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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 78 59
Rank change year-on-year +17 -19 +9
Contract jobs citing DNS 14 6 20
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.92% 0.75% 2.23%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.90% 10.34% 19.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 12
10th Percentile £430 £411 £211
25th Percentile £507 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £496
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -9.27% +10.22%
75th Percentile £643 £475 £575
90th Percentile £650 - £682
Scotland median daily rate £550 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +13.51%

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 67 58 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 9.17% 7.30% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 52 70
10th Percentile £192 £215 £200
25th Percentile £359 £362 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £423 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.25% -19.43% +17.19%
75th Percentile £625 £476 £623
90th Percentile £675 £550 £689
Scotland median daily rate £450 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +13.51%

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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 26 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Glasgow

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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 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DHCP
1 6 (42.86%) LAN
1 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
1 6 (42.86%) WAN
2 2 (14.29%) HTTPS
2 2 (14.29%) SSH
2 2 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MariaDB
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Legal
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
1 6 (42.86%) SOC Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Lead
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Server Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Cyberattack
1 6 (42.86%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Windows
2 8 (57.14%) Linux
3 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 6 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (42.86%) Incident Response
2 6 (42.86%) Security Operations
2 6 (42.86%) SIEM
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) Information Security
6 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 1 (7.14%) Open Source
6 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) Bash
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) CompTIA CySA+
1 6 (42.86%) CompTIA Security+
1 6 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
1 6 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) vSphere
3 2 (14.29%) Ceph
3 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 2 (14.29%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 6 (42.86%) Dell
2 6 (42.86%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Equitrac
3 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.14%) Zerto