DNS Contracts in Scotland

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 87 100
Rank change year-on-year -19 +13 +15
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DNS 15 31 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.92% 1.67% 1.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.20% 15.74% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 34
10th Percentile £255 £200 £330
25th Percentile £381 £213 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £240 £525
Median % change year-on-year +89.17% -54.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £442 £553
90th Percentile - £450 £668
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +0.49%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 183 197 329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.25% 10.60% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 128 205
10th Percentile £213 £177 £163
25th Percentile £358 £229 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £498
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -19.60% +14.11%
75th Percentile £500 £527 £573
90th Percentile £580 £619 £675
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 14
10th Percentile - £12.00 £17.72
25th Percentile - £14.63 £18.02
Median hourly rate £17.30 £18.27 £38.87
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% -52.99% +6.30%
75th Percentile - £18.89 £59.03
90th Percentile £33.38 £30.75 £60.09
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -10.00% -11.49% +46.73%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing DNS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DNS 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 27 August 2025.

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
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -5 9 £454 +3.77% 2
Edinburgh -15 4 £325 +35.42% 5
Banffshire - 1 £190 -
DNS
UK

DNS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Apigee
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) CloudFront
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Route 53
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DHCP
2 9 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (46.67%) HTTP
4 4 (26.67%) SSL
5 3 (20.00%) VPN
6 2 (13.33%) Firewall
7 1 (6.67%) IMAP
7 1 (6.67%) IP Telephony
7 1 (6.67%) LAN
7 1 (6.67%) Network Security
7 1 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (6.67%) VLAN
7 1 (6.67%) VoIP
7 1 (6.67%) Wireless
7 1 (6.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (6.67%) InfluxDB
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (33.33%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Desktop Support
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Security Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Support
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Support Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (53.33%) REST
1 8 (53.33%) SOAP
2 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
3 3 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (6.67%) STIX
3 1 (6.67%) TAXII
3 1 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (6.67%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 7 (46.67%) Unix
3 3 (20.00%) Windows
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 1 (6.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (20.00%) Investment Management
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) SIEM
4 3 (20.00%) SOAR
4 3 (20.00%) Wealth Management
5 2 (13.33%) Content Development
5 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL
5 2 (13.33%) Security Operations
5 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Bash
2 5 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) Perl
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (20.00%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (13.33%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.67%) Groovy
6 1 (6.67%) SQL
6 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) OCP
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.67%) COBIT
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Grafana
1 1 (6.67%) Kibana
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) F5
2 5 (33.33%) Infoblox
3 4 (26.67%) MuleSoft
4 3 (20.00%) ArcSight
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco
4 3 (20.00%) Splunk
5 1 (6.67%) Juniper
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle
5 1 (6.67%) Pegasus
5 1 (6.67%) Sage
5 1 (6.67%) SAP
5 1 (6.67%) Sun
5 1 (6.67%) VMware
5 1 (6.67%) Xero