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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 54 53
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +17
Contract jobs citing DNS 9 7 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.23% 1.04% 2.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.06% 12.28% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 16
10th Percentile £412 £261 £419
25th Percentile £425 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £438 £528
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -17.18% +14.22%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £563
90th Percentile - £590 £611
Scotland median daily rate £454 £240 £530
% change year-on-year +89.17% -54.72% +6.00%

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 64 57 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.74% 8.43% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 40 64
10th Percentile £235 £296 £316
25th Percentile £370 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -1.60% +31.15%
75th Percentile £525 £578 £613
90th Percentile £593 £619 £668
Scotland median daily rate £440 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +3.53% -10.53% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £15.90
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +189.47% +7.22% -53.37%
75th Percentile £57.50 £19.50 £33.33
90th Percentile - - £52.14
Scotland median hourly rate £17.30 £18.27 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.31% -66.78% +50.44%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for DNS 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 17 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Apigee
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) IaaS
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) TCP/IP
2 7 (77.78%) HTTP
3 6 (66.67%) DHCP
4 4 (44.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Java Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) IT Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (88.89%) REST
1 8 (88.89%) SOAP
2 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
3 3 (33.33%) RESTful
4 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (22.22%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 1 (11.11%) STIX
3 1 (11.11%) TAXII
3 1 (11.11%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Unix
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 3 (33.33%) Investment Management
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 3 (33.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (33.33%) SIEM
4 3 (33.33%) SOAR
4 3 (33.33%) Wealth Management
5 2 (22.22%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Content Development
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Low Latency
5 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
5 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
6 1 (11.11%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) Bash
3 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 4 (44.44%) Perl
4 3 (33.33%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
6 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) F5
1 5 (55.56%) Infoblox
2 4 (44.44%) MuleSoft
3 3 (33.33%) ArcSight
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) Splunk