DNS Jobs in the West Midlands

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 142 119
Rank change year-on-year +26 -23 -19
Permanent jobs citing DNS 167 115 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.98% 1.99% 2.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.98% 10.61% 19.10%
Number of salaries quoted 130 105 185
10th Percentile £24,725 £26,100 £24,900
25th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,750 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -6.25% -4.07%
75th Percentile £56,250 £45,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £54,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £44,225 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.06% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,045 1,084 1,084
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.37% 18.74% 13.94%
Number of salaries quoted 777 510 700
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% +3.26%
75th Percentile £56,950 £63,750 £60,156
90th Percentile £68,300 £73,075 £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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the West Midlands

DNS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for DNS in the West Midlands

DNS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the West Midlands

DNS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Birmingham +7 59 £50,000 +17.65% 8
Warwickshire +39 18 £57,500 +25.00% 3
Shropshire +9 18 £36,500 - 1
Staffordshire -41 14 £46,250 +42.31% 4
Worcestershire -35 10 £35,000 -11.83% 6
Solihull +6 9 £29,500 -17.48% 3
Coventry +14 7 £42,500 +13.33% 4
Wednesbury -1 6 £30,000 -14.29%
Wolverhampton +15 5 £21,500 -29.51%
Herefordshire +6 4 £60,000 +41.18% 1
Dudley - 2 £24,500 -
Brierley Hill - 2 £33,750 -
Halesowen - 1 £30,000 -
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 64 (38.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (20.36%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.79%) IIS
4 4 (2.40%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.80%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (1.20%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (1.20%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 25 (14.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (2.40%) Sage 200
2 3 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (54.49%) Azure
2 81 (48.50%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (32.93%) Entra ID
4 21 (12.57%) AWS
5 19 (11.38%) OneDrive
6 13 (7.78%) IaaS
7 12 (7.19%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.39%) PaaS
9 7 (4.19%) Google Workspace
10 5 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
11 4 (2.40%) Mimecast
11 4 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.80%) Power Platform
13 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
13 2 (1.20%) Azure App Service
13 2 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.20%) Matillion
13 2 (1.20%) OpenDNS
14 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 137 (82.04%) DHCP
2 79 (47.31%) Firewall
3 65 (38.92%) TCP/IP
4 41 (24.55%) WAN
5 37 (22.16%) LAN
6 31 (18.56%) VPN
7 25 (14.97%) SAN
8 23 (13.77%) VLAN
8 23 (13.77%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (7.19%) SSL
10 11 (6.59%) iSCSI
10 11 (6.59%) SMTP
10 11 (6.59%) Wireless
11 10 (5.99%) SD-WAN
11 10 (5.99%) SNMP
12 9 (5.39%) Fibre Channel
12 9 (5.39%) Network Security
13 8 (4.79%) HTTP
14 7 (4.19%) OSPF
14 7 (4.19%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.98%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.80%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.80%) Power BI
5 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.19%) Git
2 5 (2.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (20.96%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (6.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (5.39%) Finance
5 7 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (4.19%) Law
6 5 (2.99%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.40%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.40%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.80%) Legal
8 3 (1.80%) Military
8 3 (1.80%) Retail
9 2 (1.20%) Back Office
10 1 (0.60%) Advertising
10 1 (0.60%) Automotive
10 1 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 31 (18.56%) Support Engineer
2 27 (16.17%) IT Engineer
3 26 (15.57%) Analyst
4 25 (14.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 24 (14.37%) IT Support
6 20 (11.98%) Senior
7 17 (10.18%) Service Analyst
7 17 (10.18%) Service Desk Analyst
8 16 (9.58%) IT Support Engineer
9 14 (8.38%) Administrator
9 14 (8.38%) Network Engineer
10 12 (7.19%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (6.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 10 (5.99%) 3rd Line Support
13 9 (5.39%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (5.39%) Windows Administrator
14 8 (4.79%) 2nd Line Support
14 8 (4.79%) IT Manager
14 8 (4.79%) IT Technician
