The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex 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 West Sussex 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 27 47 40
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -7
Contract jobs citing DNS 15 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 3.856% 1.351% 2.273%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 25.86% 14.52% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 5
Average daily rate £350 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £375 £290
% change year-on-year
-20.33% +29.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.50 £25.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year
-34.00% +8.69%
All Communications & Networking
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
58 62 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 14.91% 9.309% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 33 33
Average daily rate £350 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £140 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £441
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 13
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
DNS
South East

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 West Sussex 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
Crawley +15 9 £400 +10.34%
Worthing 0 2 £335 +2.68%
Chichester - 1 £350 -
DNS
South East

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 30 (93.75%) VMware
2 29 (90.63%) Windows
3 27 (84.38%) DHCP
4 22 (68.75%) Firewall
5 20 (62.50%) TCP/IP
5 20 (62.50%) Juniper
6 17 (53.13%) SAN
6 17 (53.13%) CheckPoint
7 16 (50.00%) HP
7 16 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 14 (43.75%) Active Directory
9 12 (37.50%) VPN
9 12 (37.50%) Clustering
9 12 (37.50%) Finance
10 11 (34.38%) ProCurve
10 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
10 11 (34.38%) LAN
10 11 (34.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 11 (34.38%) NetApp
10 11 (34.38%) Windows Server 2003
11 10 (31.25%) Blackberry
11 10 (31.25%) Cisco
11 10 (31.25%) Linux
11 10 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
11 10 (31.25%) WSUS
11 10 (31.25%) Backup Exec
12 9 (28.13%) MS Exchange
12 9 (28.13%) HP SIM
13 8 (25.00%) XenApp
13 8 (25.00%) vSphere

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 (21.88%) WebSphere
2 2 (6.250%) .NET
2 2 (6.250%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 11 (34.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 9 (28.13%) MS Exchange
3 6 (18.75%) IIS
3 6 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (12.50%) Apache
4 4 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (6.250%) SharePoint
5 2 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (6.250%) Zimbra
Applications
1 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
1 2 (6.250%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 27 (84.38%) DHCP
2 22 (68.75%) Firewall
3 20 (62.50%) TCP/IP
4 17 (53.13%) SAN
5 12 (37.50%) VPN
6 11 (34.38%) LAN
7 8 (25.00%) WAN
8 6 (18.75%) SSL
8 6 (18.75%) BGP
8 6 (18.75%) VLAN
9 4 (12.50%) Internet
9 4 (12.50%) MPLS
9 4 (12.50%) ISDN
9 4 (12.50%) IPsec
9 4 (12.50%) Wireless
9 4 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (12.50%) Junos
10 2 (6.250%) EIGRP
10 2 (6.250%) X.25
10 2 (6.250%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
2 4 (12.50%) MySQL
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 3 (9.375%) Online Betting
3 3 (9.375%) Advertising
4 2 (6.250%) Back Office
5 1 (3.125%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) IT Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Consultant
5 3 (9.375%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 3 (9.375%) Server Engineer
5 3 (9.375%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (6.250%) Support Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) Team Leader
6 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (6.250%) Support Manager
6 2 (6.250%) Support Team Leader
6 2 (6.250%) Network Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
6 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Support Manager
6 2 (6.250%) Wintel Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (37.50%) Clustering
2 10 (31.25%) Blackberry
3 4 (12.50%) IVR
4 2 (6.250%) SecurID
5 1 (3.125%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 29 (90.63%) Windows
2 16 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (34.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (31.25%) Linux
5 4 (12.50%) Windows XP
6 2 (6.250%) UNIX
6 2 (6.250%) AIX
6 2 (6.250%) Debian
6 2 (6.250%) Ubuntu
6 2 (6.250%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) ITIL
2 5 (15.63%) Configuration Management
3 4 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 4 (12.50%) Migration
3 4 (12.50%) Performance Management
3 4 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
4 3 (9.375%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (9.375%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (9.375%) Business Continuity
5 2 (6.250%) Network Design
5 2 (6.250%) Network Management
5 2 (6.250%) Network Architecture
6 1 (3.125%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) CCNP
1 8 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (18.75%) MCSE
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.125%) Degree
3 1 (3.125%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.125%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.125%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.250%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 10 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (25.00%) XenApp
3 8 (25.00%) vSphere
4 7 (21.88%) VMware ESX
5 6 (18.75%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 4 (12.50%) Postfix
6 4 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (9.375%) Hyper-V
8 1 (3.125%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) WSUS
1 10 (31.25%) Backup Exec
2 9 (28.13%) HP SIM
3 2 (6.250%) Cisco IPCC
3 2 (6.250%) SCCM
3 2 (6.250%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 30 (93.75%) VMware
2 20 (62.50%) Juniper
3 17 (53.13%) CheckPoint
4 16 (50.00%) HP
5 11 (34.38%) ProCurve
5 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
5 11 (34.38%) NetApp
6 10 (31.25%) Cisco
7 8 (25.00%) Citrix
8 6 (18.75%) F5
9 4 (12.50%) Sophos
9 4 (12.50%) Avaya
9 4 (12.50%) Altiris
10 2 (6.250%) Dell
10 2 (6.250%) Nortel
10 2 (6.250%) CA
10 2 (6.250%) CommVault
10 2 (6.250%) Oracle
10 2 (6.250%) IBM
10 2 (6.250%) PlateSpin
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