DNS Contracts in Oxford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 22 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 Oxford 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 22 35 26
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -9
Contract jobs citing DNS 13 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 5.579% 1.475% 0.621%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 28.89% 12.82% 4.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £238 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.62% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £375 £290
% change year-on-year
-20.33% +29.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £25.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-34.00% +8.69%
All Communications & Networking
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 45 39 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 19.31% 11.50% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 4
Average daily rate £320 £338 £336
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.18% +0.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £255 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £350 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 8
Average hourly rate £13.75 £12.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.43 £11.30 £11.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.85 £14.70 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
DNS
Oxfordshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 25 (80.65%) Windows
2 23 (74.19%) DHCP
3 19 (61.29%) TCP/IP
4 16 (51.61%) Windows XP
5 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
6 11 (35.48%) MS Office
7 10 (32.26%) Cisco
7 10 (32.26%) VMware
7 10 (32.26%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (29.03%) Altiris
8 9 (29.03%) Firewall
8 9 (29.03%) Windows 7
9 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
10 7 (22.58%) UNIX
10 7 (22.58%) Degree
11 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (19.35%) NetWare
12 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
12 4 (12.90%) Windows 2000
13 3 (9.677%) MS Exchange
13 3 (9.677%) ITIL
13 3 (9.677%) SQL
13 3 (9.677%) VB
13 3 (9.677%) CCNA
13 3 (9.677%) SharePoint
13 3 (9.677%) WSH
13 3 (9.677%) Tivoli
13 3 (9.677%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 3 (9.677%) Nagios
13 3 (9.677%) Cisco Certification

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 3 (9.677%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.677%) MS Exchange
1 3 (9.677%) SharePoint
1 3 (9.677%) SharePoint 2010
1 3 (9.677%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (3.226%) Apache
2 1 (3.226%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.226%) Jetty
Applications
1 11 (35.48%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 23 (74.19%) DHCP
2 19 (61.29%) TCP/IP
3 9 (29.03%) Firewall
4 3 (9.677%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (6.452%) VPN
6 1 (3.226%) SMTP
6 1 (3.226%) SNMP
6 1 (3.226%) BGP
Job Titles
1 13 (41.94%) IT Support
2 11 (35.48%) Administrator
3 8 (25.81%) Support Analyst
3 8 (25.81%) Analyst
4 6 (19.35%) Network Administrator
5 5 (16.13%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (9.677%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (9.677%) Technical Support Analyst
6 3 (9.677%) Technical Support
6 3 (9.677%) Support Technician
6 3 (9.677%) Windows Administrator
6 3 (9.677%) IT Support Technician
7 2 (6.452%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (6.452%) Support Engineer
7 2 (6.452%) Help Desk Support
7 2 (6.452%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.226%) Network Engineer
8 1 (3.226%) Desktop Engineer
8 1 (3.226%) 2nd Line Support
8 1 (3.226%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.226%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 25 (80.65%) Windows
2 16 (51.61%) Windows XP
3 10 (32.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (29.03%) Windows 7
5 7 (22.58%) UNIX
6 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (19.35%) NetWare
7 4 (12.90%) Windows 2000
8 2 (6.452%) Linux
9 1 (3.226%) Debian
9 1 (3.226%) Ubuntu
9 1 (3.226%) CentOS
9 1 (3.226%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (9.677%) ITIL
1 3 (9.677%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (9.677%) Migration
2 1 (3.226%) Configuration Management
2 1 (3.226%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.677%) SQL
1 3 (9.677%) VB
2 1 (3.226%) C
2 1 (3.226%) Python
2 1 (3.226%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Degree
2 3 (9.677%) CCNA
2 3 (9.677%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.677%) vSphere
3 3 (9.677%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.226%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (9.677%) Tivoli
1 3 (9.677%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (9.677%) Nagios
1 3 (9.677%) SCCM
1 3 (9.677%) SCOM
2 1 (3.226%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 10 (32.26%) Cisco
2 10 (32.26%) VMware
3 9 (29.03%) Altiris
4 2 (6.452%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.226%) Oracle
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