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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 180 225
Rank change year-on-year +40 +45 -53
Permanent jobs citing DNS 2,092 2,043 3,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.03% 2.10% 1.87%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.43% 13.15% 14.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,733 1,582 2,277
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 £76,250 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +2.41%

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 13,562 15,535 22,184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.13% 15.99% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,412 7,743 11,780
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -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 29 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 29 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 +42 1,925 £44,225 +4.06% 382
UK excluding London +20 1,559 £40,000 - 308
Work from Home +47 779 £50,000 +9.89% 174
London +36 494 £55,001 +0.00% 88
South East +1 432 £42,500 +6.25% 73
North of England +15 345 £42,500 - 85
Midlands +62 308 £37,500 -1.32% 47
South West +7 191 £37,500 -6.25% 38
North West +4 183 £45,000 - 55
West Midlands +46 164 £39,750 +3.25% 28
East of England 0 152 £41,500 -2.35% 45
East Midlands +44 140 £37,500 +2.74% 19
Yorkshire +49 118 £32,500 -18.75% 24
Wales +35 60 £34,000 -7.06% 6
Scotland -52 60 £42,500 +21.43% 18
North East +10 50 £42,500 +9.97% 6
Northern Ireland +20 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
1 496 (23.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 310 (14.82%) SharePoint
3 123 (5.88%) IIS
4 46 (2.20%) WebLogic
5 35 (1.67%) CMS
6 34 (1.63%) WordPress
7 33 (1.58%) Exchange Server 2013
8 26 (1.24%) Exchange Server 2010
9 25 (1.20%) Skype for Business
10 24 (1.15%) Apache
10 24 (1.15%) Confluence
11 22 (1.05%) Exchange Server 2007
11 22 (1.05%) nginx
12 9 (0.43%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.33%) Umbraco
14 5 (0.24%) SAS
15 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2003
16 3 (0.14%) Apache Solr
17 2 (0.096%) Moodle
Applications
1 259 (12.38%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.24%) Trello
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.14%) SPSS
8 2 (0.096%) CATIA
8 2 (0.096%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 46 (2.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 17 (0.81%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.19%) Sage 200
6 3 (0.14%) Epicor Tropos
7 2 (0.096%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.048%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.048%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.048%) Eikon
8 1 (0.048%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.048%) Sage 300 ERP
8 1 (0.048%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.048%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.048%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.048%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.048%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,153 (55.11%) Azure
2 959 (45.84%) Microsoft 365
3 420 (20.08%) AWS
4 366 (17.50%) Entra ID
5 117 (5.59%) IaaS
6 115 (5.50%) OneDrive
7 83 (3.97%) SaaS
8 75 (3.59%) Power Platform
9 73 (3.49%) PaaS
10 68 (3.25%) GCP
11 65 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
12 52 (2.49%) Mimecast
13 51 (2.44%) Nutanix
14 50 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
15 46 (2.20%) Amazon SQS
16 43 (2.06%) GitHub
17 40 (1.91%) OpenShift
18 33 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
19 32 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
20 29 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1,277 (61.04%) DHCP
2 856 (40.92%) Firewall
3 687 (32.84%) TCP/IP
4 411 (19.65%) WAN
5 410 (19.60%) VPN
6 359 (17.16%) LAN
7 248 (11.85%) VLAN
8 216 (10.33%) Wi-Fi
9 211 (10.09%) Wireless
10 192 (9.18%) SAN
11 156 (7.46%) SSL
12 121 (5.78%) Network Security
13 117 (5.59%) HTTP
14 109 (5.21%) Internet
15 104 (4.97%) VoIP
16 99 (4.73%) BGP
17 94 (4.49%) SD-WAN
18 66 (3.15%) IPsec
19 62 (2.96%) SNMP
20 59 (2.82%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (10.04%) SQL Server
2 85 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (2.72%) Oracle Database
