The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Renfrewshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 24 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 Renfrewshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 16 3 -
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -
Contract jobs citing DNS 6 18 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 9.524% 50.00% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 90.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 0
Average daily rate £425 £420 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.19% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £375 £289
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +29.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £25.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
-32.00% +16.27%
All Communications & Networking
Renfrewshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
18 20 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 28.57% 55.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 0
Average daily rate £425 £410 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.65% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
DNS
Scotland

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Renfrewshire 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 Renfrewshire region.

Renfrewshire DNS Daily 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 Renfrewshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Erskine -12 6 £425 +1.19%
DNS
Scotland

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (100.00%) Clustering
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (85.71%) Netcool
2 6 (85.71%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 6 (85.71%) NAS
2 6 (85.71%) Configuration Management
2 6 (85.71%) Tivoli
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (85.71%) SAN
2 6 (85.71%) Veritas
2 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
2 6 (85.71%) Windows XP
2 6 (85.71%) AIX
2 6 (85.71%) Solaris
2 6 (85.71%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Software Distribution
3 1 (14.29%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
3 1 (14.29%) SMS
3 1 (14.29%) SLA
3 1 (14.29%) Lotus
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) MOM
3 1 (14.29%) ISA Server
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DHCP
2 6 (85.71%) NAS
2 6 (85.71%) SAN
2 6 (85.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) SMS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (85.71%) Windows XP
2 6 (85.71%) AIX
2 6 (85.71%) Solaris
2 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Configuration Management
1 6 (85.71%) Software Distribution
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) ISA Server
1 1 (14.29%) XenApp
1 1 (14.29%) Forefront TMG
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Netcool
1 6 (85.71%) OpenView Configuration Management
1 6 (85.71%) Tivoli
2 1 (14.29%) MOM
2 1 (14.29%) Backup Exec
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) Veritas
2 1 (14.29%) Lotus
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Symantec