West Yorkshire DNS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the West Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bognor Regis Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Guildford Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Highlands Hounslow Inverness Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Romford Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Stockport Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	63
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	21	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.028 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	10.10 %	11.23 %
Daily rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£260
Average daily rate	£319	£260
% change on same period last year	+22.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£298	£348
% change on same period last year	-14.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	-
Average hourly rate	£40.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.58	£25.33
% change on same period last year	-10.86 %
Communications & Networking West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	208	276
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.277 %	0.280 %
Daily rates quoted	50	47
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£327
Average daily rate	£297	£333
% change on same period last year	-11.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.31	£26.69
Average hourly rate	£24.57	£28.29
% change on same period last year	-13.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.84	£29.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.60
% change on same period last year	-9.75 %
DNS Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DNS across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DNS across the West Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DNS across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DNS across the West Yorkshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leeds	-14	17	£319	+22.85 %
Wakefield	-	1	-	-

DNS Yorkshire

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 43 (66.15 %) Firewall 2 38 (58.46 %) Windows 3 24 (36.92 %) PKI 4 23 (35.38 %) Smartcard 5 22 (33.85 %) Health 6 21 (32.31 %) UNIX 7 19 (29.23 %) PRINCE2 8 17 (26.15 %) Active Directory 9 16 (24.62 %) Citrix 9 16 (24.62 %) Project Management 9 16 (24.62 %) Government 10 15 (23.08 %) Microsoft 11 14 (21.54 %) DHCP 11 14 (21.54 %) NHS 12 13 (20.00 %) Windows Server 2003

12 13 (20.00 %) Internet 12 13 (20.00 %) TCP/IP 13 12 (18.46 %) Linux 14 11 (16.92 %) SQL Server 14 11 (16.92 %) MetaFrame 14 11 (16.92 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 15 10 (15.38 %) WebServices 16 8 (12.31 %) C 16 8 (12.31 %) Perl 16 8 (12.31 %) Windows 2000 16 8 (12.31 %) MS Exchange 17 7 (10.77 %) Telecoms 17 7 (10.77 %) Degree 17 7 (10.77 %) PRINCE2 Certification 18 6 (9.231 %) Cisco Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 10 (15.38 %) WebServices 2 3 (4.615 %) .NET 2 3 (4.615 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (3.077 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 8 (12.31 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (7.692 %) SharePoint 3 4 (6.154 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 3 (4.615 %) IIS 5 2 (3.077 %) Lotus Domino 6 1 (1.538 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 1 (1.538 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (1.538 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 4 (6.154 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.077 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 43 (66.15 %) Firewall 2 14 (21.54 %) DHCP 3 13 (20.00 %) TCP/IP 3 13 (20.00 %) Internet 4 5 (7.692 %) LAN 4 5 (7.692 %) WAN 5 4 (6.154 %) HTTP 6 3 (4.615 %) VPN 6 3 (4.615 %) SAN 6 3 (4.615 %) LDAP 7 2 (3.077 %) DAB 7 2 (3.077 %) Wireless 7 2 (3.077 %) Intranet 8 1 (1.538 %) IMAP 8 1 (1.538 %) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (16.92 %) SQL Server 2 6 (9.231 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (6.154 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (1.538 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (1.538 %) Visual Studio
General 1 22 (33.85 %) Health 2 16 (24.62 %) Government 3 7 (10.77 %) Telecoms 4 1 (1.538 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 25 (38.46 %) Analyst 2 16 (24.62 %) Deployment Analyst 3 8 (12.31 %) Technical Support 4 6 (9.231 %) Network Analyst 4 6 (9.231 %) Network Engineer 4 6 (9.231 %) Technical Analyst 4 6 (9.231 %) Technical Manager 5 5 (7.692 %) Support Analyst 5 5 (7.692 %) Systems Engineer 5 5 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 5 5 (7.692 %) 3rd Line Support 6 4 (6.154 %) Server Support 6 4 (6.154 %) Consultant 6 4 (6.154 %) Project Manager 6 4 (6.154 %) Technical Support Analyst 6 4 (6.154 %) Systems Integrator 7 3 (4.615 %) Network Support 8 2 (3.077 %) Server Engineer 8 2 (3.077 %) Senior Infrastructure Engineer 8 2 (3.077 %) Server Support Technician
Miscellaneous 1 24 (36.92 %) PKI 2 23 (35.38 %) Smartcard 3 14 (21.54 %) NHS 4 1 (1.538 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 38 (58.46 %) Windows 2 21 (32.31 %) UNIX 3 13 (20.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 12 (18.46 %) Linux 5 8 (12.31 %) Windows 2000 6 6 (9.231 %) Solaris 7 5 (7.692 %) Windows NT 8 2 (3.077 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (29.23 %) PRINCE2 2 16 (24.62 %) Project Management 3 5 (7.692 %) ITIL 4 4 (6.154 %) Security Cleared 4 4 (6.154 %) PRINCE 5 2 (3.077 %) Supplier Management 5 2 (3.077 %) Network Load Balancing 6 1 (1.538 %) MOF 6 1 (1.538 %) ERP	Programming Languages 1 8 (12.31 %) C 1 8 (12.31 %) Perl 2 6 (9.231 %) Shell Script 3 4 (6.154 %) SQL 4 3 (4.615 %) C# 5 1 (1.538 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 11 (16.92 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 7 (10.77 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 7 (10.77 %) Degree 3 6 (9.231 %) CCNA 3 6 (9.231 %) Cisco Certification 4 3 (4.615 %) CCNP 5 1 (1.538 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 17 (26.15 %) Active Directory 2 11 (16.92 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 4 (6.154 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (3.077 %) OpenView 2 2 (3.077 %) CiscoWorks 2 2 (3.077 %) MOM	Vendors 1 16 (24.62 %) Citrix 2 15 (23.08 %) Microsoft 3 5 (7.692 %) Cisco 4 3 (4.615 %) VERITAS 5 2 (3.077 %) Lotus 5 2 (3.077 %) HP 6 1 (1.538 %) Sun