3 57 (2.72%) Relational Database
4 51 (2.44%) RDBMS
5 47 (2.25%) MySQL
6 40 (1.91%) Power BI
7 22 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.67%) Redis
12 10 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.43%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.38%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.29%) GIS
16 4 (0.19%) Data Lake
17 3 (0.14%) Big Data
17 3 (0.14%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 59 (2.82%) Jenkins
2 50 (2.39%) JIRA
3 42 (2.01%) Git
4 21 (1.00%) GitLab
5 10 (0.48%) Trac
6 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.33%) Katalon Studio
7 4 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
7 4 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.14%) Subversion
8 3 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.096%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.096%) Browser DevTools
9 2 (0.096%) git-flow
9 2 (0.096%) Grunt
9 2 (0.096%) Hudson
9 2 (0.096%) webpack
10 1 (0.048%) Zephyr
General
1 582 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 231 (11.04%) Finance
3 205 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (4.06%) Telecoms
5 56 (2.68%) Public Sector
6 48 (2.29%) Law
7 46 (2.20%) Marketing
8 44 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 43 (2.06%) Banking
9 43 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
10 39 (1.86%) Aerospace
11 34 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 29 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
13 28 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (1.15%) Legal
14 24 (1.15%) Retail
15 14 (0.67%) Games
16 12 (0.57%) Electronics
17 10 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
18 9 (0.43%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 387 (18.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 294 (14.05%) Senior
3 267 (12.76%) Analyst
4 259 (12.38%) IT Support
5 252 (12.05%) Support Engineer
6 221 (10.56%) IT Engineer
7 147 (7.03%) Network Engineer
8 138 (6.60%) Lead
9 116 (5.54%) IT Support Engineer
10 112 (5.35%) Architect
11 104 (4.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 100 (4.78%) 2nd Line Support
13 95 (4.54%) IT Technician
14 91 (4.35%) Support Analyst
15 89 (4.25%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 87 (4.16%) 3rd Line Support
17 79 (3.78%) Support Technician
18 77 (3.68%) Administrator
19 76 (3.63%) IT Analyst
20 74 (3.54%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (3.35%) .NET
2 58 (2.77%) HTML
3 55 (2.63%) REST
4 52 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
5 50 (2.39%) CSS
6 46 (2.20%) Spring Boot
7 39 (1.86%) ARM Templates
8 36 (1.72%) React
8 36 (1.72%) SAML
9 35 (1.67%) LDAP
10 33 (1.58%) YAML
11 32 (1.53%) 802.1X
12 30 (1.43%) ASP.NET
13 28 (1.34%) jQuery
14 24 (1.15%) Vue
15 23 (1.10%) ASP.NET MVC
15 23 (1.10%) RESTful
16 22 (1.05%) AngularJS
17 21 (1.00%) OAuth
18 20 (0.96%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 203 (9.70%) Data Centre
2 129 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
3 116 (5.54%) Driving Licence
4 114 (5.45%) Public Cloud
5 110 (5.26%) PKI
6 81 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
7 76 (3.63%) Replication
8 59 (2.82%) Onboarding
9 56 (2.68%) Management Information System
10 40 (1.91%) Client/Server
10 40 (1.91%) Clustering
11 33 (1.58%) Cyberattack
12 32 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (1.43%) Security Posture
14 25 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
15 21 (1.00%) IoT
16 17 (0.81%) CCTV
16 17 (0.81%) Eurex
16 17 (0.81%) Smartphone
17 14 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,358 (64.91%) Windows
2 849 (40.58%) Windows Server
3 473 (22.61%) Linux
4 277 (13.24%) Windows 10
5 231 (11.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 201 (9.61%) Windows Server 2019
7 172 (8.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 115 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 71 (3.39%) Windows Server 2008
10 66 (3.15%) Apple iOS
11 65 (3.11%) Android
12 64 (3.06%) Unix
13 52 (2.49%) Mac OS
14 44 (2.10%) CentOS
15 42 (2.01%) Ubuntu
16 37 (1.77%) Windows 7
17 34 (1.63%) VMS
18 28 (1.34%) Windows 8
19 23 (1.10%) Mac OS X
