DNS Jobs in the South West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 126 162
Rank change year-on-year -1 +36 -34
Permanent jobs citing DNS 191 138 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.81% 2.14% 2.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.89% 11.23% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 128 89 120
10th Percentile £26,775 £28,300 £27,375
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +7.59%
75th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £55,250 £65,500
England median annual salary £44,225 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.06% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

DNS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,283 1,229 1,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 12.15% 19.06% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 953 527 731
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +8.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,833 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,725 £77,715 £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 12 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 12 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 +9 83 £31,000 -22.50% 3
Bristol +11 43 £39,750 +10.42% 5
Wiltshire -9 21 £50,500 +44.29% 5
Devon -11 20 £26,000 -25.71% 4
Somerset -1 11 £45,000 -2.70% 4
Dorset -38 7 £42,500 +3.66% 4
Cornwall -13 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 (15.18%) SharePoint
2 17 (8.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.66%) IIS
4 6 (3.14%) Confluence
5 4 (2.09%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.52%) CMS
6 1 (0.52%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.62%) Trello
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 111 (58.12%) Azure
2 76 (39.79%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (31.41%) AWS
4 48 (25.13%) SaaS
5 35 (18.32%) OpenShift
6 34 (17.80%) Entra ID
7 22 (11.52%) IaaS
8 17 (8.90%) PaaS
8 17 (8.90%) Power Platform
9 14 (7.33%) OneDrive
10 7 (3.66%) WhatsApp
11 5 (2.62%) Slack
12 4 (2.09%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.09%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.09%) GCP
12 4 (2.09%) GitHub
12 4 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.57%) Mimecast
14 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
14 1 (0.52%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 127 (66.49%) DHCP
2 98 (51.31%) TCP/IP
3 52 (27.23%) Firewall
4 48 (25.13%) WAN
5 47 (24.61%) HTTP
6 41 (21.47%) LAN
7 40 (20.94%) VPN
8 25 (13.09%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (13.09%) Wireless
9 15 (7.85%) VLAN
10 13 (6.81%) VSAN
11 11 (5.76%) Internet
11 11 (5.76%) SD-WAN
12 10 (5.24%) SSL
13 9 (4.71%) IPsec
13 9 (4.71%) SMTP
14 8 (4.19%) BGP
15 6 (3.14%) NetScaler
15 6 (3.14%) SAN
16 4 (2.09%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.66%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.62%) Relational Database
4 4 (2.09%) Oracle Database
4 4 (2.09%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.05%) MySQL
5 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.52%) Power BI
6 1 (0.52%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 8 (4.19%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.66%) JIRA
3 1 (0.52%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) Log4Net
3 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 45 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 19 (9.95%) Aerospace
3 18 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.19%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (3.66%) Marketing
6 6 (3.14%) Law
7 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.57%) Finance
8 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.05%) Legal
9 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.05%) Publishing
9 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (30.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 49 (25.65%) Senior
3 38 (19.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 29 (15.18%) Support Engineer
5 26 (13.61%) IT Engineer
6 21 (10.99%) Field Engineer
7 18 (9.42%) 3rd Line Support
8 17 (8.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 16 (8.38%) IT Support
10 14 (7.33%) Developer
11 13 (6.81%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 13 (6.81%) Infrastructure Support
12 12 (6.28%) Field Service Engineer
13 11 (5.76%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (5.76%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
13 11 (5.76%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (5.76%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (5.76%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
13 11 (5.76%) Analyst
13 11 (5.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.66%) HTML
2 6 (3.14%) CSS
2 6 (3.14%) REST
3 5 (2.62%) LDAP
4 4 (2.09%) .NET
4 4 (2.09%) 802.1X
