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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 71 58
Rank change year-on-year -9 -13 -16
Contract jobs citing DNS 18 11 8
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.50% 1.47% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.86% 16.42% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 5
10th Percentile £255 £381 £261
25th Percentile £375 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £454 £438
Median % change year-on-year -6.39% +3.77% -19.09%
75th Percentile £497 £506 £500
90th Percentile £683 £538 £590
Scotland median daily rate £450 £454 £240
% change year-on-year -0.88% +89.17% -54.72%

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 140 67 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.69% 8.95% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 60 43
10th Percentile £156 £340 £214
25th Percentile £300 £381 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £448 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% +2.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £507 £528 £550
90th Percentile £628 £583 £619
Scotland median daily rate £363 £448 £400
% change year-on-year -18.99% +11.88% -15.79%
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% +7.22%
75th Percentile £18.55 £57.50 £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £17.30 £16.50
% change year-on-year -2.54% +4.85% -70.00%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Glasgow over the 6 months to 3 October 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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon MSK
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) Akamai
3 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (27.78%) Cloudflare
3 5 (27.78%) Kong
3 5 (27.78%) Serverless
4 4 (22.22%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (22.22%) GCP
5 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (11.11%) Rubrik
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (33.33%) DHCP
2 5 (27.78%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) HTTP
3 4 (22.22%) HTTPS
3 4 (22.22%) SSH
3 4 (22.22%) SSL
4 2 (11.11%) Kerberos
4 2 (11.11%) Network Security
4 2 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (5.56%) BGP
5 1 (5.56%) IPv4
5 1 (5.56%) IPv6
5 1 (5.56%) LAN
5 1 (5.56%) OSPF
5 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
5 1 (5.56%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.56%) VLAN
5 1 (5.56%) WAN
5 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.11%) MariaDB
2 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) gRPC
1 5 (27.78%) Kafka
1 5 (27.78%) OAuth
1 5 (27.78%) OAuth2
1 5 (27.78%) OpenID
1 5 (27.78%) OpenTelemetry
1 5 (27.78%) React
1 5 (27.78%) WebSockets
2 4 (22.22%) SAML
3 1 (5.56%) JSON
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (22.22%) Algorithms
2 4 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 4 (22.22%) PKI
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Clustering
3 2 (11.11%) Replication
4 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Linux
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Runbook
2 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) Observability
3 6 (33.33%) SIEM
4 5 (27.78%) GitOps
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 5 (27.78%) Low Latency
4 5 (27.78%) Project Delivery
5 4 (22.22%) Agile
5 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 4 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 4 (22.22%) ITSM
5 4 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Service Management
7 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Bash
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 5 (27.78%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) TypeScript
3 2 (11.11%) Go
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (22.22%) Degree
5 2 (11.11%) MCSA
5 2 (11.11%) MCSE
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.56%) LFCS
6 1 (5.56%) RHCE
6 1 (5.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (44.44%) Hyper-V
3 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
4 4 (22.22%) vSphere
5 3 (16.67%) Ceph
6 2 (11.11%) DFS Replication
6 2 (11.11%) Squid
6 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (5.56%) Docker
7 1 (5.56%) UAG
7 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
2 5 (27.78%) Ansible
2 5 (27.78%) Argo
3 4 (22.22%) SCCM
4 2 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
4 2 (11.11%) Perfmon
4 2 (11.11%) SCOM
4 2 (11.11%) WSUS
5 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) VMware
2 7 (38.89%) Splunk
3 5 (27.78%) Dynatrace
4 4 (22.22%) Citrix
4 4 (22.22%) ForgeRock
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.11%) Commvault
5 2 (11.11%) CyberArk
5 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 2 (11.11%) Veeam
6 1 (5.56%) Red Hat