The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 95 112 70
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -42
Permanent jobs citing DNS 25 12 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.397% 0.623% 2.776%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.173% 4.959% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 22 12 43
Average salary £25,000 £28,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.28% -10.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £23,800
10% offered a salary of more than £58,000 £32,550 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,329
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +5.01%
All Communications & Networking
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
405 242 299
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.64% 12.56% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 307 219 249
Average salary £32,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.57% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £44,800 £60,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
DNS
North West

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire DNS Salary Histogram

DNS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Northwich - 8 £40,500 -
Warrington +18 6 £25,000 -26.47%
Macclesfield - 6 £22,500 -
Runcorn - 3 £25,000 -
Chester - 3 £55,000 -
Nantwich - 2 £37,500 -
DNS
North West

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 30 (73.17%) DHCP
2 28 (68.29%) Windows
3 23 (56.10%) Firewall
3 23 (56.10%) Windows Server 2008
4 22 (53.66%) Cisco
5 21 (51.22%) Active Directory
6 19 (46.34%) Microsoft
7 18 (43.90%) Windows Server 2003
8 17 (41.46%) VPN
9 16 (39.02%) VMware
10 15 (36.59%) TCP/IP
10 15 (36.59%) MS Exchange
10 15 (36.59%) LAN
11 13 (31.71%) WAN
11 13 (31.71%) MS Excel
12 12 (29.27%) VMware Infrastructure
12 12 (29.27%) SharePoint
12 12 (29.27%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (24.39%) HP
13 10 (24.39%) VoIP
13 10 (24.39%) Linux
13 10 (24.39%) ITIL
13 10 (24.39%) SQL Server
14 9 (21.95%) Exchange Server 2003
14 9 (21.95%) Wireless
15 8 (19.51%) Exchange Server 2007
15 8 (19.51%) Windows XP
15 8 (19.51%) Juniper
15 8 (19.51%) SAN
16 7 (17.07%) Load Balancing

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 1 (2.439%) XML
1 1 (2.439%) Flash
1 1 (2.439%) XHTML
1 1 (2.439%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 15 (36.59%) MS Exchange
2 12 (29.27%) SharePoint
3 9 (21.95%) Exchange Server 2003
4 8 (19.51%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (14.63%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (2.439%) Apache
6 1 (2.439%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 13 (31.71%) MS Excel
2 6 (14.63%) Office 365
3 3 (7.317%) AutoCAD
3 3 (7.317%) MS Project
3 3 (7.317%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 30 (73.17%) DHCP
2 23 (56.10%) Firewall
3 17 (41.46%) VPN
4 15 (36.59%) TCP/IP
4 15 (36.59%) LAN
5 13 (31.71%) WAN
6 10 (24.39%) VoIP
7 9 (21.95%) Wireless
8 8 (19.51%) SAN
9 6 (14.63%) Internet
10 5 (12.20%) VLAN
11 4 (9.756%) DMZ
11 4 (9.756%) BGP
12 2 (4.878%) DMVPN
12 2 (4.878%) SNMP
13 1 (2.439%) LDAP
13 1 (2.439%) SMTP
13 1 (2.439%) SSL
13 1 (2.439%) Cisco PIX
13 1 (2.439%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (24.39%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.439%) Informix
2 1 (2.439%) MS Access
2 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (2.439%) MySQL
General
1 5 (12.20%) Finance
2 1 (2.439%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (19.51%) Support Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) IT Support
4 6 (14.63%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Technical Manager
5 5 (12.20%) Technical Operations Manager
5 5 (12.20%) IT Operations Manager
5 5 (12.20%) Operations Manager
6 4 (9.756%) Technical Support
7 3 (7.317%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (7.317%) Architect
7 3 (7.317%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (7.317%) Support Technician
8 2 (4.878%) Support Analyst
8 2 (4.878%) DBA
8 2 (4.878%) Analyst
8 2 (4.878%) Administrator
8 2 (4.878%) Technical Support Analyst
8 2 (4.878%) Technical Support Engineer
8 2 (4.878%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.317%) Thin Client
1 3 (7.317%) Fat Client
1 3 (7.317%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (4.878%) Firmware
2 2 (4.878%) Clustering
3 1 (2.439%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.439%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.439%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 28 (68.29%) Windows
2 23 (56.10%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (43.90%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (24.39%) Linux
5 8 (19.51%) Windows XP
6 6 (14.63%) Windows 7
7 3 (7.317%) UNIX
7 3 (7.317%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (2.439%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.439%) Mac OS
8 1 (2.439%) AIX
8 1 (2.439%) Solaris
8 1 (2.439%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.439%) Tru64
8 1 (2.439%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (24.39%) ITIL
2 7 (17.07%) Load Balancing
3 6 (14.63%) Change Control
3 6 (14.63%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (12.20%) E-Commerce
4 5 (12.20%) Project Management
5 4 (9.756%) Network Management
6 3 (7.317%) Time Management
6 3 (7.317%) Incident Management
7 2 (4.878%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (4.878%) High Availability
7 2 (4.878%) Service Management
8 1 (2.439%) Change Management
8 1 (2.439%) Configuration Management
8 1 (2.439%) Migration
8 1 (2.439%) Information Security
8 1 (2.439%) Penetration Testing
8 1 (2.439%) Business Analysis
8 1 (2.439%) Capacity Management
8 1 (2.439%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.756%) SQL
2 1 (2.439%) Python
2 1 (2.439%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.439%) Ruby
2 1 (2.439%) Bash shell
2 1 (2.439%) Java
2 1 (2.439%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.439%) Perl
2 1 (2.439%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (14.63%) MCP
3 5 (12.20%) MCSE
3 5 (12.20%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (12.20%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (9.756%) Degree
4 4 (9.756%) CCNP
5 3 (7.317%) MCSA
5 3 (7.317%) MCITP
6 2 (4.878%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (4.878%) MCTS
7 1 (2.439%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.439%) QA
2 1 (2.439%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Active Directory
2 12 (29.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (14.63%) vSphere
4 3 (7.317%) VMware ESX
5 2 (4.878%) VMware Server
6 1 (2.439%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.439%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 6 (14.63%) MOM
1 6 (14.63%) Nagios
2 1 (2.439%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.439%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.439%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (53.66%) Cisco
2 19 (46.34%) Microsoft
3 16 (39.02%) VMware
4 10 (24.39%) HP
5 8 (19.51%) Juniper
6 6 (14.63%) IBM
6 6 (14.63%) Avaya
7 5 (12.20%) Citrix
8 4 (9.756%) Dell
9 3 (7.317%) F5
10 1 (2.439%) Oracle
10 1 (2.439%) NetApp
10 1 (2.439%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.439%) Symantec
10 1 (2.439%) McAfee
Nantwich, North West
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES Essential :- Windows Server 2K8 (Multi-site Active Directory administration,DFS, DNS, DHCP)Enterprise skills (Monitoring, High Availability and Disaster Recovery)Network (Cisco hardware, TCPIP, DMVPN, Firewall/...
OCC Computing
Salary: £0 - 40k per year
Posted: 1 May 2013