The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Bradford 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 21 28 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing DNS 8 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 4.324% 0.629% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.10% 8.333% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £213 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £338 £295
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +14.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £23.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year
-17.39% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 11.35% 7.547% 5.691%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 0
Average daily rate £225 £165 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
DNS
West Yorkshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford DNS Daily Rate Trend

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bradford DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
2 4 (50.00%) LAN
2 4 (50.00%) VoIP
2 4 (50.00%) WAN
2 4 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 4 (50.00%) SSL
2 4 (50.00%) CCNA
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) Internet
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (50.00%) UNIX
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
3 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (37.50%) VLAN
3 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
3 3 (37.50%) MPLS
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
3 3 (37.50%) MS Office

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
1 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
2 4 (50.00%) LAN
2 4 (50.00%) VoIP
2 4 (50.00%) WAN
2 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 4 (50.00%) SSL
2 4 (50.00%) Internet
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (37.50%) VLAN
3 3 (37.50%) MPLS
4 1 (12.50%) Intranet
4 1 (12.50%) FTP
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (37.50%) Desktop Support
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Communications Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Support Technician
4 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) Network Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (12.50%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (50.00%) UNIX
3 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
2 3 (37.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 3 (37.50%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
4 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Change Control
4 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) CCNA
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (37.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
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