DNS Jobs in the Thames Valley

Domain Name System (DNS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 78 112 132
Rank change year-on-year +34 +20 -2
Permanent jobs citing DNS 218 149 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.94% 2.68% 2.41%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.95% 16.02% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 186 120 148
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £26,775
25th Percentile £34,000 £30,750 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £33,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.87% -25.56% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £62,500 £74,250 £70,000
South East median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.11% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 993 930 1,519
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 13.41% 16.70% 20.08%
Number of salaries quoted 684 539 739
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,150 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £37,389
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £59,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,875 £81,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.40% -4.21% +4.97%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the Thames Valley

DNS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for DNS in the Thames Valley

DNS
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the Thames Valley

DNS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +69 102 £52,500 -4.55% 19
Oxfordshire +18 64 £42,500 +34.92% 11
Buckinghamshire -30 52 £35,000 +7.69% 7
DNS
South East

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 45 (20.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (9.63%) IIS
3 16 (7.34%) WordPress
4 14 (6.42%) SharePoint
5 12 (5.50%) Apache
5 12 (5.50%) CMS
5 12 (5.50%) nginx
6 4 (1.83%) WebLogic
7 3 (1.38%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 119 (54.59%) Azure
2 101 (46.33%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (16.97%) Entra ID
4 32 (14.68%) AWS
5 26 (11.93%) Azure Monitor
6 19 (8.72%) Azure Storage
7 12 (5.50%) OCI
8 9 (4.13%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.21%) Google Workspace
9 7 (3.21%) WhatsApp
10 4 (1.83%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (1.83%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.83%) PaaS
11 3 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.92%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (0.92%) IaaS
12 2 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 1 (0.46%) GCP
13 1 (0.46%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 109 (50.00%) DHCP
2 93 (42.66%) Firewall
3 54 (24.77%) TCP/IP
4 27 (12.39%) SSL
5 26 (11.93%) SAN
5 26 (11.93%) VPN
6 22 (10.09%) Wireless
7 21 (9.63%) WAN
8 20 (9.17%) VLAN
9 17 (7.80%) LAN
9 17 (7.80%) VoIP
10 15 (6.88%) OSPF
11 14 (6.42%) Internet
11 14 (6.42%) SMTP
11 14 (6.42%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (5.96%) BGP
12 13 (5.96%) HTTP
12 13 (5.96%) SD-WAN
13 12 (5.50%) NAS
14 9 (4.13%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.72%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.50%) MySQL
3 9 (4.13%) Oracle Database
3 9 (4.13%) Power BI
4 7 (3.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.83%) RDBMS
7 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Git
1 1 (0.46%) JIRA
General
1 78 (35.78%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.50%) Marketing
3 10 (4.59%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (1.83%) Finance
6 2 (0.92%) Electronics
6 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.46%) Automotive
7 1 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (16.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (14.68%) IT Support
3 30 (13.76%) Analyst
4 25 (11.47%) Active Directory Specialist
4 25 (11.47%) Azure Specialist
5 24 (11.01%) IT Analyst
6 23 (10.55%) Support Engineer
7 21 (9.63%) Support Specialist
7 21 (9.63%) Systems Engineer
8 19 (8.72%) Active Directory Support
9 18 (8.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 18 (8.26%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
10 17 (7.80%) IT Engineer
10 17 (7.80%) IT Support Engineer
11 16 (7.34%) Lead
12 12 (5.50%) IT Technician
12 12 (5.50%) Network Engineer
12 12 (5.50%) Web Manager
13 11 (5.05%) 3rd Line Support
14 10 (4.59%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.72%) ARM Templates
2 13 (5.96%) Web Services
3 9 (4.13%) .NET
4 4 (1.83%) LAMP
4 4 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (1.83%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.38%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.38%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.38%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (1.38%) CSS
