DNS Jobs in the South West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 127 136 156
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 -41
Permanent jobs citing DNS 192 136 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.93% 2.07% 2.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.27% 10.71% 13.20%
Number of salaries quoted 129 84 122
10th Percentile £26,850 £27,650 £27,375
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,398 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £39,644 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -6.72% +8.97%
75th Percentile £51,750 £47,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £54,625 £71,125
England median annual salary £43,742 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.92% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,257 1,270 1,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.61% 19.30% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 942 525 731
10th Percentile £26,275 £27,700 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,028
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,833 £64,040
90th Percentile £72,423 £77,500 £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 South West

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS in the South West.

Salary trend for DNS in the South West

DNS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the South West

DNS
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +13 88 £31,000 -27.06% 2
Bristol +13 41 £37,500 +4.17% 7
Devon -7 20 £26,000 -23.53% 5
Wiltshire -12 20 £50,500 +44.29% 8
Somerset +5 11 £45,000 -2.70% 5
Dorset -33 6 £42,500 - 3
Cornwall -10 5 £30,000 -6.25%
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 29 (15.10%) SharePoint
2 17 (8.85%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.65%) IIS
4 6 (3.13%) Confluence
5 4 (2.08%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.52%) CMS
6 1 (0.52%) nginx
6 1 (0.52%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.60%) Trello
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (57.81%) Azure
2 73 (38.02%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (32.29%) AWS
4 52 (27.08%) SaaS
5 39 (20.31%) OpenShift
6 33 (17.19%) Entra ID
7 20 (10.42%) IaaS
8 17 (8.85%) PaaS
8 17 (8.85%) Power Platform
9 15 (7.81%) OneDrive
10 7 (3.65%) WhatsApp
11 5 (2.60%) GCP
11 5 (2.60%) Slack
12 4 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.08%) GitHub
12 4 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.56%) Mimecast
14 1 (0.52%) Matillion
14 1 (0.52%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 127 (66.15%) DHCP
2 99 (51.56%) TCP/IP
3 51 (26.56%) HTTP
4 50 (26.04%) Firewall
5 46 (23.96%) WAN
6 39 (20.31%) LAN
6 39 (20.31%) VPN
7 25 (13.02%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (11.46%) Wireless
9 13 (6.77%) VLAN
10 12 (6.25%) VSAN
11 11 (5.73%) Internet
11 11 (5.73%) SD-WAN
12 10 (5.21%) IPsec
12 10 (5.21%) SSL
13 9 (4.69%) SMTP
14 8 (4.17%) BGP
15 6 (3.13%) NetScaler
16 4 (2.08%) 802.11
16 4 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.65%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.60%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.08%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.08%) RDBMS
5 3 (1.56%) MySQL
6 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.52%) Power BI
7 1 (0.52%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 8 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.65%) JIRA
3 1 (0.52%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) Log4Net
3 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 46 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.90%) Aerospace
3 16 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (3.65%) Marketing
6 6 (3.13%) Law
7 4 (2.08%) Finance
7 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.04%) Legal
9 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.04%) Publishing
9 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 62 (32.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 52 (27.08%) Senior
3 40 (20.83%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (15.10%) Support Engineer
5 27 (14.06%) IT Engineer
6 22 (11.46%) Field Engineer
7 17 (8.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 16 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
9 15 (7.81%) IT Support
10 14 (7.29%) Developer
11 13 (6.77%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 13 (6.77%) Field Service Engineer
12 12 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support
13 11 (5.73%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (5.73%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
13 11 (5.73%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (5.73%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (5.73%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
13 11 (5.73%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 11 (5.73%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.65%) HTML
2 6 (3.13%) CSS
3 5 (2.60%) LDAP
3 5 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (2.60%) REST
4 4 (2.08%) .NET
4 4 (2.08%) 802.1X
4 4 (2.08%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.08%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.56%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.56%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (1.56%) jQuery
5 3 (1.56%) React
5 3 (1.56%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (1.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (1.56%) Vue
5 3 (1.56%) WPF
6 2 (1.04%) OAuth
6 2 (1.04%) OpenID
6 2 (1.04%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 27 (14.06%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (5.21%) Replication
4 9 (4.69%) Public Cloud
4 9 (4.69%) Tandem
5 8 (4.17%) CUDA
5 8 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.17%) GNSS
6 5 (2.60%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.60%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.04%) Clustering
10 1 (0.52%) iPhone
10 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.52%) PKI
10 1 (0.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 140 (72.92%) Windows
2 69 (35.94%) Windows Server
3 67 (34.90%) Linux
4 43 (22.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (15.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (15.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (13.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (5.73%) Windows 10
9 9 (4.69%) Unix
10 7 (3.65%) Mac OS
11 6 (3.13%) Apple iOS
12 5 (2.60%) Android
12 5 (2.60%) Windows 7
13 2 (1.04%) Debian
13 2 (1.04%) Ubuntu
13 2 (1.04%) Windows 8
13 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.52%) CentOS
14 1 (0.52%) Fedora
14 1 (0.52%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (38.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 49 (25.52%) ITIL
3 47 (24.48%) DevOps
3 47 (24.48%) Software Architecture
4 36 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
5 32 (16.67%) Agile
6 30 (15.63%) Customer Service
7 27 (14.06%) Collaborative Working
8 25 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (10.94%) Service Management
10 18 (9.38%) Change Management
11 17 (8.85%) Time Management
12 14 (7.29%) Open Source
13 13 (6.77%) Computer Science
13 13 (6.77%) Containerisation
13 13 (6.77%) Mentoring
14 10 (5.21%) Incident Management
15 9 (4.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 9 (4.69%) Line Management
15 9 (4.69%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 67 (34.90%) PowerShell
2 52 (27.08%) Python
3 45 (23.44%) Java
4 40 (20.83%) Bash
5 18 (9.38%) SQL
6 8 (4.17%) C
6 8 (4.17%) C#
6 8 (4.17%) C++
7 3 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.56%) XAML
8 2 (1.04%) Ruby
9 1 (0.52%) Bicep
9 1 (0.52%) Perl
9 1 (0.52%) PHP
9 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 35 (18.23%) DV Cleared
3 29 (15.10%) Degree
3 29 (15.10%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.33%) DBS Check
5 11 (5.73%) A+ Certification
6 7 (3.65%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.60%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (2.60%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.60%) PMP
7 5 (2.60%) RHCE
7 5 (2.60%) RHCSA
8 4 (2.08%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.04%) CCNA
9 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.85%) SLA
2 5 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 92 (47.92%) Active Directory
2 64 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (29.69%) Hyper-V
4 39 (20.31%) Docker
5 12 (6.25%) Firmware
6 9 (4.69%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (4.69%) vSphere
7 8 (4.17%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (1.04%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.52%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.52%) KVM
10 1 (0.52%) Samba
10 1 (0.52%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 44 (22.92%) Kubernetes
2 39 (20.31%) Ansible
2 39 (20.31%) Puppet
3 29 (15.10%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (4.69%) SCVMM
5 8 (4.17%) McAfee ePO
5 8 (4.17%) SCCM
5 8 (4.17%) WSUS
6 7 (3.65%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (3.65%) Terraform
7 5 (2.60%) Rancher
8 4 (2.08%) Istio
8 4 (2.08%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.08%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.56%) SCOM
9 3 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Clustering
11 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 71 (36.98%) VMware
2 63 (32.81%) Microsoft
3 41 (21.35%) Red Hat
4 23 (11.98%) HP
5 17 (8.85%) Veeam
6 15 (7.81%) Cisco
6 15 (7.81%) Citrix
7 10 (5.21%) Sophos
8 8 (4.17%) McAfee
9 7 (3.65%) Apple
9 7 (3.65%) Meraki
10 6 (3.13%) Aderant
10 6 (3.13%) iManage
10 6 (3.13%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.60%) Fortinet
11 5 (2.60%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.08%) Google
12 4 (2.08%) Oracle
12 4 (2.08%) Sparx
13 3 (1.56%) Dell