DNS Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Domain Name System (DNS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 45 49
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing DNS 17 34 31
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.40% 4.13% 3.32%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.48% 38.20% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 19
10th Percentile £381 £411 £378
25th Percentile £445 £418 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £592 £450 £555
Median % change year-on-year +31.44% -18.92% +23.88%
75th Percentile £633 £475 £694
90th Percentile £650 - £700
Scotland median daily rate £518 £450 £618
% change year-on-year +15.17% -27.13% +37.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 83 89 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.72% 10.81% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 52 84
10th Percentile £200 £213 £207
25th Percentile £313 £313 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £423 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -23.09% +22.77%
75th Percentile £625 £497 £627
90th Percentile £675 £550 £700
Scotland median daily rate £425 £430 £525
% change year-on-year -1.16% -18.10% +13.51%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

DNS job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DNS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Glasgow over the 6 months to 29 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Glasgow

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DNS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DNS

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) TCP/IP
2 6 (35.29%) DHCP
2 6 (35.29%) LAN
2 6 (35.29%) WAN
3 3 (17.65%) VSAN
4 2 (11.76%) HTTPS
4 2 (11.76%) SSH
4 2 (11.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MariaDB
1 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.88%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 5 (29.41%) Legal
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
1 6 (35.29%) SOC Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cyberattack
1 6 (35.29%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) Linux
3 6 (35.29%) Windows Server
3 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Computer Science
2 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
2 6 (35.29%) Security Operations
2 6 (35.29%) SIEM
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) API Integration
5 2 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (5.88%) Agile
6 1 (5.88%) DevOps
6 1 (5.88%) Information Security
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 1 (5.88%) Open Source
6 1 (5.88%) SDLC
6 1 (5.88%) Software Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) PowerShell
2 5 (29.41%) Bash
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) Go
4 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) CompTIA CySA+
1 6 (35.29%) CompTIA Security+
1 6 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
1 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (52.94%) vSphere
3 6 (35.29%) Active Directory
4 2 (11.76%) Ceph
4 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 2 (11.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) VMware
2 6 (35.29%) Dell
2 6 (35.29%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) Equitrac
3 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.88%) Zerto