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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 40 39
Rank change year-on-year -28 -1 +32
Contract jobs citing DNS 12 29 34
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.62% 4.15% 4.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% 32.58% 30.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 20
10th Percentile £381 £261 £395
25th Percentile £410 £400 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £438 £541
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -19.09% +3.00%
75th Percentile £491 £500 £586
90th Percentile £538 £590 £629
Scotland median daily rate £454 £240 £532
% change year-on-year +89.17% -54.84% +6.30%

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 72 89 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.74% 12.73% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 44 69
10th Percentile £202 £233 £323
25th Percentile £362 £359 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £453 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% -13.81% +44.83%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £626
90th Percentile £580 £619 £678
Scotland median daily rate £438 £400 £478
% change year-on-year +9.38% -16.23% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £14.98
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +189.47% +7.22% -59.03%
75th Percentile £57.50 £19.50 -
90th Percentile - - £18.45
Scotland median hourly rate £17.30 £16.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.85% -70.00% +183.87%

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 18 October 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 & 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Apigee
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) IaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) TCP/IP
2 7 (58.33%) HTTP
3 6 (50.00%) DHCP
4 4 (33.33%) SSL
5 3 (25.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
1 5 (41.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Java Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Python Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) REST
1 8 (66.67%) SOAP
2 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 3 (25.00%) RESTful
4 1 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (16.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (8.33%) STIX
4 1 (8.33%) TAXII
4 1 (8.33%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
2 7 (58.33%) Unix
3 1 (8.33%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (41.67%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (25.00%) Investment Management
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (25.00%) SIEM
4 3 (25.00%) SOAR
4 3 (25.00%) Wealth Management
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) API Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Content Development
5 2 (16.67%) Low Latency
5 2 (16.67%) Security Operations
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) Bash
3 5 (41.67%) Java
4 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (33.33%) Perl
5 3 (25.00%) Go
5 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (25.00%) Search Processing Language
6 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (8.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) F5
1 5 (41.67%) Infoblox
2 4 (33.33%) MuleSoft
3 3 (25.00%) ArcSight
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) Splunk
3 3 (25.00%) VMware