East Midlands DNS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Ascot Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bognor Regis Bournemouth Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hounslow Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Malvern Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	78	60
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	13	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	6.103 %	11.15 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£125	£238
Average daily rate	£138	£238
% change on same period last year	-42.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£150	£238
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£347
% change on same period last year	-7.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.50	£23.38
Average hourly rate	£21.50	£24.08
% change on same period last year	-10.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.50	£24.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.42	£25.90
% change on same period last year	-13.42 %
Communications & Networking East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	213	260
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.281 %	0.276 %
Daily rates quoted	47	54
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£282
Average daily rate	£338	£295
% change on same period last year	+14.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.70	£23.44
Average hourly rate	£16.53	£24.35
% change on same period last year	-32.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.36	£25.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
DNS England

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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing DNS within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Leicestershire	-2	7	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-14	2	-	-
Northamptonshire	-9	1	£138	-
Lincolnshire	-	1	-	-

DNS England

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 16 (76.19 %) Windows 2 15 (71.43 %) Active Directory 3 12 (57.14 %) TCP/IP 4 10 (47.62 %) DHCP 4 10 (47.62 %) Windows 2000 5 9 (42.86 %) LAN 5 9 (42.86 %) WAN 6 8 (38.10 %) VPN 6 8 (38.10 %) Firewall 7 7 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 7 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes 7 7 (33.33 %) Lotus 8 6 (28.57 %) CheckPoint 8 6 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 9 5 (23.81 %) SQL Server

9 5 (23.81 %) MS Office 9 5 (23.81 %) WINS 9 5 (23.81 %) Cisco 9 5 (23.81 %) MS Exchange 10 4 (19.05 %) Windows XP 10 4 (19.05 %) Citrix 11 3 (14.29 %) Service Management 11 3 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 11 3 (14.29 %) CA 11 3 (14.29 %) IBM 12 2 (9.524 %) Microsoft 12 2 (9.524 %) MS Visio 12 2 (9.524 %) OS/400 12 2 (9.524 %) Solaris

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 7 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes 1 7 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 5 (23.81 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (9.524 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (4.762 %) Apache	Applications 1 5 (23.81 %) MS Office 2 2 (9.524 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 2 (9.524 %) BPCS	Communications & Networking 1 12 (57.14 %) TCP/IP 2 10 (47.62 %) DHCP 3 9 (42.86 %) LAN 3 9 (42.86 %) WAN 4 8 (38.10 %) Firewall 4 8 (38.10 %) VPN 5 5 (23.81 %) WINS 6 2 (9.524 %) SAN 6 2 (9.524 %) Wireless 6 2 (9.524 %) VLAN 7 1 (4.762 %) Internet 7 1 (4.762 %) OSPF 7 1 (4.762 %) BGP 7 1 (4.762 %) EIGRP 7 1 (4.762 %) VoIP 7 1 (4.762 %) LDAP 7 1 (4.762 %) ATM 7 1 (4.762 %) Ethernet 7 1 (4.762 %) PPP 7 1 (4.762 %) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (23.81 %) SQL Server 2 3 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (9.524 %) SQL Server 7	General 1 1 (4.762 %) Telecoms 1 1 (4.762 %) Finance 1 1 (4.762 %) Government 1 1 (4.762 %) Legal 1 1 (4.762 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 7 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 4 (19.05 %) Support Analyst 2 4 (19.05 %) 3rd Line Support 3 3 (14.29 %) Systems Administrator 3 3 (14.29 %) Administrator 3 3 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (9.524 %) Network Support Analyst 4 2 (9.524 %) Network Analyst 4 2 (9.524 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 2 (9.524 %) Network Support 5 1 (4.762 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Windows Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Windows Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Solaris Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) UNIX Administrator 5 1 (4.762 %) Installations Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Server Engineer 5 1 (4.762 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.524 %) AS400 1 2 (9.524 %) Clustering 1 2 (9.524 %) Thin Client 1 2 (9.524 %) Fat Client 2 1 (4.762 %) Client/Server 2 1 (4.762 %) Blackberry 2 1 (4.762 %) IPTV 2 1 (4.762 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 16 (76.19 %) Windows 2 10 (47.62 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (19.05 %) Windows XP 5 2 (9.524 %) OS/400 5 2 (9.524 %) Windows NT 5 2 (9.524 %) Solaris 6 1 (4.762 %) Linux 6 1 (4.762 %) FreeBSD 6 1 (4.762 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (14.29 %) Service Management 2 2 (9.524 %) Migration 2 2 (9.524 %) ERP 3 1 (4.762 %) Network Design 3 1 (4.762 %) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.762 %) Perl 1 1 (4.762 %) VB	Qualifications 1 2 (9.524 %) MCSE 1 2 (9.524 %) CCNP 1 2 (9.524 %) CCNA 1 2 (9.524 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (9.524 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.762 %) MCP 2 1 (4.762 %) CCDP
System Software 1 15 (71.43 %) Active Directory 2 2 (9.524 %) Terminal Services 2 2 (9.524 %) ISA Server 3 1 (4.762 %) NetBackup 3 1 (4.762 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (4.762 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (4.762 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (4.762 %) NFS	Systems Management 1 2 (9.524 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (9.524 %) BMC PATROL 1 2 (9.524 %) ARCserve 2 1 (4.762 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 7 (33.33 %) Lotus 2 6 (28.57 %) CheckPoint 3 5 (23.81 %) Cisco 4 4 (19.05 %) Citrix 5 3 (14.29 %) IBM 5 3 (14.29 %) CA 6 2 (9.524 %) VERITAS 6 2 (9.524 %) Symantec 6 2 (9.524 %) Microsoft 6 2 (9.524 %) BMC 6 2 (9.524 %) HP 7 1 (4.762 %) Dell 7 1 (4.762 %) Sun 7 1 (4.762 %) VMware 7 1 (4.762 %) Red Hat