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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 116 138
Rank change year-on-year +34 +22 -43
Contract jobs citing DNS 33 48 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.54% 1.80% 1.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.00% 13.33% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 39 31
10th Percentile £199 £396 £300
25th Percentile £200 £441 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year -49.90% -4.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £276 £538 £531
90th Percentile £483 £550 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.00
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £52.13 £22.00
% change year-on-year -23.27% +136.95% -30.83%

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 220 360 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.27% 13.47% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 221 200
10th Percentile £179 £160 £224
25th Percentile £229 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £460 £470
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £633 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 19
10th Percentile £12.88 - £20.80
25th Percentile £15.88 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.14 £10.63 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.60% -79.06% +40.06%
75th Percentile £29.56 £38.18 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.18 £57.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for DNS in Scotland

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DNS in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DNS in Scotland

DNS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for DNS in Scotland

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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 12 June 2024. 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
Edinburgh +41 22 £239 -52.25% 6
Glasgow -3 8 £450 -0.55% 9
Renfrewshire 0 3 - -
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 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (57.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
1 7 (21.21%) Entra ID
2 3 (9.09%) IaaS
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (6.06%) Catchpoint
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.03%) Akamai
4 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (75.76%) DHCP
2 24 (72.73%) VPN
3 6 (18.18%) Firewall
4 3 (9.09%) SMTP
4 3 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.06%) IPv6
5 2 (6.06%) SSL
6 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Banking
2 2 (6.06%) Finance
2 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Desktop Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Desktop Support
3 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 6 (18.18%) Network Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 2 (6.06%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (6.06%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Active Directory Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Configuration Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Hardware Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Installations Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Clustering
1 3 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (9.09%) PKI
2 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) iPad
3 1 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (3.03%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (75.76%) Windows
2 21 (63.64%) Windows 10
3 15 (45.45%) Windows 7
4 3 (9.09%) Windows Server
5 2 (6.06%) Linux
6 1 (3.03%) Unix
6 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Break/Fix
1 17 (51.52%) Service Delivery
2 15 (45.45%) ITIL
3 11 (33.33%) Customer Service
4 4 (12.12%) High Availability
5 3 (9.09%) Agile
5 3 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 3 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 2 (6.06%) Asset Management
6 2 (6.06%) BCP
6 2 (6.06%) Compliance Management
6 2 (6.06%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (6.06%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (6.06%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (3.03%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (3.03%) Open Source
7 1 (3.03%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (3.03%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.03%) Perl
2 1 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 22 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (45.45%) A+ Certification
3 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.06%) CCIE
4 2 (6.06%) CCNP
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 28 (84.85%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.09%) BitLocker
2 3 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (9.09%) Terminal Services
2 3 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (63.64%) SCCM
2 3 (9.09%) vCenter Server
2 3 (9.09%) vMotion
3 2 (6.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.03%) Nessus
Vendors
1 24 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 19 (57.58%) Cisco
3 3 (9.09%) Citrix
3 3 (9.09%) Infoblox
3 3 (9.09%) VMware
4 2 (6.06%) AppNeta
4 2 (6.06%) Arista
4 2 (6.06%) Palo Alto
4 2 (6.06%) Tufin
5 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk