The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Devon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 20 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 Devon region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 35 39 36
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -3
Permanent jobs citing DNS 9 7 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Devon 3.237% 2.280% 3.874%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 21.43% 21.88% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 15
Average salary £27,127 £32,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.53% +4.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,876 £25,900 £23,800
10% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £43,000 £38,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,415
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +4.74%
All Communications & Networking
Devon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
42 32 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Devon 15.11% 10.42% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 32 32 60
Average salary £27,500 £35,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.42% +12.90%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,000 £16,650 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £45,500 £51,750
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +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 Devon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon DNS Salary Trend

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 Devon region over the 3 months to 20 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
Plymouth - 5 £27,127 -
Exeter +8 1 £21,500 -38.57%
Exmouth - 1 £32,500 -
DNS
South West

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Devon 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 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 11 (73.33%) MS Exchange
3 10 (66.67%) DHCP
4 8 (53.33%) Linux
4 8 (53.33%) MS Office
4 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
5 7 (46.67%) Apache
6 6 (40.00%) LAN
6 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
6 6 (40.00%) Perl
6 6 (40.00%) Hyper-V
7 5 (33.33%) CentOS
7 5 (33.33%) Cisco
7 5 (33.33%) VLAN
7 5 (33.33%) Python
7 5 (33.33%) Red Hat
8 4 (26.67%) Blackberry
8 4 (26.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 4 (26.67%) Citrix
8 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (26.67%) Fortran
8 4 (26.67%) NFS
8 4 (26.67%) FTP
8 4 (26.67%) C
8 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
8 4 (26.67%) ITIL
8 4 (26.67%) MCP
8 4 (26.67%) MCSE
8 4 (26.67%) Solaris
8 4 (26.67%) Ubuntu

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Devon 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 3 (20.00%) LAMP
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Flex
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 2 (13.33%) CSS
2 2 (13.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 11 (73.33%) MS Exchange
2 7 (46.67%) Apache
3 4 (26.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (6.667%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (53.33%) MS Office
2 3 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) DHCP
2 6 (40.00%) LAN
2 6 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (33.33%) VLAN
4 4 (26.67%) FTP
5 3 (20.00%) WAN
6 2 (13.33%) SAN
6 2 (13.33%) Internet
7 1 (6.667%) Firewall
7 1 (6.667%) Ethernet
7 1 (6.667%) HTTP
7 1 (6.667%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (6.667%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (6.667%) Financial Institution
1 1 (6.667%) Back Office
1 1 (6.667%) Finance
1 1 (6.667%) Publishing
1 1 (6.667%) Retail
1 1 (6.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Linux Support
3 3 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) LAMP Developer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support
4 2 (13.33%) Windows Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Systems Support Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 1 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.667%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Systems Support
5 1 (6.667%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Blackberry
2 3 (20.00%) Clustering
3 2 (13.33%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 8 (53.33%) Linux
3 5 (33.33%) CentOS
4 4 (26.67%) Fedora
4 4 (26.67%) Ubuntu
4 4 (26.67%) Solaris
4 4 (26.67%) Mac OS
5 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
5 2 (13.33%) UNIX
5 2 (13.33%) Windows XP
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) ITIL
2 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 1 (6.667%) Load Balancing
4 1 (6.667%) Direct Marketing
4 1 (6.667%) Computer Security
4 1 (6.667%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Perl
2 5 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) Fortran
3 4 (26.67%) C
4 3 (20.00%) PHP
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
6 1 (6.667%) VBScript
6 1 (6.667%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) MCP
1 4 (26.67%) MCSE
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (20.00%) CCA
2 3 (20.00%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
2 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (26.67%) NFS
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (20.00%) XenApp
3 3 (20.00%) XenServer
3 3 (20.00%) XenDesktop
4 2 (13.33%) ISA Server
5 1 (6.667%) VMware Server
5 1 (6.667%) Terminal Services
5 1 (6.667%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Nagios
1 4 (26.67%) WSUS
1 4 (26.67%) Ganglia
2 3 (20.00%) SCCM
3 2 (13.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 5 (33.33%) Cisco
3 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 4 (26.67%) Citrix
4 3 (20.00%) HP
4 3 (20.00%) Dell
5 1 (6.667%) Adobe
5 1 (6.667%) NetApp
5 1 (6.667%) CheckPoint
5 1 (6.667%) Sophos