DNS Contracts in Cambridge
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridge 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 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 26 37 24
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -13
Contract jobs citing DNS 15 12 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 4.386% 2.871% 3.200%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.74% 16.44% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £306 £269 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.95% +7.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £400 £286
% change year-on-year
-26.25% +39.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
Average hourly rate £26.25 £52.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +320.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-38.46% +4.00%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 76 73 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.22% 17.46% 22.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 19
Average daily rate £285 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.80% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £375 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 21 11
Average hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.94% +14.86%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £10.70 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
DNS
Cambridgeshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridge DNS Hourly Rate Histogram

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 30 (69.77%) DHCP
2 26 (60.47%) Linux
3 25 (58.14%) Active Directory
4 24 (55.81%) Windows
5 20 (46.51%) ITIL
6 18 (41.86%) Microsoft
7 17 (39.53%) TCP/IP
7 17 (39.53%) Perl
7 17 (39.53%) Windows Server 2008
8 16 (37.21%) SQL
8 16 (37.21%) Apache
9 15 (34.88%) Oracle
9 15 (34.88%) Red Hat
9 15 (34.88%) VMware
10 12 (27.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (25.58%) MS Exchange
12 10 (23.26%) PKI
12 10 (23.26%) Exchange Server 2007
13 9 (20.93%) EMC NetWorker
13 9 (20.93%) Oracle RMAN
13 9 (20.93%) Exchange Server 2010
13 9 (20.93%) ERP
13 9 (20.93%) SAP
13 9 (20.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 9 (20.93%) EMC
14 8 (18.60%) Shell Script
14 8 (18.60%) UNIX
14 8 (18.60%) WSUS
14 8 (18.60%) VMware Infrastructure
15 7 (16.28%) BIG-IP

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 4 (9.302%) Middleware
2 3 (6.977%) Silverlight
2 3 (6.977%) HTML5
2 3 (6.977%) Web Services
2 3 (6.977%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 16 (37.21%) Apache
2 11 (25.58%) MS Exchange
3 10 (23.26%) Exchange Server 2007
4 9 (20.93%) Exchange Server 2010
5 7 (16.28%) IIS
5 7 (16.28%) Tomcat
6 3 (6.977%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (6.977%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 1 (2.326%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (69.77%) DHCP
2 17 (39.53%) TCP/IP
3 7 (16.28%) BIG-IP
4 6 (13.95%) LAN
4 6 (13.95%) WAN
5 5 (11.63%) VLAN
6 4 (9.302%) NAS
6 4 (9.302%) Firewall
6 4 (9.302%) Wireless
6 4 (9.302%) VoIP
6 4 (9.302%) VPN
6 4 (9.302%) SAN
6 4 (9.302%) DMZ
7 3 (6.977%) Broadband
7 3 (6.977%) Ethernet
7 3 (6.977%) HTTP
7 3 (6.977%) xDSL
8 1 (2.326%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (2.326%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (53.49%) Administrator
2 22 (51.16%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (9.302%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (6.977%) Architect
4 3 (6.977%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (6.977%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (2.326%) Implementation Analyst
5 1 (2.326%) Analyst
5 1 (2.326%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (2.326%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.326%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.26%) PKI
2 6 (13.95%) Blackberry
3 3 (6.977%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (60.47%) Linux
2 24 (55.81%) Windows
3 17 (39.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (27.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (18.60%) UNIX
6 7 (16.28%) HPUX
7 5 (11.63%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (4.651%) Windows XP
8 2 (4.651%) Windows 7
9 1 (2.326%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (46.51%) ITIL
2 9 (20.93%) ERP
3 7 (16.28%) Infrastructure Management
4 6 (13.95%) Migration
4 6 (13.95%) Data Analysis
5 4 (9.302%) Configuration Management
6 3 (6.977%) Benchmarking
6 3 (6.977%) Test Automation
6 3 (6.977%) E-business
7 2 (4.651%) Project Management
8 1 (2.326%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) Perl
2 16 (37.21%) SQL
3 8 (18.60%) Shell Script
4 7 (16.28%) Java
5 6 (13.95%) T-SQL
6 3 (6.977%) Python
6 3 (6.977%) C++
7 1 (2.326%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) OCP
1 6 (13.95%) Oracle Certification
1 6 (13.95%) RHCE
2 3 (6.977%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.326%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.326%) MCSE
3 1 (2.326%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.651%) GAMP
1 2 (4.651%) GxP
2 1 (2.326%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (58.14%) Active Directory
2 9 (20.93%) Oracle RMAN
3 8 (18.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (16.28%) VMware ESX
4 7 (16.28%) vSphere
5 1 (2.326%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.326%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (20.93%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 9 (20.93%) EMC NetWorker
2 8 (18.60%) WSUS
3 6 (13.95%) Backup Exec
3 6 (13.95%) SCOM
3 6 (13.95%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 3 (6.977%) Puppet
5 1 (2.326%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 18 (41.86%) Microsoft
2 15 (34.88%) Oracle
2 15 (34.88%) Red Hat
2 15 (34.88%) VMware
3 9 (20.93%) SAP
3 9 (20.93%) EMC
4 7 (16.28%) JBoss
5 6 (13.95%) Symantec
6 4 (9.302%) NetApp
6 4 (9.302%) BT
6 4 (9.302%) Cisco
7 3 (6.977%) Citrix
7 3 (6.977%) Adobe
7 3 (6.977%) Akamai
8 2 (4.651%) McAfee
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