DNS Job Trends in Edinburgh

Domain Name System (DNS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring DNS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 83 98
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 +28
Permanent jobs citing DNS 10 17 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.94% 1.53% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.31% 16.19% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile - £37,950 £40,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £40,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,250 £46,000 £47,103
Median % change year-on-year -27.72% -2.34% +44.93%
75th Percentile £46,250 £51,500 £47,872
90th Percentile £49,500 £54,050 £57,500
Scotland median annual salary £37,500 £36,000 £47,103
% change year-on-year +4.17% -23.57% +34.58%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

DNS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 97 105 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 9.16% 9.43% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 59 49 106
10th Percentile £26,337 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £25,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £48,507 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.12% +21.27% -29.20%
75th Percentile £54,000 £74,144 £67,070
90th Percentile £78,790 £87,000 £72,433
Scotland median annual salary £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
% change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -44.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

DNS job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing DNS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing DNS

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DNS in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (30.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure App Service
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) DHCP
2 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (50.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Retail
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) IT Support
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) VMS
3 3 (30.00%) Android
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (20.00%) Linux
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 4 (40.00%) Cloud Operations
3 4 (40.00%) Coaching
3 4 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
3 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) SDLC
4 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (10.00%) Containerisation
6 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Bicep
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) GDPR
1 3 (30.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Apple