DNS Jobs in Scotland

Domain Name System (DNS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring DNS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DNS over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 229 173
Rank change year-on-year +79 -56 +10
Permanent jobs citing DNS 14 59 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.47% 0.87% 1.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.92% 9.16% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12 49 39
10th Percentile - £26,250 £24,950
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £42,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.71% +21.43% -31.37%
75th Percentile £42,253 £52,500 £53,000
90th Percentile £52,761 £67,750 £57,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £43,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -2.30% +2.35% -5.56%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 357 644 746
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.99% 9.45% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 190 390 257
10th Percentile - £28,000 £26,550
25th Percentile £23,504 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -0.99% +5.21%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,125 £70,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DNS in Scotland.

Salary trend for DNS in Scotland

DNS
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DNS in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DNS in Scotland

DNS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +148 5 £37,500 -20.21% 28
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
Edinburgh -9 3 £51,914 +29.79% 20
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 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (7.14%) Apache
3 1 (7.14%) IIS
3 1 (7.14%) nginx
3 1 (7.14%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 10 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (28.57%) AWS
4 3 (21.43%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
5 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) DHCP
2 8 (57.14%) Firewall
3 6 (42.86%) VPN
4 5 (35.71%) DKIM
4 5 (35.71%) DMARC
4 5 (35.71%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (7.14%) BGP
6 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (7.14%) HTTP
6 1 (7.14%) Network Security
6 1 (7.14%) OSPF
6 1 (7.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Help Desk Team Lead
1 5 (35.71%) Lead
1 5 (35.71%) Team Leader
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) IT Support
3 2 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Field Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Help Desk Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Support
4 1 (7.14%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Network Technical Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Security Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Design Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (14.29%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Unix
3 5 (35.71%) VMS
4 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
5 3 (21.43%) Linux
6 2 (14.29%) Windows 10
6 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (7.14%) Debian
7 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (35.71%) Incident Response
2 5 (35.71%) IT Strategy
2 5 (35.71%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (14.29%) Line Management
5 1 (7.14%) Coaching
5 1 (7.14%) High Availability
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL
5 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (7.14%) Server Virtualisation
5 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Environments
5 1 (7.14%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Hyper-V
2 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.14%) Docker
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Proxmox
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (57.14%) VMware
3 5 (35.71%) Apple
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco
5 1 (7.14%) F5
5 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 1 (7.14%) Red Hat