DNS Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 21 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 East of England 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 57 100 80
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -20
Contract jobs citing DNS 64 31 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 2.936% 1.055% 1.779%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.41% 5.905% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 8 10
Average daily rate £325 £313 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +45.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £199 £138 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £350 £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £375 £289
% change year-on-year
-20.66% +29.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 20
Average hourly rate £18.25 £52.50 £13.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-65.23% +281.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £52.50 £12.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.25 £55.70 £33.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £25.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-36.00% -2.91%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 390 525 428
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.89% 17.88% 16.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 173 128
Average daily rate £325 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £200 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £481
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 51 83
Average hourly rate £19.00 £32.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.53% +18.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £52.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
DNS
England

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England DNS Hourly Rate Histogram

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 East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridgeshire +15 19 £263 -2.32%
Essex +8 15 £325 +195.45%
Hertfordshire +21 14 £350 +7.69%
Bedfordshire - 7 £325 -
Norfolk - 6 £225 -
Suffolk +5 3 - -
DNS
England

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 87 (73.11%) DHCP
2 78 (65.55%) Windows
3 73 (61.34%) Active Directory
4 59 (49.58%) Microsoft
5 51 (42.86%) MS Exchange
5 51 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
6 48 (40.34%) VMware
7 43 (36.13%) ITIL
8 42 (35.29%) TCP/IP
9 40 (33.61%) Linux
9 40 (33.61%) SQL
10 33 (27.73%) IIS
11 31 (26.05%) Exchange Server 2007
11 31 (26.05%) Exchange Server 2010
12 29 (24.37%) Firewall
13 26 (21.85%) Citrix
14 23 (19.33%) HP
14 23 (19.33%) VMware Infrastructure
15 21 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
15 21 (17.65%) Windows XP
16 20 (16.81%) Cisco
17 19 (15.97%) WAN
18 18 (15.13%) Apache
18 18 (15.13%) Perl
18 18 (15.13%) Red Hat
19 17 (14.29%) LAN
20 15 (12.61%) Oracle
20 15 (12.61%) SQL Server
20 15 (12.61%) Windows 7
20 15 (12.61%) Forefront TMG

