DNS Jobs in the South West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 139 150
Rank change year-on-year +17 +11 -35
Permanent jobs citing DNS 192 139 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 2.05% 2.07% 2.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.50% 10.78% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 133 88 121
10th Percentile £27,044 £27,850 £27,375
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.88% +8.97%
75th Percentile £51,750 £48,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £58,800 £70,000
England median annual salary £43,742 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.92% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,239 1,290 1,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.21% 19.21% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 933 538 719
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +11.63%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £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 19 May 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 19 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
Gloucestershire +15 86 £31,000 -31.11% 2
Bristol +24 39 £39,750 +37.07% 13
Devon -12 22 £26,000 -23.53% 4
Wiltshire -9 19 £50,500 +44.29% 6
Somerset +9 12 £47,500 -5.00% 3
Cornwall -12 7 £30,000 -3.23% 2
Dorset -42 6 £43,750 -2.78% 3
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 33 (17.19%) SharePoint
2 18 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (3.65%) Confluence
4 6 (3.13%) IIS
5 4 (2.08%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.04%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.04%) nginx
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.52%) CMS
7 1 (0.52%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.13%) Trello
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 109 (56.77%) Azure
2 73 (38.02%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (30.21%) AWS
4 50 (26.04%) SaaS
5 36 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 36 (18.75%) OpenShift
6 19 (9.90%) IaaS
7 18 (9.38%) PaaS
7 18 (9.38%) Power Platform
8 17 (8.85%) OneDrive
9 9 (4.69%) WhatsApp
10 6 (3.13%) GCP
10 6 (3.13%) Slack
11 4 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (2.08%) GitHub
11 4 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (1.56%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.52%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.52%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 124 (64.58%) DHCP
2 98 (51.04%) TCP/IP
3 52 (27.08%) Firewall
4 49 (25.52%) WAN
5 48 (25.00%) HTTP
6 41 (21.35%) LAN
7 40 (20.83%) VPN
8 28 (14.58%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (10.94%) Wireless
10 16 (8.33%) VLAN
11 13 (6.77%) IPsec
12 12 (6.25%) SD-WAN
12 12 (6.25%) VSAN
13 11 (5.73%) BGP
13 11 (5.73%) Internet
14 10 (5.21%) SSL
15 9 (4.69%) SMTP
16 7 (3.65%) OSPF
17 6 (3.13%) NetScaler
18 4 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (2.60%) Relational Database
3 4 (2.08%) MySQL
3 4 (2.08%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.08%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.04%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.04%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.52%) Power BI
5 1 (0.52%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 8 (4.17%) Jenkins
1 8 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (0.52%) Git
2 1 (0.52%) Log4Net
2 1 (0.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 50 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 16 (8.33%) Aerospace
2 16 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (3.65%) Marketing
5 6 (3.13%) Law
6 5 (2.60%) Finance
7 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.56%) Legal
8 3 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.04%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.04%) Publishing
9 2 (1.04%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 52 (27.08%) Senior
3 39 (20.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (14.58%) Support Engineer
5 27 (14.06%) IT Engineer
6 23 (11.98%) Field Engineer
7 17 (8.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 15 (7.81%) IT Support
9 14 (7.29%) 3rd Line Support
9 14 (7.29%) Developer
10 13 (6.77%) Field Service Engineer
11 12 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 11 (5.73%) Analyst
12 11 (5.73%) Lead
13 10 (5.21%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (5.21%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
13 10 (5.21%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
13 10 (5.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (5.21%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
13 10 (5.21%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.65%) HTML
2 6 (3.13%) CSS
