DNS Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 22 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 City of London 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 125 99 126
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +27
Contract jobs citing DNS 82 130 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.275% 1.629% 1.221%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.750% 12.67% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 74 66
Average daily rate £341 £400 £366
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.68% +9.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £152 £200 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £469 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £375 £290
% change year-on-year
-20.33% +29.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 24
Average hourly rate £44.00 £22.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £18.25 £14.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.60 £34.00 £40.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £25.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-34.00% +8.69%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 841 1026 979
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 13.08% 12.86% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 697 629
Average daily rate £391 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.15% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £270 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 39 75
Average hourly rate £50.25 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+128.40% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £17.55 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
DNS
London

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London DNS Hourly Rate Histogram

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 96 (64.00%) Windows
2 84 (56.00%) Active Directory
3 81 (54.00%) DHCP
4 56 (37.33%) VMware
5 55 (36.67%) Microsoft
6 51 (34.00%) MS Exchange
7 44 (29.33%) Windows Server 2003
8 42 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 41 (27.33%) Windows Server 2008
10 38 (25.33%) ITIL
11 36 (24.00%) TCP/IP
12 34 (22.67%) SAN
12 34 (22.67%) Linux
12 34 (22.67%) Finance
13 33 (22.00%) Citrix
13 33 (22.00%) Cisco
13 33 (22.00%) Exchange Server 2010
14 30 (20.00%) Firewall
15 27 (18.00%) MS Office
16 25 (16.67%) HP
16 25 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
17 24 (16.00%) Windows 7
17 24 (16.00%) Blackberry
17 24 (16.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
18 22 (14.67%) VPN
18 22 (14.67%) PowerShell
19 21 (14.00%) SCCM
19 21 (14.00%) Symantec
19 21 (14.00%) Red Hat
20 20 (13.33%) IIS

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 7 (4.667%) Web Services
2 3 (2.000%) HTML5
2 3 (2.000%) .NET
3 2 (1.333%) LAMP
3 2 (1.333%) Middleware
3 2 (1.333%) XML
3 2 (1.333%) ASP
3 2 (1.333%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.333%) COM
3 2 (1.333%) CSS
3 2 (1.333%) RESTful
3 2 (1.333%) jQuery
3 2 (1.333%) REST
3 2 (1.333%) CSS3
3 2 (1.333%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.667%) iOS SDK
4 1 (0.667%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 1 (0.667%) JSON
4 1 (0.667%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (0.667%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 51 (34.00%) MS Exchange
2 33 (22.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 25 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
4 24 (16.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 20 (13.33%) IIS
6 19 (12.67%) SharePoint
7 17 (11.33%) Exchange Server 2003
8 9 (6.000%) Lync
9 7 (4.667%) SharePoint Server
10 6 (4.000%) Apache
11 4 (2.667%) SharePoint 2010
11 4 (2.667%) Office Communications Server
12 3 (2.000%) Exchange Server 2013
13 2 (1.333%) Lotus Notes
13 2 (1.333%) Tomcat
13 2 (1.333%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.667%) Confluence
14 1 (0.667%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 27 (18.00%) MS Office
2 19 (12.67%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.333%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.667%) Office 365
4 1 (0.667%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 81 (54.00%) DHCP
2 36 (24.00%) TCP/IP
3 34 (22.67%) SAN
4 30 (20.00%) Firewall
5 22 (14.67%) VPN
6 17 (11.33%) LAN
7 15 (10.00%) WAN
8 13 (8.667%) HTTP
8 13 (8.667%) LDAP
8 13 (8.667%) Internet
9 12 (8.000%) SMTP
10 10 (6.667%) VoIP
11 9 (6.000%) SSL
11 9 (6.000%) SNMP
12 8 (5.333%) Wireless
12 8 (5.333%) Cisco Nexus
13 7 (4.667%) NetScaler
13 7 (4.667%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (4.667%) FTP
13 7 (4.667%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (3.333%) MySQL
3 2 (1.333%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.333%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (1.333%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.667%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (0.667%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 4 (2.667%) MSI
2 2 (1.333%) Fiddler
2 2 (1.333%) JIRA
3 1 (0.667%) PhoneGap
3 1 (0.667%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.667%) Selenium
3 1 (0.667%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.667%) JUnit
3 1 (0.667%) Subversion
General
1 34 (22.67%) Finance
2 19 (12.67%) Banking
3 11 (7.333%) Investment Banking
4 6 (4.000%) Legal
5 5 (3.333%) Publishing
6 4 (2.667%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.667%) Law
7 2 (1.333%) Retail
7 2 (1.333%) Front Office
8 1 (0.667%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.667%) Back Office
8 1 (0.667%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 30 (20.00%) Administrator
2 20 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
3 13 (8.667%) 2nd Line Support
4 10 (6.667%) Desktop Support
5 9 (6.000%) Architect
5 9 (6.000%) Analyst
5 9 (6.000%) Support Engineer
5 9 (6.000%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (4.667%) Linux Engineer
6 7 (4.667%) Consultant
6 7 (4.667%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (4.000%) Linux Administrator
7 6 (4.000%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 6 (4.000%) Support Analyst
8 5 (3.333%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.333%) Network Engineer
8 5 (3.333%) UNIX Engineer
8 5 (3.333%) UNIX Administrator
9 4 (2.667%) Desktop Engineer
9 4 (2.667%) UNIX Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 24 (16.00%) Blackberry
2 7 (4.667%) Clustering
3 6 (4.000%) Equities
4 5 (3.333%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (3.333%) Replication
5 4 (2.667%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.667%) N-Tier
5 4 (2.667%) iPhone
6 3 (2.000%) iPad
6 3 (2.000%) PKI
6 3 (2.000%) Statistics
7 2 (1.333%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.667%) HP StorageWorks
8 1 (0.667%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.667%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.667%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.667%) Celerra
8 1 (0.667%) PDA
8 1 (0.667%) Data Integration
8 1 (0.667%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 96 (64.00%) Windows
2 44 (29.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 41 (27.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 34 (22.67%) Linux
5 24 (16.00%) Windows 7
6 19 (12.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 18 (12.00%) UNIX
8 17 (11.33%) Windows XP
9 16 (10.67%) Solaris
10 12 (8.000%) Windows Vista
11 7 (4.667%) Mac OS X
12 5 (3.333%) Apple iOS
12 5 (3.333%) Windows Mobile
12 5 (3.333%) Windows 2000
12 5 (3.333%) SUSE
13 4 (2.667%) Mac OS
13 4 (2.667%) CentOS
14 3 (2.000%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (2.000%) Windows 2000 Server
14 3 (2.000%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (25.33%) ITIL
2 17 (11.33%) Migration
3 11 (7.333%) Configuration Management
4 9 (6.000%) Load Balancing
4 9 (6.000%) Service Management
4 9 (6.000%) Service Delivery
5 8 (5.333%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (4.667%) Project Management
7 6 (4.000%) Incident Management
7 6 (4.000%) Network Management
8 5 (3.333%) Change Control
8 5 (3.333%) Network Architecture
9 4 (2.667%) Business Continuity
9 4 (2.667%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (2.667%) E-Commerce
9 4 (2.667%) Time Management
9 4 (2.667%) Project Planning
10 3 (2.000%) High Availability
10 3 (2.000%) Software Deployment
10 3 (2.000%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.67%) PowerShell
2 13 (8.667%) Perl
2 13 (8.667%) Shell Script
3 10 (6.667%) SQL
4 9 (6.000%) Java
5 8 (5.333%) C
5 8 (5.333%) VB
6 7 (4.667%) C++
7 5 (3.333%) VBScript
8 4 (2.667%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.667%) PHP
9 3 (2.000%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.333%) Python
10 2 (1.333%) Ruby
11 1 (0.667%) Korn
11 1 (0.667%) Bash shell
11 1 (0.667%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.667%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (11.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (10.67%) Security Cleared
3 11 (7.333%) MCSE
4 10 (6.667%) Degree
5 9 (6.000%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.000%) MCSA
6 6 (4.000%) SC Cleared
7 5 (3.333%) MCDST
7 5 (3.333%) MCTS
7 5 (3.333%) MCP
7 5 (3.333%) CCIE
8 4 (2.667%) CCNA
8 4 (2.667%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.667%) JNCIE
8 4 (2.667%) MCITP
9 3 (2.000%) CCNP
10 2 (1.333%) CCDP
10 2 (1.333%) CCA
10 2 (1.333%) Citrix Certification
11 1 (0.667%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.667%) SLA
1 4 (2.667%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.000%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.333%) QA
3 2 (1.333%) COBIT
4 1 (0.667%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 84 (56.00%) Active Directory
2 42 (28.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (12.67%) vSphere
4 14 (9.333%) NFS
5 10 (6.667%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (6.000%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 8 (5.333%) VMware ESX
8 7 (4.667%) Hyper-V
9 6 (4.000%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (2.667%) ISA Server
10 4 (2.667%) DFS Replication
10 4 (2.667%) XenApp
10 4 (2.667%) XenDesktop
11 3 (2.000%) Terminal Services
12 2 (1.333%) ProxySG
12 2 (1.333%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (1.333%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (1.333%) Forefront TMG
13 1 (0.667%) XenServer
13 1 (0.667%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 21 (14.00%) SCCM
2 20 (13.33%) SCOM
3 9 (6.000%) WSUS
4 6 (4.000%) Backup Exec
4 6 (4.000%) Norton AntiVirus
5 5 (3.333%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 4 (2.667%) Legato
6 4 (2.667%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 4 (2.667%) Tivoli
6 4 (2.667%) McAfee ePO
6 4 (2.667%) HP Data Protector
6 4 (2.667%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.000%) Puppet
7 3 (2.000%) HP SIM
8 2 (1.333%) MAILsweeper
8 2 (1.333%) Tivoli Monitoring
8 2 (1.333%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (1.333%) Nagios
8 2 (1.333%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
9 1 (0.667%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 56 (37.33%) VMware
2 55 (36.67%) Microsoft
3 33 (22.00%) Citrix
3 33 (22.00%) Cisco
4 25 (16.67%) HP
5 21 (14.00%) Symantec
5 21 (14.00%) Red Hat
6 17 (11.33%) EMC
7 12 (8.000%) F5
8 11 (7.333%) Juniper
9 9 (6.000%) Sophos
10 8 (5.333%) Veritas
10 8 (5.333%) Dell
11 7 (4.667%) Apple
12 5 (3.333%) Oracle
12 5 (3.333%) IBM
12 5 (3.333%) Sun
13 4 (2.667%) Sourcefire
13 4 (2.667%) Reuters
13 4 (2.667%) Bloomberg
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