Manchester DNS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Ascot Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bognor Regis Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry 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 Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hounslow Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Malvern Manchester Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	84	47
Rank change on same period last year	-37
Matching contract IT job ads	4	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	1.923 %	13.25 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£217
Average daily rate	-	£233
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£350
% change on same period last year	-8.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.33	£19.00
Average hourly rate	£17.50	£22.00
% change on same period last year	-20.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.67	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.32	£25.71
% change on same period last year	-13.17 %
Communications & Networking Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	208	166
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.274 %	0.174 %
Daily rates quoted	34	24
Average minimum daily rate	£442	£258
Average daily rate	£461	£277
% change on same period last year	+66.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£480	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.07	£20.38
Average hourly rate	£31.48	£22.27
% change on same period last year	+41.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.90	£24.16
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.60	£28.49
% change on same period last year	-10.13 %
DNS North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing DNS within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 8 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
Salford	-	1	-	-

DNS North West

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 9 (69.23 %) Windows 2 8 (61.54 %) DHCP 2 8 (61.54 %) TCP/IP 3 7 (53.85 %) WAN 3 7 (53.85 %) Active Directory 4 6 (46.15 %) Citrix 4 6 (46.15 %) LAN 4 6 (46.15 %) VPN 5 5 (38.46 %) VMware 5 5 (38.46 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 5 (38.46 %) SQL Server 6 4 (30.77 %) Linux 6 4 (30.77 %) WINS 6 4 (30.77 %) Cisco 6 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft

6 4 (30.77 %) MetaFrame 6 4 (30.77 %) SQL Server 7 6 4 (30.77 %) Blackberry 7 2 (15.38 %) Migration 7 2 (15.38 %) Novell 7 2 (15.38 %) Windows NT 7 2 (15.38 %) MS Exchange 7 2 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (15.38 %) IIS 7 2 (15.38 %) MS Office 8 1 (7.692 %) ITIL 8 1 (7.692 %) Unix 8 1 (7.692 %) Lotus Notes 8 1 (7.692 %) MCSE 8 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 Platforms 1 5 (38.46 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (15.38 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (15.38 %) IIS 3 1 (7.692 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 2 (15.38 %) MS Office 2 1 (7.692 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 8 (61.54 %) DHCP 1 8 (61.54 %) TCP/IP 2 7 (53.85 %) WAN 3 6 (46.15 %) LAN 3 6 (46.15 %) VPN 4 4 (30.77 %) WINS 5 1 (7.692 %) MPLS 5 1 (7.692 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (38.46 %) SQL Server 2 4 (30.77 %) SQL Server 7
General 1 1 (7.692 %) Back Office 1 1 (7.692 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 6 (46.15 %) 2nd Line Support 2 4 (30.77 %) Analyst 2 4 (30.77 %) Helpdesk Support 3 3 (23.08 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (15.38 %) Support Assistant 4 2 (15.38 %) 1st Line Support 4 2 (15.38 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (15.38 %) 3rd Line Support 5 1 (7.692 %) Desktop Support 5 1 (7.692 %) Network Analyst 5 1 (7.692 %) Desktop Support Analyst 5 1 (7.692 %) Network Support Analyst 5 1 (7.692 %) Desktop Engineer 5 1 (7.692 %) Network Support 5 1 (7.692 %) Desktop Analyst 5 1 (7.692 %) Citrix Engineer 5 1 (7.692 %) Server Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 4 (30.77 %) Blackberry 2 1 (7.692 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 9 (69.23 %) Windows 2 4 (30.77 %) Linux 3 2 (15.38 %) Windows NT 3 2 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (7.692 %) Unix 4 1 (7.692 %) Windows XP 4 1 (7.692 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (15.38 %) Migration 2 1 (7.692 %) ITIL 2 1 (7.692 %) Release Management 2 1 (7.692 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (7.692 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (7.692 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (7.692 %) MCSE 1 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.692 %) SLA 1 1 (7.692 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 7 (53.85 %) Active Directory 2 4 (30.77 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (7.692 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 1 (7.692 %) ARCserve
Vendors 1 6 (46.15 %) Citrix 2 5 (38.46 %) VMware 3 4 (30.77 %) Cisco 3 4 (30.77 %) Microsoft 4 2 (15.38 %) Novell 5 1 (7.692 %) Lotus 5 1 (7.692 %) Alcatel