The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 20 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 Middlesex 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 25 25 37
Rank change year-on-year
0 +12
Contract jobs citing DNS 3 6 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.485% 1.899% 0.581%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.818% 12.24% 5.405%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £293 £393 £290
% change year-on-year
-25.47% +35.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £16.00 - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £25.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-37.25% +2.00%
All Communications & Networking
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
44 49 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 21.78% 15.51% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 11
Average daily rate £375 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £325 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 6
Average hourly rate £32.50 £27.25 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.26% -6.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £12.50 £19.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £27.50 £40.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
DNS
South East

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
3 1 (25.00%) Fedora
3 1 (25.00%) CCVP
3 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (25.00%) CCTV
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (25.00%) WSUS
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Crossbeam
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) OpenView

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) VoIP
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Junos
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Voice Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Voice Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Voice Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CCTV
1 1 (25.00%) iPhone
1 1 (25.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Fedora
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) ITSM
1 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C
1 1 (25.00%) VBScript
1 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCVP
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (25.00%) OpenView
2 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Crossbeam