Scotland DNS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the Scotland 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barking Basildon Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Falkirk Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenwich Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hove Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	109
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	15	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	5.837 %	4.589 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£242	£328
Average daily rate	£248	£347
% change on same period last year	-28.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£255	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£351
% change on same period last year	-4.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.74	£16.00
Average hourly rate	£15.74	£16.75
% change on same period last year	-6.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.74	£17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.36	£26.43
% change on same period last year	-4.04 %
Communications & Networking Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	257	414
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.365 %	0.418 %
Daily rates quoted	59	64
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£313
Average daily rate	£311	£329
% change on same period last year	-5.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£331	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£336
% change on same period last year	+4.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.37	£16.77
Average hourly rate	£20.16	£17.88
% change on same period last year	+12.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.95	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.56	£28.73
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
DNS UK

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DNS across the Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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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 Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	+18	5	£173	-51.86 %
Aberdeen	-2	4	-	-
Falkirk	-	3	-	-
Edinburgh	+9	1	-	-
North Lanarkshire	-	1	-	-

DNS UK

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 24 (61.54 %) DHCP 3 23 (58.97 %) TCP/IP 4 18 (46.15 %) Windows Server 2003 5 16 (41.03 %) Active Directory 5 16 (41.03 %) Microsoft 5 16 (41.03 %) Windows 2000 6 14 (35.90 %) MS Exchange 7 12 (30.77 %) Cisco 8 10 (25.64 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 9 (23.08 %) Windows XP 10 8 (20.51 %) Windows NT 10 8 (20.51 %) RIP 10 8 (20.51 %) VLAN 10 8 (20.51 %) Cisco PIX

11 7 (17.95 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 7 (17.95 %) BGP 12 6 (15.38 %) EIGRP 12 6 (15.38 %) Citrix 12 6 (15.38 %) Ethernet 12 6 (15.38 %) ATM 12 6 (15.38 %) FDDI 12 6 (15.38 %) Gigabit Ethernet 13 5 (12.82 %) Telecoms 13 5 (12.82 %) VBScript 13 5 (12.82 %) MS Office 14 4 (10.26 %) VB 14 4 (10.26 %) MCSE 14 4 (10.26 %) MS Excel 14 4 (10.26 %) VPN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 14 (35.90 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (17.95 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (10.26 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (2.564 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 5 (12.82 %) MS Office 2 4 (10.26 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 24 (61.54 %) DHCP 2 23 (58.97 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (20.51 %) RIP 3 8 (20.51 %) VLAN 3 8 (20.51 %) Cisco PIX 4 7 (17.95 %) BGP 5 6 (15.38 %) EIGRP 5 6 (15.38 %) Ethernet 5 6 (15.38 %) ATM 5 6 (15.38 %) FDDI 5 6 (15.38 %) Gigabit Ethernet 6 4 (10.26 %) VPN 6 4 (10.26 %) SAN 7 3 (7.692 %) Broadband 7 3 (7.692 %) SMS 7 3 (7.692 %) WAN 7 3 (7.692 %) VSAT 8 2 (5.128 %) LAN 8 2 (5.128 %) Internet 8 2 (5.128 %) Firewall	General 1 5 (12.82 %) Telecoms 2 2 (5.128 %) Government 3 1 (2.564 %) Banking 3 1 (2.564 %) Local Government 3 1 (2.564 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 15 (38.46 %) Analyst 2 6 (15.38 %) Support Analyst 3 5 (12.82 %) Administrator 3 5 (12.82 %) Cisco Engineer 4 4 (10.26 %) Network Analyst 4 4 (10.26 %) Server Support 4 4 (10.26 %) Systems Administrator 5 3 (7.692 %) Network Engineer 5 3 (7.692 %) Desktop Support 5 3 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 5 3 (7.692 %) 3rd Line Support 5 3 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Analyst 5 3 (7.692 %) Server Engineer 5 3 (7.692 %) Server Administrator 6 2 (5.128 %) Server Analyst 6 2 (5.128 %) Server Support Analyst 6 2 (5.128 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 2 (5.128 %) Server Support Engineer 6 2 (5.128 %) Desktop Engineer 6 2 (5.128 %) Technical Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (10.26 %) Blackberry 2 1 (2.564 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.564 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 33 (84.62 %) Windows 2 18 (46.15 %) Windows Server 2003 3 16 (41.03 %) Windows 2000 4 10 (25.64 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 9 (23.08 %) Windows XP 6 8 (20.51 %) Windows NT 7 3 (7.692 %) Windows Vista 8 2 (5.128 %) Linux 8 2 (5.128 %) Red Hat Linux 9 1 (2.564 %) UNIX 9 1 (2.564 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (10.26 %) Migration 2 3 (7.692 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.564 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (2.564 %) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages 1 5 (12.82 %) VBScript 2 4 (10.26 %) VB 3 2 (5.128 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 4 (10.26 %) MCSE 1 4 (10.26 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (7.692 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (7.692 %) CCNP 3 2 (5.128 %) CCNA 3 2 (5.128 %) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.128 %) SLA	System Software 1 16 (41.03 %) Active Directory 2 3 (7.692 %) MetaFrame 2 3 (7.692 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (5.128 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (2.564 %) ISA Server 4 1 (2.564 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 4 (10.26 %) MIMEsweeper 2 3 (7.692 %) MOM 3 1 (2.564 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (2.564 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (2.564 %) Tivoli	Vendors 1 16 (41.03 %) Microsoft 2 12 (30.77 %) Cisco 3 6 (15.38 %) Citrix 4 3 (7.692 %) VMware 5 2 (5.128 %) Red Hat 5 2 (5.128 %) Apple 5 2 (5.128 %) NetApp 5 2 (5.128 %) Dell 6 1 (2.564 %) Intel 6 1 (2.564 %) Sun 6 1 (2.564 %) VERITAS 6 1 (2.564 %) Lotus 6 1 (2.564 %) Juniper 6 1 (2.564 %) Lucent 6 1 (2.564 %) Symantec 6 1 (2.564 %) BT