Domain Name System (DNS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 183 219
Rank change year-on-year +48 +36 -50
Permanent jobs citing DNS 2,091 2,073 3,123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.09% 2.08% 1.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.52% 13.21% 14.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,752 1,615 2,320
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +1.86%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,475 15,695 21,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.78% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,380 7,937 11,850
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DNS in the UK

DNS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the UK

DNS
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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
England +48 1,925 £43,983 +3.49% 432
UK excluding London +23 1,548 £40,000 - 346
Work from Home +60 784 £50,000 +9.89% 145
London +50 502 £55,001 +0.00% 119
South East +2 435 £42,500 +6.25% 93
North of England +20 340 £42,500 - 98
Midlands +59 305 £37,500 -2.60% 57
South West +7 191 £37,500 -6.25% 32
North West -3 182 £45,000 - 61
West Midlands +53 164 £39,750 +2.58% 28
East of England -8 148 £41,500 -2.35% 44
East Midlands +51 137 £37,500 +2.74% 29
Yorkshire +54 114 £32,500 -18.75% 31
Wales +37 59 £34,000 -7.06% 7
Scotland -53 59 £42,500 +17.24% 18
North East +11 50 £42,500 +13.33% 6
Northern Ireland +28 13 £32,500 -4.41% 4
Channel Islands - 4 £85,000 -
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 493 (23.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 316 (15.11%) SharePoint
3 121 (5.79%) IIS
4 46 (2.20%) WebLogic
5 35 (1.67%) CMS
6 34 (1.63%) WordPress
7 33 (1.58%) Exchange Server 2013
8 27 (1.29%) Exchange Server 2010
9 25 (1.20%) Skype for Business
10 24 (1.15%) Confluence
11 23 (1.10%) Apache
11 23 (1.10%) nginx
12 22 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2007
13 9 (0.43%) Tomcat
14 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.33%) Umbraco
15 5 (0.24%) SAS
16 4 (0.19%) Apache Solr
16 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2003
17 2 (0.096%) Moodle
Applications
1 254 (12.15%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.29%) Trello
5 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.14%) SPSS
7 2 (0.096%) CATIA
7 2 (0.096%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 46 (2.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (0.77%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
5 4 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.19%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.096%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.096%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.048%) Carpe Diem
7 1 (0.048%) Eikon
7 1 (0.048%) Sage 300 ERP
7 1 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.048%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.048%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,150 (55.00%) Azure
2 974 (46.58%) Microsoft 365
3 416 (19.89%) AWS
4 366 (17.50%) Entra ID
5 119 (5.69%) OneDrive
6 118 (5.64%) IaaS
7 82 (3.92%) SaaS
8 76 (3.63%) PaaS
9 75 (3.59%) Power Platform
10 71 (3.40%) GCP
11 64 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
12 54 (2.58%) Nutanix
13 52 (2.49%) Mimecast
14 51 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
15 46 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
16 44 (2.10%) GitHub
17 37 (1.77%) OpenShift
18 31 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
18 31 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
19 29 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1,270 (60.74%) DHCP
2 855 (40.89%) Firewall
3 681 (32.57%) TCP/IP
4 420 (20.09%) VPN
5 413 (19.75%) WAN
6 365 (17.46%) LAN
7 261 (12.48%) VLAN
8 222 (10.62%) Wi-Fi
9 208 (9.95%) Wireless
10 190 (9.09%) SAN
11 156 (7.46%) SSL
12 123 (5.88%) Network Security
13 115 (5.50%) HTTP
14 112 (5.36%) Internet
15 104 (4.97%) VoIP
16 102 (4.88%) BGP
17 92 (4.40%) SD-WAN
18 65 (3.11%) IPsec
18 65 (3.11%) OSPF
19 60 (2.87%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (9.90%) SQL Server
2 89 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (2.73%) Oracle Database
4 56 (2.68%) Relational Database
5 51 (2.44%) RDBMS
6 48 (2.30%) MySQL
7 40 (1.91%) Power BI
8 22 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
9 20 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (0.72%) PostgreSQL
12 13 (0.62%) Redis
13 11 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 9 (0.43%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.43%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.29%) GIS
16 5 (0.24%) Data Lake
17 3 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
17 3 (0.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 60 (2.87%) Jenkins
2 51 (2.44%) JIRA
3 40 (1.91%) Git
4 20 (0.96%) GitLab
5 10 (0.48%) Trac
6 8 (0.38%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.33%) Katalon Studio
8 6 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.24%) Subversion
10 4 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
10 4 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.096%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.096%) Browser DevTools
12 2 (0.096%) git-flow
12 2 (0.096%) Grunt
12 2 (0.096%) Hudson
12 2 (0.096%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.096%) webpack
13 1 (0.048%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 587 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 230 (11.00%) Finance
3 209 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (4.07%) Telecoms
5 58 (2.77%) Public Sector
6 52 (2.49%) Law
7 45 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (2.10%) Banking
8 44 (2.10%) Marketing
9 43 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
10 36 (1.72%) Aerospace
11 35 (1.67%) Manufacturing
12 30 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
13 28 (1.34%) Legal
13 28 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (1.20%) Retail
15 15 (0.72%) Games
16 13 (0.62%) Electronics
17 10 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 382 (18.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 298 (14.25%) Senior
3 268 (12.82%) Analyst
4 265 (12.67%) IT Support
5 256 (12.24%) Support Engineer
6 229 (10.95%) IT Engineer
7 152 (7.27%) Network Engineer
8 136 (6.50%) Lead
9 120 (5.74%) IT Support Engineer
10 108 (5.16%) Architect
11 105 (5.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 104 (4.97%) 2nd Line Support
13 92 (4.40%) IT Technician
13 92 (4.40%) Support Analyst
14 90 (4.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 90 (4.30%) 3rd Line Support
15 78 (3.73%) Administrator
16 75 (3.59%) IT Analyst
17 74 (3.54%) Support Technician
17 74 (3.54%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (3.30%) .NET
2 58 (2.77%) HTML
3 53 (2.53%) RabbitMQ
3 53 (2.53%) REST
4 50 (2.39%) CSS
5 46 (2.20%) Spring Boot
6 38 (1.82%) ARM Templates
7 36 (1.72%) React
8 35 (1.67%) SAML
9 32 (1.53%) 802.1X
9 32 (1.53%) LDAP
9 32 (1.53%) YAML
10 30 (1.43%) ASP.NET
11 28 (1.34%) jQuery
12 24 (1.15%) Vue
13 23 (1.10%) ASP.NET MVC
13 23 (1.10%) RESTful
14 22 (1.05%) AngularJS
15 20 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
16 19 (0.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 201 (9.61%) Data Centre
2 127 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
3 117 (5.60%) Driving Licence
4 111 (5.31%) Public Cloud
5 105 (5.02%) PKI
6 83 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
7 76 (3.63%) Replication
8 62 (2.97%) Onboarding
9 58 (2.77%) Management Information System
10 40 (1.91%) Client/Server
11 38 (1.82%) Clustering
12 34 (1.63%) Cyberattack
13 32 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
14 31 (1.48%) Security Posture
15 25 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
16 21 (1.00%) IoT
17 18 (0.86%) CCTV
18 16 (0.77%) Eurex
18 16 (0.77%) Smartphone
19 14 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,355 (64.80%) Windows
2 844 (40.36%) Windows Server
3 464 (22.19%) Linux
4 277 (13.25%) Windows 10
5 231 (11.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 201 (9.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 172 (8.23%) Windows Server 2012
8 110 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 72 (3.44%) Windows Server 2008
10 69 (3.30%) Apple iOS
11 67 (3.20%) Android
12 62 (2.97%) Unix
13 52 (2.49%) Mac OS
14 40 (1.91%) CentOS
14 40 (1.91%) Ubuntu
15 37 (1.77%) Windows 7
16 33 (1.58%) VMS
17 29 (1.39%) Windows 8
18 23 (1.10%) Mac OS X
