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This section looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkDomain Name System (DNS)
Location
3 months to 16 May 2008Same period last year
Rank5993
Rank change on same period last yearUp+34
Matching permanent IT job ads2713
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.013 %0.006 %
As % of the category below11.79 %4.693 %
Salaries quoted1611
Average minimum salary£28,750£33,636
Average salary£31,094£39,864
% change on same period last year-21.99 %
Average maximum salary£33,438£46,091
UK excluding London average salary£32,343£35,106
% change on same period last year-7.86 %
Communications & Networking EdinburghCommunications & Networking
Edinburgh
Matching permanent IT job ads229277
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.112 %0.123 %
Salaries quoted161205
Average minimum salary£33,825£32,830
Average salary£37,805£34,679
% change on same period last year+9.01 %
Average maximum salary£41,785£36,528
UK excluding London average salary£37,693£39,086
% change on same period last year-3.56 %
DNS ScotlandDNS
Scotland

DNS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing DNS across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Edinburgh DNS Demand Trend

DNS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing DNS across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the Edinburgh region over the past 3 months.

Edinburgh DNS Salary Histogram

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing DNS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing DNS.

138 (63.33 %)Windows
236 (60.00 %)Linux
330 (50.00 %)TCP/IP
421 (35.00 %)Cisco
519 (31.67 %)Microsoft
616 (26.67 %)Perl
715 (25.00 %)Unix
715 (25.00 %)DHCP
715 (25.00 %)Active Directory
813 (21.67 %)FTP
813 (21.67 %)Apache
813 (21.67 %)MS Excel
813 (21.67 %)Windows XP
912 (20.00 %)Red Hat
1011 (18.33 %)PHP
1011 (18.33 %)Java
1011 (18.33 %)Samba
1110 (16.67 %)NFS
128 (13.33 %)Exchange Server 2003
128 (13.33 %)VPN
128 (13.33 %)WINS
128 (13.33 %)SQL Server
137 (11.67 %)C
137 (11.67 %)C++
137 (11.67 %)MS Exchange
137 (11.67 %)WAN
137 (11.67 %)Firewall
137 (11.67 %)SUSE
146 (10.00 %)VLAN
146 (10.00 %)PostgreSQL

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing DNS also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing DNS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
12 (3.333 %)HTML
12 (3.333 %)XML
12 (3.333 %)LAMP
21 (1.667 %)WMI
21 (1.667 %)WebSphere
21 (1.667 %)Application Packaging
21 (1.667 %)Software Packaging
21 (1.667 %)CGI
21 (1.667 %)X-Windows
21 (1.667 %).NET
21 (1.667 %)ASP.NET
Application Platforms
113 (21.67 %)Apache
28 (13.33 %)Exchange Server 2003
37 (11.67 %)MS Exchange
46 (10.00 %)Tomcat
46 (10.00 %)JBoss
53 (5.000 %)IIS
62 (3.333 %)Exchange Server 2007
71 (1.667 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
113 (21.67 %)MS Excel
23 (5.000 %)MS Office
31 (1.667 %)MS Project
31 (1.667 %)MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
11 (1.667 %)SoftGrid
11 (1.667 %)Changepoint
Communications & Networking
130 (50.00 %)TCP/IP
215 (25.00 %)DHCP
313 (21.67 %)FTP
48 (13.33 %)VPN
48 (13.33 %)WINS
57 (11.67 %)Firewall
57 (11.67 %)WAN
66 (10.00 %)LAN
66 (10.00 %)VLAN
75 (8.333 %)Network Security
84 (6.667 %)IMAP
84 (6.667 %)POP3
84 (6.667 %)SMTP
93 (5.000 %)SSL
102 (3.333 %)Internet
102 (3.333 %)Ethernet
102 (3.333 %)VoIP
111 (1.667 %)LDAP
111 (1.667 %)ISDN
111 (1.667 %)Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
18 (13.33 %)SQL Server
26 (10.00 %)PostgreSQL
35 (8.333 %)MySQL
44 (6.667 %)DB2
52 (3.333 %)RDBMS
52 (3.333 %)SQL Server 7
61 (1.667 %)SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
16 (10.00 %)Subversion
21 (1.667 %)MSI
General
14 (6.667 %)Finance
22 (3.333 %)Telecoms
31 (1.667 %)Health
31 (1.667 %)Pensions
31 (1.667 %)Marketing
Job Titles
124 (40.00 %)Administrator
221 (35.00 %)Systems Administrator
311 (18.33 %)Senior Systems Administrator
49 (15.00 %)IT Manager
57 (11.67 %)Technical Support
66 (10.00 %)Support Engineer
66 (10.00 %)Linux Systems Administrator
66 (10.00 %)Linux Administrator
75 (8.333 %)Technical Support Engineer
75 (8.333 %)Technical Specialist
75 (8.333 %)Technical Engineer
83 (5.000 %)Network Administrator
83 (5.000 %)Consultant
83 (5.000 %)Analyst
92 (3.333 %)Management Consultant
92 (3.333 %)Senior Consultant
92 (3.333 %)Server Support
92 (3.333 %)Support Analyst
92 (3.333 %)Systems Manager
92 (3.333 %)Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
12 (3.333 %)Client/Server
12 (3.333 %)Blackberry
21 (1.667 %)Handset
21 (1.667 %)PKI
Operating Systems
138 (63.33 %)Windows
236 (60.00 %)Linux
315 (25.00 %)Unix
413 (21.67 %)Windows XP
57 (11.67 %)SUSE
64 (6.667 %)Windows Server 2003
73 (5.000 %)Windows 2000
81 (1.667 %)Windows Mobile
81 (1.667 %)Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
15 (8.333 %)Business Desktop Deployment
24 (6.667 %)ITIL
33 (5.000 %)Identity Management
42 (3.333 %)Validation
42 (3.333 %)Information Security
42 (3.333 %)ERP
42 (3.333 %)Project Management
42 (3.333 %)Service Delivery
51 (1.667 %)E-Commerce
51 (1.667 %)Technical Architecture
51 (1.667 %)Migration
51 (1.667 %)Load Balancing
51 (1.667 %)Investment Management
51 (1.667 %)Time Management
Programming Languages
116 (26.67 %)Perl
211 (18.33 %)PHP
211 (18.33 %)Java
37 (11.67 %)C
37 (11.67 %)C++
46 (10.00 %)AWK
53 (5.000 %)Shell Script
62 (3.333 %)JavaScript
71 (1.667 %)SQL
71 (1.667 %)VBScript
71 (1.667 %)VB
71 (1.667 %)VB.NET
71 (1.667 %)VB6
Qualifications
15 (8.333 %)MCSE
15 (8.333 %)Microsoft Certification
24 (6.667 %)RHCE
24 (6.667 %)CCNA
24 (6.667 %)Cisco Certification
24 (6.667 %)Degree
31 (1.667 %)MCP
31 (1.667 %)MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
12 (3.333 %)BS15000
System Software
115 (25.00 %)Active Directory
211 (18.33 %)Samba
310 (16.67 %)NFS
43 (5.000 %)ProxySG
51 (1.667 %)MetaFrame
51 (1.667 %)Terminal Server
51 (1.667 %)Terminal Services
51 (1.667 %)ISA Server
Systems Management
16 (10.00 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
22 (3.333 %)WSUS
Vendors
121 (35.00 %)Cisco
219 (31.67 %)Microsoft
312 (20.00 %)Red Hat
45 (8.333 %)Oracle
45 (8.333 %)NetApp
54 (6.667 %)Juniper
63 (5.000 %)Blue Coat
63 (5.000 %)Citrix
63 (5.000 %)CheckPoint
72 (3.333 %)Sophos
81 (1.667 %)VMware
81 (1.667 %)Sybase
81 (1.667 %)SAP
81 (1.667 %)Lucent
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