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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 180 219
Rank change year-on-year +46 +39 -53
Permanent jobs citing DNS 2,130 2,110 3,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.15% 2.08% 1.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.76% 13.37% 14.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,762 1,645 2,277
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £58,163 £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 13,519 15,777 20,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 15.57% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,433 8,018 11,667
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

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 9 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 9 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 +43 1,962 £43,862 +3.21% 404
UK excluding London +18 1,582 £40,000 - 318
Work from Home +48 799 £50,000 +8.81% 142
London +55 502 £55,000 +0.00% 102
South East -5 436 £42,500 +6.25% 77
North of England +28 343 £42,000 +5.00% 79
Midlands +66 309 £39,000 +0.65% 66
South West +18 219 £37,500 -6.25% 37
North West +3 184 £45,000 - 52
West Midlands +51 168 £42,500 +9.68% 39
East of England -7 146 £41,500 -2.35% 38
East Midlands +51 137 £37,500 +2.74% 27
Yorkshire +63 116 £32,500 -13.33% 22
Wales +30 60 £34,000 -9.33% 6
Scotland -54 58 £42,500 +21.43% 18
North East +5 49 £42,500 +13.33% 6
Northern Ireland +24 13 £32,500 - 6
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
1 504 (23.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 318 (14.93%) SharePoint
3 122 (5.73%) IIS
4 46 (2.16%) WebLogic
5 36 (1.69%) CMS
6 35 (1.64%) WordPress
7 34 (1.60%) Exchange Server 2013
8 28 (1.31%) Exchange Server 2010
9 25 (1.17%) Skype for Business
10 22 (1.03%) Apache
10 22 (1.03%) Confluence
10 22 (1.03%) Exchange Server 2007
10 22 (1.03%) nginx
11 9 (0.42%) Tomcat
12 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 7 (0.33%) Umbraco
13 5 (0.23%) SAS
14 4 (0.19%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2003
15 2 (0.094%) Moodle
Applications
1 253 (11.88%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.28%) Trello
5 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.14%) SPSS
7 2 (0.094%) CATIA
7 2 (0.094%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 46 (2.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 16 (0.75%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
5 4 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
5 4 (0.19%) Sage 200
6 2 (0.094%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.094%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.094%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.047%) Carpe Diem
7 1 (0.047%) Eikon
7 1 (0.047%) Sage 300 ERP
7 1 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.047%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.047%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,162 (54.55%) Azure
2 986 (46.29%) Microsoft 365
3 454 (21.31%) AWS
4 366 (17.18%) Entra ID
5 119 (5.59%) OneDrive
6 112 (5.26%) IaaS
7 80 (3.76%) SaaS
8 78 (3.66%) Power Platform
9 76 (3.57%) PaaS
10 74 (3.47%) GCP
11 66 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
12 51 (2.39%) Amazon EKS
12 51 (2.39%) Nutanix
13 50 (2.35%) Mimecast
14 46 (2.16%) Amazon SQS
15 43 (2.02%) GitHub
16 42 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
17 36 (1.69%) OpenShift
18 30 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
18 30 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1,309 (61.46%) DHCP
2 865 (40.61%) Firewall
3 713 (33.47%) TCP/IP
4 423 (19.86%) VPN
5 414 (19.44%) WAN
6 367 (17.23%) LAN
7 266 (12.49%) VLAN
8 221 (10.38%) Wi-Fi
9 212 (9.95%) Wireless
10 188 (8.83%) SAN
11 157 (7.37%) SSL
12 148 (6.95%) HTTP
13 123 (5.77%) Network Security
14 111 (5.21%) Internet
14 111 (5.21%) VoIP
15 105 (4.93%) BGP
16 93 (4.37%) SD-WAN
17 67 (3.15%) OSPF
18 65 (3.05%) IPsec
19 62 (2.91%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (9.86%) SQL Server
2 91 (4.27%) Amazon RDS
3 56 (2.63%) Oracle Database
3 56 (2.63%) Relational Database
4 51 (2.39%) MySQL
4 51 (2.39%) RDBMS
5 41 (1.92%) Power BI
