DNS Jobs in the West Midlands

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 141 107
Rank change year-on-year +30 -34 -9
Permanent jobs citing DNS 167 112 206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.08% 1.92% 2.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.83% 10.38% 19.23%
Number of salaries quoted 135 100 184
10th Percentile £24,600 £25,900 £24,800
25th Percentile £28,375 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,750 £38,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% -5.00% -4.98%
75th Percentile £54,375 £45,000 £52,625
90th Percentile £59,500 £49,350 £63,750
England median annual salary £43,742 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.92% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 992 1,079 1,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.38% 18.53% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 795 503 700
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,125 £32,000 £34,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -4.26% +2.17%
75th Percentile £56,950 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,800 £73,751 £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 West Midlands

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the West Midlands

DNS
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for DNS in the West Midlands

DNS
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for DNS in the West Midlands

DNS
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +17 58 £50,000 +25.00% 6
Shropshire +9 18 £36,500 - 1
Staffordshire -32 15 £46,250 +42.31% 4
Warwickshire - 15 £57,500 - 4
Solihull +2 10 £29,500 -17.48% 1
Worcestershire -32 10 £35,000 -11.71% 5
Coventry +17 8 £42,500 +13.33% 5
Wednesbury +4 7 £30,000 -14.29%
Wolverhampton +20 5 £21,500 -29.51%
Herefordshire +3 4 £60,000 +41.18%
Dudley - 2 £24,500 - 1
Brierley Hill - 2 £33,750 -
Halesowen - 1 £30,000 -
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 65 (38.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (19.76%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.79%) IIS
4 4 (2.40%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (1.80%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (1.20%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (1.20%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 24 (14.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.40%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (2.40%) Sage 200
2 3 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (52.69%) Azure
2 81 (48.50%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (32.34%) Entra ID
4 21 (12.57%) AWS
5 19 (11.38%) OneDrive
6 10 (5.99%) IaaS
7 9 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.59%) Google Workspace
8 6 (3.59%) PaaS
9 5 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.40%) Mimecast
10 4 (2.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.80%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.20%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.20%) Azure App Service
12 2 (1.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.20%) Matillion
12 2 (1.20%) OpenDNS
13 1 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 136 (81.44%) DHCP
2 79 (47.31%) Firewall
3 65 (38.92%) TCP/IP
4 43 (25.75%) WAN
5 40 (23.95%) LAN
6 31 (18.56%) VPN
7 24 (14.37%) SAN
8 23 (13.77%) VLAN
8 23 (13.77%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (7.19%) SD-WAN
9 12 (7.19%) SSL
9 12 (7.19%) Wireless
10 11 (6.59%) iSCSI
10 11 (6.59%) SMTP
11 10 (5.99%) Fibre Channel
11 10 (5.99%) SNMP
12 9 (5.39%) Network Security
13 8 (4.79%) HTTP
13 8 (4.79%) OSPF
14 7 (4.19%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.38%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.39%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.80%) Oracle Database
4 3 (1.80%) Power BI
5 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (3.59%) Git
2 4 (2.40%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (19.76%) Social Skills
2 20 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (7.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (6.59%) Finance
5 7 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.59%) Law
7 4 (2.40%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.40%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.40%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.80%) Military
8 3 (1.80%) Retail
9 2 (1.20%) Back Office
9 2 (1.20%) Legal
10 1 (0.60%) Automotive
10 1 (0.60%) Games
Job Titles
1 31 (18.56%) Support Engineer
2 30 (17.96%) Analyst
3 27 (16.17%) IT Engineer
4 26 (15.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (14.97%) IT Support
6 20 (11.98%) Senior
7 18 (10.78%) Service Analyst
7 18 (10.78%) Service Desk Analyst
8 16 (9.58%) IT Support Engineer
8 16 (9.58%) Network Engineer
9 13 (7.78%) Administrator
10 12 (7.19%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (6.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 11 (6.59%) 3rd Line Support
12 9 (5.39%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.79%) IT Manager
13 8 (4.79%) Support Analyst
