The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 32 47 49
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +2
Contract jobs citing DNS 19 11 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 4.398% 1.719% 0.676%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.17% 15.94% 3.614%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
Average daily rate £160 £400 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% +128.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £400 £286
% change year-on-year
-26.25% +39.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
Average hourly rate £13.75 £16.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +26.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.09 £15.00 £11.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.81 £20.40 £14.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-38.46% +4.00%
All Communications & Networking
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
82 69 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 18.98% 10.78% 18.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 24 35
Average daily rate £305 £325 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% +62.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £221 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £400 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 20
Average hourly rate £14.63 £16.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.36% +13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.28 £17.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
DNS
South East

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Oxford +10 13 £238 -40.62%
DNS
South East

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 33 (84.62%) Windows
2 28 (71.79%) DHCP
3 26 (66.67%) TCP/IP
4 17 (43.59%) Windows XP
4 17 (43.59%) VMware
4 17 (43.59%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (35.90%) Firewall
5 14 (35.90%) Cisco
6 12 (30.77%) Windows 7
6 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
6 12 (30.77%) UNIX
6 12 (30.77%) Altiris
7 11 (28.21%) MS Office
7 11 (28.21%) Degree
8 10 (25.64%) Active Directory
8 10 (25.64%) NetWare
9 8 (20.51%) Windows Server 2003
9 8 (20.51%) ITIL
10 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (12.82%) SCCM
11 4 (10.26%) Windows 2000
11 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (10.26%) CCNA
12 3 (7.692%) Tivoli
12 3 (7.692%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (7.692%) Nagios
12 3 (7.692%) SharePoint
12 3 (7.692%) WSH
12 3 (7.692%) MS Exchange
12 3 (7.692%) SQL

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (7.692%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.692%) SharePoint
1 3 (7.692%) MS Exchange
1 3 (7.692%) SharePoint 2010
1 3 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (2.564%) Jetty
2 1 (2.564%) Apache
2 1 (2.564%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (28.21%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 28 (71.79%) DHCP
2 26 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 14 (35.90%) Firewall
4 3 (7.692%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (5.128%) VPN
5 2 (5.128%) LAN
5 2 (5.128%) WAN
6 1 (2.564%) SMTP
6 1 (2.564%) SNMP
6 1 (2.564%) BGP
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Administrator
2 13 (33.33%) IT Support
3 10 (25.64%) Network Administrator
4 8 (20.51%) Analyst
4 8 (20.51%) Support Analyst
5 5 (12.82%) Support Technician
5 5 (12.82%) IT Support Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.692%) Technical Support
7 3 (7.692%) Technical Support Analyst
7 3 (7.692%) Help Desk Support
7 3 (7.692%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (7.692%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (7.692%) Windows Administrator
8 2 (5.128%) Senior Support Engineer
8 2 (5.128%) Server Support Engineer
8 2 (5.128%) Senior Server Engineer
8 2 (5.128%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (5.128%) Server Engineer
8 2 (5.128%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.564%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 33 (84.62%) Windows
2 17 (43.59%) Windows XP
2 17 (43.59%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (30.77%) Windows 7
3 12 (30.77%) UNIX
4 10 (25.64%) NetWare
5 8 (20.51%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (10.26%) Windows 2000
7 2 (5.128%) Linux
8 1 (2.564%) Debian
8 1 (2.564%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.564%) CentOS
8 1 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.51%) ITIL
2 3 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (7.692%) Migration
3 1 (2.564%) Configuration Management
3 1 (2.564%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.692%) SQL
1 3 (7.692%) VB
2 1 (2.564%) Python
2 1 (2.564%) Bash shell
2 1 (2.564%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) CCNA
2 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 10 (25.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.692%) vSphere
3 3 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.564%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) SCCM
2 3 (7.692%) SCOM
2 3 (7.692%) Tivoli
2 3 (7.692%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (7.692%) Nagios
3 1 (2.564%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) VMware
2 14 (35.90%) Cisco
3 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 12 (30.77%) Altiris
4 2 (5.128%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.564%) Oracle