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 citing DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 2 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	81	65	36
Rank change year-on-year	-16	-29	+2
Contract jobs citing DNS	21	12	36
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow	1.75%	1.60%	5.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	14.29%	15.38%	37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted	8	12	5
10^th Percentile	£255	£381	£261
25^th Percentile	£375	£410	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	£454	£438
Median % change year-on-year	-6.39%	+3.77%	-22.57%
75^th Percentile	£497	£491	£500
90^th Percentile	£683	£538	£590
Scotland median daily rate	£450	£454	£413
% change year-on-year	-0.88%	+10.06%	-26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	£15.34	-	-
25^th Percentile	£16.01	-	-
Median hourly rate	£17.12	-	-
75^th Percentile	£18.22	-	-
90^th Percentile	£18.89	-	-
Scotland median hourly rate	£17.12	-	-

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 citing communications or computer networking skills in Glasgow.

	6 months to 2 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills	147	78	96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow	12.22%	10.39%	13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted	60	68	45
10^th Percentile	£200	£196	£280
25^th Percentile	£302	£360	£360
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£425	£425	£450
Median % change year-on-year	-	-5.56%	-18.18%
75^th Percentile	£529	£500	£538
90^th Percentile	£650	£590	£619
Scotland median daily rate	£363	£425	£425
% change year-on-year	-14.71%	-	-15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	1	1
10^th Percentile	£14.98	-	-
25^th Percentile	£15.11	£52.50	£18.50
Median hourly rate	£16.86	£55.00	£19.00
Median % change year-on-year	-69.35%	+189.47%	+7.22%
75^th Percentile	£18.74	£57.50	£19.50
90^th Percentile	£19.09	-	-
Scotland median hourly rate	£16.86	£65.00	£19.00
% change year-on-year	-74.06%	+242.11%	-65.45%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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 2 November 2026.

DNS Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

DNS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 2 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing DNS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region citing DNS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Security Cleared	52.4%	11
1	VMware	52.4%	11
3	Active Directory	47.6%	10
3	AWS	47.6%	10
3	SC Cleared	47.6%	10
6	DHCP	42.9%	9
6	Runbook	42.9%	9
6	VMware Infrastructure	42.9%	9
6	Windows	42.9%	9
10	Hyper-V	38.1%	8
10	Platform Engineering	38.1%	8
10	PowerShell	38.1%	8
13	Bash	33.3%	7
13	DevOps	33.3%	7
13	ITSM	33.3%	7
13	Kubernetes	33.3%	7
13	Microsoft	33.3%	7
13	PostgreSQL	33.3%	7
13	SIEM	33.3%	7
13	Splunk	33.3%	7
21	Amazon EKS	28.6%	6
21	Amazon MSK	28.6%	6
21	Azure	28.6%	6
21	CI/CD	28.6%	6
21	DV Cleared	28.6%	6
21	Infrastructure Monitoring	28.6%	6
21	Linux	28.6%	6
21	Observability	28.6%	6
21	SCCM	28.6%	6
30	Agile	23.8%	5

DNS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	DHCP	42.9%	9
2	Firewall	23.8%	5
2	HTTP	23.8%	5
4	HTTPS	19.0%	4
4	SSH	19.0%	4
4	SSL	19.0%	4
4	VPN	19.0%	4
8	LAN	14.3%	3
8	VLAN	14.3%	3
8	WAN	14.3%	3
11	Kerberos	9.5%	2
11	Network Security	9.5%	2
11	Wi-Fi	9.5%	2
14	BGP	4.8%	1
14	IPv4	4.8%	1
14	IPv6	4.8%	1
14	OSPF	4.8%	1
14	SD-WAN	4.8%	1
14	Software-Defined Networking	4.8%	1
14	TCP/IP	4.8%	1