DNS Contracts in Scotland

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 130 135
Rank change year-on-year +40 +5 -30
Contract jobs citing DNS 41 34 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.86% 1.19% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.53% 9.66% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 21
10th Percentile £200 £302 £170
25th Percentile £275 £415 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £456 £410
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% +11.28% -3.53%
75th Percentile £629 £538 £500
90th Percentile £700 £538 £538
UK median daily rate £480 £525 £498
% change year-on-year -8.67% +5.53% +13.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £31.00
75th Percentile - - £42.39
90th Percentile - - £46.68
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.27% +48.94% +7.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

DNS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 248 352 305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.24% 12.33% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 223 194
10th Percentile £187 £160 £179
25th Percentile £363 £356 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +7.14%
75th Percentile £626 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 16
10th Percentile £15.43 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.69 - £41.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.23% -77.62% -26.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £53.89
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.75 £56.63
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
% change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Scotland

DNS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for DNS in Scotland

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Scotland

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +2 19 £496 +10.71% 2
Edinburgh +44 9 £240 -36.34% 11
Renfrewshire +4 9 £525 -0.47%
South Lanarkshire - 4 £700 -
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (12.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (9.76%) IIS
3 3 (7.32%) Confluence
3 3 (7.32%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.88%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (2.44%) Apache
5 1 (2.44%) EPiServer
5 1 (2.44%) OpenStack
5 1 (2.44%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) Azure
2 10 (24.39%) Entra ID
3 8 (19.51%) IaaS
4 5 (12.20%) AWS
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.88%) Catchpoint
5 2 (4.88%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.44%) Akamai
6 1 (2.44%) GCP
6 1 (2.44%) Rubrik
6 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (58.54%) DHCP
2 11 (26.83%) VPN
3 10 (24.39%) Firewall
4 9 (21.95%) TCP/IP
5 5 (12.20%) SMTP
6 3 (7.32%) VLAN
7 2 (4.88%) IPv6
7 2 (4.88%) Network Security
7 2 (4.88%) SAN
7 2 (4.88%) SSL
7 2 (4.88%) VSAN
8 1 (2.44%) BIG-IP
8 1 (2.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (2.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 1 (2.44%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) JIRA
2 3 (7.32%) Git
2 3 (7.32%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (19.51%) Banking
3 7 (17.07%) Finance
4 6 (14.63%) Investment Banking
5 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (14.63%) Hardware Engineer
1 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (9.76%) Developer
3 3 (7.32%) Active Directory Engineer
3 3 (7.32%) PowerShell Developer
3 3 (7.32%) Server Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 2 (4.88%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) Python Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 2 (4.88%) SharePoint Developer
4 2 (4.88%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) LDAP
2 3 (7.32%) .NET
3 2 (4.88%) .NET Remoting
3 2 (4.88%) JSON
3 2 (4.88%) REST
3 2 (4.88%) XML
4 1 (2.44%) Middleware
4 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) PKI
2 7 (17.07%) Clustering
3 5 (12.20%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
4 4 (9.76%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (4.88%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (4.88%) iPad
6 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
6 2 (4.88%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.44%) CMDB
7 1 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (51.22%) Windows
2 15 (36.59%) Windows Server
3 9 (21.95%) Linux
4 6 (14.63%) Windows 10
5 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (12.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (7.32%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.88%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.44%) Unix
8 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) Agile
2 10 (24.39%) High Availability
3 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (17.07%) Project Delivery
5 6 (14.63%) Customer Service
6 5 (12.20%) Customer Requirements
6 5 (12.20%) Data Protection
6 5 (12.20%) DevOps
6 5 (12.20%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (12.20%) Investment Management
6 5 (12.20%) Wealth Management
7 4 (9.76%) ITIL
7 4 (9.76%) Open Source
8 3 (7.32%) Break/Fix
8 3 (7.32%) Migration
8 3 (7.32%) Service Delivery
9 2 (4.88%) Compliance Management
9 2 (4.88%) Network Monitoring
9 2 (4.88%) Network Virtualisation
9 2 (4.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (46.34%) PowerShell
2 10 (24.39%) Python
3 7 (17.07%) Perl
4 1 (2.44%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 14 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 11 (26.83%) DV Cleared
4 3 (7.32%) A+ Certification
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.88%) CCIE
5 2 (4.88%) CCNP
5 2 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.88%) Degree
6 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (68.29%) Active Directory
2 11 (26.83%) VMware ESXi
3 7 (17.07%) Hyper-V
4 5 (12.20%) BitLocker
4 5 (12.20%) Microsoft App-V
4 5 (12.20%) Terminal Services
5 4 (9.76%) Firmware
5 4 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (7.32%) vSphere
7 2 (4.88%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (4.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) SCCM
1 7 (17.07%) vCenter Server
2 6 (14.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (12.20%) vMotion
4 2 (4.88%) Ansible
4 2 (4.88%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (4.88%) WSUS
5 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.44%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.44%) Puppet
5 1 (2.44%) Terraform
5 1 (2.44%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (43.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (34.15%) VMware
3 7 (17.07%) Citrix
4 5 (12.20%) Infoblox
5 4 (9.76%) Cisco
6 3 (7.32%) HP
7 2 (4.88%) AppNeta
7 2 (4.88%) Arista
7 2 (4.88%) McAfee
7 2 (4.88%) Palo Alto
7 2 (4.88%) Symantec
7 2 (4.88%) Tufin
7 2 (4.88%) Veritas
8 1 (2.44%) CA
8 1 (2.44%) EMC
8 1 (2.44%) F5
8 1 (2.44%) NetApp