The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 19 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 Cambridgeshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 43 53 40
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -13
Contract jobs citing DNS 11 11 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.923% 1.517% 3.030%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.22% 7.639% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
Average daily rate £238 £338 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.62% +35.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £338 £300
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 14
Average hourly rate £20.00 £54.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.30% +303.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.20 £52.90 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.60 £56.10 £17.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £23.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year
-17.39% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
98 144 93
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 17.13% 19.86% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 68 31
Average daily rate £275 £320 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.06% +11.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £205 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £418 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 34 24
Average hourly rate £37.00 £38.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.89% +185.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £12.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £52.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
DNS
East of England

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Cambridgeshire DNS Hourly Rate Histogram

DNS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridge +12 8 £263 -22.22% 6
Peterborough - - - - 1
DNS
East of England

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 31 (64.58%) DHCP
2 29 (60.42%) Windows
3 26 (54.17%) Linux
3 26 (54.17%) Active Directory
4 23 (47.92%) Microsoft
5 20 (41.67%) TCP/IP
5 20 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 17 (35.42%) MS Exchange
7 16 (33.33%) ITIL
8 15 (31.25%) VMware
9 14 (29.17%) SQL
10 13 (27.08%) Oracle
10 13 (27.08%) Perl
11 12 (25.00%) Apache
11 12 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
12 11 (22.92%) Red Hat
12 11 (22.92%) Exchange Server 2007
13 10 (20.83%) UNIX
14 9 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
14 9 (18.75%) PKI
14 9 (18.75%) WSUS
15 8 (16.67%) SCOM
15 8 (16.67%) SQL Server
15 8 (16.67%) IIS
16 7 (14.58%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (14.58%) Shell Script
16 7 (14.58%) SAN
17 6 (12.50%) VPN
17 6 (12.50%) Java

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 (8.333%) Web Services
2 3 (6.250%) Middleware
2 3 (6.250%) HTML5
2 3 (6.250%) Silverlight
2 3 (6.250%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 17 (35.42%) MS Exchange
2 12 (25.00%) Apache
2 12 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (22.92%) Exchange Server 2007
4 8 (16.67%) IIS
5 6 (12.50%) Tomcat
6 4 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (8.333%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (2.083%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.083%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.083%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.250%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (64.58%) DHCP
2 20 (41.67%) TCP/IP
3 7 (14.58%) SAN
4 6 (12.50%) VPN
4 6 (12.50%) LAN
4 6 (12.50%) WAN
4 6 (12.50%) BIG-IP
5 5 (10.42%) Firewall
5 5 (10.42%) VLAN
6 4 (8.333%) HTTP
7 3 (6.250%) Wireless
7 3 (6.250%) NAS
7 3 (6.250%) xDSL
7 3 (6.250%) VoIP
7 3 (6.250%) Broadband
7 3 (6.250%) Ethernet
7 3 (6.250%) DMZ
8 1 (2.083%) Network Security
8 1 (2.083%) FTP
8 1 (2.083%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.083%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.083%) JIRA
General
1 2 (4.167%) Legal
2 1 (2.083%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (39.58%) Systems Administrator
1 19 (39.58%) Administrator
2 3 (6.250%) Architect
2 3 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (6.250%) UNIX Engineer
2 3 (6.250%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (4.167%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (4.167%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (4.167%) Analyst
4 1 (2.083%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (2.083%) Support Technician
4 1 (2.083%) Support Analyst
4 1 (2.083%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (2.083%) Server Engineer
4 1 (2.083%) Network Support
4 1 (2.083%) Implementation Analyst
4 1 (2.083%) IT Support
4 1 (2.083%) AIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) PKI
2 6 (12.50%) Blackberry
3 3 (6.250%) Streaming Media
4 1 (2.083%) LPAR
4 1 (2.083%) SaaS
4 1 (2.083%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 29 (60.42%) Windows
2 26 (54.17%) Linux
3 20 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (20.83%) UNIX
5 9 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (14.58%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (10.42%) Windows 7
7 5 (10.42%) HPUX
8 4 (8.333%) Windows XP
9 3 (6.250%) AIX
10 1 (2.083%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (2.083%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) ITIL
2 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (10.42%) ERP
4 4 (8.333%) Configuration Management
5 3 (6.250%) Benchmarking
5 3 (6.250%) Migration
5 3 (6.250%) Test Automation
5 3 (6.250%) Data Analysis
6 2 (4.167%) E-business
6 2 (4.167%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (2.083%) Project Management
7 1 (2.083%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (2.083%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.083%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.17%) SQL
2 13 (27.08%) Perl
3 7 (14.58%) Shell Script
4 6 (12.50%) Java
5 4 (8.333%) Python
6 3 (6.250%) C++
6 3 (6.250%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.083%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.250%) OCP
2 3 (6.250%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (6.250%) RHCE
3 2 (4.167%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.167%) CCNP
3 2 (4.167%) CCNA
3 2 (4.167%) MCSE
4 1 (2.083%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.167%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (54.17%) Active Directory
2 9 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.50%) vSphere
4 5 (10.42%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (10.42%) VMware ESX
5 2 (4.167%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.167%) XenApp
6 1 (2.083%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (18.75%) WSUS
2 8 (16.67%) SCOM
3 6 (12.50%) Puppet
3 6 (12.50%) Backup Exec
3 6 (12.50%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 5 (10.42%) EMC NetWorker
4 5 (10.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (6.250%) Tivoli
5 3 (6.250%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (4.167%) NetBackup
7 1 (2.083%) SCCM
7 1 (2.083%) Nagios
Vendors
1 23 (47.92%) Microsoft
2 15 (31.25%) VMware
3 13 (27.08%) Oracle
4 11 (22.92%) Red Hat
5 6 (12.50%) JBoss
5 6 (12.50%) Symantec
6 5 (10.42%) SAP
6 5 (10.42%) Cisco
6 5 (10.42%) EMC
7 4 (8.333%) Citrix
8 3 (6.250%) Akamai
8 3 (6.250%) Brocade
8 3 (6.250%) IBM
8 3 (6.250%) Adobe
8 3 (6.250%) NetApp
9 2 (4.167%) HP
9 2 (4.167%) Dell
9 2 (4.167%) BT
9 2 (4.167%) McAfee
10 1 (2.083%) Twitter
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