14 8 (4.79%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.19%) JSON
1 7 (4.19%) YAML
2 3 (1.80%) .NET
2 3 (1.80%) AngularJS
2 3 (1.80%) ASP.NET
2 3 (1.80%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (1.80%) CSS
2 3 (1.80%) HTML
2 3 (1.80%) jQuery
2 3 (1.80%) React
2 3 (1.80%) REST
2 3 (1.80%) Tailwind CSS
2 3 (1.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 3 (1.80%) Vue
2 3 (1.80%) WPF
3 2 (1.20%) ADO
3 2 (1.20%) JWT
3 2 (1.20%) LAMP
3 2 (1.20%) RESTful
3 2 (1.20%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.78%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.99%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.99%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.39%) PKI
4 6 (3.59%) Clustering
4 6 (3.59%) Cyberattack
4 6 (3.59%) EFT
4 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.59%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.59%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.40%) CCTV
5 4 (2.40%) FMCG
5 4 (2.40%) IoT
5 4 (2.40%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.80%) Replication
7 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.20%) Wiki
8 1 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.60%) Mobile Computing
8 1 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 127 (76.05%) Windows
2 93 (55.69%) Windows Server
3 39 (23.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 37 (22.16%) Windows 10
5 31 (18.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (15.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (7.78%) Linux
8 9 (5.39%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (4.79%) Apple iOS
9 8 (4.79%) Mac OS
10 6 (3.59%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (2.99%) Ubuntu
12 4 (2.40%) CentOS
12 4 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (2.40%) VMS
13 2 (1.20%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (20.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (17.37%) Cybersecurity
3 27 (16.17%) ITIL
4 23 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (11.38%) Customer Service
6 17 (10.18%) Project Delivery
7 15 (8.98%) Change Control
8 13 (7.78%) Incident Management
8 13 (7.78%) Platform Engineering
9 12 (7.19%) CI/CD
9 12 (7.19%) DevOps
9 12 (7.19%) Disaster Recovery
10 11 (6.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (6.59%) ERP
10 11 (6.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (5.99%) Agile
11 10 (5.99%) Patch Management
12 9 (5.39%) Continuous Integration
12 9 (5.39%) Server Management
12 9 (5.39%) Server Patching
Programming Languages
1 46 (27.54%) PowerShell
2 20 (11.98%) SQL
3 5 (2.99%) T-SQL
4 4 (2.40%) Bash
5 3 (1.80%) C#
5 3 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.80%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.80%) R
5 3 (1.80%) XAML
6 1 (0.60%) C
6 1 (0.60%) C++
6 1 (0.60%) Java
6 1 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (8.98%) Degree
2 14 (8.38%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (5.39%) Network+ Certification
4 9 (5.39%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.79%) CCNA
5 8 (4.79%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.59%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.40%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.80%) MCSE
10 2 (1.20%) MCSA
11 1 (0.60%) CCNP
11 1 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.60%) HNC
11 1 (0.60%) HND
11 1 (0.60%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.98%) SLA
2 4 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.80%) JSP 440
4 2 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 124 (74.25%) Active Directory
2 47 (28.14%) Hyper-V
3 36 (21.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (11.38%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (5.39%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (4.19%) vSphere
7 6 (3.59%) pfSense
8 5 (2.99%) NFS
8 5 (2.99%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (2.40%) VMware Server
9 4 (2.40%) XenApp
9 4 (2.40%) XenDesktop
10 3 (1.80%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (1.20%) Docker
12 1 (0.60%) Firmware
12 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (19.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (11.98%) SCCM
3 13 (7.78%) vCenter Server
4 12 (7.19%) Terraform
5 6 (3.59%) SCOM
6 5 (2.99%) Backup Exec
7 3 (1.80%) Autotask
7 3 (1.80%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (1.80%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
9 1 (0.60%) Nagios
9 1 (0.60%) VxRail
Vendors
1 109 (65.27%) Microsoft
2 67 (40.12%) VMware
3 31 (18.56%) Cisco
4 28 (16.77%) Veeam
5 19 (11.38%) Citrix
6 18 (10.78%) Apple
6 18 (10.78%) Dell
7 14 (8.38%) Aruba
7 14 (8.38%) Sophos
8 12 (7.19%) Fortinet
8 12 (7.19%) HP
9 11 (6.59%) WatchGuard
9 11 (6.59%) Zerto
10 9 (5.39%) Sage
11 8 (4.79%) Juniper
12 7 (4.19%) Datto
13 6 (3.59%) Globalscape
14 5 (2.99%) ConnectWise
14 5 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
14 5 (2.99%) Ubiquiti