The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset 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 Somerset 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 - - 22
Contract jobs citing DNS 0 0 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset - - 6.936%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - 48.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 10
Average daily rate - - £341
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
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
24 7 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 14.12% 4.118% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 15
Average daily rate £295 £240 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.91% -26.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £163 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £350 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
Average hourly rate £12.48 - £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
DNS
South West

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset DNS Hourly Rate Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) MCSE
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) SLA
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Server Support
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Technical Support
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (33.33%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) HP