The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Hertfordshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 43 72 53
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -19
Contract jobs citing DNS 14 6 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.147% 0.609% 1.459%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% 2.740% 7.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £150 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+133.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £338 £295
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +14.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
Average hourly rate £23.75 - £33.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 - £21.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 - £35.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £23.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year
-17.39% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
112 219 179
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 17.18% 22.23% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 48 41
Average daily rate £320 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £241 £199 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £388 £500 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 26
Average hourly rate £32.50 £17.43 £34.47
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.46% -49.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.65 £10.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £32.50 £42.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
DNS
East of England

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Hemel Hempstead - 8 £350 - 2
Watford - 2 - -
Welwyn Garden City - - - - 1
Borehamwood - - - -
Hitchin - - - -
Letchworth - - - -
Rickmansworth - - - -
St Albans - - - - 2
DNS
East of England

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 17 (85.00%) DHCP
2 14 (70.00%) Windows
2 14 (70.00%) Active Directory
3 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
4 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (35.00%) MS Exchange
5 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (30.00%) Linux
5 6 (30.00%) UNIX
5 6 (30.00%) SQL
5 6 (30.00%) VMware
5 6 (30.00%) Clustering
6 5 (25.00%) Firewall
6 5 (25.00%) Retail
6 5 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 5 (25.00%) WAN
6 5 (25.00%) Terminal Services
7 4 (20.00%) SAN
7 4 (20.00%) Veritas
7 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
7 4 (20.00%) Sophos
7 4 (20.00%) Blackberry
7 4 (20.00%) HP
7 4 (20.00%) Citrix
7 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
7 4 (20.00%) ITIL
7 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (10.00%) .NET
1 2 (10.00%) ASP
1 2 (10.00%) Flash
2 1 (5.000%) Memcached
2 1 (5.000%) Gearman
2 1 (5.000%) HTML
2 1 (5.000%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.000%) COM+
2 1 (5.000%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 7 (35.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (15.00%) IIS
4 2 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (5.000%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 17 (85.00%) DHCP
2 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (25.00%) WAN
3 5 (25.00%) Firewall
4 4 (20.00%) SAN
5 3 (15.00%) LAN
5 3 (15.00%) VLAN
6 2 (10.00%) NAS
6 2 (10.00%) MPLS
6 2 (10.00%) SSH
7 1 (5.000%) VPN
7 1 (5.000%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.000%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.000%) Subversion
General
1 5 (25.00%) Retail
2 4 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix Support
3 2 (10.00%) Services Delivery Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Server Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix Server Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Server Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Clustering
2 4 (20.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (10.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 14 (70.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (30.00%) UNIX
4 6 (30.00%) Linux
5 2 (10.00%) Windows 2000
5 2 (10.00%) VMS
5 2 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 2 (10.00%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.000%) Debian
6 1 (5.000%) Ubuntu
6 1 (5.000%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (20.00%) ITIL
1 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (10.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (10.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (5.000%) Network Architecture
3 1 (5.000%) Capacity Management
3 1 (5.000%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.000%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.000%) Bash shell
3 1 (5.000%) Perl
3 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.000%) VB
3 1 (5.000%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.000%) VB6
3 1 (5.000%) Korn
3 1 (5.000%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (25.00%) Terminal Services
3 2 (10.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (10.00%) MetaFrame
3 2 (10.00%) XenApp
3 2 (10.00%) vSphere
3 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.000%) Varnish
4 1 (5.000%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (5.000%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (5.000%) Puppet
2 1 (5.000%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) VMware
3 4 (20.00%) Sophos
3 4 (20.00%) HP
3 4 (20.00%) Citrix
3 4 (20.00%) Veritas
3 4 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco
5 2 (10.00%) Symantec
5 2 (10.00%) McAfee
5 2 (10.00%) Acronis
6 1 (5.000%) F5
6 1 (5.000%) Infoblox