DNS Jobs with Work from Home Options

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 192 239
Rank change year-on-year +60 +47 -39
Permanent jobs citing DNS 784 766 1,189
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.32% 1.89% 1.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.14% 16.77% 14.93%
Number of salaries quoted 661 670 859
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -9.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £80,550
UK median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,180 4,569 7,962
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.32% 11.26% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,323 3,394 5,076
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,717
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,316 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%

DNS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DNS trend for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DNS.

DNS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DNS over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

DNS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 151 (19.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 82 (10.46%) SharePoint
3 65 (8.29%) IIS
4 46 (5.87%) WebLogic
5 20 (2.55%) CMS
6 18 (2.30%) nginx
7 16 (2.04%) WordPress
8 15 (1.91%) Apache
9 11 (1.40%) Confluence
10 7 (0.89%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.64%) Exchange Server 2013
11 5 (0.64%) SAS
11 5 (0.64%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.64%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
12 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
13 2 (0.26%) Apache Solr
14 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
14 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 37 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.77%) Trello
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.38%) SPSS
4 2 (0.26%) CATIA
4 2 (0.26%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.26%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 46 (5.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (0.77%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 504 (64.29%) Azure
2 332 (42.35%) Microsoft 365
3 214 (27.30%) AWS
4 147 (18.75%) Entra ID
5 52 (6.63%) IaaS
6 46 (5.87%) Amazon EKS
6 46 (5.87%) Amazon SQS
7 35 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (4.46%) GCP
8 28 (3.57%) Nutanix
9 26 (3.32%) Power Platform
10 23 (2.93%) OneDrive
11 22 (2.81%) Azure Monitor
12 21 (2.68%) GitHub
13 18 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
13 18 (2.30%) WhatsApp
14 17 (2.17%) Azure Storage
14 17 (2.17%) PaaS
14 17 (2.17%) Serverless
15 16 (2.04%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 401 (51.15%) DHCP
2 342 (43.62%) Firewall
3 252 (32.14%) TCP/IP
4 169 (21.56%) WAN
5 142 (18.11%) LAN
6 133 (16.96%) VPN
7 110 (14.03%) SSL
8 90 (11.48%) VLAN
9 89 (11.35%) Wi-Fi
10 66 (8.42%) SAN
11 62 (7.91%) BGP
12 55 (7.02%) Internet
13 53 (6.76%) Network Security
13 53 (6.76%) Wireless
14 41 (5.23%) VoIP
15 38 (4.85%) SD-WAN
16 34 (4.34%) DKIM
16 34 (4.34%) DMARC
16 34 (4.34%) HTTP
16 34 (4.34%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (11.35%) SQL Server
2 63 (8.04%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (7.27%) Oracle Database
4 49 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 46 (5.87%) RDBMS
6 26 (3.32%) MySQL
7 16 (2.04%) Power BI
8 14 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.15%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.89%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.77%) Redis
13 3 (0.38%) Big Data
13 3 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.38%) EDRMS
13 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.26%) OLAP
14 2 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 23 (2.93%) JIRA
3 16 (2.04%) Git
4 10 (1.28%) Trac
5 4 (0.51%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.51%) Charles Proxy
5 4 (0.51%) GitLab
5 4 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.51%) Subversion
6 2 (0.26%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.26%) Grunt
6 2 (0.26%) webpack
7 1 (0.13%) Log4Net
7 1 (0.13%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 228 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 98 (12.50%) Finance
3 90 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (3.44%) Telecoms
5 24 (3.06%) Public Sector
6 17 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (2.04%) Marketing
8 14 (1.79%) Games
9 12 (1.53%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.53%) Legal
10 10 (1.28%) Banking
11 8 (1.02%) Law
12 6 (0.77%) French Language
12 6 (0.77%) German Language
12 6 (0.77%) Italian Language
12 6 (0.77%) Manufacturing
12 6 (0.77%) Portuguese Language
12 6 (0.77%) Spanish Language
12 6 (0.77%) Swedish Language
12 6 (0.77%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 142 (18.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 110 (14.03%) Senior
3 91 (11.61%) Analyst
4 88 (11.22%) Lead
5 69 (8.80%) Architect
6 66 (8.42%) IT Support
7 59 (7.53%) IT Engineer
8 57 (7.27%) Support Engineer
9 49 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 48 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
11 47 (5.99%) Lead Architect
12 46 (5.87%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 45 (5.74%) 3rd Line Support
14 43 (5.48%) Network Engineer
15 39 (4.97%) Consultant
15 39 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
16 36 (4.59%) IT Analyst
17 34 (4.34%) Developer
18 29 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
19 28 (3.57%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
2 46 (5.87%) Spring Boot
3 38 (4.85%) REST
4 35 (4.46%) .NET
