DNS Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 21 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 Reading 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 59 37 56
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +19
Contract jobs citing DNS 14 44 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.636% 3.982% 2.233%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.216% 9.524% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 9
Average daily rate £268 £350 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.57% +6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £153 £231 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £491 £371
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £375 £289
% change year-on-year
-20.66% +29.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £25.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-36.00% -2.91%
All Communications & Networking
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 194 462 206
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.66% 41.81% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 110 68
Average daily rate £275 £280 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.78% -25.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £133 £213 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £431 £400 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 5
Average hourly rate £17.00 £15.58 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.14% -11.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £14.50 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £44.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
DNS
Berkshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading DNS Daily Rate Trend

DNS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the Reading region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Reading DNS Daily Rate Histogram

DNS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 17 (68.00%) Windows
2 15 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (56.00%) DHCP
4 12 (48.00%) TCP/IP
5 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
6 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (36.00%) SAN
6 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (32.00%) Clustering
7 8 (32.00%) LAN
8 7 (28.00%) MS Excel
8 7 (28.00%) SQL
8 7 (28.00%) VPN
8 7 (28.00%) WAN
8 7 (28.00%) Cisco
8 7 (28.00%) Citrix
8 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (28.00%) VMware
9 6 (24.00%) Internet
9 6 (24.00%) IIS
9 6 (24.00%) MS Office
9 6 (24.00%) UNIX
10 5 (20.00%) Linux
10 5 (20.00%) Red Hat
11 4 (16.00%) HP
11 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
11 4 (16.00%) MCSE
11 4 (16.00%) AIX
11 4 (16.00%) IBM
11 4 (16.00%) EMC

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (4.000%) HTML
1 1 (4.000%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 6 (24.00%) IIS
2 2 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (8.000%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (8.000%) SharePoint
2 2 (8.000%) MS Exchange
2 2 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (4.000%) Apache
3 1 (4.000%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.000%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (4.000%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (28.00%) MS Excel
2 6 (24.00%) MS Office
3 1 (4.000%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 14 (56.00%) DHCP
2 12 (48.00%) TCP/IP
3 9 (36.00%) SAN
4 8 (32.00%) LAN
5 7 (28.00%) VPN
5 7 (28.00%) WAN
6 6 (24.00%) Internet
7 3 (12.00%) NAS
7 3 (12.00%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (12.00%) SNMP
7 3 (12.00%) LDAP
7 3 (12.00%) Ethernet
7 3 (12.00%) VoIP
7 3 (12.00%) Firewall
7 3 (12.00%) 3G
7 3 (12.00%) MPLS
8 2 (8.000%) OSPF
8 2 (8.000%) BGP
8 2 (8.000%) Intranet
8 2 (8.000%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (4.000%) MySQL
1 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (12.00%) Back Office
1 3 (12.00%) Banking
1 3 (12.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 1 (4.000%) French Language
2 1 (4.000%) German Language
2 1 (4.000%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (16.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.000%) Support Technician
4 2 (8.000%) Web Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) IP Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Windows Support Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 1 (4.000%) Avaya Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Network Team Leader
5 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Server Support
5 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Technician
5 1 (4.000%) Help Desk Support Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Help Desk Support
5 1 (4.000%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Clustering
2 3 (12.00%) LPAR
2 3 (12.00%) DLPAR
2 3 (12.00%) HACMP
3 2 (8.000%) Thin Client
3 2 (8.000%) CLARiiON
3 2 (8.000%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Windows
2 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (24.00%) UNIX
4 5 (20.00%) Linux
5 4 (16.00%) AIX
5 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (16.00%) Windows 7
6 2 (8.000%) Windows XP
6 2 (8.000%) Windows 2000
7 1 (4.000%) CentOS
7 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (4.000%) FreeBSD
7 1 (4.000%) HPUX
7 1 (4.000%) Solaris
7 1 (4.000%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (8.000%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (8.000%) Capacity Management
3 2 (8.000%) Problem Management
3 2 (8.000%) Time Management
4 1 (4.000%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (4.000%) Change Control
4 1 (4.000%) ITIL
4 1 (4.000%) Operations Management
4 1 (4.000%) Network Design
4 1 (4.000%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.000%) C#
2 1 (4.000%) C++
2 1 (4.000%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.000%) Perl
2 1 (4.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (16.00%) MCSE
3 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.000%) HNC
4 2 (8.000%) CCA
4 2 (8.000%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (8.000%) Degree
4 2 (8.000%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.000%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.000%) RHCE
5 1 (4.000%) HPUX Certification
5 1 (4.000%) MCDBA
5 1 (4.000%) MCP
5 1 (4.000%) SCSA
5 1 (4.000%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (4.000%) ACSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) NLBS
3 2 (8.000%) NFS
3 2 (8.000%) MetaFrame
3 2 (8.000%) VMware Server
3 2 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.000%) vSphere
4 1 (4.000%) VirtualBox
4 1 (4.000%) Postfix
4 1 (4.000%) Sendmail
4 1 (4.000%) XenApp
4 1 (4.000%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (4.000%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (12.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (8.000%) OpenView
3 1 (4.000%) WSUS
3 1 (4.000%) CiscoWorks
3 1 (4.000%) HP NNM
3 1 (4.000%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) Cisco
2 7 (28.00%) Citrix
2 7 (28.00%) VMware
3 5 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 4 (16.00%) HP
4 4 (16.00%) IBM
4 4 (16.00%) EMC
5 3 (12.00%) Lotus
6 2 (8.000%) Juniper
6 2 (8.000%) Redback
6 2 (8.000%) ProCurve
7 1 (4.000%) Riverbed
7 1 (4.000%) Egenera
7 1 (4.000%) SonicWALL
7 1 (4.000%) Avaya
7 1 (4.000%) Intel
7 1 (4.000%) Nortel
7 1 (4.000%) Adobe
7 1 (4.000%) Sun
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