2 6 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (2.60%) LDAP
4 4 (2.08%) .NET
4 4 (2.08%) 802.1X
4 4 (2.08%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.08%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.56%) ASP.NET
5 3 (1.56%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (1.56%) jQuery
5 3 (1.56%) React
5 3 (1.56%) REST
5 3 (1.56%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (1.56%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 3 (1.56%) Vue
5 3 (1.56%) WPF
6 2 (1.04%) DOM
6 2 (1.04%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (0.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 27 (14.06%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (4.69%) Replication
3 9 (4.69%) Tandem
4 8 (4.17%) CUDA
4 8 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.17%) GNSS
4 8 (4.17%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.13%) Cloud Native
6 5 (2.60%) Client/Server
7 4 (2.08%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.04%) CMDB
10 1 (0.52%) iPhone
10 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.52%) PKI
10 1 (0.52%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 139 (72.40%) Windows
2 68 (35.42%) Windows Server
3 63 (32.81%) Linux
4 40 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 30 (15.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (15.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (5.73%) Windows 10
9 9 (4.69%) Unix
10 8 (4.17%) Mac OS
11 7 (3.65%) Apple iOS
12 6 (3.13%) Android
13 5 (2.60%) Windows 7
14 2 (1.04%) Debian
14 2 (1.04%) Ubuntu
14 2 (1.04%) Windows 8
14 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.52%) CentOS
15 1 (0.52%) Fedora
15 1 (0.52%) openSUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (36.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (27.08%) ITIL
3 45 (23.44%) DevOps
4 44 (22.92%) Software Architecture
5 36 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
6 33 (17.19%) Customer Service
7 27 (14.06%) Agile
7 27 (14.06%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
9 22 (11.46%) Service Management
10 18 (9.38%) Change Management
11 17 (8.85%) Time Management
12 15 (7.81%) Mentoring
13 13 (6.77%) Computer Science
13 13 (6.77%) Containerisation
14 12 (6.25%) Open Source
15 10 (5.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (5.21%) Incident Management
15 10 (5.21%) Load Balancing
16 9 (4.69%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 49 (25.52%) Python
3 40 (20.83%) Java
4 37 (19.27%) Bash
5 17 (8.85%) SQL
6 8 (4.17%) C
6 8 (4.17%) C#
6 8 (4.17%) C++
7 3 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.56%) XAML
8 2 (1.04%) PHP
8 2 (1.04%) Ruby
9 1 (0.52%) Perl
9 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 29 (15.10%) Degree
4 24 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 15 (7.81%) DBS Check
6 13 (6.77%) A+ Certification
7 6 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (2.60%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.60%) PMP
8 5 (2.60%) RHCE
8 5 (2.60%) RHCSA
9 4 (2.08%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.08%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.56%) CCNA
10 3 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.56%) MCSE
11 2 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.85%) SLA
2 6 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.04%) GDPR
System Software
1 93 (48.44%) Active Directory
2 60 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (28.13%) Hyper-V
4 36 (18.75%) Docker
5 12 (6.25%) Firmware
6 9 (4.69%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (4.69%) vSphere
7 8 (4.17%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.04%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.52%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.52%) KVM
10 1 (0.52%) Samba
Systems Management
1 42 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 36 (18.75%) Ansible
2 36 (18.75%) Puppet
3 31 (16.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (4.17%) McAfee ePO
4 8 (4.17%) SCVMM
4 8 (4.17%) WSUS
5 7 (3.65%) Terraform
6 6 (3.13%) SCCM
7 5 (2.60%) Rancher
8 4 (2.08%) Istio
8 4 (2.08%) Prometheus
8 4 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (2.08%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.52%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.52%) Icinga
9 1 (0.52%) Nagios
9 1 (0.52%) SCOM
9 1 (0.52%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 67 (34.90%) VMware
2 62 (32.29%) Microsoft
3 38 (19.79%) Red Hat
4 22 (11.46%) HP
5 16 (8.33%) Cisco
5 16 (8.33%) Veeam
6 15 (7.81%) Citrix
7 9 (4.69%) Sophos
8 8 (4.17%) Apple
8 8 (4.17%) McAfee
9 7 (3.65%) Meraki
10 6 (3.13%) Aderant
10 6 (3.13%) Fortinet
10 6 (3.13%) iManage
10 6 (3.13%) ServiceNow
11 5 (2.60%) SolarWinds
12 4 (2.08%) Google
12 4 (2.08%) Oracle
12 4 (2.08%) Sparx
13 3 (1.56%) NetApp