The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 19 31 25
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -6
Contract jobs citing DNS 3 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.875% 2.229% 3.286%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.79% 10.61% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Average daily rate £350 £323 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.52% +115.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £338 £300
% change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £13.25 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £23.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year
-17.39% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19 66 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 11.88% 21.02% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 36 14
Average daily rate £350 £363 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +20.83%
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
Average hourly rate £10.63 £13.38 £14.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.56% -6.14%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
DNS
Tyne and Wear

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 11 (100.00%) Firewall
2 9 (81.82%) Red Hat
2 9 (81.82%) DHCP
2 9 (81.82%) VPN
2 9 (81.82%) CentOS
3 8 (72.73%) Linux
3 8 (72.73%) Apache
3 8 (72.73%) MySQL
4 6 (54.55%) XenServer
4 6 (54.55%) LDAP
4 6 (54.55%) Citrix
5 5 (45.45%) Cisco
5 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (45.45%) HP
6 4 (36.36%) SAN
6 4 (36.36%) Nagios
6 4 (36.36%) OSPF
6 4 (36.36%) Identity Management
7 3 (27.27%) BGP
7 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
8 2 (18.18%) LAN
8 2 (18.18%) WAN
8 2 (18.18%) IPsec
8 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
8 2 (18.18%) Validation
9 1 (9.091%) VMware
9 1 (9.091%) Finance
9 1 (9.091%) Network Design
9 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Architecture
9 1 (9.091%) VLAN

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (9.091%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 8 (72.73%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
2 9 (81.82%) DHCP
2 9 (81.82%) VPN
3 6 (54.55%) LDAP
4 4 (36.36%) SAN
4 4 (36.36%) OSPF
5 3 (27.27%) BGP
6 2 (18.18%) LAN
6 2 (18.18%) WAN
6 2 (18.18%) IPsec
7 1 (9.091%) VLAN
7 1 (9.091%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (9.091%) HSRP
7 1 (9.091%) VoIP
7 1 (9.091%) MPLS
7 1 (9.091%) Internet
7 1 (9.091%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) MySQL
General
1 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Administrator
2 7 (63.64%) Systems Administrator
2 7 (63.64%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 7 (63.64%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (54.55%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 6 (54.55%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 6 (54.55%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) Network Administrator
5 1 (9.091%) Network Manager
5 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (9.091%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Cisco Administrator
5 1 (9.091%) Senior Network Administrator
5 1 (9.091%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Architect
5 1 (9.091%) Network Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Senior Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) CentOS
2 8 (72.73%) Linux
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
3 1 (9.091%) Windows
3 1 (9.091%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (36.36%) Identity Management
3 2 (18.18%) Validation
4 1 (9.091%) Network Design
4 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) SC Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) BC Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
1 1 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (9.091%) CCNP
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) XenServer
2 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Red Hat
2 6 (54.55%) Citrix
3 5 (45.45%) Cisco
3 5 (45.45%) HP
4 1 (9.091%) VMware
4 1 (9.091%) TippingPoint
4 1 (9.091%) ProCurve
4 1 (9.091%) Juniper