The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 83 81 90
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +9
Contract jobs citing DNS 21 18 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.357% 1.123% 0.919%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.796% 5.751% 6.320%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 5
Average daily rate £420 £325 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.23% +14.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £230 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £512 £450 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £400 £286
% change year-on-year
-26.25% +39.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
Average hourly rate £32.50 £41.25 £27.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.21% +51.37%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-38.46% +4.00%
All Communications & Networking
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
309 313 269
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 19.96% 19.53% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 128 83
Average daily rate £339 £360 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.90% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 55 73
Average hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.81 £21.35 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
DNS
South East

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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
Southampton - 9 £475 -
Basingstoke -15 2 £358 -
Gosport - 1 £325 -
DNS
South East

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 (66.67%) Windows
2 20 (60.61%) Active Directory
3 13 (39.39%) VMware
4 12 (36.36%) SAN
5 11 (33.33%) DHCP
6 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
6 10 (30.30%) TCP/IP
7 9 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (27.27%) WAN
7 9 (27.27%) LAN
7 9 (27.27%) Migration
7 9 (27.27%) Firewall
8 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
9 7 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
9 7 (21.21%) Network Security
9 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
10 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
10 5 (15.15%) Linux
10 5 (15.15%) MS Project
10 5 (15.15%) ITIL
10 5 (15.15%) NetApp
10 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (12.12%) HP
11 4 (12.12%) VPN
11 4 (12.12%) HTTP
11 4 (12.12%) Cisco
11 4 (12.12%) PRINCE2
11 4 (12.12%) UNIX
11 4 (12.12%) MS Exchange
11 4 (12.12%) Replication

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 2 (6.061%) .NET
1 2 (6.061%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.030%) JSP
2 1 (3.030%) Ajax
2 1 (3.030%) jQuery
2 1 (3.030%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (12.12%) MS Exchange
2 3 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (6.061%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (6.061%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (3.030%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) MS Project
2 1 (3.030%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.030%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (36.36%) SAN
2 11 (33.33%) DHCP
3 10 (30.30%) TCP/IP
4 9 (27.27%) Firewall
4 9 (27.27%) LAN
4 9 (27.27%) WAN
5 7 (21.21%) Network Security
6 4 (12.12%) HTTP
6 4 (12.12%) VPN
7 3 (9.091%) NAS
8 2 (6.061%) tcpdump
8 2 (6.061%) Wireshark
8 2 (6.061%) SNMP
8 2 (6.061%) FTP
9 1 (3.030%) LDAP
9 1 (3.030%) SMTP
9 1 (3.030%) Ethernet
9 1 (3.030%) Internet
9 1 (3.030%) HTTPS
9 1 (3.030%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.061%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.030%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (3.030%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (3.030%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (3.030%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (9.091%) Telecoms
2 2 (6.061%) Finance
2 2 (6.061%) French Language
3 1 (3.030%) Law
3 1 (3.030%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.030%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Support Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Project Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (9.091%) Analyst
6 2 (6.061%) Support Analyst
6 2 (6.061%) Network Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (6.061%) Design Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (6.061%) IP Network Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) Network Design Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) Wintel Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) IP Engineer
7 1 (3.030%) VMware Architect
7 1 (3.030%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (3.030%) Windows Server Engineer
7 1 (3.030%) Senior Web Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Replication
2 2 (6.061%) Clustering
3 1 (3.030%) SaaS
3 1 (3.030%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.030%) MPEG
3 1 (3.030%) PMI
3 1 (3.030%) DTV
3 1 (3.030%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 22 (66.67%) Windows
2 9 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (15.15%) Linux
4 4 (12.12%) UNIX
5 3 (9.091%) Windows 7
6 2 (6.061%) Windows XP
7 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (3.030%) Windows 2000
7 1 (3.030%) AIX
7 1 (3.030%) Solaris
7 1 (3.030%) CentOS
7 1 (3.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Migration
2 5 (15.15%) ITIL
2 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (12.12%) PRINCE2
4 3 (9.091%) Project Management
4 3 (9.091%) Content Management
4 3 (9.091%) Operations Management
4 3 (9.091%) Data Migration
5 2 (6.061%) Test Scripting
5 2 (6.061%) System Testing
5 2 (6.061%) Network Design
5 2 (6.061%) Software Testing
5 2 (6.061%) Workflow
6 1 (3.030%) Change Management
6 1 (3.030%) OOP
6 1 (3.030%) OO
6 1 (3.030%) ERP
6 1 (3.030%) Incident Management
6 1 (3.030%) Use Case
6 1 (3.030%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.030%) C
1 1 (3.030%) C#
1 1 (3.030%) JavaScript
1 1 (3.030%) SQL
1 1 (3.030%) T-SQL
1 1 (3.030%) Python
1 1 (3.030%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (9.091%) CCNA
4 2 (6.061%) MCSE
4 2 (6.061%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (6.061%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.030%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.030%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.030%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.030%) Degree
5 1 (3.030%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (3.030%) HNC
5 1 (3.030%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.030%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 20 (60.61%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.091%) vSphere
4 2 (6.061%) Terminal Server
5 1 (3.030%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (6.061%) OpenView
1 2 (6.061%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (39.39%) VMware
2 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.15%) NetApp
4 4 (12.12%) HP
4 4 (12.12%) Cisco
5 3 (9.091%) IBM
5 3 (9.091%) Citrix
6 2 (6.061%) Juniper
6 2 (6.061%) Nortel
6 2 (6.061%) Symantec
6 2 (6.061%) 3Com
7 1 (3.030%) Oracle
7 1 (3.030%) BT
7 1 (3.030%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.030%) Blue Coat
7 1 (3.030%) Sourcefire
7 1 (3.030%) Lumension
7 1 (3.030%) CA
7 1 (3.030%) Motorola