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 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 139 153 147
Rank change year-on-year +14 -6 -9
Permanent jobs citing DNS 347 384 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.84% 2.38% 2.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.67% 11.97% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 273 287 366
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,500 £24,875
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.19%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £67,968 £63,750 £71,250
England median annual salary £43,742 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.92% -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 2,214 3,208 2,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 11.74% 19.88% 15.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,681 1,201 1,727
10th Percentile £25,875 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,723 £34,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,676 £72,500
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 1 June 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 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
North West -1 184 £45,000 - 53
Yorkshire +38 119 £32,500 -18.75% 23
North East +2 50 £42,500 +6.80% 7
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 92 (26.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (10.66%) SharePoint
3 24 (6.92%) IIS
4 12 (3.46%) WebLogic
5 11 (3.17%) CMS
6 5 (1.44%) WordPress
7 4 (1.15%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.58%) Confluence
9 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 57 (16.43%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (3.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (0.86%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 197 (56.77%) Azure
2 172 (49.57%) Microsoft 365
3 74 (21.33%) AWS
4 65 (18.73%) Entra ID
5 18 (5.19%) IaaS
6 16 (4.61%) OneDrive
7 15 (4.32%) Power Platform
8 14 (4.03%) GCP
8 14 (4.03%) PaaS
9 12 (3.46%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (3.46%) Amazon SQS
9 12 (3.46%) AWS KMS
9 12 (3.46%) Azure Key Vault
10 10 (2.88%) GitHub
11 9 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (2.31%) SaaS
13 7 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.73%) PowerApps
15 5 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (1.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 240 (69.16%) DHCP
2 116 (33.43%) Firewall
3 88 (25.36%) WAN
4 84 (24.21%) TCP/IP
5 75 (21.61%) VPN
6 73 (21.04%) LAN
7 43 (12.39%) SSL
8 30 (8.65%) Wi-Fi
9 28 (8.07%) SAN
10 27 (7.78%) Network Security
10 27 (7.78%) VoIP
11 24 (6.92%) VLAN
12 23 (6.63%) Internet
13 22 (6.34%) SD-WAN
14 21 (6.05%) Wireless
15 18 (5.19%) BGP
16 17 (4.90%) WLAN
17 13 (3.75%) iSCSI
18 11 (3.17%) DKIM
18 11 (3.17%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (13.26%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.61%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (3.75%) Relational Database
4 12 (3.46%) Oracle Database
4 12 (3.46%) RDBMS
5 6 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.44%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.44%) Power BI
6 5 (1.44%) Redis
7 4 (1.15%) MySQL
8 3 (0.86%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (1.15%) JIRA
2 3 (0.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (0.86%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.58%) GitLab
General
1 79 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 28 (8.07%) Finance
3 20 (5.76%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (4.32%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.46%) Retail
6 6 (1.73%) French Language
6 6 (1.73%) German Language
6 6 (1.73%) Italian Language
6 6 (1.73%) Marketing
6 6 (1.73%) Portuguese Language
6 6 (1.73%) Spanish Language
6 6 (1.73%) Swedish Language
6 6 (1.73%) Turkish Language
7 5 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.15%) Agriculture
8 4 (1.15%) Law
9 3 (0.86%) Legal
9 3 (0.86%) Local Government
9 3 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 82 (23.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 56 (16.14%) Analyst
3 47 (13.54%) Senior
4 45 (12.97%) IT Support
5 33 (9.51%) IT Engineer
6 28 (8.07%) Lead
7 26 (7.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 25 (7.20%) Network Engineer
9 24 (6.92%) Support Engineer
10 22 (6.34%) 2nd Line Support
10 22 (6.34%) Architect
11 20 (5.76%) IT Technician
12 18 (5.19%) Administrator
12 18 (5.19%) Systems Administrator
13 17 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (4.90%) Infrastructure Manager
13 17 (4.90%) IT Analyst
13 17 (4.90%) Support Analyst
14 16 (4.61%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
15 15 (4.32%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
1 12 (3.46%) Spring Boot
2 11 (3.17%) CSS
2 11 (3.17%) HTML
2 11 (3.17%) React
3 8 (2.31%) .NET
4 7 (2.02%) jQuery
4 7 (2.02%) Node.js
4 7 (2.02%) Vue
5 5 (1.44%) LDAP
5 5 (1.44%) Middleware
6 4 (1.15%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.15%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.15%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (1.15%) JWT
