The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 40 26 31
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +5
Contract jobs citing DNS 2 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 1.005% 1.087% 0.791%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.128% 4.082% 5.556%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £358 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £375 £289
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +29.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £25.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-34.00% +16.27%
All Communications & Networking
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
39 49 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 19.60% 26.63% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 12
Average daily rate £375 £420 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +18.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £142 £223 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.79%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
DNS
Hampshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DNS across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Basingstoke DNS Jobs Demand Trend

DNS
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DNS across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke DNS Daily Rate Trend

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Basingstoke DNS Daily Rate Histogram

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DNS across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing DNS also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited DNS.

1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Migration

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing DNS also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited DNS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco