The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 28 23 42
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +19
Contract jobs citing DNS 10 45 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 3.690% 6.988% 1.147%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.74% 27.78% 7.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 35 1
Average daily rate £438 £500 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +20.48%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £375 £289
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +29.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £20.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £25.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-32.00% +16.27%
All Communications & Networking
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
46 162 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 16.97% 25.16% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 92 27
Average daily rate £500 £500 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +61.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £400 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
Average hourly rate £42.50 £20.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+107.31% +2.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
DNS
South West

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (96.67%) DHCP
2 29 (96.67%) UNIX
2 29 (96.67%) Red Hat
3 28 (93.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (76.67%) DV Cleared
4 23 (76.67%) Security Cleared
4 23 (76.67%) Shell Script
5 22 (73.33%) Clustering
5 22 (73.33%) C
5 22 (73.33%) Perl
6 9 (30.00%) Solaris
6 9 (30.00%) TCP/IP
6 9 (30.00%) SAN
7 7 (23.33%) VMware
7 7 (23.33%) Middleware
7 7 (23.33%) MPLS
7 7 (23.33%) Firewall
7 7 (23.33%) Cisco
7 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
7 7 (23.33%) Oracle 10g
7 7 (23.33%) Sun
7 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
7 7 (23.33%) WebLogic
7 7 (23.33%) Windows
7 7 (23.33%) Oracle
7 7 (23.33%) Load Balancing
7 7 (23.33%) Oracle RAC
7 7 (23.33%) Oracle 11g
7 7 (23.33%) GlassFish

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 7 (23.33%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) WebLogic
1 7 (23.33%) GlassFish
1 7 (23.33%) Windows Azure
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (20.00%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (3.333%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 29 (96.67%) DHCP
2 9 (30.00%) TCP/IP
2 9 (30.00%) SAN
3 7 (23.33%) MPLS
3 7 (23.33%) Firewall
4 1 (3.333%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle 10g
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle 11g
2 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 23 (76.67%) Linux Engineer
2 22 (73.33%) UNIX Engineer
3 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Architect
3 7 (23.33%) Architect
4 1 (3.333%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (73.33%) Clustering
2 7 (23.33%) PaaS
2 7 (23.33%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 30 (100.00%) Linux
2 29 (96.67%) UNIX
3 28 (93.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (30.00%) Solaris
5 7 (23.33%) Windows
6 2 (6.667%) HPUX
7 1 (3.333%) SUSE
7 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (3.333%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (23.33%) Load Balancing
2 4 (13.33%) Scrum
3 2 (6.667%) Service Management
4 1 (3.333%) Migration
4 1 (3.333%) Test Scripting
4 1 (3.333%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (76.67%) Shell Script
2 22 (73.33%) C
2 22 (73.33%) Perl
3 1 (3.333%) SQL
3 1 (3.333%) Korn
3 1 (3.333%) C-shell
3 1 (3.333%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 23 (76.67%) DV Cleared
1 23 (76.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle RAC
2 6 (20.00%) vSphere
2 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.667%) NFS
4 1 (3.333%) Samba
Vendors
1 29 (96.67%) Red Hat
2 7 (23.33%) VMware
2 7 (23.33%) Cisco
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) Sun
2 7 (23.33%) Oracle
Gloucester, South West
Infrastructure Engineer, 3rd Line Engineer,- Contract - GloucesterOur client, has an urgent requirement for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join their team-The postholder will be responsible for the...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Key skills: - Windows Server 2008 R2 - AD - Exchange 2010 - MS Clustering - WSUS - Networking technologies - TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP - VMWare Experience of HP/Cisco Networking technologies is an advantage...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £250 to £350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013