6 23 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
7 21 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 14 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (0.61%) Redis
11 12 (0.56%) MongoDB
12 11 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.42%) NoSQL
14 6 (0.28%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (0.28%) GIS
15 3 (0.14%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.14%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 60 (2.82%) Jenkins
2 48 (2.25%) JIRA
3 41 (1.92%) Git
4 20 (0.94%) GitLab
5 10 (0.47%) Trac
6 7 (0.33%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.33%) Katalon Studio
7 6 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.23%) Subversion
9 4 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
9 4 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.14%) webpack
11 2 (0.094%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.094%) Browser DevTools
11 2 (0.094%) git-flow
11 2 (0.094%) Grunt
11 2 (0.094%) Hudson
11 2 (0.094%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.094%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 627 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 252 (11.83%) Finance
3 208 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (3.99%) Telecoms
5 73 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 56 (2.63%) Public Sector
7 51 (2.39%) Law
8 44 (2.07%) Marketing
8 44 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
9 43 (2.02%) Banking
10 36 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 33 (1.55%) Aerospace
12 31 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
13 29 (1.36%) Legal
14 28 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
15 24 (1.13%) Retail
16 16 (0.75%) Games
17 13 (0.61%) Electronics
18 11 (0.52%) Publishing
19 10 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 387 (18.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 317 (14.88%) Senior
3 272 (12.77%) Analyst
4 266 (12.49%) IT Support
5 258 (12.11%) Support Engineer
6 232 (10.89%) IT Engineer
7 154 (7.23%) Network Engineer
8 135 (6.34%) Lead
9 123 (5.77%) Architect
9 123 (5.77%) IT Support Engineer
10 107 (5.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 106 (4.98%) 2nd Line Support
12 95 (4.46%) Support Analyst
13 92 (4.32%) 3rd Line Support
14 90 (4.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 90 (4.23%) IT Technician
15 77 (3.62%) Administrator
16 76 (3.57%) IT Analyst
17 74 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
18 72 (3.38%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (4.13%) HTML
2 70 (3.29%) .NET
3 63 (2.96%) SAML
4 53 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
4 53 (2.49%) REST
5 51 (2.39%) CSS
6 47 (2.21%) OpenID
7 46 (2.16%) Spring Boot
8 38 (1.78%) ARM Templates
9 37 (1.74%) React
10 33 (1.55%) LDAP
10 33 (1.55%) YAML
11 32 (1.50%) 802.1X
11 32 (1.50%) ASP.NET
12 28 (1.31%) jQuery
13 24 (1.13%) Vue
14 23 (1.08%) ASP.NET MVC
14 23 (1.08%) RESTful
15 22 (1.03%) AngularJS
16 21 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 202 (9.48%) Data Centre
2 130 (6.10%) Self-Motivation
3 118 (5.54%) Driving Licence
4 109 (5.12%) Public Cloud
5 102 (4.79%) PKI
6 83 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
7 75 (3.52%) Replication
8 65 (3.05%) Onboarding
9 63 (2.96%) Cyberattack
10 57 (2.68%) Management Information System
11 39 (1.83%) Clustering
12 38 (1.78%) Client/Server
12 38 (1.78%) Cloud Native
13 32 (1.50%) Security Posture
14 31 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
15 25 (1.17%) Video Conferencing
16 19 (0.89%) CCTV
16 19 (0.89%) IoT
17 18 (0.85%) Smartphone
18 16 (0.75%) Eurex
Operating Systems
1 1,356 (63.66%) Windows
2 843 (39.58%) Windows Server
3 461 (21.64%) Linux
4 271 (12.72%) Windows 10
5 228 (10.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 202 (9.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 173 (8.12%) Windows Server 2012
8 108 (5.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 74 (3.47%) Windows Server 2008
10 68 (3.19%) Android
10 68 (3.19%) Apple iOS
11 59 (2.77%) Unix
12 51 (2.39%) Mac OS
13 41 (1.92%) CentOS
14 40 (1.88%) Ubuntu
15 37 (1.74%) Windows 7
16 33 (1.55%) VMS
17 30 (1.41%) Windows 8
