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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 161 118
Rank change year-on-year +59 -43 -9
Permanent jobs citing DNS 313 164 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.40% 1.92% 2.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.69% 9.59% 18.95%
Number of salaries quoted 261 145 276
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £38,000 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% - -7.32%
75th Percentile £50,250 £47,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £58,750
England median annual salary £43,742 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.92% -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 1,590 1,710 1,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.17% 19.99% 15.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,280 712 1,089
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £25,724
25th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £43,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -3.89% -
75th Percentile £54,063 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +30 167 £39,750 +4.61% 26
East Midlands +53 142 £37,500 +2.74% 15
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
1 112 (35.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 79 (25.24%) SharePoint
3 26 (8.31%) IIS
4 5 (1.60%) Confluence
5 4 (1.28%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (1.28%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.96%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.64%) Tomcat
Applications
1 53 (16.93%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.64%) CATIA
3 2 (0.64%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.64%) NASTRAN
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.28%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (1.28%) Sage 200
1 4 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.64%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.32%) Sage 300 ERP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 189 (60.38%) Microsoft 365
2 184 (58.79%) Azure
3 99 (31.63%) Entra ID
4 35 (11.18%) AWS
5 28 (8.95%) OneDrive
6 16 (5.11%) Mimecast
7 10 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.19%) IaaS
8 8 (2.56%) Nutanix
9 6 (1.92%) Google Workspace
9 6 (1.92%) PaaS
10 5 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.60%) ChatGPT
10 5 (1.60%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (1.28%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.28%) WhatsApp
12 3 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.96%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 245 (78.27%) DHCP
2 143 (45.69%) Firewall
3 128 (40.89%) TCP/IP
4 69 (22.04%) VLAN
4 69 (22.04%) WAN
5 59 (18.85%) VPN
6 58 (18.53%) LAN
7 51 (16.29%) SAN
8 38 (12.14%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (7.67%) Wireless
10 22 (7.03%) SSL
11 21 (6.71%) SD-WAN
12 14 (4.47%) BGP
13 11 (3.51%) iSCSI
13 11 (3.51%) Remote Desktop
13 11 (3.51%) SMTP
14 10 (3.19%) Fibre Channel
14 10 (3.19%) SNMP
14 10 (3.19%) Wireshark
15 9 (2.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (11.82%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.47%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (2.24%) Oracle Database
4 6 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.60%) Power BI
5 5 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.28%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.28%) Redis
6 4 (1.28%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.64%) MySQL
7 2 (0.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.56%) JIRA
2 6 (1.92%) Git
3 4 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.64%) GitLab
5 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 83 (26.52%) Social Skills
2 30 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (6.71%) Finance
4 15 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (4.47%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.56%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.24%) Retail
10 6 (1.92%) Automotive
10 6 (1.92%) Law
11 5 (1.60%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.28%) Public Sector
13 3 (0.96%) Military
14 2 (0.64%) Back Office
14 2 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.64%) Legal
15 1 (0.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 65 (20.77%) IT Engineer
2 61 (19.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 59 (18.85%) IT Support
4 53 (16.93%) Support Engineer
5 44 (14.06%) Senior
6 33 (10.54%) Analyst
7 31 (9.90%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 30 (9.58%) IT Support Engineer
9 23 (7.35%) Administrator
10 21 (6.71%) Lead
10 21 (6.71%) Network Engineer
11 20 (6.39%) IT Technician
11 20 (6.39%) Support Technician
12 19 (6.07%) Service Analyst
12 19 (6.07%) Service Desk Analyst
13 16 (5.11%) IT Support Technician
13 16 (5.11%) Network Manager
14 15 (4.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 15 (4.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 15 (4.79%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.79%) .NET
2 9 (2.88%) AngularJS