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 Development
1 5 (4.202%) HTML
1 5 (4.202%) Flash
2 4 (3.361%) CGI
2 4 (3.361%) Middleware
3 3 (2.521%) HTML5
3 3 (2.521%) Web Services
3 3 (2.521%) Silverlight
4 2 (1.681%) .NET
4 2 (1.681%) ASP
4 2 (1.681%) COM
5 1 (0.840%) Memcached
5 1 (0.840%) Gearman
5 1 (0.840%) COM+
5 1 (0.840%) CSS
5 1 (0.840%) SOAP
5 1 (0.840%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.840%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.840%) Application Packaging
5 1 (0.840%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 51 (42.86%) MS Exchange
2 33 (27.73%) IIS
3 31 (26.05%) Exchange Server 2007
3 31 (26.05%) Exchange Server 2010
4 18 (15.13%) Apache
5 13 (10.92%) Exchange Server 2003
6 7 (5.882%) Tomcat
7 4 (3.361%) SharePoint
8 3 (2.521%) Amazon AWS
9 2 (1.681%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (1.681%) Lync
10 1 (0.840%) WebSphere MQ
10 1 (0.840%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.840%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 13 (10.92%) MS Excel
2 11 (9.244%) MS Office
3 2 (1.681%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.681%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 6 (5.042%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 87 (73.11%) DHCP
2 42 (35.29%) TCP/IP
3 29 (24.37%) Firewall
4 19 (15.97%) WAN
5 17 (14.29%) LAN
6 14 (11.76%) SAN
7 13 (10.92%) DMZ
7 13 (10.92%) VoIP
8 12 (10.08%) Wireless
8 12 (10.08%) BIG-IP
8 12 (10.08%) VPN
9 9 (7.563%) FTP
9 9 (7.563%) HTTP
10 8 (6.723%) NAS
10 8 (6.723%) VLAN
11 7 (5.882%) Broadband
11 7 (5.882%) Network Security
11 7 (5.882%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (5.042%) Cisco IOS
13 5 (4.202%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.61%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (2.521%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (0.840%) MySQL
4 1 (0.840%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.840%) DTS
4 1 (0.840%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.840%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.202%) JIRA
2 4 (3.361%) ClearCase
2 4 (3.361%) Trac
3 1 (0.840%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.840%) Subversion
General
1 6 (5.042%) Publishing
2 5 (4.202%) Back Office
3 4 (3.361%) Telecoms
3 4 (3.361%) Retail
4 3 (2.521%) Finance
4 3 (2.521%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.521%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 26 (21.85%) Administrator
2 25 (21.01%) Systems Administrator
3 18 (15.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (13.45%) Analyst
5 10 (8.403%) Support Engineer
5 10 (8.403%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (5.882%) Linux Administrator
7 6 (5.042%) Technical Analyst
7 6 (5.042%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 6 (5.042%) Network Specialist
7 6 (5.042%) Developer
8 5 (4.202%) Support Analyst
8 5 (4.202%) E-Commerce Specialist
8 5 (4.202%) Network Security Specialist
8 5 (4.202%) Security Specialist
8 5 (4.202%) Senior Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.202%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.202%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.361%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.361%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.08%) Blackberry
2 10 (8.403%) PKI
3 6 (5.042%) Clustering
3 6 (5.042%) Streaming Media
4 5 (4.202%) Thin Client
4 5 (4.202%) Fat Client
5 4 (3.361%) iPhone
6 2 (1.681%) iPad
7 1 (0.840%) IaaS
7 1 (0.840%) HP StorageWorks
7 1 (0.840%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.840%) SaaS
7 1 (0.840%) PaaS
7 1 (0.840%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.840%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 78 (65.55%) Windows
2 51 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 40 (33.61%) Linux
4 21 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
4 21 (17.65%) Windows XP
5 15 (12.61%) Windows 7
6 13 (10.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (9.244%) UNIX
8 8 (6.723%) Windows 8
9 7 (5.882%) HPUX
10 5 (4.202%) Windows 2000 Server
11 4 (3.361%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (3.361%) Windows 2000
12 2 (1.681%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (36.13%) ITIL
2 13 (10.92%) Configuration Management
2 13 (10.92%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (9.244%) Project Management
4 10 (8.403%) Migration
5 9 (7.563%) PRINCE
5 9 (7.563%) PRINCE2
5 9 (7.563%) ERP
6 8 (6.723%) E-Commerce
7 7 (5.882%) Infrastructure Management
8 6 (5.042%) Data Analysis
9 4 (3.361%) Service Delivery
10 3 (2.521%) Capacity Planning
10 3 (2.521%) Benchmarking
10 3 (2.521%) Change Management
10 3 (2.521%) Test Automation
10 3 (2.521%) E-business
11 2 (1.681%) Root Cause Analysis
12 1 (0.840%) Network Architecture
12 1 (0.840%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 40 (33.61%) SQL
2 18 (15.13%) Perl
3 10 (8.403%) C
4 9 (7.563%) Shell Script
4 9 (7.563%) Java
5 7 (5.882%) T-SQL
6 5 (4.202%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.361%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.361%) Embedded C
8 3 (2.521%) C++
8 3 (2.521%) Python
9 2 (1.681%) PHP
10 1 (0.840%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.840%) VB
10 1 (0.840%) C#
10 1 (0.840%) Korn
10 1 (0.840%) VB6
Qualifications
1 11 (9.244%) ITIL Certification
1 11 (9.244%) MCITP
2 9 (7.563%) VCP5
2 9 (7.563%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (7.563%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 9 (7.563%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.723%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.042%) OCP
4 6 (5.042%) Oracle Certification
4 6 (5.042%) RHCE
4 6 (5.042%) CCNP
5 5 (4.202%) CCIE
5 5 (4.202%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.202%) CCSE
6 4 (3.361%) MCSE
7 2 (1.681%) Degree
8 1 (0.840%) VCAP
8 1 (0.840%) CCNA
8 1 (0.840%) MCP
8 1 (0.840%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.882%) SLA
2 2 (1.681%) GAMP
2 2 (1.681%) GxP
3 1 (0.840%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 73 (61.34%) Active Directory
2 23 (19.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (12.61%) Forefront TMG
4 13 (10.92%) Hyper-V
5 10 (8.403%) VMware ESX
5 10 (8.403%) UAG
5 10 (8.403%) vSphere
6 9 (7.563%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (4.202%) ProxySG
8 4 (3.361%) XenServer
9 3 (2.521%) Terminal Services
9 3 (2.521%) Xen
9 3 (2.521%) XenApp
10 1 (0.840%) Varnish
10 1 (0.840%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.840%) NFS
10 1 (0.840%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.840%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.840%) Postfix
10 1 (0.840%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (10.92%) SCOM
2 12 (10.08%) WSUS
3 9 (7.563%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 9 (7.563%) EMC NetWorker
4 7 (5.882%) NetBackup
4 7 (5.882%) Backup Exec
5 6 (5.042%) Norton AntiVirus
5 6 (5.042%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 5 (4.202%) Cisco CUCM
6 5 (4.202%) Cisco UCCX
7 4 (3.361%) Puppet
8 3 (2.521%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.840%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.840%) MAILsweeper
9 1 (0.840%) Nagios
9 1 (0.840%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (49.58%) Microsoft
2 48 (40.34%) VMware
3 26 (21.85%) Citrix
4 23 (19.33%) HP
5 20 (16.81%) Cisco
6 18 (15.13%) Red Hat
7 15 (12.61%) Oracle
8 12 (10.08%) Symantec
9 9 (7.563%) Juniper
9 9 (7.563%) EMC
9 9 (7.563%) SAP
10 8 (6.723%) JBoss
11 6 (5.042%) Infoblox
11 6 (5.042%) Sophos
11 6 (5.042%) F5
12 5 (4.202%) CheckPoint
12 5 (4.202%) Adobe
12 5 (4.202%) McAfee
12 5 (4.202%) Imperva
12 5 (4.202%) Blue Coat
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