6 4 (1.15%) REST
6 4 (1.15%) RESTful
6 4 (1.15%) Tailwind CSS
6 4 (1.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 4 (1.15%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.51%) Public Cloud
2 27 (7.78%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (6.05%) Driving Licence
4 20 (5.76%) Data Centre
5 19 (5.48%) PKI
6 16 (4.61%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (3.46%) PMI
8 12 (3.46%) Replication
9 11 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.88%) Onboarding
11 9 (2.59%) Cyberattack
12 5 (1.44%) NHS
13 4 (1.15%) Clustering
14 3 (0.86%) Client/Server
14 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
14 3 (0.86%) Fat Client
14 3 (0.86%) Mobile Computing
14 3 (0.86%) Thin Client
15 2 (0.58%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 210 (60.52%) Windows
2 137 (39.48%) Windows Server
3 68 (19.60%) Linux
4 36 (10.37%) Windows 10
5 35 (10.09%) Windows Server 2012
6 31 (8.93%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (7.20%) Android
8 19 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (4.61%) Apple iOS
10 12 (3.46%) VMS
11 10 (2.88%) Windows 7
11 10 (2.88%) Windows Server 2008
11 10 (2.88%) Windows Server 2019
12 7 (2.02%) Mac OS
13 6 (1.73%) Unix
14 4 (1.15%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.58%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.58%) Windows XP
16 1 (0.29%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (31.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 74 (21.33%) ITIL
3 60 (17.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 58 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (12.68%) Customer Service
6 38 (10.95%) Migration
7 34 (9.80%) Agile
8 33 (9.51%) Capacity Planning
9 32 (9.22%) DevOps
10 31 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
10 31 (8.93%) Project Management
11 30 (8.65%) Mentoring
12 26 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (7.20%) Computer Science
14 23 (6.63%) Proactive Monitoring
14 23 (6.63%) Server Management
15 21 (6.05%) Information Security
16 20 (5.76%) Coaching
17 17 (4.90%) Line Management
17 17 (4.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 62 (17.87%) PowerShell
2 34 (9.80%) SQL
3 17 (4.90%) Python
4 11 (3.17%) VBScript
5 9 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 7 (2.02%) C#
7 5 (1.44%) Go
8 4 (1.15%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.15%) XAML
9 3 (0.86%) Bash
9 3 (0.86%) Ruby
10 1 (0.29%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 43 (12.39%) Degree
2 23 (6.63%) Azure Certification
3 22 (6.34%) Security Cleared
4 19 (5.48%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.61%) AWS Certification
6 16 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (4.03%) CCNA
7 14 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (3.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (3.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 12 (3.46%) PMI Certification
9 8 (2.31%) CCNP
10 6 (1.73%) CISSP
10 6 (1.73%) Network+ Certification
11 5 (1.44%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.44%) MCP
11 5 (1.44%) MCSE
11 5 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.15%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.76%) SLA
2 9 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.15%) GDPR
3 4 (1.15%) NIST
4 3 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 249 (71.76%) Active Directory
2 66 (19.02%) Hyper-V
3 62 (17.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (4.90%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (4.61%) vSphere
6 11 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (2.31%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.86%) Docker
9 2 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.58%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.29%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.29%) Firmware
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.29%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.29%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 58 (16.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (8.36%) SCCM
3 21 (6.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (4.61%) SCOM
4 16 (4.61%) Terraform
4 16 (4.61%) WSUS
5 15 (4.32%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (3.46%) CA Single Sign-On
6 12 (3.46%) Opsgenie
6 12 (3.46%) VxRail
6 12 (3.46%) ZABBIX
7 11 (3.17%) Kubernetes
8 9 (2.59%) Ansible
8 9 (2.59%) CASB
9 7 (2.02%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 6 (1.73%) FortiGate
11 5 (1.44%) Grafana
11 5 (1.44%) Prometheus
12 4 (1.15%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 206 (59.37%) Microsoft
2 108 (31.12%) VMware
3 55 (15.85%) Cisco
4 33 (9.51%) Citrix
5 30 (8.65%) SolarWinds
6 26 (7.49%) Veeam
7 23 (6.63%) Oracle
8 19 (5.48%) Fortinet
9 17 (4.90%) CA
9 17 (4.90%) Dell
10 15 (4.32%) Apple
10 15 (4.32%) ServiceNow
11 13 (3.75%) NetApp
12 12 (3.46%) CyberArk
12 12 (3.46%) Sparx
13 11 (3.17%) SAP
14 8 (2.31%) F5
15 7 (2.02%) Juniper
16 6 (1.73%) Epicor
16 6 (1.73%) Red Hat