Reading DNS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the Reading 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	54	51
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	18	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	9.375 %	11.28 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£367
Average daily rate	£375	£429
% change on same period last year	-12.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£492
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£348
% change on same period last year	-14.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.18	£17.50
Average hourly rate	£24.68	£23.17
% change on same period last year	+6.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.18	£28.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.49	£25.36
% change on same period last year	-11.33 %
Communications & Networking Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	192	195
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.256 %	0.197 %
Daily rates quoted	40	68
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£318
Average daily rate	£380	£345
% change on same period last year	+10.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.96	£28.09
Average hourly rate	£21.54	£29.93
% change on same period last year	-28.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.13	£31.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
DNS Berkshire

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 Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DNS across the Reading region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 36 (81.82 %) Windows 2 25 (56.82 %) Microsoft 3 20 (45.45 %) Microsoft Certification 4 19 (43.18 %) MS Office 5 17 (38.64 %) DHCP 6 16 (36.36 %) Network Load Balancing 7 14 (31.82 %) Windows 2000 8 13 (29.55 %) Windows XP 8 13 (29.55 %) IIS 9 12 (27.27 %) Active Directory 10 11 (25.00 %) .NET 11 10 (22.73 %) ASP.NET 11 10 (22.73 %) C# 11 10 (22.73 %) TCP/IP 11 10 (22.73 %) MSDE

12 9 (20.45 %) Firewall 12 9 (20.45 %) WAN 12 9 (20.45 %) C 12 9 (20.45 %) VB 12 9 (20.45 %) LAN 12 9 (20.45 %) SharePoint 12 9 (20.45 %) SharePoint Portal Server 13 8 (18.18 %) SharePoint Server 2007 13 8 (18.18 %) HTTP 13 8 (18.18 %) HTML 13 8 (18.18 %) Java 13 8 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2003 14 7 (15.91 %) MCSE 14 7 (15.91 %) Citrix 14 7 (15.91 %) Windows Server 2003

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 11 (25.00 %) .NET 2 10 (22.73 %) ASP.NET 3 8 (18.18 %) HTML 4 1 (2.273 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 13 (29.55 %) IIS 2 9 (20.45 %) SharePoint 2 9 (20.45 %) SharePoint Portal Server 3 8 (18.18 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 8 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 6 (13.64 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 6 (13.64 %) MS Exchange 5 4 (9.091 %) Office Project Server 6 3 (6.818 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 1 (2.273 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 7 1 (2.273 %) Lotus Notes 7 1 (2.273 %) Apache 7 1 (2.273 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 19 (43.18 %) MS Office 2 4 (9.091 %) MS Project 3 2 (4.545 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 17 (38.64 %) DHCP 2 10 (22.73 %) TCP/IP 3 9 (20.45 %) LAN 3 9 (20.45 %) WAN 3 9 (20.45 %) Firewall 4 8 (18.18 %) HTTP 5 4 (9.091 %) Ethernet 5 4 (9.091 %) IP Telephony 5 4 (9.091 %) VLAN 5 4 (9.091 %) Internet 5 4 (9.091 %) SAN 6 3 (6.818 %) Wireless 6 3 (6.818 %) VPN 7 1 (2.273 %) IPX 7 1 (2.273 %) WLAN 7 1 (2.273 %) Cisco IOS 7 1 (2.273 %) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (22.73 %) MSDE 2 5 (11.36 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 3 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 3 (6.818 %) StarTeam
General 1 1 (2.273 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (2.273 %) Finance 1 1 (2.273 %) Government	Job Titles 1 12 (27.27 %) Analyst 2 5 (11.36 %) Support Analyst 2 5 (11.36 %) Support Engineer 2 5 (11.36 %) 3rd Line Support 2 5 (11.36 %) Server Engineer 3 4 (9.091 %) Network Analyst 3 4 (9.091 %) Consultant 4 3 (6.818 %) Server Support 4 3 (6.818 %) Systems Analyst 4 3 (6.818 %) Support Specialist 4 3 (6.818 %) Project Engineer 4 3 (6.818 %) Integration Engineer 4 3 (6.818 %) Sharepoint Specialist 5 2 (4.545 %) Applications Support Consultant 5 2 (4.545 %) Senior Analyst 5 2 (4.545 %) Project Consultant 5 2 (4.545 %) Senior Systems Analyst 5 2 (4.545 %) Microsoft Consultant 5 2 (4.545 %) Support Consultant 5 2 (4.545 %) Applications Support
Miscellaneous 1 4 (9.091 %) Clustering 1 4 (9.091 %) French Language 2 1 (2.273 %) Fat Client 2 1 (2.273 %) Thin Client 2 1 (2.273 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 36 (81.82 %) Windows 2 14 (31.82 %) Windows 2000 3 13 (29.55 %) Windows XP 4 7 (15.91 %) Windows Server 2003 5 2 (4.545 %) Linux 6 1 (2.273 %) NetWare 6 1 (2.273 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (36.36 %) Network Load Balancing 2 6 (13.64 %) Security Cleared 3 5 (11.36 %) Project Management 4 3 (6.818 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (4.545 %) Time Management 5 2 (4.545 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (2.273 %) BC Cleared 6 1 (2.273 %) ITIL 6 1 (2.273 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (2.273 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 10 (22.73 %) C# 2 9 (20.45 %) C 2 9 (20.45 %) VB 3 8 (18.18 %) Java 4 5 (11.36 %) VBA 5 2 (4.545 %) SQL 6 1 (2.273 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 20 (45.45 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (15.91 %) MCSE 3 5 (11.36 %) Cisco Certification 4 4 (9.091 %) CCNA 5 2 (4.545 %) MCSA 5 2 (4.545 %) MCP 6 1 (2.273 %) MCSD 6 1 (2.273 %) A+ Certification 6 1 (2.273 %) CISA 6 1 (2.273 %) CISM 6 1 (2.273 %) CEH 6 1 (2.273 %) MCDST 6 1 (2.273 %) CISSP	System Software 1 12 (27.27 %) Active Directory 2 4 (9.091 %) VMware ESX 3 3 (6.818 %) ISA Server 4 2 (4.545 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (2.273 %) VMware Server 5 1 (2.273 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 1 (2.273 %) NetBackup 5 1 (2.273 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 5 1 (2.273 %) MetaFrame 5 1 (2.273 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 4 (9.091 %) CiscoWorks 1 4 (9.091 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 3 (6.818 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 2 (4.545 %) WSUS 3 2 (4.545 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 25 (56.82 %) Microsoft 2 7 (15.91 %) Citrix 3 6 (13.64 %) Cisco 3 6 (13.64 %) CheckPoint 3 6 (13.64 %) VMware 4 4 (9.091 %) HP 5 3 (6.818 %) VERITAS 5 3 (6.818 %) Borland 5 3 (6.818 %) Dell 6 2 (4.545 %) Compaq 6 2 (4.545 %) IBM 6 2 (4.545 %) Sun 7 1 (2.273 %) Novell 7 1 (2.273 %) Red Hat 7 1 (2.273 %) Lotus 7 1 (2.273 %) AppSense 7 1 (2.273 %) Altiris 7 1 (2.273 %) Symantec 7 1 (2.273 %) Remedy