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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 174 230
Rank change year-on-year +32 +56 -50
Permanent jobs citing DNS 2,106 2,007 3,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.94% 2.16% 1.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.29% 13.17% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,717 1,573 2,256
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,500 £32,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £79,375
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 13,776 15,239 22,877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.70% 16.37% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 9,405 7,647 11,856
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,850 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,886 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -0.25% -5.26% +5.56%

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 June 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 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
England +31 1,940 £44,225 +4.06% 378
UK excluding London +3 1,573 £40,000 - 308
Work from Home +42 783 £50,000 +11.11% 170
London +27 495 £55,000 - 84
South East -11 432 £42,500 +6.25% 84
North of England +10 348 £42,500 - 85
Midlands +44 315 £37,500 - 55
South West +7 192 £37,500 -4.55% 30
North West +4 184 £45,000 - 55
West Midlands +26 167 £39,750 +6.00% 31
East of England -4 155 £41,500 -0.38% 37
East Midlands +38 144 £37,500 +2.74% 24
Yorkshire +41 122 £32,500 -13.33% 23
Wales +41 61 £34,000 +1.49% 5
Scotland -55 60 £42,500 +13.33% 19
North East -4 48 £42,500 +6.80% 7
Northern Ireland +12 12 £32,500 -4.41% 2
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
1 498 (23.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 311 (14.77%) SharePoint
3 122 (5.79%) IIS
4 46 (2.18%) WebLogic
5 35 (1.66%) CMS
5 35 (1.66%) WordPress
6 33 (1.57%) Exchange Server 2013
7 26 (1.23%) Exchange Server 2010
8 25 (1.19%) Skype for Business
9 24 (1.14%) Apache
9 24 (1.14%) Confluence
10 22 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2007
11 21 (1.00%) nginx
12 9 (0.43%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.33%) OpenStack
13 7 (0.33%) Umbraco
14 5 (0.24%) SAS
15 4 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2003
16 2 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 2 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 264 (12.54%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.24%) Trello
6 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.19%) MS Visio
7 3 (0.14%) SPSS
8 2 (0.095%) CATIA
8 2 (0.095%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 46 (2.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 18 (0.85%) Fidessa
3 7 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 6 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
5 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.19%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.095%) Epicor Tropos
7 2 (0.095%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.047%) Carpe Diem
8 1 (0.047%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.047%) Eikon
8 1 (0.047%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.047%) Sage 300 ERP
8 1 (0.047%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.047%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.047%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.047%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 1,158 (54.99%) Azure
2 966 (45.87%) Microsoft 365
3 417 (19.80%) AWS
4 372 (17.66%) Entra ID
5 125 (5.94%) IaaS
6 113 (5.37%) OneDrive
7 83 (3.94%) SaaS
8 75 (3.56%) PaaS
9 74 (3.51%) Power Platform
10 68 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
11 64 (3.04%) GCP
12 54 (2.56%) Nutanix
13 53 (2.52%) Mimecast
14 50 (2.37%) Amazon EKS
15 46 (2.18%) Amazon SQS
16 41 (1.95%) GitHub
17 39 (1.85%) OpenShift
18 33 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
19 32 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
20 30 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1,288 (61.16%) DHCP
2 862 (40.93%) Firewall
3 699 (33.19%) TCP/IP
4 415 (19.71%) WAN
5 409 (19.42%) VPN
6 364 (17.28%) LAN
7 258 (12.25%) VLAN
8 216 (10.26%) Wi-Fi
9 215 (10.21%) Wireless
10 195 (9.26%) SAN
11 154 (7.31%) SSL
12 120 (5.70%) Network Security
13 117 (5.56%) HTTP
14 105 (4.99%) Internet
15 104 (4.94%) VoIP
16 97 (4.61%) BGP
17 91 (4.32%) SD-WAN
18 65 (3.09%) IPsec
19 61 (2.90%) NAS
20 59 (2.80%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (9.73%) SQL Server
2 85 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
3 57 (2.71%) Oracle Database
3 57 (2.71%) Relational Database
4 51 (2.42%) RDBMS
5 45 (2.14%) MySQL
6 38 (1.80%) Power BI
7 21 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
9 19 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
10 16 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.66%) Redis
12 9 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (0.38%) MongoDB
14 7 (0.33%) NoSQL
15 6 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
15 6 (0.28%) GIS
16 3 (0.14%) Big Data
16 3 (0.14%) EDRMS
16 3 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 56 (2.66%) Jenkins
2 48 (2.28%) JIRA
3 43 (2.04%) Git
4 20 (0.95%) GitLab
5 10 (0.47%) Trac
6 7 (0.33%) Katalon Studio
7 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.19%) Charles Proxy
8 4 (0.19%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.095%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.095%) Browser DevTools
10 2 (0.095%) git-flow
10 2 (0.095%) Grunt
10 2 (0.095%) Hudson
10 2 (0.095%) webpack
11 1 (0.047%) Selenium
11 1 (0.047%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.047%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 588 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 232 (11.02%) Finance
3 209 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (3.99%) Telecoms
5 57 (2.71%) Public Sector
6 48 (2.28%) Law
6 48 (2.28%) Marketing
7 45 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
8 44 (2.09%) Banking
8 44 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 39 (1.85%) Aerospace
10 37 (1.76%) Manufacturing
11 28 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 27 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
13 23 (1.09%) Legal
13 23 (1.09%) Retail
14 17 (0.81%) Games
15 12 (0.57%) Electronics
16 10 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
17 9 (0.43%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 393 (18.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 295 (14.01%) Senior
3 264 (12.54%) IT Support
4 257 (12.20%) Analyst
5 255 (12.11%) Support Engineer
6 224 (10.64%) IT Engineer
7 147 (6.98%) Network Engineer
8 141 (6.70%) Lead
9 118 (5.60%) IT Support Engineer
10 115 (5.46%) Architect
11 107 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 105 (4.99%) 2nd Line Support
13 100 (4.75%) IT Technician
14 90 (4.27%) Support Analyst
15 89 (4.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 86 (4.08%) 3rd Line Support
17 84 (3.99%) Support Technician
18 77 (3.66%) Administrator
19 75 (3.56%) IT Analyst
20 71 (3.37%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (3.32%) .NET
2 58 (2.75%) HTML
3 55 (2.61%) REST
4 51 (2.42%) RabbitMQ
5 50 (2.37%) CSS
6 46 (2.18%) Spring Boot
7 39 (1.85%) ARM Templates
8 36 (1.71%) LDAP
8 36 (1.71%) React
9 34 (1.61%) SAML
9 34 (1.61%) YAML
10 33 (1.57%) 802.1X
11 30 (1.42%) ASP.NET
12 28 (1.33%) jQuery
13 24 (1.14%) Vue
14 23 (1.09%) ASP.NET MVC
14 23 (1.09%) RESTful
15 22 (1.04%) AngularJS
16 21 (1.00%) OAuth
17 20 (0.95%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 200 (9.50%) Data Centre
2 131 (6.22%) Self-Motivation
3 116 (5.51%) Driving Licence
4 114 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 111 (5.27%) PKI
6 80 (3.80%) Replication
7 78 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
8 59 (2.80%) Onboarding
9 55 (2.61%) Management Information System
10 42 (1.99%) Clustering
11 40 (1.90%) Client/Server
12 33 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (1.42%) Cyberattack
14 29 (1.38%) Security Posture
15 25 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
16 24 (1.14%) IoT
17 18 (0.85%) Eurex
18 17 (0.81%) CCTV
18 17 (0.81%) Smartphone
19 13 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1,375 (65.29%) Windows
2 852 (40.46%) Windows Server
3 475 (22.55%) Linux
4 284 (13.49%) Windows 10
5 229 (10.87%) Windows Server 2016
6 200 (9.50%) Windows Server 2019
7 170 (8.07%) Windows Server 2012
8 115 (5.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 72 (3.42%) Windows Server 2008
10 67 (3.18%) Unix
11 66 (3.13%) Android
11 66 (3.13%) Apple iOS
12 56 (2.66%) Mac OS
13 45 (2.14%) CentOS
14 43 (2.04%) Ubuntu
15 38 (1.80%) Windows 7
16 34 (1.61%) VMS
17 27 (1.28%) Windows 8
18 24 (1.14%) Mac OS X
