Hertfordshire DNS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bognor Regis Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Guildford Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hounslow Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	82	54
Rank change on same period last year	-28
Matching contract IT job ads	7	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.042 %
As % of the category below	2.662 %	13.46 %
Daily rates quoted	0	23
Average minimum daily rate	-	£387
Average daily rate	-	£404
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£422
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£348
% change on same period last year	-14.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£27.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£31.00
% change on same period last year	-3.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.49	£25.36
% change on same period last year	-11.33 %
Communications & Networking Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	263	312
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.351 %	0.316 %
Daily rates quoted	111	110
Average minimum daily rate	£354	£349
Average daily rate	£380	£368
% change on same period last year	+3.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£405	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.48	£18.23
Average hourly rate	£31.86	£20.39
% change on same period last year	+56.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.23	£22.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
DNS East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

DNS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DNS across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

DNS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DNS across the Hertfordshire region.

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DNS
Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Welwyn Garden City	-	1	-	-
Watford	+1	1	-	-

DNS East of England

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 19 (90.48 %) Windows 2 14 (66.67 %) Active Directory 3 13 (61.90 %) DHCP 4 11 (52.38 %) Cisco 4 11 (52.38 %) Firewall 4 11 (52.38 %) Government 5 10 (47.62 %) TCP/IP 6 9 (42.86 %) Microsoft Certification 7 8 (38.10 %) VPN 7 8 (38.10 %) MCSE 7 8 (38.10 %) Windows NT 7 8 (38.10 %) LAN 7 8 (38.10 %) Migration 7 8 (38.10 %) Cisco Certification 7 8 (38.10 %) Security Cleared

8 7 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX 8 7 (33.33 %) SAN 9 6 (28.57 %) Citrix 9 6 (28.57 %) SQL 9 6 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 9 6 (28.57 %) Data Migration 10 5 (23.81 %) SC Cleared 10 5 (23.81 %) UNIX 10 5 (23.81 %) Lotus 10 5 (23.81 %) Windows Server 2003 10 5 (23.81 %) IBM 10 5 (23.81 %) Microsoft 10 5 (23.81 %) HP 11 4 (19.05 %) OpenView Configuration Management 11 4 (19.05 %) ADSI

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 4 (19.05 %) ADO 1 4 (19.05 %) ADSI 1 4 (19.05 %) WMI 2 1 (4.762 %) WebSphere 2 1 (4.762 %) LAMP 2 1 (4.762 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 4 (19.05 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (4.762 %) Apache 2 1 (4.762 %) Tomcat 2 1 (4.762 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.762 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (4.762 %) WebLogic 2 1 (4.762 %) IIS 2 1 (4.762 %) JBoss 2 1 (4.762 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 13 (61.90 %) DHCP 2 11 (52.38 %) Firewall 3 10 (47.62 %) TCP/IP 4 8 (38.10 %) VPN 4 8 (38.10 %) LAN 5 7 (33.33 %) SAN 5 7 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX 6 3 (14.29 %) Wireless 7 2 (9.524 %) MPLS 7 2 (9.524 %) OSPF 7 2 (9.524 %) BGP 7 2 (9.524 %) IPv6 7 2 (9.524 %) ATM 7 2 (9.524 %) GPRS 7 2 (9.524 %) GSM 7 2 (9.524 %) UMTS 7 2 (9.524 %) WLAN 7 2 (9.524 %) WAN 7 2 (9.524 %) FTP 8 1 (4.762 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (19.05 %) SQL Server 2 1 (4.762 %) DB2 2 1 (4.762 %) MySQL	General 1 11 (52.38 %) Government 2 2 (9.524 %) Telecoms 3 1 (4.762 %) Chemicals 3 1 (4.762 %) Electric 3 1 (4.762 %) Games 3 1 (4.762 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 3 (14.29 %) Network Engineer 2 2 (9.524 %) Network Support 2 2 (9.524 %) Analyst 3 1 (4.762 %) Consultant 3 1 (4.762 %) Software Engineer 3 1 (4.762 %) Security Engineer 3 1 (4.762 %) Storage Administrator 3 1 (4.762 %) Technical Lead 3 1 (4.762 %) UNIX Support 3 1 (4.762 %) Linux Support 3 1 (4.762 %) Support Technician 3 1 (4.762 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (4.762 %) Security Consultant 3 1 (4.762 %) Infrastructure Analyst 3 1 (4.762 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (4.762 %) Administrator 3 1 (4.762 %) Design Engineer 3 1 (4.762 %) Technical Specialist	Operating Systems 1 19 (90.48 %) Windows 2 8 (38.10 %) Windows NT 3 6 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (23.81 %) UNIX 4 5 (23.81 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (19.05 %) Solaris 6 3 (14.29 %) Linux 7 1 (4.762 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (38.10 %) Migration 1 8 (38.10 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (28.57 %) Data Migration 3 5 (23.81 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (9.524 %) Load Balancing 4 2 (9.524 %) Security Management 5 1 (4.762 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 6 (28.57 %) SQL 2 4 (19.05 %) Transact-SQL 2 4 (19.05 %) VBScript 2 4 (19.05 %) VB 3 2 (9.524 %) Perl 4 1 (4.762 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 9 (42.86 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (38.10 %) Cisco Certification 2 8 (38.10 %) MCSE 3 3 (14.29 %) CCNP 4 2 (9.524 %) CCIP 5 1 (4.762 %) CCSP 5 1 (4.762 %) MCP 5 1 (4.762 %) CCSA 5 1 (4.762 %) CCSE	System Software 1 14 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.762 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 4 (19.05 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 1 (4.762 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 11 (52.38 %) Cisco 2 6 (28.57 %) Citrix 3 5 (23.81 %) HP 3 5 (23.81 %) IBM 3 5 (23.81 %) Microsoft 3 5 (23.81 %) Lotus 4 4 (19.05 %) Sophos 4 4 (19.05 %) VERITAS 5 3 (14.29 %) Sun 5 3 (14.29 %) CheckPoint 6 2 (9.524 %) Red Hat 6 2 (9.524 %) Crossbeam 7 1 (4.762 %) VMware 7 1 (4.762 %) Brocade 7 1 (4.762 %) Symantec 7 1 (4.762 %) Dell