Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

dns

325 live US technical postings name dns in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 325 postings naming dns that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer49.8%
  2. 2Software Engineer36.6%
  3. 3Security Engineer12%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where dns is named
n = 199
10th
$127k
25th
$156k
Median
$180k
75th
$206k
90th
$228k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote12.6%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA10.8%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA10.8%
  4. 4New York, NY6.5%
  5. 5Washington, DC5.8%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.7%
  7. 7Austin, TX3.4%
  8. 8Chicago, IL3.4%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.