Derbyshire DNS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the Derbyshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barking Basildon Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Falkirk Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hove Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	29
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	12.50 %	10.53 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£130	-
Average daily rate	£130	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£130	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£351
% change on same period last year	-3.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	£23.13
Average hourly rate	£13.00	£24.51
% change on same period last year	-46.96 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£25.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.08	£26.52
% change on same period last year	-5.45 %
Communications & Networking Derbyshire
Matching contract IT job ads	24	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.038 %
Daily rates quoted	11	6
Average minimum daily rate	£252	£289
Average daily rate	£270	£292
% change on same period last year	-7.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£289	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.50	£17.39
Average hourly rate	£14.67	£19.45
% change on same period last year	-24.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.83	£21.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
DNS East Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

DNS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DNS across the Derbyshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

DNS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DNS across the Derbyshire region.

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DNS across the Derbyshire region.

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Derby	-4	3	£130	-

DNS East Midlands

DNS
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) MCP 2 2 (66.67 %) HND 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) LAN 2 2 (66.67 %) WAN 2 2 (66.67 %) DHCP 3 1 (33.33 %) NHS 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) MOM 3 1 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (33.33 %) Banking 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows

3 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (33.33 %) Intel 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 (33.33 %) SharePoint 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) LAN 1 2 (66.67 %) WAN 1 2 (66.67 %) DHCP
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Author 1 1 (33.33 %) Technical Author
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003
Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) MCP 1 2 (66.67 %) HND 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) MOM 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Intel 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix