The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 18 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 Cheshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 54 57 49
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -8
Contract jobs citing DNS 15 10 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.046% 1.230% 2.457%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.42% 6.369% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 7
Average daily rate £375 £263 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -9.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £120 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £324 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £338 £295
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +14.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
Average hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.63% -1.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £23.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year
-17.39% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
144 157 199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 19.65% 19.31% 21.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 70 122
Average daily rate £325 £318 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.36% -9.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £200 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 5
Average hourly rate £35.00 £25.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% +92.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.10 £14.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.30 £25.00 £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
DNS
North West

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire DNS Hourly Rate Trend

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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Chester - 5 - -
Warrington -1 2 - - 4
Macclesfield - - - -
Nantwich - - - -
Northwich - - - -
Runcorn - - - -
DNS
North West

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 20 (83.33%) Windows
2 13 (54.17%) DHCP
2 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2003
2 13 (54.17%) VMware
2 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 9 (37.50%) SAN
4 9 (37.50%) ITIL
4 9 (37.50%) Clustering
5 8 (33.33%) Migration
5 8 (33.33%) SCCM
5 8 (33.33%) HP
6 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
6 7 (29.17%) Windows 2000
6 7 (29.17%) Hyper-V
6 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
7 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (25.00%) SCOM
7 6 (25.00%) Firewall
7 6 (25.00%) Windows NT
7 6 (25.00%) Citrix
7 6 (25.00%) LAN
8 5 (20.83%) WAN
8 5 (20.83%) SQL
9 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
9 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
9 4 (16.67%) MS Exchange
9 4 (16.67%) MCSE
9 4 (16.67%) Linux
9 4 (16.67%) Microsoft

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 2 (8.333%) .NET
2 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.167%) CSS
2 1 (4.167%) SOAP
2 1 (4.167%) Hibernate
2 1 (4.167%) Spring
2 1 (4.167%) Java EE
2 1 (4.167%) REST
2 1 (4.167%) DHTML
2 1 (4.167%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) MS Exchange
2 3 (12.50%) Apache
2 3 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 3 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (8.333%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (8.333%) FileNet
3 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (4.167%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (4.167%) Lync
4 1 (4.167%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Office
2 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (54.17%) DHCP
2 9 (37.50%) SAN
3 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
4 6 (25.00%) Firewall
4 6 (25.00%) LAN
5 5 (20.83%) WAN
6 2 (8.333%) SMTP
6 2 (8.333%) VLAN
6 2 (8.333%) Network Security
7 1 (4.167%) iSCSI
7 1 (4.167%) NAS
7 1 (4.167%) HTTP
7 1 (4.167%) SNMP
7 1 (4.167%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Eclipse
1 1 (4.167%) MSI
General
1 1 (4.167%) Games
1 1 (4.167%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Wintel Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Wintel Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Wintel Specialist
4 2 (8.333%) UNIX Specialist
4 2 (8.333%) Network Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Server Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.167%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Architect
5 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.167%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.167%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.167%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.167%) Network Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Clustering
2 2 (8.333%) Computer Science
2 2 (8.333%) Blackberry
2 2 (8.333%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.167%) Online Games
3 1 (4.167%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 20 (83.33%) Windows
2 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2003
2 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (29.17%) Windows 2000
4 6 (25.00%) Windows NT
5 4 (16.67%) Linux
6 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (12.50%) AIX
7 2 (8.333%) UNIX
7 2 (8.333%) Tru64
7 2 (8.333%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (4.167%) Windows 7
8 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (4.167%) HPUX
8 1 (4.167%) Solaris
8 1 (4.167%) Windows XP
8 1 (4.167%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) ITIL
2 8 (33.33%) Migration
3 3 (12.50%) Service Management
3 3 (12.50%) Change Management
4 2 (8.333%) Configuration Management
4 2 (8.333%) Data Migration
5 1 (4.167%) Software Architecture
5 1 (4.167%) Network Management
5 1 (4.167%) Capacity Management
5 1 (4.167%) Software Distribution
5 1 (4.167%) Incident Management
5 1 (4.167%) Load Balancing
5 1 (4.167%) Project Management
5 1 (4.167%) OO
5 1 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.167%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) PowerShell
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 2 (8.333%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.167%) VBScript
4 1 (4.167%) VB
4 1 (4.167%) VB.NET
4 1 (4.167%) VBA
4 1 (4.167%) C#
4 1 (4.167%) Java
4 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.167%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) MCSE
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.333%) Degree
4 1 (4.167%) BC Cleared
4 1 (4.167%) CNE
4 1 (4.167%) Novell Certification
4 1 (4.167%) MCTS
4 1 (4.167%) MCITP
4 1 (4.167%) MCSA
4 1 (4.167%) CCIE
4 1 (4.167%) CCNP
4 1 (4.167%) CCNA
4 1 (4.167%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (29.17%) Hyper-V
3 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (8.333%) vSphere
4 2 (8.333%) PowerHA
4 2 (8.333%) VMware ESX
5 1 (4.167%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) SCCM
2 6 (25.00%) SCOM
3 1 (4.167%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (4.167%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (4.167%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (4.167%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) VMware
2 8 (33.33%) HP
3 6 (25.00%) Citrix
4 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 2 (8.333%) PlateSpin
6 2 (8.333%) Nortel
7 1 (4.167%) IronPort
7 1 (4.167%) Mitel
7 1 (4.167%) TIBCO
7 1 (4.167%) Symantec
7 1 (4.167%) Cisco
7 1 (4.167%) Dell
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