The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff 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 Cardiff 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 21 29 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing DNS 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 2.439% 1.364% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.05% 6.522% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £263 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.54% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £400 £286
% change year-on-year
-26.25% +39.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-38.46% +4.00%
All Communications & Networking
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21 46 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 12.80% 20.91% 15.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 28
Average daily rate £260 £280 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -13.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £200 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £308 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
Average hourly rate £10.69 £15.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.03% +29.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
DNS
South Wales

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Clustering
4 1 (20.00%) Information Security
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) MCTS
4 1 (20.00%) Web Development
4 1 (20.00%) System Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (20.00%) EMC
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (20.00%) SAN
4 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (20.00%) Intranet
4 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
4 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (20.00%) HACMP
4 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (20.00%) LPAR
4 1 (20.00%) DLPAR
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) IIS
4 1 (20.00%) UNIX

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) Intranet
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
General
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Server Support
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) HACMP
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) LPAR
1 1 (20.00%) DLPAR
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) UNIX
3 1 (20.00%) AIX
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (20.00%) Information Security
1 1 (20.00%) Web Development
1 1 (20.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
1 1 (20.00%) MCSA
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat