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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing DNS 18 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 15.79% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 46.15% - -
Number of salaries quoted 18 0 0
Average salary £47,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,750
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.87%
All Communications & Networking
Dunstable
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
39 8 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 34.21% 25.00% 6.250%
Number of salaries quoted 35 6 2
Average salary £53,500 £49,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.18% +40.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £49,000 £26,950
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £35,000 £56,650
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
Bedfordshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dunstable 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 Dunstable region.

Dunstable DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

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

Dunstable DNS Salary Histogram

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable 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 25 (75.76%) Firewall
1 25 (75.76%) Finance
2 21 (63.64%) HP
3 20 (60.61%) Network Security
4 18 (54.55%) VMware
5 17 (51.52%) Windows
5 17 (51.52%) Hyper-V
6 16 (48.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 16 (48.48%) Windows Server 2008
6 16 (48.48%) DHCP
6 16 (48.48%) EMC
6 16 (48.48%) Microsoft
6 16 (48.48%) Active Directory
7 15 (45.45%) Cisco
7 15 (45.45%) SAN
7 15 (45.45%) SQL Server
7 15 (45.45%) SQL Server 2008
7 15 (45.45%) Windows 7
7 15 (45.45%) XenServer
8 14 (42.42%) XenDesktop
8 14 (42.42%) Exchange Server 2010
8 14 (42.42%) NAS
8 14 (42.42%) XenApp
8 14 (42.42%) MS Exchange
8 14 (42.42%) Citrix
8 14 (42.42%) SQL Server 2005
8 14 (42.42%) WSUS
8 14 (42.42%) LANDesk
8 14 (42.42%) Exchange Server 2007
9 13 (39.39%) Network Load Balancing

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable 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 14 (42.42%) Exchange Server 2010
1 14 (42.42%) MS Exchange
1 14 (42.42%) Exchange Server 2007
2 13 (39.39%) Office Communications Server
2 13 (39.39%) Lync
3 5 (15.15%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (3.030%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (3.030%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) MS Excel
2 6 (18.18%) MS Visio
2 6 (18.18%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 25 (75.76%) Firewall
2 20 (60.61%) Network Security
3 16 (48.48%) DHCP
4 15 (45.45%) SAN
5 14 (42.42%) NAS
6 13 (39.39%) iSCSI
7 10 (30.30%) Intrusion Detection
7 10 (30.30%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (18.18%) LDAP
8 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
8 6 (18.18%) SSH
9 1 (3.030%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (45.45%) SQL Server
1 15 (45.45%) SQL Server 2008
2 14 (42.42%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 25 (75.76%) Finance
2 6 (18.18%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (45.45%) Wintel Engineer
2 10 (30.30%) Network Manager
3 5 (15.15%) UNIX Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Support Engineer
5 3 (9.091%) Server Engineer
5 3 (9.091%) UNIX Support
5 3 (9.091%) Build Engineer
5 3 (9.091%) Wintel Server Engineer
6 2 (6.061%) Architect
6 2 (6.061%) Senior UNIX Engineer
7 1 (3.030%) Solaris Administrator
7 1 (3.030%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.030%) UNIX Administrator
7 1 (3.030%) Solaris Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.030%) Wintel Support
7 1 (3.030%) Administrator
7 1 (3.030%) Consultant
7 1 (3.030%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.030%) VMware Architect
7 1 (3.030%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.030%) Clustering
1 1 (3.030%) Replication
1 1 (3.030%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 17 (51.52%) Windows
2 16 (48.48%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (45.45%) Windows 7
4 6 (18.18%) UNIX
4 6 (18.18%) Solaris
5 5 (15.15%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (12.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Network Load Balancing
2 11 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (27.27%) Load Balancing
4 7 (21.21%) Change Management
5 5 (15.15%) Supplier Management
6 1 (3.030%) Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) MCSE
1 11 (33.33%) MCSA
1 11 (33.33%) MCP
1 11 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (33.33%) MCTS
2 10 (30.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 10 (30.30%) MCITP
3 9 (27.27%) CCA
3 9 (27.27%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (6.061%) CCNP
4 2 (6.061%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) PCI DSS
2 4 (12.12%) SLA
3 1 (3.030%) QA
System Software
1 17 (51.52%) Hyper-V
2 16 (48.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (48.48%) Active Directory
3 15 (45.45%) XenServer
4 14 (42.42%) XenDesktop
4 14 (42.42%) XenApp
5 13 (39.39%) Microsoft App-V
5 13 (39.39%) NFS
6 3 (9.091%) VMware ESX
6 3 (9.091%) vSphere
7 1 (3.030%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (63.64%) HP
2 18 (54.55%) VMware
3 16 (48.48%) EMC
3 16 (48.48%) Microsoft
4 15 (45.45%) Cisco
5 14 (42.42%) Citrix
5 14 (42.42%) LANDesk
6 13 (39.39%) CommVault
7 10 (30.30%) Juniper
8 5 (15.15%) Red Hat
9 3 (9.091%) Oracle
9 3 (9.091%) Sun
10 1 (3.030%) VocaLink
10 1 (3.030%) Infoblox