4 4 (2.09%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.09%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (2.09%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.57%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.57%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (1.57%) jQuery
5 3 (1.57%) OAuth
5 3 (1.57%) OpenID
5 3 (1.57%) React
5 3 (1.57%) SAML
5 3 (1.57%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (1.57%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (1.57%) Vue
5 3 (1.57%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 31 (16.23%) Driving Licence
2 25 (13.09%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (6.28%) Replication
4 9 (4.71%) Public Cloud
5 8 (4.19%) CUDA
5 8 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.19%) GNSS
5 8 (4.19%) Tandem
6 5 (2.62%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.62%) Cloud Native
7 4 (2.09%) Clustering
7 4 (2.09%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.52%) iPhone
9 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.52%) PKI
9 1 (0.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 138 (72.25%) Windows
2 71 (37.17%) Windows Server
3 65 (34.03%) Linux
4 39 (20.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (15.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (15.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (12.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (5.76%) Windows 10
9 9 (4.71%) Unix
10 7 (3.66%) Mac OS
11 6 (3.14%) Apple iOS
12 5 (2.62%) Android
12 5 (2.62%) Windows 7
13 2 (1.05%) Debian
13 2 (1.05%) Ubuntu
13 2 (1.05%) Windows 8
13 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.52%) CentOS
14 1 (0.52%) Fedora
14 1 (0.52%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (36.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 53 (27.75%) ITIL
3 43 (22.51%) Software Architecture
4 42 (21.99%) DevOps
5 33 (17.28%) Agile
6 32 (16.75%) Actionable Insight
7 30 (15.71%) Customer Service
8 27 (14.14%) Collaborative Working
9 26 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (12.04%) Service Management
11 18 (9.42%) Change Management
11 18 (9.42%) Time Management
12 15 (7.85%) Open Source
13 13 (6.81%) Computer Science
13 13 (6.81%) Containerisation
13 13 (6.81%) Mentoring
14 11 (5.76%) Project Management
15 10 (5.24%) Incident Management
16 9 (4.71%) Line Management
16 9 (4.71%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (34.55%) PowerShell
2 48 (25.13%) Python
3 42 (21.99%) Java
4 36 (18.85%) Bash
5 18 (9.42%) SQL
6 8 (4.19%) C
6 8 (4.19%) C#
6 8 (4.19%) C++
7 3 (1.57%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.57%) XAML
8 2 (1.05%) Ruby
9 1 (0.52%) Bicep
9 1 (0.52%) Perl
9 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (24.61%) Security Cleared
2 36 (18.85%) DV Cleared
3 31 (16.23%) Degree
4 30 (15.71%) SC Cleared
5 17 (8.90%) DBS Check
6 11 (5.76%) A+ Certification
7 8 (4.19%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.62%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (2.62%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.62%) PMP
8 5 (2.62%) RHCE
8 5 (2.62%) RHCSA
9 4 (2.09%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.05%) CCNA
10 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.90%) SLA
2 6 (3.14%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 94 (49.21%) Active Directory
2 62 (32.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (28.27%) Hyper-V
4 35 (18.32%) Docker
5 12 (6.28%) Firmware
6 10 (5.24%) vSphere
7 9 (4.71%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (4.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (1.57%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.57%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (1.05%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.52%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.52%) KVM
12 1 (0.52%) Samba
Systems Management
1 39 (20.42%) Kubernetes
2 35 (18.32%) Ansible
2 35 (18.32%) Puppet
3 30 (15.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (5.24%) SCCM
4 10 (5.24%) SCVMM
5 9 (4.71%) McAfee ePO
6 8 (4.19%) WSUS
7 7 (3.66%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (3.14%) Terraform
9 5 (2.62%) Rancher
9 5 (2.62%) SCOM
10 4 (2.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (2.09%) Istio
10 4 (2.09%) Prometheus
10 4 (2.09%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Clustering
11 3 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 68 (35.60%) VMware
2 66 (34.55%) Microsoft
3 37 (19.37%) Red Hat
4 22 (11.52%) HP
5 17 (8.90%) Veeam
6 16 (8.38%) Cisco
7 15 (7.85%) Citrix
8 10 (5.24%) Sophos
9 9 (4.71%) McAfee
10 7 (3.66%) Apple
10 7 (3.66%) Meraki
11 6 (3.14%) Aderant
11 6 (3.14%) Fortinet
11 6 (3.14%) iManage
11 6 (3.14%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.62%) SolarWinds
13 4 (2.09%) Google
13 4 (2.09%) Oracle
13 4 (2.09%) Sparx
14 3 (1.57%) Dell