19 20 (0.96%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (22.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 442 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
3 429 (20.52%) ITIL
4 284 (13.58%) Customer Service
5 256 (12.24%) Agile
6 245 (11.72%) DevOps
7 243 (11.62%) Cybersecurity
8 206 (9.85%) Disaster Recovery
9 189 (9.04%) Migration
10 154 (7.36%) Project Management
11 120 (5.74%) Collaborative Working
12 119 (5.69%) Load Balancing
13 109 (5.21%) CI/CD
13 109 (5.21%) Information Security
13 109 (5.21%) Mentoring
14 103 (4.93%) Actionable Insight
15 100 (4.78%) Infrastructure as Code
16 95 (4.54%) Service Management
17 94 (4.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 92 (4.40%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 448 (21.43%) PowerShell
2 212 (10.14%) Python
3 195 (9.33%) SQL
4 122 (5.83%) Bash
5 87 (4.16%) Java
6 73 (3.49%) C#
7 68 (3.25%) JavaScript
8 52 (2.49%) Perl
9 35 (1.67%) T-SQL
10 31 (1.48%) VBScript
11 23 (1.10%) Ruby
12 21 (1.00%) VB
13 19 (0.91%) XAML
14 18 (0.86%) Bicep
14 18 (0.86%) PHP
15 16 (0.77%) C++
16 12 (0.57%) C
17 10 (0.48%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.29%) Go
19 5 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 273 (13.06%) Degree
2 261 (12.48%) Security Cleared
3 168 (8.03%) SC Cleared
4 145 (6.93%) Cisco Certification
5 135 (6.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 118 (5.64%) CCNA
7 114 (5.45%) DV Cleared
8 111 (5.31%) Azure Certification
9 73 (3.49%) AWS Certification
10 65 (3.11%) CCNP
11 58 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 57 (2.73%) MCSE
13 50 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 45 (2.15%) DBS Check
15 38 (1.82%) MCSA
16 37 (1.77%) A+ Certification
17 34 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 31 (1.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 31 (1.48%) Network+ Certification
19 27 (1.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.83%) SLA
2 75 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 33 (1.58%) GDPR
5 17 (0.81%) NIST
6 16 (0.77%) COBIT
7 14 (0.67%) Data Quality
7 14 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 14 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.43%) NCSC
8 9 (0.43%) PMO
9 8 (0.38%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.33%) ISO 9001
10 7 (0.33%) QA
11 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
14 2 (0.096%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.048%) ISO 20022
15 1 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,287 (61.55%) Active Directory
2 481 (23.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 407 (19.46%) Hyper-V
4 117 (5.60%) VMware ESXi
5 104 (4.97%) Docker
6 91 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
7 79 (3.78%) vSphere
8 66 (3.16%) Virtual Servers
9 49 (2.34%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (1.15%) Terminal Services
11 21 (1.00%) NFS
12 20 (0.96%) Firmware
13 18 (0.86%) pfSense
14 16 (0.77%) XenApp
15 11 (0.53%) XenDesktop
16 10 (0.48%) DFS Replication
17 9 (0.43%) VMware NSX
18 8 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
19 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 7 (0.33%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 317 (15.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 163 (7.80%) SCCM
3 136 (6.50%) Ansible
4 122 (5.83%) Terraform
5 118 (5.64%) Kubernetes
5 118 (5.64%) WSUS
6 82 (3.92%) SCOM
7 77 (3.68%) Puppet
8 73 (3.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 60 (2.87%) vCenter Server
10 55 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
11 37 (1.77%) Grafana
12 26 (1.24%) CASB
12 26 (1.24%) FortiGate
13 25 (1.20%) ZABBIX
14 24 (1.15%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 23 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
16 21 (1.00%) NetBackup
17 20 (0.96%) Progress Chef
17 20 (0.96%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1,132 (54.14%) Microsoft
2 682 (32.62%) VMware
3 320 (15.30%) Cisco
4 191 (9.13%) Veeam
5 165 (7.89%) Citrix
6 115 (5.50%) Oracle
7 105 (5.02%) HP
8 104 (4.97%) Dell
9 92 (4.40%) Red Hat
10 90 (4.30%) Juniper
11 86 (4.11%) Apple
12 80 (3.83%) Meraki
13 78 (3.73%) Fortinet
14 70 (3.35%) SolarWinds
15 60 (2.87%) Google
16 56 (2.68%) Palo Alto
17 46 (2.20%) Sparx
18 44 (2.10%) Sophos
19 38 (1.82%) Bloomberg
20 37 (1.77%) NetApp