DNS Contracts in Glasgow

Domain Name System (DNS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 60 56
Rank change year-on-year -17 -4 +16
Contract jobs citing DNS 6 6 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.79% 0.88% 2.35%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.52% 12.24% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 15
10th Percentile £423 £408 £415
25th Percentile £433 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £444 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.55% -15.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £481 £549
90th Percentile - £493 £564
Scotland median daily rate £458 £240 £518
% change year-on-year +90.63% -53.62% +3.50%

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 63 49 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 8.34% 7.18% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 30 67
10th Percentile £313 £198 £336
25th Percentile £373 £201 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £574
90th Percentile £580 £578 £635
Scotland median daily rate £448 £400 £490
% change year-on-year +11.88% -18.37% +12.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £16.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.00 £18.33
Median % change year-on-year +189.47% +3.68% -66.06%
75th Percentile £57.50 £19.50 £50.49
90th Percentile - - £59.29
Scotland median hourly rate £17.30 £18.27 £47.73
% change year-on-year -5.31% -61.72% -11.61%

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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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DNS in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for DNS in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DNS in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Glasgow

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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 (66.67%) Apigee
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DHCP
2 5 (83.33%) TCP/IP
3 4 (66.67%) HTTP
3 4 (66.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Java Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) REST
1 5 (83.33%) SOAP
2 4 (66.67%) AngularJS
3 3 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (50.00%) Investment Management
3 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (50.00%) Wealth Management
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Low Latency
4 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) API Development
5 1 (16.67%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Fintech
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) Perl
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) F5
1 5 (83.33%) Infoblox
2 4 (66.67%) MuleSoft
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft