DNS Jobs in the North West

Domain Name System (DNS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North 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 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 133 132 147
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -13
Permanent jobs citing DNS 184 196 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.72% 2.65% 2.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.45% 12.28% 17.15%
Number of salaries quoted 149 158 186
10th Percentile £30,400 £26,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,750 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,825
Median % change year-on-year - +5.08% +0.76%
75th Percentile £61,250 £53,750 £53,438
90th Percentile £72,500 £60,750 £61,875
England median annual salary £43,742 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +2.92% -5.56% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North 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 North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,191 1,596 1,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.16% 21.59% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 901 631 735
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,250 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% +3.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £57,750
90th Percentile £71,000 £73,750 £71,250
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in the North West

DNS
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for DNS in the North West

DNS
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for DNS in the North West

DNS
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the North West 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
Manchester +3 84 £49,128 +6.80% 20
Merseyside +16 41 £47,000 +10.59% 5
Cheshire -11 35 £43,500 -7.45% 17
Lancashire -4 17 £35,000 +40.00% 8
Cumbria -25 3 £45,000 - 2
DNS
England

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 50 (27.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (10.87%) IIS
3 14 (7.61%) SharePoint
4 8 (4.35%) WebLogic
5 4 (2.17%) CMS
5 4 (2.17%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.09%) Confluence
7 1 (0.54%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (7.61%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (4.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 3 (1.63%) Epicor Tropos
3 1 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 116 (63.04%) Azure
2 111 (60.33%) Microsoft 365
3 50 (27.17%) AWS
4 36 (19.57%) Entra ID
5 14 (7.61%) GCP
6 13 (7.07%) IaaS
6 13 (7.07%) Power Platform
7 12 (6.52%) PaaS
8 9 (4.89%) GitHub
8 9 (4.89%) OneDrive
9 8 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
10 7 (3.80%) AWS KMS
10 7 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (3.80%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.26%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.17%) SaaS
13 3 (1.63%) Anthos
13 3 (1.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 115 (62.50%) DHCP
2 60 (32.61%) Firewall
3 52 (28.26%) WAN
4 41 (22.28%) TCP/IP
5 40 (21.74%) VPN
6 37 (20.11%) LAN
7 32 (17.39%) SSL
8 22 (11.96%) SD-WAN
9 19 (10.33%) SAN
10 17 (9.24%) Internet
11 16 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (7.61%) BGP
12 14 (7.61%) Network Security
13 13 (7.07%) Wireless
14 12 (6.52%) iSCSI
15 11 (5.98%) DKIM
15 11 (5.98%) DMARC
16 9 (4.89%) VoIP
17 8 (4.35%) IPsec
18 6 (3.26%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.30%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (4.89%) Relational Database
3 8 (4.35%) Oracle Database
3 8 (4.35%) RDBMS
4 6 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.17%) MySQL
6 3 (1.63%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (1.63%) Power BI
6 3 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.63%) Jenkins
1 3 (1.63%) JIRA
1 3 (1.63%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.09%) GitLab
General
1 44 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.61%) Finance
3 12 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (5.43%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.89%) Retail
6 5 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.09%) Law
8 2 (1.09%) Legal
8 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.09%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 56 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 35 (19.02%) Senior
3 23 (12.50%) Analyst
4 21 (11.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (10.87%) Network Engineer
6 18 (9.78%) IT Engineer
7 16 (8.70%) Lead
7 16 (8.70%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 15 (8.15%) IT Support
8 15 (8.15%) Support Engineer
9 14 (7.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (7.07%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 13 (7.07%) Architect
11 12 (6.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (6.52%) Infrastructure Manager
11 12 (6.52%) Security Analyst
12 11 (5.98%) Information Analyst
12 11 (5.98%) Information Security Analyst
13 10 (5.43%) IT Technician
14 8 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (4.35%) Spring Boot
2 5 (2.72%) .NET
2 5 (2.72%) LDAP
3 3 (1.63%) SAML
4 2 (1.09%) JWT
4 2 (1.09%) RESTful
5 1 (0.54%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.54%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.54%) HTML
5 1 (0.54%) jQuery
5 1 (0.54%) Laravel
5 1 (0.54%) React
5 1 (0.54%) REST
5 1 (0.54%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 1 (0.54%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.54%) Vue
5 1 (0.54%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.33%) Public Cloud
2 17 (9.24%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (8.15%) Driving Licence
4 12 (6.52%) Data Centre
4 12 (6.52%) PMI
5 11 (5.98%) PKI
6 10 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (4.89%) Cyberattack
8 8 (4.35%) Onboarding
8 8 (4.35%) Replication
9 5 (2.72%) NHS
10 4 (2.17%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.63%) Fat Client
11 3 (1.63%) Thin Client
12 2 (1.09%) CCTV
12 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
13 1 (0.54%) Cloud Native
13 1 (0.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 1 (0.54%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 89 (48.37%) Windows
2 56 (30.43%) Windows Server
3 35 (19.02%) Linux
4 12 (6.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 10 (5.43%) VMS
6 9 (4.89%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (3.80%) Windows 10
8 7 (3.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (1.63%) Android
9 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.09%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (40.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (25.54%) ITIL
3 45 (24.46%) Disaster Recovery
4 33 (17.93%) Capacity Planning
5 30 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (14.67%) Migration
7 26 (14.13%) Project Management
8 23 (12.50%) Agile
8 23 (12.50%) Server Management
9 21 (11.41%) Customer Service
9 21 (11.41%) Proactive Monitoring
10 20 (10.87%) DevOps
10 20 (10.87%) Mentoring
11 18 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (9.24%) Incident Management
12 17 (9.24%) Line Management
13 14 (7.61%) Information Security
14 13 (7.07%) Computer Science
14 13 (7.07%) SIEM
15 12 (6.52%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.30%) PowerShell
2 13 (7.07%) SQL
3 8 (4.35%) Python
4 5 (2.72%) Go
5 4 (2.17%) C#
6 3 (1.63%) Bash
6 3 (1.63%) Ruby
7 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.54%) XAML
Qualifications
1 23 (12.50%) Degree
2 13 (7.07%) Azure Certification
3 12 (6.52%) PMI Certification
3 12 (6.52%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.52%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.43%) AWS Certification
5 9 (4.89%) CCNA
5 9 (4.89%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (4.35%) CCNP
6 8 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.72%) DBS Check
8 5 (2.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (2.17%) A+ Certification
9 4 (2.17%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (1.09%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.54%) CCIE
11 1 (0.54%) CISSP
11 1 (0.54%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.43%) SLA
2 7 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.09%) NIST
3 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.54%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.54%) NCSC
4 1 (0.54%) PMO
System Software
1 130 (70.65%) Active Directory
2 27 (14.67%) Hyper-V
3 23 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.72%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (2.17%) vSphere
6 3 (1.63%) Docker
7 2 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.09%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (1.09%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.54%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.54%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 34 (18.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (9.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 13 (7.07%) Terraform
4 12 (6.52%) Opsgenie
4 12 (6.52%) VxRail
4 12 (6.52%) ZABBIX
5 9 (4.89%) CASB
5 9 (4.89%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (3.80%) CA Single Sign-On
7 6 (3.26%) Kubernetes
8 5 (2.72%) WSUS
9 2 (1.09%) Ansible
9 2 (1.09%) SCCM
10 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 105 (57.07%) Microsoft
2 54 (29.35%) VMware
3 32 (17.39%) Cisco
4 18 (9.78%) Citrix
4 18 (9.78%) Fortinet
4 18 (9.78%) SolarWinds
5 14 (7.61%) Dell
6 13 (7.07%) NetApp
7 12 (6.52%) Veeam
8 11 (5.98%) Apple
9 10 (5.43%) ServiceNow
10 9 (4.89%) CA
11 8 (4.35%) Oracle
11 8 (4.35%) Sparx
12 7 (3.80%) CyberArk
12 7 (3.80%) F5
12 7 (3.80%) Juniper
13 5 (2.72%) Meraki
14 4 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
14 4 (2.17%) Ubiquiti