DNS Contracts in Tyne and Wear
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 22 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 Tyne and Wear 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 22 15 27
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +12
Contract jobs citing DNS 7 27 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 3.867% 8.036% 2.734%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.88% 30.00% 19.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 1
Average daily rate £300 £338 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +125.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £375 £290
% change year-on-year
-20.33% +29.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £25.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-34.00% +8.69%
All Communications & Networking
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 32 90 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 17.68% 26.79% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 43 16
Average daily rate £300 £350 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +8.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £221 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
Average hourly rate £10.50 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.73% -9.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
DNS
North East

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 22 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +7 7 £300 -6.97%
DNS
North East

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 8 (80.00%) Firewall
2 7 (70.00%) Red Hat
2 7 (70.00%) LDAP
2 7 (70.00%) DHCP
2 7 (70.00%) CentOS
3 6 (60.00%) Citrix
3 6 (60.00%) Linux
3 6 (60.00%) Apache
3 6 (60.00%) MySQL
3 6 (60.00%) VPN
4 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (50.00%) SAN
5 4 (40.00%) HP
5 4 (40.00%) XenServer
6 3 (30.00%) Nagios
6 3 (30.00%) OSPF
6 3 (30.00%) Cisco
6 3 (30.00%) Windows
6 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
7 2 (20.00%) VMware
7 2 (20.00%) Clustering
7 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
7 2 (20.00%) UNIX
7 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
7 2 (20.00%) McAfee
7 2 (20.00%) BGP
7 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
7 2 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (20.00%) Project Management

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 1 (10.00%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Firewall
2 7 (70.00%) LDAP
2 7 (70.00%) DHCP
3 6 (60.00%) VPN
4 5 (50.00%) SAN
5 3 (30.00%) OSPF
6 2 (20.00%) BGP
6 2 (20.00%) SMTP
6 2 (20.00%) FTP
6 2 (20.00%) SNMP
7 1 (10.00%) HSRP
7 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (10.00%) LAN
7 1 (10.00%) WAN
7 1 (10.00%) VLAN
7 1 (10.00%) Wireless
7 1 (10.00%) IPsec
7 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Administrator
2 5 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 5 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 5 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Server Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Network Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Clustering
1 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) CentOS
2 6 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Windows
4 2 (20.00%) UNIX
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (30.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Network Design
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) XenServer
2 2 (20.00%) SRDF
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (60.00%) Citrix
3 4 (40.00%) HP
4 3 (30.00%) Cisco
5 2 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (20.00%) McAfee
5 2 (20.00%) Novell
5 2 (20.00%) RightFax
6 1 (10.00%) ProCurve
6 1 (10.00%) Juniper
6 1 (10.00%) TippingPoint
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