North East DNS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the North East region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bognor Regis Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley 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 Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hounslow Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	66
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	13	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	14.44 %	5.405 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£335
Average daily rate	£299	£335
% change on same period last year	-10.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£348
% change on same period last year	-14.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.17	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£28.25	£23.50
% change on same period last year	+20.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.33	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.49	£25.36
% change on same period last year	-11.33 %
Communications & Networking North East
Matching contract IT job ads	90	148
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.150 %
Daily rates quoted	23	32
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£298
Average daily rate	£297	£300
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£312	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.18	£23.42
Average hourly rate	£24.43	£24.25
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.68	£25.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
DNS England

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 North East 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 North East region.

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

DNS
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the North East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

DNS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the North East region over the 3 months to 25 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
Tyne and Wear	+13	10	£299	-
Teesside	-	1	-	-

DNS England

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 24 (70.59 %) DHCP 2 22 (64.71 %) Active Directory 2 22 (64.71 %) Windows 3 15 (44.12 %) Microsoft 4 13 (38.24 %) TCP/IP 5 12 (35.29 %) Security Cleared 6 11 (32.35 %) SC Cleared 7 10 (29.41 %) Cisco 7 10 (29.41 %) Government 8 9 (26.47 %) Windows Server 2003 9 8 (23.53 %) Service Management 9 8 (23.53 %) ITIL 9 8 (23.53 %) Windows 2000 10 7 (20.59 %) WAN 11 6 (17.65 %) Telecoms

12 5 (14.71 %) Firewall 12 5 (14.71 %) IP Telephony 12 5 (14.71 %) Cisco Certification 12 5 (14.71 %) VPN 12 5 (14.71 %) MS Excel 13 4 (11.76 %) CCNA 13 4 (11.76 %) EMC 13 4 (11.76 %) UNIX 13 4 (11.76 %) Ethernet 13 4 (11.76 %) NFS 13 4 (11.76 %) SNMP 13 4 (11.76 %) SAN 13 4 (11.76 %) NetApp 13 4 (11.76 %) OpenView Configuration Management 13 4 (11.76 %) ICMP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 (2.941 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (11.76 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 3 (8.824 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (8.824 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (5.882 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 2 (5.882 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (2.941 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (2.941 %) CMS
Applications 1 5 (14.71 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.941 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 24 (70.59 %) DHCP 2 13 (38.24 %) TCP/IP 3 7 (20.59 %) WAN 4 5 (14.71 %) VPN 4 5 (14.71 %) Firewall 4 5 (14.71 %) IP Telephony 5 4 (11.76 %) SAN 5 4 (11.76 %) Ethernet 5 4 (11.76 %) SNMP 5 4 (11.76 %) ICMP 6 3 (8.824 %) IMAP4 6 3 (8.824 %) ADSL 6 3 (8.824 %) GSM 6 3 (8.824 %) LAN 6 3 (8.824 %) VoIP 6 3 (8.824 %) Wi-Fi 7 2 (5.882 %) VLAN 8 1 (2.941 %) Cisco PIX 8 1 (2.941 %) Intrusion Detection 8 1 (2.941 %) Internet
General 1 10 (29.41 %) Government 2 6 (17.65 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 6 (17.65 %) Consultant 1 6 (17.65 %) Support Technician 2 5 (14.71 %) Technical Consultant 2 5 (14.71 %) Server Engineer 3 3 (8.824 %) 2nd Line Support 3 3 (8.824 %) Support Engineer 3 3 (8.824 %) 3rd Line Support 3 3 (8.824 %) Desktop Support 3 3 (8.824 %) Network Support 3 3 (8.824 %) Desktop Support Technician 4 2 (5.882 %) Server Specialist 4 2 (5.882 %) Network Support Technician 4 2 (5.882 %) Systems Administrator 4 2 (5.882 %) Administrator 4 2 (5.882 %) Network Technician 5 1 (2.941 %) Technical Support Analyst 5 1 (2.941 %) Technical Analyst 5 1 (2.941 %) Infrastructure Specialist 5 1 (2.941 %) Infrastructure Engineer 5 1 (2.941 %) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.882 %) Blackberry 2 1 (2.941 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 22 (64.71 %) Windows 2 9 (26.47 %) Windows Server 2003 3 8 (23.53 %) Windows 2000 4 4 (11.76 %) UNIX 5 3 (8.824 %) Windows NT 5 3 (8.824 %) Windows XP 6 1 (2.941 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (35.29 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (32.35 %) SC Cleared 3 8 (23.53 %) ITIL 3 8 (23.53 %) Service Management 4 4 (11.76 %) Data Protection 5 3 (8.824 %) Change Management 6 1 (2.941 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (2.941 %) C
Qualifications 1 5 (14.71 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (11.76 %) CCNA 3 3 (8.824 %) CCNP 4 1 (2.941 %) MCSE 4 1 (2.941 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 22 (64.71 %) Active Directory 2 4 (11.76 %) NFS 3 3 (8.824 %) Terminal Server 3 3 (8.824 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 4 (11.76 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 1 (2.941 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (2.941 %) CiscoWorks	Vendors 1 15 (44.12 %) Microsoft 2 10 (29.41 %) Cisco 3 4 (11.76 %) Brocade 3 4 (11.76 %) EMC 3 4 (11.76 %) NetApp 4 3 (8.824 %) Symantec 5 2 (5.882 %) Lotus 6 1 (2.941 %) Sophos 6 1 (2.941 %) Clearswift 6 1 (2.941 %) VMware 6 1 (2.941 %) NetScout 6 1 (2.941 %) WatchGuard 6 1 (2.941 %) SAP