Dorset DNS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the Dorset 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Barking Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Falkirk Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Preston Reading Redditch Romford Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Witham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	30
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	15	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	18.75 %	11.76 %
Daily rates quoted	7	3
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£400
Average daily rate	£363	£417
% change on same period last year	-12.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£433
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£363
% change on same period last year	-10.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.50	£39.38
Average hourly rate	£32.63	£39.38
% change on same period last year	-17.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.75	£39.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.67	£25.17
% change on same period last year	-5.95 %
Communications & Networking Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	80	119
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.106 %	0.119 %
Daily rates quoted	28	46
Average minimum daily rate	£288	£313
Average daily rate	£328	£329
% change on same period last year	-0.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.75	£33.49
Average hourly rate	£23.05	£34.89
% change on same period last year	-33.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.36	£36.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.72	£28.70
% change on same period last year	-10.38 %
DNS South West

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 Dorset 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 Dorset region.

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

DNS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Poole	+5	4	£328	-
Bournemouth	+2	1	£425	+2.00 %

DNS South West

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 17 (94.44 %) DHCP 2 12 (66.67 %) HP 3 11 (61.11 %) Active Directory 4 9 (50.00 %) Microsoft 4 9 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 4 9 (50.00 %) VMware 4 9 (50.00 %) VMware ESX 5 8 (44.44 %) Windows 6 7 (38.89 %) Cisco 6 7 (38.89 %) VERITAS 6 7 (38.89 %) Windows Server 2003 6 7 (38.89 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 6 (33.33 %) ISA Server 7 6 (33.33 %) Clustering 7 6 (33.33 %) SAN

7 6 (33.33 %) SQL 8 5 (27.78 %) Windows XP 8 5 (27.78 %) CiscoWorks 8 5 (27.78 %) OpenView 8 5 (27.78 %) Backup Exec 8 5 (27.78 %) Symantec 8 5 (27.78 %) McAfee Security 8 5 (27.78 %) NNM 8 5 (27.78 %) Security Cleared 9 4 (22.22 %) MS Excel 9 4 (22.22 %) SMS 10 3 (16.67 %) NFS 10 3 (16.67 %) UNIX 10 3 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 10 3 (16.67 %) Finance

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 9 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (38.89 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 2 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 2 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 4 (22.22 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 17 (94.44 %) DHCP 2 6 (33.33 %) SAN 3 4 (22.22 %) SMS 4 3 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (11.11 %) LDAP 6 1 (5.556 %) RIP 6 1 (5.556 %) Ethernet 6 1 (5.556 %) VoIP 6 1 (5.556 %) Firewall 6 1 (5.556 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 1 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 3 (16.67 %) Finance 1 3 (16.67 %) Aerospace 2 1 (5.556 %) Government	Job Titles 1 7 (38.89 %) Consultant 2 6 (33.33 %) Infrastructure Consultant 3 5 (27.78 %) Systems Support 4 4 (22.22 %) Systems Support Engineer 4 4 (22.22 %) Support Engineer 4 4 (22.22 %) Systems Engineer 5 3 (16.67 %) Microsoft Infrastructure Consultant 5 3 (16.67 %) Support Analyst 5 3 (16.67 %) Analyst 5 3 (16.67 %) Microsoft Consultant 6 2 (11.11 %) Systems Administrator 6 2 (11.11 %) Administrator 6 2 (11.11 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 2 (11.11 %) UNIX Administrator 7 1 (5.556 %) Systems Support Analyst 7 1 (5.556 %) Network Engineer 7 1 (5.556 %) Systems Analyst 7 1 (5.556 %) Technical Consultant 7 1 (5.556 %) Messaging Analyst 7 1 (5.556 %) Messaging Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 6 (33.33 %) Clustering 2 2 (11.11 %) Replication 3 1 (5.556 %) Thin Client 3 1 (5.556 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 8 (44.44 %) Windows 2 7 (38.89 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (27.78 %) Windows XP 4 3 (16.67 %) UNIX 5 2 (11.11 %) Red Hat Linux 5 2 (11.11 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 2 (11.11 %) AIX 5 2 (11.11 %) Solaris 5 2 (11.11 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (27.78 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (11.11 %) Release Management 2 2 (11.11 %) Change Management 2 2 (11.11 %) Migration 3 1 (5.556 %) Data Protection 3 1 (5.556 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 6 (33.33 %) SQL 2 2 (11.11 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 2 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (11.11 %) MCP 1 2 (11.11 %) MCSE 1 2 (11.11 %) MCSA 2 1 (5.556 %) CCNP 2 1 (5.556 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 11 (61.11 %) Active Directory 2 9 (50.00 %) VMware ESX 3 6 (33.33 %) ISA Server 4 5 (27.78 %) Backup Exec 5 3 (16.67 %) NFS 6 2 (11.11 %) MailMarshal 6 2 (11.11 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 5 (27.78 %) CiscoWorks 1 5 (27.78 %) OpenView 1 5 (27.78 %) NNM 2 2 (11.11 %) WSUS 2 2 (11.11 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 2 2 (11.11 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (11.11 %) MAILsweeper 2 2 (11.11 %) AutoSys 2 2 (11.11 %) MOM	Vendors 1 12 (66.67 %) HP 2 9 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 9 (50.00 %) VMware 3 7 (38.89 %) Cisco 3 7 (38.89 %) VERITAS 4 5 (27.78 %) Symantec 4 5 (27.78 %) McAfee Security 5 2 (11.11 %) Fujitsu 5 2 (11.11 %) Infovista 5 2 (11.11 %) IBM 5 2 (11.11 %) Sun 6 1 (5.556 %) EMC 6 1 (5.556 %) NetApp 6 1 (5.556 %) Brocade