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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 183 215
Rank change year-on-year +50 +32 -47
Permanent jobs citing DNS 2,156 2,122 3,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.19% 2.04% 1.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.82% 13.29% 14.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,783 1,647 2,321
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £59,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +1.19%

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 13,628 15,972 20,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.82% 15.39% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,500 8,150 11,820
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -

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 3 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 3 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 +49 1,985 £43,500 +2.35% 415
UK excluding London +27 1,602 £40,000 - 339
Work from Home +57 812 £50,000 +8.81% 157
London +55 508 £55,000 - 96
South East 0 446 £42,500 +6.25% 89
North of England +23 343 £42,000 +5.00% 82
Midlands +84 314 £39,000 +0.65% 66
South West +25 223 £37,500 -6.25% 35
North West +1 181 £45,000 - 52
West Midlands +63 173 £42,500 +9.68% 41
East of England -9 145 £41,500 -2.35% 42
East Midlands +65 137 £37,500 +2.74% 25
Yorkshire +52 118 £32,500 -10.34% 25
Wales +35 61 £34,000 -9.33% 6
Scotland -50 59 £42,500 +21.43% 22
North East +9 50 £42,500 +13.33% 7
Northern Ireland +26 13 £32,500 - 7
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
1 515 (23.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 322 (14.94%) SharePoint
3 124 (5.75%) IIS
4 46 (2.13%) WebLogic
5 36 (1.67%) CMS
5 36 (1.67%) WordPress
6 34 (1.58%) Exchange Server 2013
7 30 (1.39%) Exchange Server 2010
8 25 (1.16%) Skype for Business
9 24 (1.11%) Confluence
10 23 (1.07%) nginx
11 22 (1.02%) Apache
11 22 (1.02%) Exchange Server 2007
12 11 (0.51%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.32%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.32%) Umbraco
14 5 (0.23%) SAS
15 4 (0.19%) Apache Solr
15 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2003
16 2 (0.093%) Moodle
Applications
1 253 (11.73%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.28%) Trello
5 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.14%) SPSS
7 2 (0.093%) CATIA
7 2 (0.093%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 46 (2.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 15 (0.70%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.32%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
5 4 (0.19%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.14%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.093%) Elite 3E
7 2 (0.093%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.093%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.046%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.046%) Eikon
8 1 (0.046%) Sage 300 ERP
8 1 (0.046%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.046%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.046%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.046%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,178 (54.64%) Azure
2 1,000 (46.38%) Microsoft 365
3 453 (21.01%) AWS
4 367 (17.02%) Entra ID
5 121 (5.61%) OneDrive
6 114 (5.29%) IaaS
7 81 (3.76%) SaaS
8 78 (3.62%) Power Platform
9 76 (3.53%) GCP
9 76 (3.53%) PaaS
10 65 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
11 54 (2.50%) Nutanix
12 51 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
13 50 (2.32%) Mimecast
14 46 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
15 42 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 42 (1.95%) GitHub
16 38 (1.76%) OpenShift
17 30 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
17 30 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1,327 (61.55%) DHCP
2 881 (40.86%) Firewall
3 717 (33.26%) TCP/IP
4 431 (19.99%) VPN
5 416 (19.29%) WAN
6 371 (17.21%) LAN
7 275 (12.76%) VLAN
8 227 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
9 212 (9.83%) Wireless
10 193 (8.95%) SAN
11 160 (7.42%) SSL
12 151 (7.00%) HTTP
13 123 (5.71%) Network Security
14 114 (5.29%) VoIP
15 111 (5.15%) Internet
16 107 (4.96%) BGP
17 90 (4.17%) SD-WAN
18 68 (3.15%) OSPF
19 67 (3.11%) IPsec
20 62 (2.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (9.88%) SQL Server
2 94 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (2.60%) Oracle Database
3 56 (2.60%) Relational Database
4 53 (2.46%) MySQL
5 51 (2.37%) RDBMS
6 41 (1.90%) Power BI
7 23 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (0.60%) Redis
11 12 (0.56%) MongoDB
11 12 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.42%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.28%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.28%) GIS
14 3 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
14 3 (0.14%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 60 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 50 (2.32%) JIRA
3 41 (1.90%) Git
4 19 (0.88%) GitLab
5 10 (0.46%) Trac
6 7 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.28%) Katalon Studio
7 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.23%) Subversion
9 4 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
9 4 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.14%) webpack
11 2 (0.093%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.093%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.093%) git-flow
11 2 (0.093%) Grunt
11 2 (0.093%) Hudson
11 2 (0.093%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.093%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 631 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 252 (11.69%) Finance
3 214 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (4.04%) Telecoms
5 73 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 55 (2.55%) Public Sector
7 53 (2.46%) Law
8 44 (2.04%) Banking
8 44 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
9 43 (1.99%) Marketing
10 37 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 31 (1.44%) Aerospace
12 29 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
13 28 (1.30%) Legal
13 28 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (1.11%) Retail
15 17 (0.79%) Games
16 13 (0.60%) Electronics
17 11 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 394 (18.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 324 (15.03%) Senior
3 268 (12.43%) Analyst
3 268 (12.43%) IT Support
4 265 (12.29%) Support Engineer
5 238 (11.04%) IT Engineer
6 157 (7.28%) Network Engineer
7 136 (6.31%) Lead
8 125 (5.80%) Architect
9 124 (5.75%) IT Support Engineer
10 112 (5.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 108 (5.01%) 2nd Line Support
12 93 (4.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 93 (4.31%) Support Analyst
13 92 (4.27%) 3rd Line Support
14 90 (4.17%) IT Technician
15 78 (3.62%) Administrator
16 75 (3.48%) Systems Engineer
17 73 (3.39%) IT Analyst
18 72 (3.34%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (4.08%) HTML
2 67 (3.11%) .NET
3 64 (2.97%) SAML
4 54 (2.50%) REST
5 53 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
6 51 (2.37%) CSS
7 48 (2.23%) OpenID
8 46 (2.13%) Spring Boot
9 38 (1.76%) ARM Templates
10 37 (1.72%) React
11 34 (1.58%) LDAP
12 32 (1.48%) 802.1X
12 32 (1.48%) ASP.NET
12 32 (1.48%) YAML
13 28 (1.30%) jQuery
14 24 (1.11%) Vue
15 23 (1.07%) ASP.NET MVC
15 23 (1.07%) RESTful
16 22 (1.02%) AngularJS
17 21 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 206 (9.55%) Data Centre
2 132 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
3 121 (5.61%) Driving Licence
4 110 (5.10%) Public Cloud
5 104 (4.82%) PKI
6 84 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
7 76 (3.53%) Replication
8 67 (3.11%) Onboarding
9 63 (2.92%) Cyberattack
10 56 (2.60%) Management Information System
11 39 (1.81%) Clustering
12 38 (1.76%) Client/Server
12 38 (1.76%) Cloud Native
13 32 (1.48%) Security Posture
14 31 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
15 26 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
16 22 (1.02%) IoT
17 20 (0.93%) Smartphone
18 19 (0.88%) CCTV
19 17 (0.79%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1,376 (63.82%) Windows
2 858 (39.80%) Windows Server
3 467 (21.66%) Linux
4 275 (12.76%) Windows 10
5 231 (10.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 207 (9.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 181 (8.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 112 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 77 (3.57%) Windows Server 2008
10 69 (3.20%) Android
11 68 (3.15%) Apple iOS
12 60 (2.78%) Unix
13 48 (2.23%) Mac OS
14 40 (1.86%) CentOS
15 39 (1.81%) Ubuntu
16 37 (1.72%) Windows 7
17 35 (1.62%) VMS
18 31 (1.44%) Windows 8