5 32 (4.08%) HTML
6 29 (3.70%) CSS
7 23 (2.93%) ASP.NET
8 22 (2.81%) ASP.NET MVC
8 22 (2.81%) React
9 21 (2.68%) Vue
10 20 (2.55%) AngularJS
11 19 (2.42%) jQuery
11 19 (2.42%) SAML
11 19 (2.42%) Tailwind CSS
11 19 (2.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 19 (2.42%) WPF
12 18 (2.30%) ARM Templates
13 16 (2.04%) JWT
13 16 (2.04%) OAuth
13 16 (2.04%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 92 (11.73%) Public Cloud
2 90 (11.48%) Data Centre
3 66 (8.42%) Enterprise Software
4 62 (7.91%) PKI
5 48 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
6 26 (3.32%) Cyberattack
7 23 (2.93%) Management Information System
8 22 (2.81%) Client/Server
9 20 (2.55%) Onboarding
10 19 (2.42%) Driving Licence
11 15 (1.91%) IoT
11 15 (1.91%) Video Conferencing
12 14 (1.79%) Clustering
12 14 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.53%) PMI
13 12 (1.53%) Replication
14 10 (1.28%) Cloud Native
15 8 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 7 (0.89%) CCTV
16 7 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 447 (57.02%) Windows
2 270 (34.44%) Windows Server
3 207 (26.40%) Linux
4 76 (9.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 65 (8.29%) Windows 10
6 61 (7.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 60 (7.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 49 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 19 (2.42%) Android
9 19 (2.42%) Windows Server 2008
10 18 (2.30%) Mac OS
11 16 (2.04%) Apple iOS
12 12 (1.53%) Unix
13 10 (1.28%) Mac OS X
13 10 (1.28%) VMS
14 8 (1.02%) CentOS
15 7 (0.89%) Windows 7
16 6 (0.77%) Windows 8
17 5 (0.64%) Ubuntu
17 5 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (21.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 167 (21.30%) Agile
3 145 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
4 127 (16.20%) DevOps
4 127 (16.20%) ITIL
5 103 (13.14%) Project Management
6 96 (12.24%) Migration
7 71 (9.06%) CI/CD
7 71 (9.06%) Disaster Recovery
8 70 (8.93%) Collaborative Working
8 70 (8.93%) Scrum
9 67 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
9 67 (8.55%) Kanban
9 67 (8.55%) Load Balancing
10 65 (8.29%) Open Source
11 59 (7.53%) Infrastructure as Code
12 57 (7.27%) Actionable Insight
13 54 (6.89%) Information Security
14 51 (6.51%) SDLC
14 51 (6.51%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 146 (18.62%) PowerShell
2 73 (9.31%) Python
3 63 (8.04%) SQL
4 45 (5.74%) C#
5 40 (5.10%) Bash
6 31 (3.95%) Java
7 30 (3.83%) VBScript
8 28 (3.57%) Perl
8 28 (3.57%) T-SQL
9 21 (2.68%) VB
10 20 (2.55%) JavaScript
11 19 (2.42%) XAML
12 17 (2.17%) PHP
13 16 (2.04%) Bicep
14 10 (1.28%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.38%) R
16 2 (0.26%) C
16 2 (0.26%) C++
17 1 (0.13%) ActionScript
17 1 (0.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 114 (14.54%) Security Cleared
2 86 (10.97%) Degree
3 79 (10.08%) SC Cleared
4 78 (9.95%) Azure Certification
5 50 (6.38%) AWS Certification
6 49 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
7 46 (5.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 46 (5.87%) CCNA
8 38 (4.85%) DV Cleared
9 36 (4.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (2.81%) MCSE
11 17 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (2.04%) APMP
12 16 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 13 (1.66%) CCNP
14 12 (1.53%) PMI Certification
15 10 (1.28%) CISSP
16 6 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
17 5 (0.64%) MCP
17 5 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.19%) Cyber Essentials
2 23 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.68%) SLA
4 14 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.79%) SOC 2
5 5 (0.64%) NIST
6 4 (0.51%) COBIT
6 4 (0.51%) GDPR
7 3 (0.38%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.38%) JSP 440
7 3 (0.38%) QA
8 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.26%) PMO
9 1 (0.13%) GxP
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.13%) NCSC
System Software
1 438 (55.87%) Active Directory
2 177 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 147 (18.75%) Hyper-V
4 64 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
5 45 (5.74%) Docker
5 45 (5.74%) VMware ESXi
6 29 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 27 (3.44%) Virtual Servers
8 18 (2.30%) NFS
9 17 (2.17%) vSphere
10 10 (1.28%) pfSense
11 9 (1.15%) DFS Replication
12 7 (0.89%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.26%) Firmware
13 2 (0.26%) PowerDNS
13 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.26%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.13%) KVM
14 1 (0.13%) Samba
14 1 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 121 (15.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 72 (9.18%) SCCM
3 67 (8.55%) Terraform
4 59 (7.53%) Ansible
5 56 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 53 (6.76%) WSUS
7 43 (5.48%) Kubernetes
8 35 (4.46%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (4.21%) SCOM
10 27 (3.44%) Grafana
10 27 (3.44%) vCenter Server
11 24 (3.06%) CASB
12 22 (2.81%) ZABBIX
13 18 (2.30%) Puppet
14 16 (2.04%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 14 (1.79%) HAProxy
16 12 (1.53%) CA Single Sign-On
16 12 (1.53%) Opsgenie
16 12 (1.53%) VxRail
17 11 (1.40%) Nagios
Vendors
1 388 (49.49%) Microsoft
2 259 (33.04%) VMware
3 118 (15.05%) Cisco
4 73 (9.31%) Oracle
5 50 (6.38%) Meraki
6 46 (5.87%) Sparx
7 44 (5.61%) Citrix
8 42 (5.36%) Juniper
9 40 (5.10%) Fortinet
10 37 (4.72%) Veeam
11 36 (4.59%) SolarWinds
12 33 (4.21%) Dell
13 31 (3.95%) Apple
14 28 (3.57%) Palo Alto
15 21 (2.68%) Red Hat
16 18 (2.30%) HP
17 17 (2.17%) CheckPoint
17 17 (2.17%) Ruckus Wireless
18 16 (2.04%) McAfee
18 16 (2.04%) NetApp