The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley 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 Crawley 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 16 33 23
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -10
Contract jobs citing DNS 8 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 5.333% 0.760% 1.695%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 32.00% 11.76% 5.405%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
Average daily rate £400 £363 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £400 £286
% change year-on-year
-26.25% +39.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-38.46% +4.00%
All Communications & Networking
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
25 17 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 16.67% 6.464% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 5
Average daily rate £400 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £140 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £425 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 5
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
DNS
West Sussex

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 9 (81.82%) DHCP
3 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
4 7 (63.64%) vSphere
5 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
5 6 (54.55%) MS Exchange
5 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (45.45%) VMware ESX
6 5 (45.45%) Firewall
6 5 (45.45%) Linux
6 5 (45.45%) HP
6 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
6 5 (45.45%) VPN
6 5 (45.45%) Cisco
6 5 (45.45%) Finance
7 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2003
7 4 (36.36%) XenApp
7 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (36.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 4 (36.36%) Citrix
7 4 (36.36%) SAN
8 3 (27.27%) Avaya
8 3 (27.27%) Juniper
8 3 (27.27%) CheckPoint
8 3 (27.27%) IPsec
8 3 (27.27%) SSL
8 3 (27.27%) WAN
8 3 (27.27%) LAN

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) MS Exchange
2 4 (36.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (18.18%) IIS
3 2 (18.18%) Apache
3 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (18.18%) Zimbra
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Office
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) DHCP
2 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
2 5 (45.45%) VPN
2 5 (45.45%) Firewall
3 4 (36.36%) SAN
4 3 (27.27%) SSL
4 3 (27.27%) WAN
4 3 (27.27%) LAN
4 3 (27.27%) IPsec
5 2 (18.18%) IP Telephony
5 2 (18.18%) ADSL
5 2 (18.18%) Broadband
6 1 (9.091%) ISDN
6 1 (9.091%) WLAN
6 1 (9.091%) SMTP
6 1 (9.091%) HTTP
6 1 (9.091%) Wireless
6 1 (9.091%) DMZ
6 1 (9.091%) OSPF
6 1 (9.091%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Online Betting
3 2 (18.18%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Support Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Support Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Server Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Wintel Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) IT Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) IT Support
4 1 (9.091%) Windows Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Server Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Clustering
1 1 (9.091%) IVR
1 1 (9.091%) SecurID
1 1 (9.091%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (45.45%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Windows XP
4 2 (18.18%) AIX
4 2 (18.18%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (9.091%) ITIL
2 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
2 1 (9.091%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (63.64%) vSphere
3 5 (45.45%) VMware ESX
4 4 (36.36%) XenApp
5 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
6 2 (18.18%) Postfix
6 2 (18.18%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (9.091%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
1 2 (18.18%) FortiGate
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco IPCC
2 1 (9.091%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 5 (45.45%) HP
3 5 (45.45%) Cisco
4 4 (36.36%) Citrix
5 3 (27.27%) Avaya
5 3 (27.27%) Juniper
5 3 (27.27%) CheckPoint
6 2 (18.18%) Oracle
6 2 (18.18%) CommVault
6 2 (18.18%) Sophos
6 2 (18.18%) IBM
7 1 (9.091%) Nortel
7 1 (9.091%) CA
7 1 (9.091%) Verint
7 1 (9.091%) Remedy