The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 49 - 54
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing DNS 2 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.592% - 0.397%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.030% - 5.556%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £27,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,750
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.87%
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
66 22 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 19.53% 14.10% 7.143%
Number of salaries quoted 28 21 17
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £42,500 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
Cheshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 6 (66.67%) LAN
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) WAN
2 5 (55.56%) DHCP
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) Juniper
3 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 3 (33.33%) HP
4 3 (33.33%) Dell
4 3 (33.33%) Citrix
4 3 (33.33%) VLAN
4 3 (33.33%) Degree
4 3 (33.33%) vSphere
5 2 (22.22%) Fat Client
5 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
5 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
5 2 (22.22%) Internet
5 2 (22.22%) Thin Client
5 2 (22.22%) DMZ
5 2 (22.22%) ITIL

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Project
1 2 (22.22%) AutoCAD
2 1 (11.11%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) LAN
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) WAN
2 5 (55.56%) DHCP
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
3 3 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (33.33%) VLAN
4 2 (22.22%) Internet
4 2 (22.22%) DMZ
4 2 (22.22%) Wireless
4 2 (22.22%) BGP
5 1 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (11.11%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Support Technician
2 2 (22.22%) Network Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Fat Client
1 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (22.22%) Thin Client
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Tru64
4 1 (11.11%) AIX
4 1 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) E-Commerce
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Database Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Service Management
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Change Control
3 1 (11.11%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (11.11%) VMware ESX
3 1 (11.11%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
1 1 (11.11%) Backup Exec
1 1 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
1 5 (55.56%) Juniper
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) HP
3 3 (33.33%) Dell
3 3 (33.33%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) NetApp
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat