The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 24 43 55
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +12
Contract jobs citing DNS 53 25 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 7.114% 2.809% 0.319%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 30.11% 20.83% 3.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 23 1
Average daily rate £275 £275 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -29.03%
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £400 £286
% change year-on-year
-26.25% +39.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-38.46% +4.00%
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
176 120 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 23.62% 13.48% 9.425%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 57 21
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £235 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £350 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 12
Average hourly rate £34.75 £13.50 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+157.40% -31.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £30.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
DNS
West Yorkshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 52 (83.87%) Linux
2 45 (72.58%) Web Services
2 45 (72.58%) Python
3 44 (70.97%) Amazon AWS
3 44 (70.97%) Bash shell
4 43 (69.35%) Apache
5 42 (67.74%) C++
5 42 (67.74%) PHP
6 41 (66.13%) Ruby
7 38 (61.29%) Kanban
7 38 (61.29%) nginx
7 38 (61.29%) Amazon EC2
7 38 (61.29%) Amazon S3
7 38 (61.29%) MongoDB
7 38 (61.29%) Node.js
7 38 (61.29%) Redis
7 38 (61.29%) Route 53
7 38 (61.29%) Amazon RDS
7 38 (61.29%) MySQL
8 36 (58.06%) Internet
9 33 (53.23%) Puppet
10 32 (51.61%) Configuration Management
10 32 (51.61%) DHCP
11 31 (50.00%) TCP/IP
12 28 (45.16%) Client/Server
13 26 (41.94%) SSL
13 26 (41.94%) Oracle
14 25 (40.32%) Java
15 24 (38.71%) Perl
15 24 (38.71%) Telecoms

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 45 (72.58%) Web Services
2 38 (61.29%) Node.js
3 15 (24.19%) POSIX
4 10 (16.13%) J2EE
5 7 (11.29%) CSS
5 7 (11.29%) Hibernate
5 7 (11.29%) Spring
5 7 (11.29%) SOAP
5 7 (11.29%) jQuery
5 7 (11.29%) HTML5
5 7 (11.29%) REST
5 7 (11.29%) CSS3
6 4 (6.452%) LAMP
7 3 (4.839%) WebSphere
8 2 (3.226%) ASP
9 1 (1.613%) HTML
9 1 (1.613%) .NET
9 1 (1.613%) JSP
9 1 (1.613%) Middleware
9 1 (1.613%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 44 (70.97%) Amazon AWS
2 43 (69.35%) Apache
3 38 (61.29%) Route 53
3 38 (61.29%) nginx
3 38 (61.29%) Amazon EC2
3 38 (61.29%) Amazon S3
4 7 (11.29%) Apache Solr
4 7 (11.29%) Adobe CQ
4 7 (11.29%) Tomcat
5 4 (6.452%) MS Exchange
6 3 (4.839%) IIS
6 3 (4.839%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (3.226%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (1.613%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (1.613%) WebLogic
8 1 (1.613%) SharePoint
8 1 (1.613%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (4.839%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.613%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 13 (20.97%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (58.06%) Internet
2 32 (51.61%) DHCP
3 31 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 26 (41.94%) SSL
5 23 (37.10%) HTTP
6 12 (19.35%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (6.452%) Firewall
7 4 (6.452%) SSH
8 3 (4.839%) SAN
9 1 (1.613%) Intranet
9 1 (1.613%) VPN
9 1 (1.613%) FTP
9 1 (1.613%) LAN
9 1 (1.613%) WAN
9 1 (1.613%) SMTP
9 1 (1.613%) NetScreen
9 1 (1.613%) BIG-IP
9 1 (1.613%) Network Security
9 1 (1.613%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.613%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (61.29%) MySQL
1 38 (61.29%) MongoDB
1 38 (61.29%) Redis
1 38 (61.29%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (27.42%) NoSQL
3 15 (24.19%) RDBMS
3 15 (24.19%) SimpleDB
3 15 (24.19%) Couchbase
4 6 (9.677%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.839%) DB2
6 1 (1.613%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.613%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (11.29%) Maven
1 7 (11.29%) Git (software)
1 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (38.71%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.613%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (29.03%) Software Engineer
2 11 (17.74%) Operations Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) Developer
3 7 (11.29%) Java Developer
4 5 (8.065%) Support Engineer
5 4 (6.452%) Analyst
6 3 (4.839%) Applications Support
6 3 (4.839%) Applications Support Analyst
6 3 (4.839%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (4.839%) Support Analyst
6 3 (4.839%) Administrator
7 2 (3.226%) Web Analyst
7 2 (3.226%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (3.226%) Customer Support Engineer
7 2 (3.226%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (3.226%) Web Support Analyst
7 2 (3.226%) 3rd Line Support
7 2 (3.226%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (3.226%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.226%) Customer Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (45.16%) Client/Server
2 2 (3.226%) Clustering
3 1 (1.613%) CMDB
3 1 (1.613%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.613%) iPhone
3 1 (1.613%) iPad
3 1 (1.613%) Firmware
3 1 (1.613%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.613%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 52 (83.87%) Linux
2 13 (20.97%) Windows
3 5 (8.065%) UNIX
3 5 (8.065%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (6.452%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (4.839%) Windows XP
5 3 (4.839%) Solaris
5 3 (4.839%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.613%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.613%) Windows 8
6 1 (1.613%) CentOS
6 1 (1.613%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.613%) HPUX
6 1 (1.613%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.613%) SUSE
6 1 (1.613%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (61.29%) Kanban
2 32 (51.61%) Configuration Management
3 24 (38.71%) TDD
3 24 (38.71%) Test Automation
4 23 (37.10%) Load Balancing
5 21 (33.87%) Scrum
6 18 (29.03%) Security Testing
7 16 (25.81%) Incident Management
7 16 (25.81%) Capacity Management
8 15 (24.19%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (12.90%) SOA
10 7 (11.29%) Software Engineering
10 7 (11.29%) BDD
11 6 (9.677%) Performance Testing
12 3 (4.839%) ITIL
12 3 (4.839%) Project Management
13 1 (1.613%) Service Management
13 1 (1.613%) Service Delivery
13 1 (1.613%) Change Management
13 1 (1.613%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 45 (72.58%) Python
2 44 (70.97%) Bash shell
3 42 (67.74%) C++
3 42 (67.74%) PHP
4 41 (66.13%) Ruby
5 25 (40.32%) Java
6 24 (38.71%) Perl
7 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
8 7 (11.29%) SQL
9 4 (6.452%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.226%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.613%) VBScript
11 1 (1.613%) VB
11 1 (1.613%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (3.226%) MCSE
1 2 (3.226%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.613%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (1.613%) Degree
2 1 (1.613%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.613%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.613%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.613%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (16.13%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.677%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.226%) vSphere
4 1 (1.613%) Sendmail
4 1 (1.613%) XenServer
4 1 (1.613%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.613%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (53.23%) Puppet
2 1 (1.613%) Nagios
2 1 (1.613%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 26 (41.94%) Oracle
2 17 (27.42%) Percona
3 7 (11.29%) hybris
3 7 (11.29%) Adobe
3 7 (11.29%) VMware
4 6 (9.677%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.452%) IBM
6 3 (4.839%) Cisco
6 3 (4.839%) HP
7 2 (3.226%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.226%) Citrix
7 2 (3.226%) Juniper
8 1 (1.613%) NetApp
8 1 (1.613%) F5
8 1 (1.613%) Apple
8 1 (1.613%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.613%) Remedy
8 1 (1.613%) McAfee
8 1 (1.613%) Wyse
8 1 (1.613%) Blue Coat
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