The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester 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 Chester 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 21 - 19
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing DNS 3 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.326% - 1.460%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% - 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £338 £300
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £23.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year
-17.39% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21 19 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 16.28% 16.81% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 9
Average daily rate £275 £450 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.88% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £370 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £530 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
Average hourly rate £16.70 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.28% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
DNS
Cheshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (90.91%) VMware
3 8 (72.73%) DHCP
3 8 (72.73%) ITIL
3 8 (72.73%) Clustering
4 7 (63.64%) SCCM
4 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (63.64%) SAN
4 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (54.55%) Citrix
5 6 (54.55%) Windows 2000
5 6 (54.55%) Windows NT
5 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
5 6 (54.55%) SCOM
5 6 (54.55%) Hyper-V
6 5 (45.45%) Migration
6 5 (45.45%) HP
7 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (27.27%) Change Management
8 2 (18.18%) Service Management
8 2 (18.18%) VMware ESX
8 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
8 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
8 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
8 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
8 2 (18.18%) Tru64
8 2 (18.18%) UNIX
8 2 (18.18%) SQL
8 2 (18.18%) MS Office
8 2 (18.18%) AIX

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DHCP
2 7 (63.64%) SAN
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
4 1 (9.091%) VLAN
4 1 (9.091%) WAN
4 1 (9.091%) SMTP
4 1 (9.091%) HTTP
4 1 (9.091%) SNMP
4 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
4 1 (9.091%) SSL
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Wintel Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Wintel Engineer
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Wintel Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) UNIX Specialist
4 1 (9.091%) Wintel Server Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) IT Support
4 1 (9.091%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) SharePoint Specialist
4 1 (9.091%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Server Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (9.091%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (54.55%) Windows 2000
3 6 (54.55%) Windows NT
4 2 (18.18%) Tru64
4 2 (18.18%) UNIX
4 2 (18.18%) AIX
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (9.091%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) ITIL
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) Service Management
4 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 1 (9.091%) Network Management
5 1 (9.091%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Hyper-V
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) VMware ESX
3 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
3 2 (18.18%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) SCCM
2 6 (54.55%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) VMware
2 6 (54.55%) Citrix
3 5 (45.45%) HP
4 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
5 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.091%) Dell