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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 76 64
Rank change year-on-year -4 -12 -8
Contract jobs citing DNS 12 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.15% 0.89% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.43% 10.77% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
10th Percentile £438 £423 £405
25th Percentile £575 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £465 £438
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +6.29% -7.89%
75th Percentile £663 £538 £459
90th Percentile £688 - £469
Scotland median daily rate £550 £450 £240
% change year-on-year +22.22% +87.50% -52.71%

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 105 65 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 10.09% 8.23% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 56 26
10th Percentile £156 £313 £188
25th Percentile £268 £378 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £450 £394
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +14.29% -21.25%
75th Percentile £526 £525 £500
90th Percentile £625 £580 £591
Scotland median daily rate £400 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.18 £52.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £16.86 £55.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.35% +189.47% +0.37%
75th Percentile £18.55 £57.50 £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.37 £17.30 £18.00
% change year-on-year -5.36% -3.89% -48.57%

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

DNS
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

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Glasgow over the 6 months to 4 August 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

DNS
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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) Akamai
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon MSK
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (25.00%) Cloudflare
3 3 (25.00%) Kong
3 3 (25.00%) Serverless
4 2 (16.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DHCP
2 4 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 4 (33.33%) SSH
2 4 (33.33%) SSL
3 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 3 (25.00%) HTTP
3 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) WAN
4 2 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) MariaDB
2 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (25.00%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (25.00%) Legal
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) gRPC
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
1 3 (25.00%) OAuth
1 3 (25.00%) OAuth2
1 3 (25.00%) OpenID
1 3 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (25.00%) React
1 3 (25.00%) SAML
1 3 (25.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 5 (41.67%) Windows
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 5 (41.67%) Project Delivery
1 5 (41.67%) Runbook
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 3 (25.00%) GitOps
3 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 3 (25.00%) Low Latency
3 3 (25.00%) Observability
3 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) SIEM
3 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Change Control
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Bash
2 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (41.67%) Active Directory
4 4 (33.33%) Ceph
4 4 (33.33%) Squid
5 3 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Argo
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
3 2 (16.67%) SCCM
3 2 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) VMware
2 5 (41.67%) Splunk
3 3 (25.00%) Dell
3 3 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (25.00%) ForgeRock
4 2 (16.67%) Citrix
4 2 (16.67%) CyberArk
4 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds