The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 20 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 Docklands, 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 23 30 45
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +15
Contract jobs citing DNS 6 1 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 3.509% 0.457% 3.051%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 27.27% 5.000% 36.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 15
Average daily rate £450 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -17.64%
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £393 £290
% change year-on-year
-25.47% +35.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £25.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-37.25% +2.00%
All Communications & Networking
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
22 20 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 12.87% 9.132% 8.475%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 29
Average daily rate £375 £455 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.58% +7.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £220 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £491 £625 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £47.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +106.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
DNS
London

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 6 (100.00%) SAN
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) NFS
2 4 (66.67%) Perl
2 4 (66.67%) Solaris
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) LDAP
2 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 4 (66.67%) SUSE
2 4 (66.67%) Equities
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 4 (66.67%) UNIX
3 3 (50.00%) C
3 3 (50.00%) C++
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (33.33%) MS Office
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
4 2 (33.33%) Windows NT
4 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
4 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
4 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000
4 2 (33.33%) MCSE
4 2 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (33.33%) IBM
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) HP

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
2 4 (66.67%) LDAP
3 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) WinRunner
1 2 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 2 (33.33%) MSI
1 2 (33.33%) InstallShield
1 2 (33.33%) Bugzilla
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Solaris
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) SUSE
1 4 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Vista
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000
2 2 (33.33%) Windows NT
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Perl
1 4 (66.67%) Shell Script
2 3 (50.00%) C
2 3 (50.00%) C++
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) MCSE
1 2 (33.33%) ISEB
1 2 (33.33%) CCA
1 2 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (33.33%) ISEB Practitioner
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) NFS
1 4 (66.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) XenApp
2 2 (33.33%) XenServer
2 2 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Tivoli
1 2 (33.33%) MOM
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
1 2 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) Compaq
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Sybase