The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 17 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 Brighton 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 31 34 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing DNS 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 0.541% 1.045% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.143% 25.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £365 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £340 £290
% change year-on-year
-12.37% +17.06%
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
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
14 12 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 7.568% 4.181% 8.387%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 0
Average daily rate £218 £343 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.49% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.54% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
Average hourly rate £23.00 £23.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +109.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
DNS
East Sussex

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
2 6 (85.71%) SAN
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
3 5 (71.43%) Citrix
3 5 (71.43%) ITIL
4 4 (57.14%) PRINCE2
4 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
4 4 (57.14%) VoIP
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco
4 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (57.14%) CommVault
4 4 (57.14%) MPLS
4 4 (57.14%) Project Management
4 4 (57.14%) Intel
4 4 (57.14%) ITIL V2
5 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
6 2 (28.57%) Juniper
6 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
6 2 (28.57%) HP
6 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
6 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
6 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
6 2 (28.57%) Service Management
6 2 (28.57%) Blackberry
6 2 (28.57%) NetApp
6 2 (28.57%) ProCurve
6 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
6 2 (28.57%) Finance

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 (14.29%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
3 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
2 6 (85.71%) SAN
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
3 4 (57.14%) MPLS
3 4 (57.14%) VoIP
4 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) LAN
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Support Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) IT Support
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Support
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Blackberry
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Fat Client
2 1 (14.29%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) PRINCE2
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL V2
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Release Management
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Backup Exec
2 1 (14.29%) WSUS
2 1 (14.29%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Citrix
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) CommVault
2 4 (57.14%) Intel
3 2 (28.57%) ProCurve
3 2 (28.57%) NetApp
3 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Juniper
4 1 (14.29%) Altiris
4 1 (14.29%) F5