5.93%) WSUS
4 77 (4.91%) SCOM
5 74 (4.72%) Kubernetes
6 61 (3.89%) Ansible
7 57 (3.63%) Terraform
8 56 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 34 (2.17%) Puppet
9 34 (2.17%) vCenter Server
10 26 (1.66%) CASB
11 25 (1.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 23 (1.47%) FortiGate
12 23 (1.47%) ZABBIX
13 21 (1.34%) Grafana
13 21 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
14 17 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
15 16 (1.02%) SCDPM
16 13 (0.83%) NetBackup
16 13 (0.83%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 872 (55.58%) Microsoft
2 503 (32.06%) VMware
3 238 (15.17%) Cisco
4 148 (9.43%) Veeam
5 110 (7.01%) Citrix
6 86 (5.48%) Dell
7 74 (4.72%) HP
8 72 (4.59%) Oracle
9 69 (4.40%) Juniper
10 66 (4.21%) Apple
11 64 (4.08%) Meraki
12 54 (3.44%) Fortinet
13 50 (3.19%) Red Hat
14 45 (2.87%) SolarWinds
15 44 (2.80%) Palo Alto
16 40 (2.55%) Sophos
16 40 (2.55%) Sparx
17 34 (2.17%) Acronis
18 30 (1.91%) NetApp
19 28 (1.78%) WatchGuard