2 9 (2.88%) ASP.NET
2 9 (2.88%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (2.88%) CSS
2 9 (2.88%) HTML
2 9 (2.88%) jQuery
2 9 (2.88%) React
2 9 (2.88%) REST
2 9 (2.88%) Tailwind CSS
2 9 (2.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 9 (2.88%) Vue
2 9 (2.88%) WPF
3 8 (2.56%) 802.1X
4 6 (1.92%) JSON
4 6 (1.92%) YAML
5 4 (1.28%) .NET Core
5 4 (1.28%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (1.28%) Spring Boot
6 3 (0.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.63%) Data Centre
2 24 (7.67%) Driving Licence
3 16 (5.11%) Public Cloud
4 15 (4.79%) PKI
4 15 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.19%) Clustering
5 10 (3.19%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.19%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.24%) Replication
7 6 (1.92%) Cyberattack
7 6 (1.92%) EFT
8 4 (1.28%) CCTV
8 4 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.28%) FMCG
8 4 (1.28%) IoT
8 4 (1.28%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.96%) NHS
10 2 (0.64%) Digital Media
10 2 (0.64%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 250 (79.87%) Windows
2 172 (54.95%) Windows Server
3 54 (17.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 52 (16.61%) Windows Server 2019
5 46 (14.70%) Windows 10
6 31 (9.90%) Linux
7 29 (9.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (4.47%) Apple iOS
9 12 (3.83%) Mac OS
10 8 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (2.56%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (2.24%) Android
11 7 (2.24%) Ubuntu
12 6 (1.92%) CentOS
12 6 (1.92%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (1.60%) Mac OS X
14 4 (1.28%) VMS
15 2 (0.64%) Unix
15 2 (0.64%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (23.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 63 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (17.57%) Cybersecurity
4 48 (15.34%) ITIL
5 34 (10.86%) Customer Service
5 34 (10.86%) Disaster Recovery
6 24 (7.67%) Migration
7 23 (7.35%) Change Control
7 23 (7.35%) Project Delivery
8 19 (6.07%) Agile
8 19 (6.07%) Patch Management
9 16 (5.11%) Change Management
9 16 (5.11%) Project Management
10 15 (4.79%) Collaborative Working
10 15 (4.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (4.79%) Kalman Filter
10 15 (4.79%) Server Management
11 14 (4.47%) DevOps
11 14 (4.47%) ERP
11 14 (4.47%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 74 (23.64%) PowerShell
2 29 (9.27%) SQL
3 9 (2.88%) C#
3 9 (2.88%) XAML
4 6 (1.92%) Bash
4 6 (1.92%) T-SQL
5 5 (1.60%) Python
6 3 (0.96%) Java
6 3 (0.96%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
6 3 (0.96%) R
7 2 (0.64%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.32%) C
8 1 (0.32%) C++
8 1 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (11.82%) Degree
2 28 (8.95%) CCNA
2 28 (8.95%) Cisco Certification
3 24 (7.67%) Security Cleared
4 17 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (4.47%) SC Cleared
6 12 (3.83%) Azure Certification
6 12 (3.83%) Network+ Certification
7 9 (2.88%) A+ Certification
7 9 (2.88%) CCNP
7 9 (2.88%) MCSE
7 9 (2.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (2.56%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.92%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.60%) CCA
10 5 (1.60%) CCDA
10 5 (1.60%) Citrix Certification
10 5 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.28%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.47%) SLA
2 6 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.96%) GDPR
4 3 (0.96%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 247 (78.91%) Active Directory
2 99 (31.63%) Hyper-V
3 84 (26.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (5.75%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (4.79%) vSphere
6 12 (3.83%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (2.56%) pfSense
7 8 (2.56%) Terminal Services
7 8 (2.56%) VMware Server
8 6 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.60%) NFS
10 4 (1.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 4 (1.28%) VMware NSX
10 4 (1.28%) XenApp
10 4 (1.28%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.64%) Docker
12 1 (0.32%) Firmware
12 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 74 (23.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (9.90%) SCCM
3 14 (4.47%) Terraform
4 12 (3.83%) vCenter Server
5 11 (3.51%) SmoothWall
6 10 (3.19%) SCOM
7 5 (1.60%) Backup Exec
7 5 (1.60%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.28%) SCOrch
8 4 (1.28%) vMotion
8 4 (1.28%) WSUS
9 3 (0.96%) Autotask
9 3 (0.96%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.64%) Nagios
10 2 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 205 (65.50%) Microsoft
2 131 (41.85%) VMware
3 62 (19.81%) Veeam
4 60 (19.17%) Cisco
5 28 (8.95%) Dell
6 24 (7.67%) Apple
7 22 (7.03%) Citrix
8 19 (6.07%) HP
9 18 (5.75%) Acronis
10 16 (5.11%) Fortinet
11 15 (4.79%) Aruba
12 14 (4.47%) Sophos
13 13 (4.15%) Meraki
13 13 (4.15%) SonicWALL
14 11 (3.51%) WatchGuard
14 11 (3.51%) Zerto
15 10 (3.19%) Juniper
15 10 (3.19%) Sage
16 8 (2.56%) Datto
16 8 (2.56%) Oracle