20 20 (0.96%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (22.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 434 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
3 422 (20.17%) ITIL
4 287 (13.72%) Customer Service
5 263 (12.57%) Agile
6 251 (12.00%) DevOps
7 238 (11.38%) Cybersecurity
8 208 (9.94%) Disaster Recovery
9 184 (8.80%) Migration
10 153 (7.31%) Project Management
11 120 (5.74%) Collaborative Working
12 117 (5.59%) Load Balancing
13 109 (5.21%) CI/CD
13 109 (5.21%) Mentoring
14 107 (5.11%) Information Security
15 106 (5.07%) Infrastructure as Code
16 103 (4.92%) Actionable Insight
17 96 (4.59%) Service Management
18 92 (4.40%) Incident Management
19 90 (4.30%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 457 (21.85%) PowerShell
2 217 (10.37%) Python
3 200 (9.56%) SQL
4 128 (6.12%) Bash
5 94 (4.49%) Java
6 75 (3.59%) C#
7 69 (3.30%) JavaScript
8 54 (2.58%) Perl
9 36 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 34 (1.63%) VBScript
11 24 (1.15%) Ruby
11 24 (1.15%) VB
12 22 (1.05%) Bicep
13 19 (0.91%) XAML
14 16 (0.76%) PHP
15 15 (0.72%) C++
16 12 (0.57%) C
17 10 (0.48%) PL/SQL
18 7 (0.33%) Go
19 6 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 275 (13.15%) Degree
2 271 (12.95%) Security Cleared
3 177 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 144 (6.88%) Cisco Certification
5 132 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 119 (5.69%) DV Cleared
7 117 (5.59%) CCNA
8 111 (5.31%) Azure Certification
9 73 (3.49%) AWS Certification
10 64 (3.06%) CCNP
11 56 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
12 53 (2.53%) MCSE
13 50 (2.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 45 (2.15%) DBS Check
15 40 (1.91%) MCSA
16 35 (1.67%) A+ Certification
17 34 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 31 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 30 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
20 28 (1.34%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.83%) SLA
2 74 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 49 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
4 30 (1.43%) GDPR
5 18 (0.86%) NIST
6 16 (0.76%) COBIT
7 15 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.67%) Data Quality
8 14 (0.67%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.43%) NCSC
10 8 (0.38%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.38%) PMO
10 8 (0.38%) QA
11 7 (0.33%) ISO 9001
12 6 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.096%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.048%) ISO 20022
16 1 (0.048%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,287 (61.52%) Active Directory
2 477 (22.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 409 (19.55%) Hyper-V
4 116 (5.54%) VMware ESXi
5 106 (5.07%) Docker
6 96 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
7 83 (3.97%) vSphere
8 65 (3.11%) Virtual Servers
9 52 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (1.15%) Terminal Services
11 20 (0.96%) Firmware
11 20 (0.96%) NFS
12 18 (0.86%) pfSense
13 17 (0.81%) XenApp
14 13 (0.62%) XenDesktop
15 9 (0.43%) DFS Replication
15 9 (0.43%) VMware NSX
16 8 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
16 8 (0.38%) VMware Server
17 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 314 (15.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 171 (8.17%) SCCM
3 144 (6.88%) Ansible
4 127 (6.07%) Terraform
5 122 (5.83%) Kubernetes
6 119 (5.69%) WSUS
7 86 (4.11%) SCOM
8 79 (3.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 79 (3.78%) Puppet
9 60 (2.87%) vCenter Server
10 54 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
11 37 (1.77%) Grafana
12 25 (1.20%) CASB
12 25 (1.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 25 (1.20%) ZABBIX
13 23 (1.10%) FortiGate
14 22 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
15 21 (1.00%) NetBackup
15 21 (1.00%) Prometheus
16 19 (0.91%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,126 (53.82%) Microsoft
2 684 (32.70%) VMware
3 320 (15.30%) Cisco
4 190 (9.08%) Veeam
5 163 (7.79%) Citrix
6 119 (5.69%) Oracle
7 106 (5.07%) Dell
8 104 (4.97%) HP
9 100 (4.78%) Red Hat
10 86 (4.11%) Apple
11 85 (4.06%) Juniper
12 79 (3.78%) Fortinet
12 79 (3.78%) Meraki
13 73 (3.49%) SolarWinds
14 59 (2.82%) Google
15 54 (2.58%) Palo Alto
16 46 (2.20%) Sparx
17 43 (2.06%) Sophos
18 40 (1.91%) Bloomberg
19 37 (1.77%) NetApp