DNS Contracts in Edinburgh

Domain Name System (DNS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 61 105
Rank change year-on-year -1 +44 +12
Contract jobs citing DNS 5 11 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 1.35% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.06% 12.94% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 2
10th Percentile £262 £200 £284
25th Percentile £294 £202 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £226 £377
Median % change year-on-year +87.85% -39.99% -8.05%
75th Percentile £555 £266 £431
90th Percentile £586 £450 £460
Scotland median daily rate £450 £496 £453
% change year-on-year -9.27% +9.61% +9.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

DNS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 85 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.92% 10.43% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 77
10th Percentile £176 £178 £163
25th Percentile £245 £240 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +4.40%
75th Percentile £544 £646 £525
90th Percentile £595 £750 £575
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 2
10th Percentile - £14.33 £24.08
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £28.32
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £36.63
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% -50.12% -22.88%
75th Percentile £23.53 £52.06 £46.19
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £51.18
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
% change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) PaaS
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
2 1 (20.00%) IaaS
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Route 53
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) OCP
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kibana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Aruba
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto