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 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 130 149 159
Rank change year-on-year +19 +10 -16
Permanent jobs citing DNS 1,566 1,354 1,746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.06% 2.39% 2.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.83% 12.59% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1,261 1,049 1,404
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +2.41%
75th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
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 9,894 10,757 11,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.02% 19.03% 15.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7,118 4,590 6,556
10th Percentile £25,756 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +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 1 June 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 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
South East -12 430 £42,500 +6.25% 70
North of England +14 347 £42,500 - 83
Midlands +59 313 £37,500 -1.32% 41
South West +9 192 £37,500 -5.41% 30
North West -1 184 £45,000 - 53
West Midlands +30 167 £39,750 +4.61% 26
East of England 0 153 £41,500 -2.35% 40
East Midlands +53 142 £37,500 +2.74% 15
Yorkshire +38 119 £32,500 -18.75% 23
Wales +36 60 £34,000 -4.67% 6
Scotland -57 60 £42,500 +13.33% 18
North East +2 50 £42,500 +6.80% 7
Northern Ireland +16 13 £32,500 -4.41% 2
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
1 375 (23.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 244 (15.58%) SharePoint
3 94 (6.00%) IIS
4 40 (2.55%) WebLogic
5 33 (2.11%) CMS
6 27 (1.72%) WordPress
7 23 (1.47%) Exchange Server 2013
8 21 (1.34%) Exchange Server 2010
9 20 (1.28%) Exchange Server 2007
10 16 (1.02%) Confluence
10 16 (1.02%) Skype for Business
11 13 (0.83%) Apache
11 13 (0.83%) nginx
12 7 (0.45%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.32%) Umbraco
14 4 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2003
15 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
16 1 (0.064%) Apache Airflow
16 1 (0.064%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 204 (13.03%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.32%) Trello
6 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.19%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.13%) CATIA
8 2 (0.13%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 40 (2.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 7 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.26%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
5 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.064%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.064%) Sage 300 ERP
6 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.064%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 868 (55.43%) Azure
2 788 (50.32%) Microsoft 365
3 300 (19.16%) Entra ID
4 294 (18.77%) AWS
5 97 (6.19%) OneDrive
6 77 (4.92%) IaaS
7 70 (4.47%) SaaS
8 52 (3.32%) Power Platform
9 45 (2.87%) PaaS
10 40 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (2.55%) Amazon SQS
11 39 (2.49%) OpenShift
12 38 (2.43%) Mimecast
13 33 (2.11%) Nutanix
14 30 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
15 29 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
16 26 (1.66%) GitHub
17 22 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
18 21 (1.34%) GCP
18 21 (1.34%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 998 (63.73%) DHCP
2 624 (39.85%) Firewall
3 525 (33.52%) TCP/IP
4 298 (19.03%) VPN
5 292 (18.65%) WAN
6 250 (15.96%) LAN
7 197 (12.58%) VLAN
8 148 (9.45%) Wi-Fi
9 139 (8.88%) SAN
10 134 (8.56%) Wireless
11 120 (7.66%) SSL
12 83 (5.30%) HTTP
13 78 (4.98%) VoIP
14 73 (4.66%) Network Security
15 69 (4.41%) BGP
16 68 (4.34%) Internet
17 64 (4.09%) SD-WAN
18 39 (2.49%) iSCSI
19 37 (2.36%) DKIM
19 37 (2.36%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (8.94%) SQL Server
2 69 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
3 48 (3.07%) Oracle Database
4 44 (2.81%) Relational Database
5 40 (2.55%) RDBMS
6 27 (1.72%) MySQL
