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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 60 48 53
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +5
Permanent jobs citing DNS 7 11 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 1.133% 2.191% 2.010%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.785% 13.58% 17.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 12
Average salary £26,000 £32,500 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £24,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £29,250 £35,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,750
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.87%
All Communications & Networking
Dorset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
121 81 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 19.58% 16.14% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 104 63 58
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,800 £21,500 £22,200
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
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 Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 24 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
Bournemouth -10 2 £32,500 -7.14%
DNS
South West

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 19 (79.17%) VMware
2 17 (70.83%) TCP/IP
3 16 (66.67%) Windows
3 16 (66.67%) MS Exchange
4 14 (58.33%) Internet
5 13 (54.17%) Active Directory
6 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (50.00%) MCSE
6 12 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
7 11 (45.83%) MCITP
7 11 (45.83%) Exchange Server 2003
7 11 (45.83%) Marketing
7 11 (45.83%) DHCP
7 11 (45.83%) HTTP
7 11 (45.83%) HP
8 10 (41.67%) IBM
8 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
8 10 (41.67%) SMTP
8 10 (41.67%) SQL
8 10 (41.67%) Time Management
8 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
9 9 (37.50%) Retail
9 9 (37.50%) Change Management
9 9 (37.50%) Firewall
9 9 (37.50%) ITIL
9 9 (37.50%) E-Commerce
9 9 (37.50%) VPN
9 9 (37.50%) ITIL Certification
9 9 (37.50%) Veritas
9 9 (37.50%) SLA

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 5 (20.83%) HTML
2 2 (8.333%) LAMP
3 1 (4.167%) WAMP
3 1 (4.167%) Apache Flex
3 1 (4.167%) jQuery
3 1 (4.167%) Google Maps API
3 1 (4.167%) Ajax
3 1 (4.167%) CSS
3 1 (4.167%) SOAP
3 1 (4.167%) Web Services
3 1 (4.167%) XML
3 1 (4.167%) XHTML
3 1 (4.167%) REST
3 1 (4.167%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 16 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 12 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 11 (45.83%) Exchange Server 2003
4 7 (29.17%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 5 (20.83%) Apache
6 5 (20.83%) Exchange Server 2000
7 3 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (70.83%) TCP/IP
2 14 (58.33%) Internet
3 11 (45.83%) DHCP
3 11 (45.83%) HTTP
4 10 (41.67%) SMTP
5 9 (37.50%) Firewall
5 9 (37.50%) VPN
5 9 (37.50%) BGP
6 8 (33.33%) FTP
7 7 (29.17%) LAN
8 6 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (25.00%) SAN
9 4 (16.67%) WAN
10 3 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (12.50%) Wireless
11 1 (4.167%) IMAP
11 1 (4.167%) Intranet
11 1 (4.167%) HTTPS
11 1 (4.167%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (4.167%) RDBMS
1 1 (4.167%) MySQL
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (45.83%) Marketing
2 9 (37.50%) Retail
3 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.167%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Technician
2 6 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (25.00%) Support Technician
3 5 (20.83%) Technical Support
4 4 (16.67%) Platform Manager
4 4 (16.67%) Server Support
5 3 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Administrator
5 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
6 2 (8.333%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 2 (8.333%) UNIX Administrator
6 2 (8.333%) Pre Sales Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Sales Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (4.167%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 1 (4.167%) PHP Developer
7 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.167%) Streaming Media
1 1 (4.167%) W3C
1 1 (4.167%) N-Tier
1 1 (4.167%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Windows
2 7 (29.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (25.00%) Windows Vista
3 6 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 6 (25.00%) Linux
4 5 (20.83%) Windows 7
5 4 (16.67%) AIX
5 4 (16.67%) HPUX
5 4 (16.67%) UNIX
6 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Time Management
2 9 (37.50%) Change Management
2 9 (37.50%) ITIL
2 9 (37.50%) E-Commerce
2 9 (37.50%) Capacity Management
3 4 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 2 (8.333%) Product Management
5 1 (4.167%) Refactoring
5 1 (4.167%) Unit Testing
5 1 (4.167%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.167%) Web Development
5 1 (4.167%) OO
5 1 (4.167%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 1 (4.167%) PHP5
2 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.167%) PHP
2 1 (4.167%) T-SQL
2 1 (4.167%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (50.00%) MCSE
2 11 (45.83%) MCITP
3 9 (37.50%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (29.17%) MCSA
5 6 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (25.00%) CCA
5 6 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
5 6 (25.00%) MCP
6 5 (20.83%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (4.167%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) SLA
2 1 (4.167%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (54.17%) Active Directory
2 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (29.17%) Hyper-V
3 7 (29.17%) XenApp
4 6 (25.00%) Terminal Services
5 5 (20.83%) vSphere
6 4 (16.67%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 4 (16.67%) Xen
6 4 (16.67%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (4.167%) XenServer
7 1 (4.167%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Tivoli
2 5 (20.83%) SCCM
2 5 (20.83%) SCOM
3 4 (16.67%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 19 (79.17%) VMware
2 11 (45.83%) HP
3 10 (41.67%) IBM
3 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
4 9 (37.50%) Veritas
5 7 (29.17%) Citrix
6 6 (25.00%) Sage
7 5 (20.83%) McAfee
7 5 (20.83%) Syncsort
8 4 (16.67%) F5
8 4 (16.67%) ATG
8 4 (16.67%) Red Hat
8 4 (16.67%) Intel
9 1 (4.167%) Google
9 1 (4.167%) Facebook
9 1 (4.167%) Twitter