18 22 (1.03%) Mac OS X
19 20 (0.94%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (21.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 447 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
3 431 (20.23%) ITIL
4 286 (13.43%) Customer Service
5 284 (13.33%) Agile
6 248 (11.64%) Cybersecurity
7 245 (11.50%) DevOps
8 209 (9.81%) Disaster Recovery
9 194 (9.11%) Migration
10 153 (7.18%) Project Management
11 129 (6.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 122 (5.73%) Load Balancing
13 118 (5.54%) Collaborative Working
14 112 (5.26%) CI/CD
15 109 (5.12%) Mentoring
16 108 (5.07%) Information Security
17 106 (4.98%) Actionable Insight
18 96 (4.51%) Continuous Improvement
18 96 (4.51%) Service Management
19 92 (4.32%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 456 (21.41%) PowerShell
2 212 (9.95%) Python
3 198 (9.30%) SQL
4 124 (5.82%) Bash
5 85 (3.99%) Java
6 75 (3.52%) C#
7 69 (3.24%) JavaScript
8 52 (2.44%) Perl
9 34 (1.60%) T-SQL
10 30 (1.41%) VBScript
11 23 (1.08%) PHP
11 23 (1.08%) Ruby
12 21 (0.99%) VB
13 19 (0.89%) Bicep
13 19 (0.89%) XAML
14 17 (0.80%) C++
15 12 (0.56%) C
16 10 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.28%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 288 (13.52%) Security Cleared
2 276 (12.96%) Degree
3 165 (7.75%) SC Cleared
4 147 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
5 142 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 137 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 122 (5.73%) CCNA
8 111 (5.21%) Azure Certification
9 101 (4.74%) AWS Certification
10 79 (3.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 63 (2.96%) CCNP
12 58 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 58 (2.72%) MCSE
13 47 (2.21%) DBS Check
14 41 (1.92%) A+ Certification
15 39 (1.83%) MCSA
16 34 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
17 32 (1.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 32 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 27 (1.27%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (5.73%) SLA
2 73 (3.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 33 (1.55%) GDPR
5 15 (0.70%) COBIT
5 15 (0.70%) NIST
6 14 (0.66%) SOC 2
7 13 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.56%) Data Quality
9 9 (0.42%) PMO
10 8 (0.38%) Accessibility
10 8 (0.38%) NCSC
11 7 (0.33%) QA
12 6 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
15 2 (0.094%) HIPAA
16 1 (0.047%) GxP
16 1 (0.047%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1,295 (60.80%) Active Directory
2 486 (22.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 411 (19.30%) Hyper-V
4 114 (5.35%) VMware ESXi
5 104 (4.88%) Docker
6 88 (4.13%) Virtual Machines
7 75 (3.52%) vSphere
8 67 (3.15%) Virtual Servers
9 49 (2.30%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (1.13%) Terminal Services
11 20 (0.94%) Firmware
11 20 (0.94%) NFS
12 18 (0.85%) pfSense
13 15 (0.70%) XenApp
14 11 (0.52%) DFS Replication
15 9 (0.42%) VMware NSX
15 9 (0.42%) XenDesktop
16 8 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
16 8 (0.38%) VMware Server
17 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 322 (15.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 159 (7.46%) SCCM
3 151 (7.09%) Terraform
4 134 (6.29%) Ansible
5 119 (5.59%) WSUS
6 117 (5.49%) Kubernetes
7 82 (3.85%) SCOM
8 79 (3.71%) Puppet
9 74 (3.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 59 (2.77%) vCenter Server
11 52 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
12 38 (1.78%) Grafana
13 29 (1.36%) FortiGate
14 26 (1.22%) CASB
14 26 (1.22%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 24 (1.13%) ZABBIX
16 23 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
17 22 (1.03%) NetBackup
18 21 (0.99%) Progress Chef
19 20 (0.94%) Nagios
Vendors
1 1,143 (53.66%) Microsoft
2 679 (31.88%) VMware
3 323 (15.16%) Cisco
4 192 (9.01%) Veeam
5 171 (8.03%) Citrix
6 111 (5.21%) Oracle
7 106 (4.98%) HP
8 102 (4.79%) Dell
9 93 (4.37%) Juniper
10 88 (4.13%) Red Hat
11 85 (3.99%) Apple
12 81 (3.80%) Meraki
13 80 (3.76%) Fortinet
14 70 (3.29%) SolarWinds
15 59 (2.77%) Google
16 56 (2.63%) Palo Alto
17 46 (2.16%) Sparx
18 44 (2.07%) Sophos
19 39 (1.83%) Bloomberg
20 37 (1.74%) Aruba