7 26 (1.66%) Power BI
8 14 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (0.57%) Redis
10 9 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.38%) GIS
11 6 (0.38%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.19%) Crystal Reports
13 2 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.13%) OLAP
13 2 (0.13%) SAP Data Services
13 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 32 (2.04%) JIRA
2 22 (1.40%) Git
3 21 (1.34%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.64%) Trac
5 4 (0.26%) GitLab
5 4 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.13%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.13%) Grunt
7 2 (0.13%) Hudson
7 2 (0.13%) webpack
8 1 (0.064%) Log4Net
8 1 (0.064%) Selenium
8 1 (0.064%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.064%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 437 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 141 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
3 109 (6.96%) Finance
4 57 (3.64%) Telecoms
5 45 (2.87%) Public Sector
6 39 (2.49%) Aerospace
7 38 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
8 37 (2.36%) Marketing
9 33 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 29 (1.85%) Law
10 29 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
12 20 (1.28%) Retail
13 17 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (0.70%) Legal
15 10 (0.64%) Electronics
16 9 (0.57%) Automotive
17 8 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
17 8 (0.51%) Local Government
18 7 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 329 (21.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 222 (14.18%) Senior
3 221 (14.11%) IT Support
4 196 (12.52%) IT Engineer
5 195 (12.45%) Support Engineer
6 190 (12.13%) Analyst
7 113 (7.22%) Lead
8 95 (6.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 94 (6.00%) IT Support Engineer
10 90 (5.75%) IT Technician
10 90 (5.75%) Network Engineer
11 87 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 82 (5.24%) 2nd Line Support
13 80 (5.11%) Architect
14 77 (4.92%) Support Technician
15 72 (4.60%) 3rd Line Support
16 65 (4.15%) Support Analyst
17 62 (3.96%) IT Analyst
18 61 (3.90%) Administrator
18 61 (3.90%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.13%) .NET
2 48 (3.07%) REST
3 46 (2.94%) HTML
4 44 (2.81%) CSS
5 43 (2.75%) RabbitMQ
6 40 (2.55%) Spring Boot
7 28 (1.79%) ASP.NET
7 28 (1.79%) jQuery
7 28 (1.79%) React
8 25 (1.60%) SAML
9 24 (1.53%) Vue
10 22 (1.40%) AngularJS
10 22 (1.40%) ASP.NET MVC
11 21 (1.34%) ARM Templates
12 20 (1.28%) OAuth
12 20 (1.28%) OpenID
13 19 (1.21%) Tailwind CSS
13 19 (1.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 19 (1.21%) WPF
14 17 (1.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 123 (7.85%) Data Centre
2 110 (7.02%) Driving Licence
2 110 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
3 88 (5.62%) Public Cloud
4 62 (3.96%) PKI
5 59 (3.77%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (3.38%) Replication
7 40 (2.55%) Management Information System
8 37 (2.36%) Onboarding
9 31 (1.98%) Cyberattack
10 30 (1.92%) Clustering
11 20 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
12 19 (1.21%) IoT
13 15 (0.96%) Client/Server
14 13 (0.83%) CCTV
15 12 (0.77%) NHS
15 12 (0.77%) PMI
16 11 (0.70%) Tandem
17 10 (0.64%) CMDB
17 10 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1,051 (67.11%) Windows
2 674 (43.04%) Windows Server
3 344 (21.97%) Linux
4 208 (13.28%) Windows 10
5 195 (12.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 166 (10.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 144 (9.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 91 (5.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 61 (3.90%) Android
10 57 (3.64%) Apple iOS
11 45 (2.87%) Windows Server 2008
12 36 (2.30%) Mac OS
13 33 (2.11%) Windows 7
14 28 (1.79%) Windows 8
15 27 (1.72%) VMS
16 21 (1.34%) Mac OS X
16 21 (1.34%) Ubuntu
17 20 (1.28%) Unix
18 19 (1.21%) Windows XP
19 16 (1.02%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (24.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 324 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