13 8 (4.79%) Windows Administrator
14 7 (4.19%) Senior Support Engineer
14 7 (4.19%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.59%) JSON
1 6 (3.59%) YAML
2 3 (1.80%) .NET
2 3 (1.80%) AngularJS
2 3 (1.80%) ASP.NET
2 3 (1.80%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (1.80%) CSS
2 3 (1.80%) HTML
2 3 (1.80%) jQuery
2 3 (1.80%) React
2 3 (1.80%) REST
2 3 (1.80%) Tailwind CSS
2 3 (1.80%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 3 (1.80%) Vue
2 3 (1.80%) WPF
3 2 (1.20%) ADO
3 2 (1.20%) JWT
3 2 (1.20%) LAMP
3 2 (1.20%) RESTful
3 2 (1.20%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.78%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.99%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.99%) Management Information System
3 9 (5.39%) PKI
4 7 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.59%) Cyberattack
5 6 (3.59%) EFT
5 6 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.99%) Clustering
6 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.40%) CCTV
7 4 (2.40%) FMCG
7 4 (2.40%) IoT
7 4 (2.40%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.80%) Replication
9 2 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Mobile Computing
9 2 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.20%) Wiki
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 125 (74.85%) Windows
2 91 (54.49%) Windows Server
3 38 (22.75%) Windows Server 2016
4 36 (21.56%) Windows 10
5 31 (18.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 25 (14.97%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (7.78%) Linux
8 8 (4.79%) Apple iOS
8 8 (4.79%) Mac OS
8 8 (4.79%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (3.59%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (2.99%) Ubuntu
11 4 (2.40%) CentOS
11 4 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (2.40%) VMS
12 2 (1.20%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (20.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (17.37%) Cybersecurity
3 28 (16.77%) ITIL
4 25 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (10.18%) Customer Service
5 17 (10.18%) Project Delivery
6 16 (9.58%) Change Control
7 12 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (7.19%) ERP
7 12 (7.19%) Incident Management
7 12 (7.19%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (6.59%) Change Management
9 10 (5.99%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (5.99%) Patch Management
10 9 (5.39%) Agile
10 9 (5.39%) CI/CD
10 9 (5.39%) DevOps
10 9 (5.39%) Server Management
10 9 (5.39%) Server Patching
11 8 (4.79%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 46 (27.54%) PowerShell
2 19 (11.38%) SQL
3 5 (2.99%) T-SQL
4 4 (2.40%) Bash
5 3 (1.80%) C#
5 3 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.80%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.80%) R
5 3 (1.80%) XAML
6 1 (0.60%) C
6 1 (0.60%) C++
6 1 (0.60%) Java
6 1 (0.60%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (9.58%) Degree
2 13 (7.78%) Security Cleared
3 11 (6.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (5.39%) CCNA
4 9 (5.39%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (5.39%) Network+ Certification
5 8 (4.79%) SC Cleared
6 7 (4.19%) A+ Certification
7 5 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.40%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.80%) MCSA
9 3 (1.80%) MCSE
9 3 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.60%) CCNP
11 1 (0.60%) HNC
11 1 (0.60%) HND
11 1 (0.60%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.38%) SLA
2 4 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.80%) GDPR
3 3 (1.80%) JSP 440
System Software
1 125 (74.85%) Active Directory
2 47 (28.14%) Hyper-V
3 36 (21.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (10.78%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (5.39%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (4.19%) vSphere
7 6 (3.59%) pfSense
8 5 (2.99%) NFS
9 4 (2.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (2.40%) VMware NSX
9 4 (2.40%) VMware Server
9 4 (2.40%) XenApp
9 4 (2.40%) XenDesktop
10 3 (1.80%) Terminal Services
10 3 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (1.20%) Docker
12 1 (0.60%) Firmware
12 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 32 (19.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (11.38%) SCCM
3 12 (7.19%) vCenter Server
4 11 (6.59%) Terraform
5 5 (2.99%) Backup Exec
5 5 (2.99%) SCOM
6 3 (1.80%) Autotask
6 3 (1.80%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.80%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.20%) Nagios
7 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 108 (64.67%) Microsoft
2 68 (40.72%) VMware
3 33 (19.76%) Cisco
4 27 (16.17%) Veeam
5 19 (11.38%) Citrix
6 18 (10.78%) Apple
7 17 (10.18%) Dell
8 14 (8.38%) Aruba
8 14 (8.38%) Sophos
9 12 (7.19%) Fortinet
9 12 (7.19%) HP
10 11 (6.59%) WatchGuard
10 11 (6.59%) Zerto
11 10 (5.99%) Juniper
12 9 (5.39%) Sage
13 7 (4.19%) Datto
14 6 (3.59%) Globalscape
15 5 (2.99%) ConnectWise
15 5 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
15 5 (2.99%) Ubiquiti