Cheltenham DNS Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Cheltenham region.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Abingdon Amersham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire Kent Lanarkshire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Malvern Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Surbiton Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 12 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	-	27	26
Matching contract IT job ads	0	3	2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham	-	1.695 %	1.307 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category	-	18.75 %	25.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3	0
Average daily rate	-	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£300	£345
% change year-on-year	+8.330 % -13.04 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Average hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.50	£24.00	£20.40
% change year-on-year	-31.25 % +17.64 %
All Communications & Networking Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Communications & Networking category	1	16	8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham	1.587 %	9.040 %	5.229 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3	2
Average daily rate	-	£400	£226
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	- +76.79 %
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£336	£340
% change year-on-year	-3.270 % -1.170 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1	2
Average hourly rate	-	£10.00	£17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	- -42.85 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.00	£24.00	£28.50
% change year-on-year	- -15.78 %
DNS Gloucestershire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DNS across the Cheltenham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

DNS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DNS across the Cheltenham region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 2 7 (87.50 %) Microsoft 2 7 (87.50 %) Windows Server 2003 2 7 (87.50 %) Windows Vista 2 7 (87.50 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (87.50 %) Windows Server 2008 3 6 (75.00 %) DV Cleared 3 6 (75.00 %) Active Directory 3 6 (75.00 %) DHCP 4 5 (62.50 %) Windows XP 5 3 (37.50 %) VMware 5 3 (37.50 %) VMware ESX 5 3 (37.50 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 3 (37.50 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (25.00 %) SAN

6 2 (25.00 %) VMware Workstation 6 2 (25.00 %) Telecoms 6 2 (25.00 %) Finance 6 2 (25.00 %) MS Excel 6 2 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 7 1 (12.50 %) OpenView Configuration Management 7 1 (12.50 %) HP 7 1 (12.50 %) Perl 7 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 7 1 (12.50 %) HPUX 7 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 7 1 (12.50 %) LDAP 7 1 (12.50 %) Government 7 1 (12.50 %) Altiris 7 1 (12.50 %) PKI

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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.

Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 6 (75.00 %) DHCP 2 2 (25.00 %) SAN 2 2 (25.00 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (12.50 %) LDAP
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Telecoms 1 2 (25.00 %) Finance 2 1 (12.50 %) Government	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Infrastructure Specialist 2 2 (25.00 %) Software Consultant 2 2 (25.00 %) Consultant 3 1 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 3 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Support Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 8 (100.00 %) Windows 2 7 (87.50 %) Windows Server 2003 2 7 (87.50 %) Windows Vista 2 7 (87.50 %) Windows Server 2008 3 5 (62.50 %) Windows XP 4 1 (12.50 %) UNIX 4 1 (12.50 %) HPUX 4 1 (12.50 %) Solaris
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 7 (87.50 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (75.00 %) DV Cleared 3 3 (37.50 %) SC Cleared
System Software 1 6 (75.00 %) Active Directory 2 3 (37.50 %) VMware ESX 2 3 (37.50 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (25.00 %) VMware Workstation	Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 7 (87.50 %) Microsoft 2 3 (37.50 %) VMware 3 1 (12.50 %) HP 3 1 (12.50 %) Altiris