Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 12 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Leicester region.

 Domain Name System (DNS)
Location
3 months to
12 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank12--
Rank change year-on-year
New entry-No change0
Matching contract IT job ads100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester1.587 %--
As % of the Communications & Networking category14.29 %--
Daily rates quoted000
Average daily rate---
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£300£345
% change year-on-year
+8.330 %-13.04 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£16.50£24.00£20.40
% change year-on-year
-31.25 %+17.64 %
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
Leicester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
7715
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester11.11 %13.21 %9.375 %
Daily rates quoted324
Average daily rate£375£300£300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£325£280£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£320£332
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£336£340
% change year-on-year
-3.270 %-1.170 %
Hourly rates quoted123
Average hourly rate£25.00£33.00£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.24 %+65.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.00£24.00£28.50
% change year-on-year
--15.78 %
DNS LeicestershireDNS
Leicestershire

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.

DNS
Demand Trend

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

Leicester DNS Demand Trend

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicester DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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.

14 (80.00 %)Windows
14 (80.00 %)VPN
23 (60.00 %)Active Directory
23 (60.00 %)Windows XP
23 (60.00 %)LAN
23 (60.00 %)Windows Server 2003
23 (60.00 %)WAN
23 (60.00 %)TCP/IP
32 (40.00 %)Firewall
32 (40.00 %)VMware
41 (20.00 %)IP Telephony
41 (20.00 %)VMware Infrastructure
41 (20.00 %)xDSL
41 (20.00 %)BMC PATROL
41 (20.00 %)ARCserve
41 (20.00 %)Symantec
41 (20.00 %)Norton AntiVirus
41 (20.00 %)VoIP
41 (20.00 %)Perl
41 (20.00 %)VB
41 (20.00 %)Lotus Notes
41 (20.00 %)Lotus Domino
41 (20.00 %)MCSE
41 (20.00 %)Citrix
41 (20.00 %)Microsoft Certification
41 (20.00 %)BMC
41 (20.00 %)CA
41 (20.00 %)NetApp
41 (20.00 %)Lotus
41 (20.00 %)CheckPoint

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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.

Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (20.00 %)Lotus Notes
11 (20.00 %)Lotus Domino
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (80.00 %)VPN
23 (60.00 %)LAN
23 (60.00 %)WAN
23 (60.00 %)TCP/IP
32 (40.00 %)Firewall
41 (20.00 %)IP Telephony
41 (20.00 %)xDSL
41 (20.00 %)VoIP
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12 (40.00 %)Support Engineer
21 (20.00 %)Products Support Specialist
21 (20.00 %)Desktop Support Engineer
21 (20.00 %)Desktop Engineer
21 (20.00 %)2nd Line Support Analyst
21 (20.00 %)Product Specialist
21 (20.00 %)VMware Engineer
21 (20.00 %)Desktop Support
21 (20.00 %)Analyst
21 (20.00 %)Support Analyst
21 (20.00 %)Support Specialist
21 (20.00 %)2nd Line Support
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14 (80.00 %)Windows
23 (60.00 %)Windows XP
23 (60.00 %)Windows Server 2003
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (20.00 %)Perl
11 (20.00 %)VB
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (20.00 %)MCSE
11 (20.00 %)Microsoft Certification
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (60.00 %)Active Directory
21 (20.00 %)VMware Infrastructure
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (20.00 %)BMC PATROL
11 (20.00 %)ARCserve
11 (20.00 %)Norton AntiVirus
Leicester IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (40.00 %)VMware
21 (20.00 %)Symantec
21 (20.00 %)Citrix
21 (20.00 %)BMC
21 (20.00 %)CA
21 (20.00 %)NetApp
21 (20.00 %)Lotus
21 (20.00 %)CheckPoint