The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Croydon 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 Croydon 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 9 24 28
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +4
Contract jobs citing DNS 9 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 12.33% 0.806% 1.274%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 3.571% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £340 - £438
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 - £428
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 - £448
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £338 £300
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £23.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year
-17.39% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
Croydon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
27 28 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Croydon 36.99% 22.58% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 23
Average daily rate £325 £498 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.67% +18.45%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £388 £345
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £588 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £15.00 - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
DNS
London

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon 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 Croydon region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 10 (100.00%) DHCP
1 10 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (60.00%) MS Exchange
3 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (50.00%) LAN
4 5 (50.00%) WAN
4 5 (50.00%) SQL
4 5 (50.00%) MS Office
4 5 (50.00%) VMware
4 5 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (40.00%) Windows XP
6 3 (30.00%) Cisco
6 3 (30.00%) Adobe
6 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (30.00%) Photoshop
6 3 (30.00%) Linux
6 3 (30.00%) VMware Server
6 3 (30.00%) SCCM
6 3 (30.00%) Firewall
6 3 (30.00%) Finance
6 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (30.00%) Windows 2000 Server
6 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
7 2 (20.00%) vSphere

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Croydon 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 6 (60.00%) MS Exchange
2 5 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 5 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (20.00%) IBM Notes
3 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MS Office
2 3 (30.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DHCP
1 10 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (50.00%) LAN
2 5 (50.00%) WAN
3 3 (30.00%) Firewall
4 2 (20.00%) IPsec
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
5 1 (10.00%) DMZ
5 1 (10.00%) SNMP
5 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Network Manager
1 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Support Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Support Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Firmware
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
1 9 (90.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (40.00%) Windows XP
4 3 (30.00%) Linux
4 3 (30.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 3 (30.00%) Windows 7
5 2 (20.00%) AIX
5 2 (20.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (10.00%) Data Management
2 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Server
3 2 (20.00%) vSphere
3 2 (20.00%) XenApp
4 1 (10.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) WSUS
2 1 (10.00%) WMI
2 1 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (10.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) Adobe
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 2 (20.00%) Lotus
4 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) Dell
5 1 (10.00%) McAfee