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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 53 87
Rank change year-on-year -11 +34 +25
Contract jobs citing DNS 3 21 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.46% 2.44% 1.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.29% 19.63% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 14 10
10th Percentile £255 - £296
25th Percentile £276 £200 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £239 £508
Median % change year-on-year +36.13% -52.96% +0.79%
75th Percentile £438 £240 £550
90th Percentile £498 £266 £580
Scotland median daily rate £450 £240 £500
% change year-on-year +87.50% -52.00% -

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 70 107 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.74% 12.46% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 62 90
10th Percentile £159 £178 £163
25th Percentile £243 £212 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £388 £483
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -19.81% -3.35%
75th Percentile £513 £581 £550
90th Percentile £534 £634 £613
Scotland median daily rate £425 £420 £465
% change year-on-year +1.19% -9.68% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 1
10th Percentile - £12.50 -
25th Percentile - £14.88 -
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.27 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% -14.06% -55.24%
75th Percentile £23.00 £43.38 -
90th Percentile £24.66 £60.75 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.65 £18.27 £14.83
% change year-on-year +7.55% +23.20% -70.89%

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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 2 July 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 1 (33.33%) PaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Route 53
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (33.33%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Break/Fix
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) A+ Certification
1 1 (33.33%) OCP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft