DNS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring DNS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 105 75
Rank change year-on-year -1 -30 -13
Contract jobs citing DNS 37 15 41
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.56% 0.95% 2.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.09% 9.87% 19.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 25
10th Percentile £340 - £200
25th Percentile £413 £381 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £240
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +89.17% -54.72%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £444
90th Percentile £665 £538 £500
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £494
% change year-on-year - +1.27% -1.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 306 152 210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 12.88% 9.58% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 110 131
10th Percentile £150 £210 £169
25th Percentile £205 £373 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £538
90th Percentile £625 £580 £619
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 7
10th Percentile £13.97 - £12.00
25th Percentile £14.13 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £16.86 £17.30 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +4.85% -70.00%
75th Percentile £19.33 £47.45 £25.13
90th Percentile £25.75 £66.25 £48.45
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £41.48 £50.00
% change year-on-year -21.64% -17.05% -11.49%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DNS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

DNS job vacancy trend in Scotland

DNS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DNS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DNS

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Scotland

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DNS

DNS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -18 18 £425 -6.39% 22
Edinburgh +5 12 £550 - 7
South Lanarkshire - 3 - -
Aberdeen - 2 £425 - 3
Renfrewshire - 2 £425 -
West Lothian - 1 - -
Highlands - 1 £500 -
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (21.62%) Confluence
2 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.41%) Apache
3 2 (5.41%) IIS
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) Azure
2 13 (35.14%) AWS
3 6 (16.22%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (16.22%) Amazon MSK
3 6 (16.22%) Entra ID
4 5 (13.51%) Akamai
4 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (13.51%) Cloudflare
4 5 (13.51%) GCP
4 5 (13.51%) Kong
4 5 (13.51%) Serverless
5 4 (10.81%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (8.11%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (5.41%) OneDrive
7 2 (5.41%) Rubrik
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (32.43%) DHCP
2 9 (24.32%) Firewall
3 5 (13.51%) HTTP
3 5 (13.51%) SSL
3 5 (13.51%) VPN
4 4 (10.81%) HTTPS
4 4 (10.81%) Kerberos
4 4 (10.81%) Network Security
4 4 (10.81%) SSH
5 3 (8.11%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.41%) BGP
6 2 (5.41%) IPv4
6 2 (5.41%) IPv6
6 2 (5.41%) LAN
6 2 (5.41%) OSPF
6 2 (5.41%) SD-WAN
6 2 (5.41%) VLAN
6 2 (5.41%) WAN
6 2 (5.41%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (5.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.62%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.41%) MariaDB
3 2 (5.41%) SQLPlus
4 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.70%) MySQL
4 1 (2.70%) Power Query
4 1 (2.70%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (24.32%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
2 4 (10.81%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.51%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Italian Language
4 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Platform Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Senior
3 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Architect
6 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) IT Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) IT Support
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.62%) OAuth
2 7 (18.92%) OpenID
2 7 (18.92%) SAML
3 5 (13.51%) gRPC
3 5 (13.51%) JSON
3 5 (13.51%) Kafka
3 5 (13.51%) OAuth2
3 5 (13.51%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (13.51%) React
3 5 (13.51%) Terraform
3 5 (13.51%) WebSockets
4 3 (8.11%) YAML
5 2 (5.41%) LDAP
5 2 (5.41%) REST
6 1 (2.70%) ADO
6 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (24.32%) PKI
2 6 (16.22%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.81%) Algorithms
3 4 (10.81%) Data Structures
3 4 (10.81%) Replication
4 3 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.41%) Clustering
5 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.70%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Windows
2 8 (21.62%) Linux
3 7 (18.92%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.41%) Android
4 2 (5.41%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.41%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Runbook
2 15 (40.54%) DevOps
3 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
4 10 (27.03%) Agile
5 9 (24.32%) ITSM
5 9 (24.32%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 8 (21.62%) Observability
7 7 (18.92%) SIEM
8 6 (16.22%) AI
8 6 (16.22%) Computer Science
8 6 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (16.22%) GitOps
8 6 (16.22%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (16.22%) Project Delivery
8 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (13.51%) Incident Response
9 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (13.51%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 18 (48.65%) PowerShell
2 10 (27.03%) Bash
3 9 (24.32%) Python
4 5 (13.51%) SQL
4 5 (13.51%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.11%) Bicep
6 2 (5.41%) Go
6 2 (5.41%) Java
7 1 (2.70%) ActionScript
7 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 9 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 7 (18.92%) DV Cleared
4 6 (16.22%) Degree
5 4 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.41%) CBAP
6 2 (5.41%) MCSA
6 2 (5.41%) MCSE
6 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.70%) LFCS
7 1 (2.70%) RHCE
7 1 (2.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (5.41%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (37.84%) Active Directory
2 12 (32.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (21.62%) Hyper-V
4 6 (16.22%) vSphere
5 3 (8.11%) Ceph
5 3 (8.11%) Docker
5 3 (8.11%) UAG
5 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (5.41%) DFS Replication
6 2 (5.41%) Squid
6 2 (5.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (24.32%) Ansible
1 9 (24.32%) Kubernetes
2 6 (16.22%) Argo
3 4 (10.81%) SCCM
4 3 (8.11%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.41%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (5.41%) NetBackup
5 2 (5.41%) Perfmon
5 2 (5.41%) SCOM
5 2 (5.41%) WSUS
6 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.70%) Grafana
6 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
1 13 (35.14%) VMware
2 7 (18.92%) Splunk
3 6 (16.22%) Citrix
4 5 (13.51%) Dynatrace
5 4 (10.81%) ForgeRock
6 3 (8.11%) Okta
7 2 (5.41%) Commvault
7 2 (5.41%) CyberArk
7 2 (5.41%) IBM
7 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
7 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.41%) Veeam
8 1 (2.70%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.70%) Databricks
8 1 (2.70%) F5
8 1 (2.70%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.70%) OpenText
8 1 (2.70%) Zscaler