19 20 (0.95%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (22.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 447 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
3 427 (20.28%) ITIL
4 294 (13.96%) Customer Service
5 265 (12.58%) Agile
6 256 (12.16%) DevOps
7 233 (11.06%) Cybersecurity
8 209 (9.92%) Disaster Recovery
9 178 (8.45%) Migration
10 157 (7.45%) Project Management
11 118 (5.60%) Collaborative Working
12 113 (5.37%) Load Balancing
13 109 (5.18%) CI/CD
14 107 (5.08%) Mentoring
15 106 (5.03%) Infrastructure as Code
16 103 (4.89%) Information Security
17 101 (4.80%) Actionable Insight
18 97 (4.61%) Service Management
19 93 (4.42%) Incident Management
19 93 (4.42%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 457 (21.70%) PowerShell
2 218 (10.35%) Python
3 194 (9.21%) SQL
4 130 (6.17%) Bash
5 92 (4.37%) Java
6 77 (3.66%) C#
7 71 (3.37%) JavaScript
8 57 (2.71%) Perl
9 36 (1.71%) T-SQL
10 35 (1.66%) VBScript
11 25 (1.19%) Ruby
11 25 (1.19%) VB
12 23 (1.09%) Bicep
13 19 (0.90%) XAML
14 15 (0.71%) C++
14 15 (0.71%) PHP
15 12 (0.57%) C
16 10 (0.47%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.43%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 274 (13.01%) Degree
2 272 (12.92%) Security Cleared
3 178 (8.45%) SC Cleared
4 145 (6.89%) Cisco Certification
5 130 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 117 (5.56%) CCNA
6 117 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 109 (5.18%) Azure Certification
8 73 (3.47%) AWS Certification
9 64 (3.04%) CCNP
10 55 (2.61%) MCSE
11 54 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
12 50 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 45 (2.14%) DBS Check
14 37 (1.76%) MCSA
15 35 (1.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 34 (1.61%) A+ Certification
17 31 (1.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 30 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
19 29 (1.38%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (6.08%) SLA
2 75 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (2.47%) Cyber Essentials
4 33 (1.57%) GDPR
5 18 (0.85%) NIST
6 17 (0.81%) Data Quality
7 16 (0.76%) COBIT
8 15 (0.71%) PCI DSS
9 14 (0.66%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.43%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.38%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.38%) NCSC
11 8 (0.38%) QA
12 7 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.33%) PMO
13 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.14%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.14%) JSP 440
15 1 (0.047%) GxP
15 1 (0.047%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 1,302 (61.82%) Active Directory
2 477 (22.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 408 (19.37%) Hyper-V
4 115 (5.46%) VMware ESXi
5 104 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
6 100 (4.75%) Docker
7 83 (3.94%) vSphere
8 67 (3.18%) Virtual Servers
9 56 (2.66%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (1.14%) Terminal Services
11 20 (0.95%) NFS
12 19 (0.90%) Firmware
13 18 (0.85%) pfSense
14 17 (0.81%) XenApp
15 13 (0.62%) XenDesktop
16 10 (0.47%) VMware NSX
17 9 (0.43%) DFS Replication
18 8 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
18 8 (0.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 8 (0.38%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 318 (15.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 178 (8.45%) SCCM
3 141 (6.70%) Ansible
4 128 (6.08%) Terraform
5 119 (5.65%) WSUS
6 117 (5.56%) Kubernetes
7 86 (4.08%) SCOM
8 81 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 75 (3.56%) Puppet
10 57 (2.71%) vCenter Server
11 54 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
12 34 (1.61%) Grafana
13 25 (1.19%) ZABBIX
14 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
15 23 (1.09%) FortiGate
16 22 (1.04%) CASB
16 22 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
16 22 (1.04%) Prometheus
17 21 (1.00%) NetBackup
18 17 (0.81%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1,132 (53.75%) Microsoft
2 685 (32.53%) VMware
3 322 (15.29%) Cisco
4 194 (9.21%) Veeam
5 160 (7.60%) Citrix
6 122 (5.79%) Oracle
7 107 (5.08%) Dell
8 102 (4.84%) HP
9 101 (4.80%) Red Hat
10 89 (4.23%) Apple
11 83 (3.94%) Juniper
11 83 (3.94%) Meraki
12 80 (3.80%) Fortinet
13 71 (3.37%) SolarWinds
14 60 (2.85%) Google
15 54 (2.56%) Palo Alto
16 46 (2.18%) Sparx
17 43 (2.04%) Bloomberg
17 43 (2.04%) Sophos
18 37 (1.76%) ServiceNow