19 22 (1.02%) Mac OS X
20 20 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (22.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 447 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
3 437 (20.27%) ITIL
4 287 (13.31%) Agile
4 287 (13.31%) Customer Service
5 255 (11.83%) Cybersecurity
6 250 (11.60%) DevOps
7 212 (9.83%) Disaster Recovery
8 200 (9.28%) Migration
9 156 (7.24%) Project Management
10 128 (5.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 122 (5.66%) Load Balancing
12 116 (5.38%) Collaborative Working
13 112 (5.19%) CI/CD
14 110 (5.10%) Actionable Insight
14 110 (5.10%) Mentoring
15 106 (4.92%) Information Security
16 95 (4.41%) Continuous Improvement
16 95 (4.41%) Service Management
17 91 (4.22%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 460 (21.34%) PowerShell
2 216 (10.02%) Python
3 198 (9.18%) SQL
4 128 (5.94%) Bash
5 88 (4.08%) Java
6 75 (3.48%) C#
7 68 (3.15%) JavaScript
8 54 (2.50%) Perl
9 32 (1.48%) T-SQL
10 30 (1.39%) VBScript
11 24 (1.11%) PHP
12 22 (1.02%) Ruby
13 21 (0.97%) VB
14 19 (0.88%) Bicep
14 19 (0.88%) XAML
15 17 (0.79%) C++
16 12 (0.56%) C
17 10 (0.46%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
19 5 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 292 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 274 (12.71%) Degree
3 167 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 147 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
5 145 (6.73%) DV Cleared
6 144 (6.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 123 (5.71%) CCNA
8 111 (5.15%) Azure Certification
9 101 (4.68%) AWS Certification
10 79 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 61 (2.83%) CCNP
12 60 (2.78%) MCSE
13 58 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
14 49 (2.27%) DBS Check
15 45 (2.09%) A+ Certification
16 43 (1.99%) MCSA
17 35 (1.62%) Network+ Certification
18 32 (1.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 32 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 27 (1.25%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (5.84%) SLA
2 71 (3.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (2.32%) Cyber Essentials
4 32 (1.48%) GDPR
5 15 (0.70%) COBIT
5 15 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 15 (0.70%) NIST
6 14 (0.65%) SOC 2
7 13 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.42%) PMO
9 8 (0.37%) NCSC
10 7 (0.32%) QA
11 6 (0.28%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.23%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.093%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.046%) GxP
16 1 (0.046%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1,316 (61.04%) Active Directory
2 500 (23.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 422 (19.57%) Hyper-V
4 117 (5.43%) VMware ESXi
5 107 (4.96%) Docker
6 91 (4.22%) Virtual Machines
7 76 (3.53%) vSphere
8 68 (3.15%) Virtual Servers
9 51 (2.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (1.11%) Terminal Services
11 20 (0.93%) Firmware
11 20 (0.93%) NFS
12 18 (0.83%) pfSense
13 14 (0.65%) XenApp
14 11 (0.51%) DFS Replication
15 9 (0.42%) VMware NSX
16 8 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
16 8 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 8 (0.37%) VMware Server
16 8 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 324 (15.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 158 (7.33%) SCCM
3 149 (6.91%) Terraform
4 136 (6.31%) Ansible
5 123 (5.71%) WSUS
6 118 (5.47%) Kubernetes
7 83 (3.85%) SCOM
8 80 (3.71%) Puppet
9 73 (3.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 59 (2.74%) vCenter Server
11 51 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
12 38 (1.76%) Grafana
13 31 (1.44%) FortiGate
14 26 (1.21%) CASB
14 26 (1.21%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 24 (1.11%) ZABBIX
16 22 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
16 22 (1.02%) NetBackup
17 21 (0.97%) Progress Chef
18 19 (0.88%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,158 (53.71%) Microsoft
2 693 (32.14%) VMware
3 330 (15.31%) Cisco
4 195 (9.04%) Veeam
5 172 (7.98%) Citrix
6 110 (5.10%) Oracle
7 108 (5.01%) HP
8 100 (4.64%) Dell
9 94 (4.36%) Juniper
10 89 (4.13%) Red Hat
11 83 (3.85%) Meraki
12 82 (3.80%) Apple
13 79 (3.66%) Fortinet
14 72 (3.34%) SolarWinds
15 59 (2.74%) Google
16 58 (2.69%) Palo Alto
17 46 (2.13%) Sophos
17 46 (2.13%) Sparx
18 41 (1.90%) Aruba
19 38 (1.76%) Bloomberg