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

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 165 193
Rank change year-on-year -56 +28 -42
Permanent jobs citing DNS 61 50 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.89% 1.17% 1.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.33% 6.92% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 48 38 47
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,925 £32,900
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,250 £36,250 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.79% -28.22% +48.53%
75th Percentile £48,375 £50,875 £63,125
90th Percentile £67,750 £57,500 £73,750
UK median annual salary £43,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +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 654 723 828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.56% 16.88% 13.07%
Number of salaries quoted 407 249 375
10th Percentile £28,150 £27,000 £27,125
25th Percentile £36,125 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £63,125 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,100 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £51,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.86% -2.86% +5.00%

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
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 13 June 2024.

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 13 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +38 31 £40,000 +33.33% 7
Glasgow -97 20 £47,000 -2.59% 9
Banffshire - 4 £22,000 -
West Lothian - 2 - - 2
Scottish Borders - 2 £23,000 -
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 2
Stirling - 1 £31,500 - 2
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 11 (18.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (13.11%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.64%) IIS
3 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 31 (50.82%) Azure
2 19 (31.15%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (27.87%) AWS
4 8 (13.11%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (13.11%) Amazon SQS
5 6 (9.84%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.92%) MailChimp
6 3 (4.92%) Route 53
6 3 (4.92%) SaaS
6 3 (4.92%) Serverless
6 3 (4.92%) Zapier
7 2 (3.28%) WhatsApp
8 1 (1.64%) IaaS
8 1 (1.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (54.10%) TCP/IP
2 28 (45.90%) DHCP
3 23 (37.70%) Firewall
4 14 (22.95%) VPN
5 13 (21.31%) IPsec
5 13 (21.31%) LAN
5 13 (21.31%) WAN
6 10 (16.39%) BGP
7 8 (13.11%) Spanning Tree
7 8 (13.11%) SSL
8 7 (11.48%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (11.48%) Internet
8 7 (11.48%) Wireless
9 6 (9.84%) DKIM
9 6 (9.84%) DMARC
9 6 (9.84%) VoIP
10 5 (8.20%) Network Security
11 4 (6.56%) IMAP
11 4 (6.56%) OSPF
11 4 (6.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (13.11%) Oracle Database
2 8 (13.11%) RDBMS
2 8 (13.11%) Relational Database
General
1 20 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Telecoms
3 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Finance
4 4 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Marketing
6 2 (3.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (21.31%) Lead
2 10 (16.39%) Analyst
3 9 (14.75%) Architect
3 9 (14.75%) Support Technician
4 8 (13.11%) Lead Architect
4 8 (13.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
4 8 (13.11%) Network Technician
4 8 (13.11%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (11.48%) IT Engineer
5 7 (11.48%) Senior
6 6 (9.84%) Information Analyst
6 6 (9.84%) Information Security Analyst
6 6 (9.84%) Security Analyst
7 5 (8.20%) IT Support
7 5 (8.20%) IT Technician
7 5 (8.20%) Senior IT Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (6.56%) IT Support Technician
8 4 (6.56%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.11%) RabbitMQ
1 8 (13.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Data Centre
1 9 (14.75%) Driving Licence
2 8 (13.11%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (13.11%) Public Cloud
3 7 (11.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (9.84%) Cyberattack
5 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.28%) Device Driver
7 1 (1.64%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (24.59%) Windows
2 14 (22.95%) Linux
3 13 (21.31%) Windows Server
4 8 (13.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.56%) Windows 10
5 4 (6.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.28%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.64%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.31%) Migration
2 11 (18.03%) Customer Experience
3 10 (16.39%) Network Monitoring
3 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (14.75%) ITIL
5 8 (13.11%) Actionable Insight
5 8 (13.11%) Agile
5 8 (13.11%) ArchiMate
5 8 (13.11%) Collaborative Working
5 8 (13.11%) Data Migration
5 8 (13.11%) ITSM
5 8 (13.11%) Kanban
5 8 (13.11%) Load Balancing
5 8 (13.11%) Open Source
5 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (13.11%) Project Management
5 8 (13.11%) Re-Platforming
5 8 (13.11%) Scrum
5 8 (13.11%) SDLC
5 8 (13.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.20%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.39%) Cisco Certification
1 10 (16.39%) SC Cleared
1 10 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.75%) Degree
3 8 (13.11%) AWS Certification
3 8 (13.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (13.11%) Azure Certification
4 7 (11.48%) CCNP
5 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.28%) CCIE
6 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.64%) CCNA
7 1 (1.64%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (22.95%) Active Directory
2 10 (16.39%) Hyper-V
3 9 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (4.92%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (21.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (9.84%) CASB
3 3 (4.92%) Autotask
4 1 (1.64%) VxRail
Vendors
1 16 (26.23%) Meraki
2 15 (24.59%) Microsoft
2 15 (24.59%) VMware
3 12 (19.67%) Cisco
4 9 (14.75%) Palo Alto
5 8 (13.11%) Juniper
5 8 (13.11%) Oracle
5 8 (13.11%) Sparx
6 7 (11.48%) ForeScout
7 3 (4.92%) Apple
7 3 (4.92%) ConnectWise
7 3 (4.92%) Facebook
7 3 (4.92%) HubSpot
7 3 (4.92%) Veeam
8 1 (1.64%) Dell