3 310 (19.80%) ITIL
4 249 (15.90%) Customer Service
5 177 (11.30%) Agile
6 157 (10.03%) DevOps
7 151 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
8 146 (9.32%) Disaster Recovery
9 128 (8.17%) Migration
10 124 (7.92%) Project Management
11 103 (6.58%) Collaborative Working
12 96 (6.13%) Actionable Insight
13 86 (5.49%) Service Management
14 85 (5.43%) Mentoring
15 75 (4.79%) Information Security
16 72 (4.60%) Incident Management
16 72 (4.60%) Open Source
17 69 (4.41%) Scrum
17 69 (4.41%) Server Management
18 67 (4.28%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 313 (19.99%) PowerShell
2 140 (8.94%) SQL
3 105 (6.70%) Python
4 69 (4.41%) Java
5 68 (4.34%) Bash
6 67 (4.28%) C#
7 44 (2.81%) JavaScript
8 34 (2.17%) VBScript
9 23 (1.47%) VB
10 22 (1.40%) Bicep
10 22 (1.40%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.21%) XAML
12 16 (1.02%) Perl
13 15 (0.96%) PHP
14 10 (0.64%) C
14 10 (0.64%) C++
15 8 (0.51%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.32%) Go
16 5 (0.32%) Ruby
16 5 (0.32%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 249 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 195 (12.45%) Degree
3 159 (10.15%) SC Cleared
4 117 (7.47%) DV Cleared
5 102 (6.51%) Cisco Certification
6 92 (5.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 90 (5.75%) Azure Certification
8 88 (5.62%) CCNA
9 51 (3.26%) AWS Certification
10 47 (3.00%) CCNP
11 46 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
12 40 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 37 (2.36%) DBS Check
13 37 (2.36%) MCSE
14 34 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 30 (1.92%) A+ Certification
16 26 (1.66%) MCP
17 25 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
18 21 (1.34%) MCSA
19 17 (1.09%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.39%) SLA
2 43 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 27 (1.72%) GDPR
5 14 (0.89%) Data Quality
6 9 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.26%) NIST
8 4 (0.26%) QA
9 3 (0.19%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.064%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.064%) GxP
10 1 (0.064%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.064%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.064%) NCSC
10 1 (0.064%) PMO
System Software
1 1,012 (64.62%) Active Directory
2 366 (23.37%) Hyper-V
3 339 (21.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 73 (4.66%) Virtual Machines
5 70 (4.47%) Docker
5 70 (4.47%) VMware ESXi
6 59 (3.77%) vSphere
7 42 (2.68%) Virtual Servers
8 37 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 18 (1.15%) pfSense
9 18 (1.15%) Terminal Services
10 16 (1.02%) NFS
11 15 (0.96%) Firmware
12 13 (0.83%) XenApp
13 9 (0.57%) XenDesktop
14 8 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
14 8 (0.51%) VMware Server
15 6 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 6 (0.38%) VMware NSX
16 4 (0.26%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 272 (17.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 135 (8.62%) SCCM
3 93 (5.94%) WSUS
4 82 (5.24%) Kubernetes
5 79 (5.04%) SCOM
6 68 (4.34%) Ansible
7 62 (3.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 47 (3.00%) Terraform
9 39 (2.49%) Puppet
10 35 (2.23%) vCenter Server
11 25 (1.60%) CASB
12 24 (1.53%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 23 (1.47%) ZABBIX
14 22 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
15 19 (1.21%) FortiGate
16 18 (1.15%) Grafana
17 16 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
17 16 (1.02%) SCDPM
18 13 (0.83%) NetBackup
19 12 (0.77%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 873 (55.75%) Microsoft
2 518 (33.08%) VMware
3 235 (15.01%) Cisco
4 153 (9.77%) Veeam
5 107 (6.83%) Citrix
6 87 (5.56%) Dell
7 76 (4.85%) HP
8 72 (4.60%) Oracle
9 67 (4.28%) Apple
10 63 (4.02%) Juniper
11 61 (3.90%) Meraki
12 55 (3.51%) Red Hat
13 51 (3.26%) Fortinet
14 44 (2.81%) Palo Alto
14 44 (2.81%) SolarWinds
15 40 (2.55%) Sophos
15 40 (2.55%) Sparx
16 32 (2.04%) Acronis
17 30 (1.92%) NetApp
17 30 (1.92%) WatchGuard