The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 South West 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 83 65 80
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +15
Contract jobs citing DNS 34 85 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.631% 2.603% 1.490%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.56% 15.57% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 54 23
Average daily rate £353 £500 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.50% +40.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £386 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £375 £289
% change year-on-year
-20.66% +29.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
Average hourly rate £20.50 £24.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.32% +22.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £25.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-36.00% -2.91%
All Communications & Networking
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
294 546 374
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.11% 16.72% 13.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 280 153
Average daily rate £350 £400 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +19.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £199 £240 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £434
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 37 55
Average hourly rate £20.50 £27.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.45% -5.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.96 £20.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £42.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
DNS
England

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West DNS Hourly 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 South West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Bristol +12 11 £288 -23.33%
Gloucestershire -1 11 £425 -15.00%
Wiltshire -2 6 £345 -1.42%
Dorset +3 3 £250 +35.13%
Devon -2 2 £220 -32.09%
Somerset - 1 £200 -
DNS
England

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 57 (82.61%) DHCP
2 41 (59.42%) Windows
3 33 (47.83%) Linux
3 33 (47.83%) UNIX
4 32 (46.38%) TCP/IP
4 32 (46.38%) Security Cleared
5 31 (44.93%) Red Hat
5 31 (44.93%) VMware
6 30 (43.48%) Active Directory
6 30 (43.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 29 (42.03%) Clustering
8 28 (40.58%) DV Cleared
9 27 (39.13%) Microsoft
10 25 (36.23%) C
10 25 (36.23%) Perl
10 25 (36.23%) Shell Script
11 22 (31.88%) Firewall
12 21 (30.43%) Windows Server 2008
13 17 (24.64%) VMware Infrastructure
13 17 (24.64%) Windows Server 2003
13 17 (24.64%) SQL Server
13 17 (24.64%) SAN
14 15 (21.74%) LAN
15 13 (18.84%) WAN
16 12 (17.39%) Cisco
17 11 (15.94%) MS Exchange
18 10 (14.49%) Microsoft Certification
18 10 (14.49%) MS Excel
18 10 (14.49%) vSphere
19 9 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2010

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 7 (10.14%) Middleware
2 1 (1.449%) jQuery
2 1 (1.449%) Google Maps API
2 1 (1.449%) Ajax
2 1 (1.449%) REST
2 1 (1.449%) CSS3
2 1 (1.449%) LAMP
2 1 (1.449%) WSH
2 1 (1.449%) XHTML
2 1 (1.449%) HTML
2 1 (1.449%) COM
2 1 (1.449%) CSS
2 1 (1.449%) SOAP
2 1 (1.449%) Web Services
2 1 (1.449%) XML
Application Platforms
1 11 (15.94%) MS Exchange
2 9 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (10.14%) Oracle Application Server
3 7 (10.14%) Windows Azure
3 7 (10.14%) GlassFish
3 7 (10.14%) WebLogic
3 7 (10.14%) IIS
4 6 (8.696%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (8.696%) Amazon AWS
5 5 (7.246%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (2.899%) SharePoint
8 1 (1.449%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (1.449%) Apache
Applications
1 10 (14.49%) MS Excel
2 4 (5.797%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.449%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 57 (82.61%) DHCP
2 32 (46.38%) TCP/IP
3 22 (31.88%) Firewall
4 17 (24.64%) SAN
5 15 (21.74%) LAN
6 13 (18.84%) WAN
7 8 (11.59%) VPN
8 7 (10.14%) MPLS
9 6 (8.696%) Network Security
10 5 (7.246%) Internet
11 3 (4.348%) SMTP
11 3 (4.348%) HTTP
12 2 (2.899%) VoIP
12 2 (2.899%) S/MIME
12 2 (2.899%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (2.899%) VLAN
13 1 (1.449%) NAS
13 1 (1.449%) SSH
13 1 (1.449%) IMAP
13 1 (1.449%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (24.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.14%) SQL Server 2008
2 7 (10.14%) Oracle 11g
2 7 (10.14%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.449%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.449%) MySQL
General
1 4 (5.797%) Telecoms
2 2 (2.899%) Legal
3 1 (1.449%) Marketing
3 1 (1.449%) Military
3 1 (1.449%) Back Office
3 1 (1.449%) Advertising
3 1 (1.449%) Finance
3 1 (1.449%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (36.23%) Linux Engineer
2 24 (34.78%) UNIX Engineer
3 8 (11.59%) Architect
3 8 (11.59%) Network Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure Architect
4 7 (10.14%) Systems Engineer
4 7 (10.14%) Analyst
5 6 (8.696%) 3rd Line Support
5 6 (8.696%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.797%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.348%) Server Analyst
7 3 (4.348%) Desktop Support
7 3 (4.348%) Server Support
7 3 (4.348%) Support Analyst
8 2 (2.899%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (2.899%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 2 (2.899%) Design Engineer
8 2 (2.899%) Security Engineer
8 2 (2.899%) Security Specialist
8 2 (2.899%) Firewall Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 29 (42.03%) Clustering
2 7 (10.14%) PaaS
2 7 (10.14%) IaaS
3 5 (7.246%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.899%) Thin Client
4 2 (2.899%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.449%) Streaming Media
5 1 (1.449%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.449%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 41 (59.42%) Windows
2 33 (47.83%) Linux
2 33 (47.83%) UNIX
3 30 (43.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (30.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 17 (24.64%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (13.04%) Solaris
7 6 (8.696%) Windows XP
8 4 (5.797%) Windows 7
9 2 (2.899%) HPUX
9 2 (2.899%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (1.449%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.449%) Windows Vista
10 1 (1.449%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (11.59%) Load Balancing
2 6 (8.696%) ITIL
3 4 (5.797%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (5.797%) Scrum
4 3 (4.348%) Change Control
4 3 (4.348%) Migration
4 3 (4.348%) Service Management
4 3 (4.348%) Configuration Management
5 2 (2.899%) Project Management
5 2 (2.899%) Business Continuity
5 2 (2.899%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (2.899%) Data Protection
6 1 (1.449%) Data Migration
6 1 (1.449%) Integration Testing
6 1 (1.449%) Test Scripting
6 1 (1.449%) Problem Management
6 1 (1.449%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (1.449%) Asset Management
6 1 (1.449%) Project Planning
6 1 (1.449%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.23%) C
1 25 (36.23%) Perl
1 25 (36.23%) Shell Script
2 3 (4.348%) SQL
3 2 (2.899%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.449%) PHP5
4 1 (1.449%) Korn
4 1 (1.449%) C-shell
4 1 (1.449%) Bash shell
4 1 (1.449%) Python
4 1 (1.449%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.449%) VBScript
4 1 (1.449%) PHP
4 1 (1.449%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 32 (46.38%) Security Cleared
2 28 (40.58%) DV Cleared
3 10 (14.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (11.59%) MCSE
4 8 (11.59%) MCITP
5 6 (8.696%) MCTS
6 5 (7.246%) MCSA
7 3 (4.348%) SC Cleared
7 3 (4.348%) MCP
8 1 (1.449%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.449%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.449%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.348%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (43.48%) Active Directory
2 17 (24.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (14.49%) vSphere
4 7 (10.14%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (5.797%) XenApp
6 3 (4.348%) Xen
6 3 (4.348%) VMware ESX
6 3 (4.348%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (2.899%) NFS
8 1 (1.449%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (1.449%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.449%) Samba
8 1 (1.449%) Terminal Server
8 1 (1.449%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (7.246%) WSUS
2 4 (5.797%) SCCM
3 3 (4.348%) HP SIM
4 2 (2.899%) MIMEsweeper
4 2 (2.899%) DameWare
4 2 (2.899%) Backup Exec
4 2 (2.899%) SCOM
5 1 (1.449%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (1.449%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.449%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (1.449%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 31 (44.93%) Red Hat
1 31 (44.93%) VMware
2 27 (39.13%) Microsoft
3 12 (17.39%) Cisco
4 9 (13.04%) HP
5 8 (11.59%) Citrix
6 7 (10.14%) Oracle
6 7 (10.14%) Sun
7 5 (7.246%) McAfee
8 4 (5.797%) NetApp
8 4 (5.797%) Juniper
8 4 (5.797%) ProCurve
9 3 (4.348%) Sophos
9 3 (4.348%) Dell
10 2 (2.899%) Siemens
10 2 (2.899%) Veritas
10 2 (2.899%) CA
10 2 (2.899%) CheckPoint
10 2 (2.899%) M86 Security
11 1 (1.449%) Google