The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Wales 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 37 51 60
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +9
Contract jobs citing DNS 12 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 2.521% 0.825% 0.284%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.63% 5.682% 1.770%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
Average daily rate £350 £200 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £340 £290
% change year-on-year
-12.37% +17.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +55.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £23.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year
-17.39% +33.33%
All Communications & Networking
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
82 88 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 17.23% 14.52% 16.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 45 45
Average daily rate £373 £295 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.27% -9.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £185 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.54% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.80 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £26.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
DNS
UK

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales 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 Wales region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales 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 Wales region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
South Wales +11 11 £350 +75.00% 4
West Wales - - - - 1
DNS
UK

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (87.50%) Active Directory
3 10 (62.50%) TCP/IP
4 9 (56.25%) Firewall
5 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (43.75%) DHCP
6 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (43.75%) Windows 7
7 6 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (37.50%) LAN
7 6 (37.50%) WAN
7 6 (37.50%) VMware
8 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
8 5 (31.25%) Asset Management
8 5 (31.25%) Network Design
8 5 (31.25%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (31.25%) Migration
8 5 (31.25%) Degree
8 5 (31.25%) Load Balancing
8 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
8 5 (31.25%) SCCM
8 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
8 5 (31.25%) Cisco
8 5 (31.25%) SQL
8 5 (31.25%) IIS
8 5 (31.25%) MCP
8 5 (31.25%) Riverbed
9 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
9 4 (25.00%) SharePoint

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales 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 5 (31.25%) IIS
2 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (12.50%) MS Exchange
3 2 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (62.50%) TCP/IP
2 9 (56.25%) Firewall
3 7 (43.75%) DHCP
4 6 (37.50%) LAN
4 6 (37.50%) WAN
5 5 (31.25%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (25.00%) Intranet
7 2 (12.50%) Internet
8 1 (6.250%) SMTP
General
1 4 (25.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Administrator
2 5 (31.25%) LAN Administrator
3 3 (18.75%) SharePoint Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Support Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Team Leader
4 2 (12.50%) Server Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Team Leader
5 1 (6.250%) SharePoint Administrator
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
5 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Server Support
5 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Technical Support
5 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Support Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
1 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
2 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (12.50%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (43.75%) Windows 7
4 2 (12.50%) Solaris
4 2 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
2 5 (31.25%) Migration
2 5 (31.25%) Asset Management
2 5 (31.25%) Network Design
2 5 (31.25%) Load Balancing
3 4 (25.00%) System Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Web Development
4 2 (12.50%) Data Management
4 2 (12.50%) Information Security
5 1 (6.250%) Service Delivery
5 1 (6.250%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (31.25%) MCP
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) MCSE
3 2 (12.50%) MCSA
3 2 (12.50%) MCTS
4 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (18.75%) vSphere
4 2 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 2 (12.50%) ISA Server
5 1 (6.250%) VMware ESX
5 1 (6.250%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) VMware
2 5 (31.25%) Riverbed
2 5 (31.25%) Cisco
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (18.75%) NetApp
5 2 (12.50%) Sun
5 2 (12.50%) HP
6 1 (6.250%) Citrix
South Wales
My client is looking for an Infrastructure Support Analyst with experience of MS Windows Server, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, Terminal Server, Firewalls & Routers. In addition, the Infrastructure Support...
G2 Recruitment Solutions Ltd.
Rate: £Neg
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Active Directory Administration. Network Infrastructure configuration including; TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP... Must be certified to MCSE/MCSA/MCITP Level... VMware. NetApp Storage. MS Exchange. Certified in any of...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Rate: £32000 - £33000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Active Directory Administration. Network Infrastructure configuration including; TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP... Must be certified to MCSE/MCSA/MCITP Level... VMware. NetApp Storage. MS Exchange. Certified in any of...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Rate: £32000 - £3303300000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
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