5 3 (1.38%) HTML
5 3 (1.38%) jQuery
5 3 (1.38%) React
5 3 (1.38%) REST
5 3 (1.38%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (1.38%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (1.38%) Vue
5 3 (1.38%) WPF
6 2 (0.92%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.46%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.60%) PKI
2 27 (12.39%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (9.17%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.59%) Driving Licence
5 9 (4.13%) CMDB
6 8 (3.67%) Public Cloud
7 7 (3.21%) Replication
8 6 (2.75%) Cyberattack
9 5 (2.29%) CCTV
10 4 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.92%) Clustering
12 2 (0.92%) Fibre Optics
12 2 (0.92%) Molecular Biology
12 2 (0.92%) Product Ownership
13 1 (0.46%) Distributed Computing
13 1 (0.46%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 137 (62.84%) Windows
2 101 (46.33%) Windows Server
3 79 (36.24%) Linux
4 51 (23.39%) Windows 10
5 43 (19.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 42 (19.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (7.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 16 (7.34%) Windows XP
9 11 (5.05%) Android
9 11 (5.05%) Mac OS X
10 6 (2.75%) Apple iOS
10 6 (2.75%) Ubuntu
11 5 (2.29%) VMS
12 4 (1.83%) Mac OS
12 4 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (1.83%) Windows 8
13 3 (1.38%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (20.64%) ITIL
2 44 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (18.81%) Agile
3 41 (18.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 31 (14.22%) Customer Service
5 27 (12.39%) Release Management
6 25 (11.47%) Analytics
6 25 (11.47%) Log Analytics
6 25 (11.47%) Service Management
7 22 (10.09%) DevOps
8 21 (9.63%) CI/CD
9 19 (8.72%) Identity Management
9 19 (8.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (8.72%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 19 (8.72%) Performance Tuning
9 19 (8.72%) Privileged Identity Management
9 19 (8.72%) Project Management
9 19 (8.72%) RBAC
10 16 (7.34%) Information Security
11 15 (6.88%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.85%) PowerShell
2 36 (16.51%) C#
3 26 (11.93%) SQL
4 25 (11.47%) VB
4 25 (11.47%) VBScript
5 19 (8.72%) Bicep
6 12 (5.50%) PHP
7 7 (3.21%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.21%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.29%) PL/SQL
8 5 (2.29%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.38%) Python
9 3 (1.38%) XAML
10 2 (0.92%) Go
11 1 (0.46%) C
11 1 (0.46%) C++
11 1 (0.46%) Java
Qualifications
1 58 (26.61%) Security Cleared
2 46 (21.10%) DV Cleared
3 43 (19.72%) Degree
4 38 (17.43%) SC Cleared
5 26 (11.93%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (10.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 20 (9.17%) CCNA
8 14 (6.42%) CCNP
9 13 (5.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (5.05%) Azure Certification
11 6 (2.75%) MCSE
12 4 (1.83%) AWS Certification
12 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.83%) MCP
13 2 (0.92%) CCIE
13 2 (0.92%) MCITP
14 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.46%) JNCIA
14 1 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.50%) SLA
2 7 (3.21%) GDPR
2 7 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.38%) QA
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.46%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 123 (56.42%) Active Directory
2 34 (15.60%) Hyper-V
2 34 (15.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (9.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 20 (9.17%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (5.96%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (4.59%) vSphere
7 3 (1.38%) XenApp
7 3 (1.38%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.46%) Docker
8 1 (0.46%) NFS
8 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (22.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (19.72%) SCCM
3 40 (18.35%) SCOM
4 32 (14.68%) WSUS
5 28 (12.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 21 (9.63%) Kubernetes
7 12 (5.50%) EMC NetWorker
7 12 (5.50%) NetBackup
7 12 (5.50%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.75%) CASB
9 2 (0.92%) Ansible
9 2 (0.92%) Terraform
10 1 (0.46%) Grafana
10 1 (0.46%) Nessus
10 1 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 125 (57.34%) Microsoft
2 78 (35.78%) VMware
3 28 (12.84%) Cisco
4 21 (9.63%) Oracle
5 18 (8.26%) Veeam
6 17 (7.80%) Dell
7 16 (7.34%) HP
7 16 (7.34%) Palo Alto
8 14 (6.42%) Juniper
9 13 (5.96%) Citrix
10 12 (5.50%) 3PAR
10 12 (5.50%) EMC
10 12 (5.50%) Extreme Networks
10 12 (5.50%) Symantec
11 9 (4.13%) Dynatrace
12 5 (2.29%) Adaptive Insights
12 5 (2.29%) Anaplan
12 5 (2.29%) Aruba
12 5 (2.29%) Jedox
12 5 (2.29%) Tagetik