The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 17 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 Essex 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 32 40 42
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +2
Contract jobs citing DNS 14 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 3.440% 0.976% 2.025%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.29% 8.889% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 4
Average daily rate £325 £110 £244
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+195.45% -54.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £110 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £110 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £400 £286
% change year-on-year
-26.25% +39.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-38.46% +4.00%
All Communications & Networking
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
69 45 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 16.95% 10.98% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 17 9
Average daily rate £325 £363 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.34% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £137 £176
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 16
Average hourly rate £25.00 £21.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.27% -6.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £14.70 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.92 £28.30 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
DNS
East of England

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex DNS Hourly Rate Trend

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 17 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
Colchester +5 6 £413 -
Brentwood - 3 £325 -
Basildon - 2 - -
DNS
East of England

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 14 (82.35%) DHCP
2 10 (58.82%) Citrix
2 10 (58.82%) Firewall
3 9 (52.94%) TCP/IP
3 9 (52.94%) C
3 9 (52.94%) Linux
4 7 (41.18%) Cisco
4 7 (41.18%) VMware
4 7 (41.18%) Juniper
4 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
5 5 (29.41%) Wireless
5 5 (29.41%) WAN
6 4 (23.53%) CGI
6 4 (23.53%) FTP
6 4 (23.53%) HTTP
6 4 (23.53%) ClearCase
6 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
6 4 (23.53%) Broadband
6 4 (23.53%) VoIP
6 4 (23.53%) HTML
6 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
6 4 (23.53%) Finance
6 4 (23.53%) Embedded C
6 4 (23.53%) CCIE
6 4 (23.53%) CCNP
6 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
6 4 (23.53%) HP
6 4 (23.53%) Thin Client
6 4 (23.53%) CheckPoint

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 4 (23.53%) HTML
1 4 (23.53%) CGI
2 2 (11.76%) WebSphere
3 1 (5.882%) LAMP
3 1 (5.882%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
1 2 (11.76%) MS Exchange
1 2 (11.76%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (11.76%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (5.882%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Office
2 2 (11.76%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (82.35%) DHCP
2 10 (58.82%) Firewall
3 9 (52.94%) TCP/IP
4 5 (29.41%) Wireless
4 5 (29.41%) WAN
5 4 (23.53%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (23.53%) 802.11
5 4 (23.53%) OSPF
5 4 (23.53%) DSL
5 4 (23.53%) TELNET
5 4 (23.53%) NetScreen
5 4 (23.53%) BIG-IP
5 4 (23.53%) UPnP
5 4 (23.53%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (23.53%) Network Security
5 4 (23.53%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (23.53%) 4G
5 4 (23.53%) DLNA
5 4 (23.53%) DMVPN
5 4 (23.53%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.882%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) ClearCase
1 4 (23.53%) JIRA
1 4 (23.53%) Trac
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Software Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Network Specialist
2 4 (23.53%) Network Security Specialist
2 4 (23.53%) Security Specialist
2 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Citrix Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Citrix Support
3 2 (11.76%) Citrix Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Server Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Fat Client
1 4 (23.53%) Thin Client
2 3 (17.65%) Streaming Media
3 2 (11.76%) iPhone
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
3 2 (11.76%) PaaS
3 2 (11.76%) iPad
3 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (11.76%) IaaS
4 1 (5.882%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Linux
2 4 (23.53%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (17.65%) Windows
4 2 (11.76%) Windows XP
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Vista
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (11.76%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) E-Commerce
1 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
1 4 (23.53%) Project Management
2 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (11.76%) Identity Management
3 2 (11.76%) TOGAF
3 2 (11.76%) Document Management
4 1 (5.882%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
4 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery
4 1 (5.882%) Change Control
4 1 (5.882%) OO
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) C
2 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
2 4 (23.53%) Embedded C
3 1 (5.882%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CCIE
1 4 (23.53%) CCNP
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (23.53%) CCSE
2 1 (5.882%) MCP
2 1 (5.882%) MCSE
2 1 (5.882%) MCSA
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) ProxySG
3 3 (17.65%) Xen
3 3 (17.65%) XenServer
4 1 (5.882%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco UCCX
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (11.76%) WSUS
3 1 (5.882%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Citrix
2 7 (41.18%) Juniper
2 7 (41.18%) Cisco
2 7 (41.18%) VMware
3 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
4 4 (23.53%) HP
4 4 (23.53%) CheckPoint
4 4 (23.53%) Blue Coat
4 4 (23.53%) Infoblox
4 4 (23.53%) Imperva
4 4 (23.53%) F5
5 2 (11.76%) JBoss
5 2 (11.76%) IBM
6 1 (5.882%) McAfee
6 1 (5.882%) LANDesk