DNS Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 24 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 Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 50 43 59
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +16
Contract jobs citing DNS 7 20 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.840% 1.840% 0.695%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.235% 14.60% 7.826%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 12 4
Average daily rate - £325 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £375 £289
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +29.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £25.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-32.00% +16.27%
All Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 85 137 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 10.20% 12.60% 8.880%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 57 31
Average daily rate £363 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £243 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £423 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
Average hourly rate £9.20 £32.00 £15.58
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-71.25% +105.39%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
DNS
Scotland

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh DNS Daily Rate Trend

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 22 (81.48%) Windows
2 14 (51.85%) DHCP
2 14 (51.85%) TCP/IP
2 14 (51.85%) Active Directory
3 13 (48.15%) SQL
3 13 (48.15%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (40.74%) UNIX
4 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
5 10 (37.04%) LDAP
5 10 (37.04%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (33.33%) VMware
6 9 (33.33%) Linux
7 8 (29.63%) Oracle
7 8 (29.63%) SQLPlus
7 8 (29.63%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (29.63%) Data Guard
7 8 (29.63%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (25.93%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (25.93%) Finance
8 7 (25.93%) Shell Script
8 7 (25.93%) RDBMS
8 7 (25.93%) HP
9 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
9 6 (22.22%) PL/SQL
9 6 (22.22%) Banking
10 5 (18.52%) Oracle Application Server
10 5 (18.52%) Oracle BI EE
10 5 (18.52%) Oracle Exadata
10 5 (18.52%) WebLogic
10 5 (18.52%) MS Exchange

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (18.52%) Oracle Application Server
1 5 (18.52%) WebLogic
1 5 (18.52%) MS Exchange
2 4 (14.81%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (14.81%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (7.407%) Apache
3 2 (7.407%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 3 (11.11%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (7.407%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) DHCP
1 14 (51.85%) TCP/IP
2 10 (37.04%) LDAP
3 4 (14.81%) Internet
3 4 (14.81%) LAN
3 4 (14.81%) WAN
4 3 (11.11%) Firewall
4 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (7.407%) Network Security
6 1 (3.704%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (3.704%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) SQLPlus
2 7 (25.93%) RDBMS
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle BI EE
3 5 (18.52%) Oracle Exadata
4 2 (7.407%) Essbase
4 2 (7.407%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (3.704%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) Systems Administrator
2 7 (25.93%) Administrator
3 5 (18.52%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Support Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
5 3 (11.11%) IT Support
5 3 (11.11%) DBA
5 3 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Oracle Applications DBA
6 2 (7.407%) Business Consultant
6 2 (7.407%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (7.407%) Server Engineer
6 2 (7.407%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Consultant
6 2 (7.407%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (7.407%) Senior Technical Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) E-Business Consultant
7 1 (3.704%) Wintel Server Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.407%) Handset
1 2 (7.407%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.704%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 22 (81.48%) Windows
2 13 (48.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (40.74%) UNIX
4 10 (37.04%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (33.33%) Linux
6 4 (14.81%) Windows 2000
6 4 (14.81%) Solaris
7 3 (11.11%) Windows 7
7 3 (11.11%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (7.407%) ITIL
1 2 (7.407%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (3.704%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (3.704%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) Shell Script
3 6 (22.22%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.407%) VBScript
4 2 (7.407%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.704%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (7.407%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (7.407%) MCSA
1 2 (7.407%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (7.407%) MCITP
2 1 (3.704%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.704%) CCNP
2 1 (3.704%) CCNA
System Software
1 14 (51.85%) Active Directory
2 8 (29.63%) Oracle RAC
2 8 (29.63%) Oracle RMAN
3 4 (14.81%) vSphere
3 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (11.11%) SRDF
4 3 (11.11%) DFS Replication
4 3 (11.11%) Samba
5 2 (7.407%) Terminal Services
6 1 (3.704%) XenApp
6 1 (3.704%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Data Guard
2 4 (14.81%) Backup Exec
2 4 (14.81%) WSUS
3 2 (7.407%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (7.407%) WMI
Vendors
1 11 (40.74%) Microsoft
2 9 (33.33%) VMware
3 8 (29.63%) Oracle
4 7 (25.93%) HP
5 4 (14.81%) Veeam
6 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
7 2 (7.407%) Nortel
7 2 (7.407%) Citrix
7 2 (7.407%) IBM
8 1 (3.704%) Intel
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