The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 24 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 88 90 82
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -8
Permanent jobs citing DNS 30 23 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 1.740% 1.329% 1.840%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.54% 8.880% 9.524%
Number of salaries quoted 20 23 33
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £20,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,750
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.87%
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
193 259 357
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 11.19% 14.97% 19.32%
Number of salaries quoted 152 225 266
Average salary £42,500 £37,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.86% +5.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
South West

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol DNS Jobs Demand Trend

DNS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing DNS across the Bristol region.

Bristol DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bristol DNS Salary Histogram

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 IT job ads sampled that cited DNS.

1 39 (76.47%) Windows
2 37 (72.55%) TCP/IP
3 31 (60.78%) VMware
4 30 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
5 29 (56.86%) Windows Server 2003
6 28 (54.90%) Microsoft
6 28 (54.90%) LAN
7 27 (52.94%) SQL Server
7 27 (52.94%) Firewall
7 27 (52.94%) VMware Infrastructure
8 24 (47.06%) VPN
9 23 (45.10%) WAN
10 21 (41.18%) MS Excel
11 20 (39.22%) Active Directory
12 19 (37.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (37.25%) MS Exchange
12 19 (37.25%) IIS
13 17 (33.33%) SharePoint
13 17 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
13 17 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
14 16 (31.37%) MCITP
14 16 (31.37%) MCSE
14 16 (31.37%) Cisco
15 15 (29.41%) MCSA
15 15 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
16 14 (27.45%) MCTS
17 13 (25.49%) DHCP
17 13 (25.49%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (25.49%) Information Security
17 13 (25.49%) Telecoms

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 IT job ads sampled that cited DNS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (11.76%) POSIX
1 6 (11.76%) WSH
2 4 (7.843%) Middleware
3 3 (5.882%) .NET
4 2 (3.922%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.961%) AppFabric
5 1 (1.961%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 19 (37.25%) MS Exchange
1 19 (37.25%) IIS
2 17 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 17 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 17 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (19.61%) Apache
4 4 (7.843%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (3.922%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (3.922%) Exchange Server 2000
7 1 (1.961%) CloudFront
7 1 (1.961%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.961%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.961%) Windows Azure
7 1 (1.961%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 21 (41.18%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 37 (72.55%) TCP/IP
2 28 (54.90%) LAN
3 27 (52.94%) Firewall
4 24 (47.06%) VPN
5 23 (45.10%) WAN
6 13 (25.49%) DHCP
7 12 (23.53%) Ethernet
7 12 (23.53%) iSCSI
8 9 (17.65%) IPsec
8 9 (17.65%) Network Security
9 8 (15.69%) HTTP
9 8 (15.69%) Internet
9 8 (15.69%) OSPF
10 7 (13.73%) Wireless
10 7 (13.73%) MPLS
10 7 (13.73%) SAN
10 7 (13.73%) SSL
11 6 (11.76%) ATM
11 6 (11.76%) IPv4
11 6 (11.76%) BGP-4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 15 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (11.76%) MySQL
4 2 (3.922%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (3.922%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (3.922%) GIS
5 1 (1.961%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.961%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.961%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.961%) HBase
5 1 (1.961%) Redis
5 1 (1.961%) Riak
5 1 (1.961%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.961%) CouchDB
General
1 13 (25.49%) Telecoms
2 12 (23.53%) Marketing
3 2 (3.922%) Legal
3 2 (3.922%) Advertising
4 1 (1.961%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (47.06%) Systems Engineer
2 17 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (25.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (23.53%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 12 (23.53%) Systems Administrator
5 10 (19.61%) Administrator
6 6 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Test Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Systems Test Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Cisco Engineer
7 5 (9.804%) Analyst
7 5 (9.804%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.922%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 2 (3.922%) Senior UNIX Administrator
8 2 (3.922%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (3.922%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.922%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (3.922%) Field Engineer
8 2 (3.922%) UNIX Administrator
8 2 (3.922%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Management Information System
2 7 (13.73%) Clustering
2 7 (13.73%) Digital Media
3 3 (5.882%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.961%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.961%) RMADS
Operating Systems
1 39 (76.47%) Windows
2 30 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
3 29 (56.86%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (21.57%) Windows 7
4 11 (21.57%) Linux
5 9 (17.65%) Windows XP
6 4 (7.843%) Ubuntu
6 4 (7.843%) UNIX
7 3 (5.882%) Windows Vista
8 2 (3.922%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (3.922%) Windows 2000
9 1 (1.961%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) Information Security
2 12 (23.53%) Information Security Management
2 12 (23.53%) Security Management
2 12 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (23.53%) ISMS
3 8 (15.69%) Load Balancing
4 2 (3.922%) Document Management
4 2 (3.922%) SIEM
4 2 (3.922%) ITIL
4 2 (3.922%) ITSM
4 2 (3.922%) Service Delivery
4 2 (3.922%) Change Management
4 2 (3.922%) Migration
4 2 (3.922%) Business Continuity
5 1 (1.961%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (1.961%) Practice Management
5 1 (1.961%) Data Security
5 1 (1.961%) Risk Management
5 1 (1.961%) Service Management
5 1 (1.961%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) Python
2 10 (19.61%) Perl
3 7 (13.73%) SQL
3 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.76%) C
5 1 (1.961%) C#
5 1 (1.961%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (37.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (31.37%) MCITP
2 16 (31.37%) MCSE
3 15 (29.41%) MCSA
4 14 (27.45%) MCTS
5 13 (25.49%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (15.69%) Security Cleared
7 6 (11.76%) CCNA
8 4 (7.843%) SC Cleared
8 4 (7.843%) DV Cleared
9 2 (3.922%) MCP
9 2 (3.922%) CCNP
9 2 (3.922%) Citrix Certification
9 2 (3.922%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.961%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (23.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.961%) SLA
2 1 (1.961%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (52.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (39.22%) Active Directory
3 8 (15.69%) Hyper-V
4 6 (11.76%) Varnish
4 6 (11.76%) Xen
5 5 (9.804%) Terminal Services
6 4 (7.843%) Cygwin
6 4 (7.843%) NFS
6 4 (7.843%) VMware ESX
7 3 (5.882%) Forefront TMG
7 3 (5.882%) vSphere
8 2 (3.922%) XenApp
8 2 (3.922%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 2 (3.922%) UAG
8 2 (3.922%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (3.922%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.961%) ISA Server
9 1 (1.961%) Squid
Systems Management
1 1 (1.961%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 31 (60.78%) VMware
2 28 (54.90%) Microsoft
3 16 (31.37%) Cisco
4 12 (23.53%) NetSuite
5 6 (11.76%) Citrix
5 6 (11.76%) Juniper
6 5 (9.804%) Nortel
6 5 (9.804%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 5 (9.804%) NetApp
6 5 (9.804%) Siemens
6 5 (9.804%) Huawei
6 5 (9.804%) ZTE
6 5 (9.804%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 4 (7.843%) Perforce
7 4 (7.843%) Isilon
7 4 (7.843%) Red Hat
8 3 (5.882%) HP
9 2 (3.922%) Google
9 2 (3.922%) Oracle
9 2 (3.922%) Compaq
Aust, Bristol, South West
Delivers a highly efficient, effective and available platform infrastructure to the business according to agreed business requirements and service levels within specialist area of expertise * Active Directory, Servers...
Brightside Group
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 25 May 2013
Bristol, South West
Applicants will also be experienced in Active Directory, group policy and terminal services. Experience of virtualisation technologies (VMware, ESX), databases, SAN solutions and secure systems would be beneficial...
Novate IT
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Applicants should have strong skills in Windows desktops (XP, Vista and Windows 7), Windows Servers (2003, 2008) as well as networking technologies such as Ethernet LAN, TCP/IP,...
Novate IT Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Aust, Bristol, South West
Networking responsibilities include project planning, design and implementation... Technical Competencies (Required) * Cisco Certified Network Associate (or similar industry recognised network certification) * Experience of implementing and administering Extreme Networks...
Brightside Group
Salary: £28,000 per annum
Posted: 25 May 2013
Aust, Bristol, South West
Technical Competencies (Required) - Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 (MCP/MCTS/MCSE/MCITP desirable) - Windows XP/Vista/7 - Linux - Red Hat - Active Directory configuration and management - DNS, DHCP -...
Brightside Group
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 25 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Microsoft Exchange 2007 and 2010 (although experience with other versions may be acceptable) Microsoft Office 365... Microsoft Active Directory. Microsoft SharePoint... Cisco knowledge. Linux/Unix knowledge... BES software...
Rockfield
Salary: From £30,000 to £37,000 per annum Pension, bonus, health etc
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, South West
IBM Domino to MS Exchange migration expereince... Excellent communication and organisational skills Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus technologies Mobile communications technologies - BES or Good Excellent Infrastructure skills - AD,...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Pension
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Keywords: Data Communications, Data Networks, MPLS, VPLS, DWDM, DS / IPS, SIEM, NAC/NAP, Cisco, Juniper... Suitable candidates will have the following experience: Experience of building, securing and supporting...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £32000 - £38000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Keywords: Data Communications, Data Networks, MPLS, VPLS, DWDM, DS / IPS, SIEM, NAC/NAP, Team Leading, Cisco, Juniper... Suitable candidates will have the following experience: Proven Team Leader Experience...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £38000 - £42000 per annum + Excellent Benefits Package
Posted: 21 May 2013