The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 100 118 133
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +15
Permanent jobs citing DNS 2746 2530 2337
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 2.697% 2.232% 1.924%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.04% 12.73% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2242 2184 2026
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +2.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,500 £24,401
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+5.71% +4.47%
All Communications & Networking
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19564 19876 19866
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 19.21% 17.54% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 15933 16659 16598
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £64,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
UK

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London 0 1149 £48,000 +12.94% 114
South East +25 814 £37,500 - 66
East of England +50 269 £37,500 +4.16% 23
South West +10 128 £35,000 +4.47% 24
Yorkshire -6 118 £30,000 - 9
West Midlands +24 108 £40,000 +33.33% 14
North West +36 91 £32,500 - 25
East Midlands +2 54 £32,500 +18.18% 9
North East -8 19 £33,250 -8.27% 4
DNS
UK

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 3429 (63.24%) Windows
2 2762 (50.94%) DHCP
3 2513 (46.35%) Active Directory
4 2381 (43.91%) Microsoft
5 2375 (43.80%) TCP/IP
6 2137 (39.41%) VMware
7 2094 (38.62%) Linux
8 1977 (36.46%) Firewall
9 1932 (35.63%) Windows Server 2008
10 1681 (31.00%) MS Exchange
11 1599 (29.49%) Cisco
12 1514 (27.92%) Windows Server 2003
13 1451 (26.76%) VMware Infrastructure
14 1060 (19.55%) UNIX
15 1045 (19.27%) SAN
16 1022 (18.85%) MS Excel
17 1014 (18.70%) SQL
18 990 (18.26%) Exchange Server 2010
19 986 (18.19%) VPN
20 976 (18.00%) Citrix
21 962 (17.74%) SQL Server
22 942 (17.37%) WAN
23 922 (17.00%) LAN
24 883 (16.29%) ITIL
25 877 (16.17%) Microsoft Certification
26 829 (15.29%) IIS
27 772 (14.24%) Cisco Certification
28 744 (13.72%) Apache
29 737 (13.59%) Finance
30 697 (12.86%) HP

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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
1 278 (5.127%) .NET
2 243 (4.482%) HTML
3 203 (3.744%) CSS
4 183 (3.375%) XML
5 168 (3.098%) Web Services
6 166 (3.062%) LAMP
7 139 (2.564%) ASP.NET
8 130 (2.398%) J2EE
9 114 (2.103%) Middleware
10 110 (2.029%) jQuery
11 84 (1.549%) WebSphere
12 69 (1.273%) HTML5
12 69 (1.273%) .NET Framework
13 66 (1.217%) Ajax
14 55 (1.014%) SOAP
15 48 (0.885%) Application Packaging
16 43 (0.793%) WebCenter
17 42 (0.775%) Hibernate
18 38 (0.701%) ASP
19 36 (0.664%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1681 (31.00%) MS Exchange
2 990 (18.26%) Exchange Server 2010
3 829 (15.29%) IIS
4 744 (13.72%) Apache
5 661 (12.19%) Exchange Server 2007
6 626 (11.55%) SharePoint
7 445 (8.207%) Exchange Server 2003
8 298 (5.496%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 283 (5.219%) Lync
10 212 (3.910%) Tomcat
11 135 (2.490%) WebLogic
12 133 (2.453%) SharePoint Server
13 104 (1.918%) SharePoint 2010
14 95 (1.752%) Amazon AWS
15 86 (1.586%) nginx
16 80 (1.475%) CMS
17 75 (1.383%) Amazon EC2
18 67 (1.236%) Office Communications Server
19 54 (0.996%) Exchange Server 2013
20 43 (0.793%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1022 (18.85%) MS Excel
2 610 (11.25%) MS Office
3 118 (2.176%) Office 365
4 45 (0.830%) MS Visio
5 30 (0.553%) Google Apps
6 29 (0.535%) MS PowerPoint
7 25 (0.461%) Photoshop
8 24 (0.443%) MS Project
9 18 (0.332%) Adobe Illustrator
10 9 (0.166%) InfoPath
11 8 (0.148%) InDesign
11 8 (0.148%) PowerPivot
12 6 (0.111%) Acrobat
13 4 (0.074%) CorelDRAW
13 4 (0.074%) Adobe Captivate
14 3 (0.055%) Fireworks
15 2 (0.037%) Maya
15 2 (0.037%) EPLAN
15 2 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
16 1 (0.018%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 43 (0.793%) Oracle BPM
2 37 (0.682%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.258%) Google Analytics
3 14 (0.258%) SAP Business One
4 10 (0.184%) Documaker
5 9 (0.166%) RMDS
6 7 (0.129%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.129%) assyst
7 4 (0.074%) Dynamics AX
8 3 (0.055%) FLEXCUBE
8 3 (0.055%) Summit
8 3 (0.055%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.037%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.037%) Changepoint
10 1 (0.018%) Sage BI
10 1 (0.018%) Sage 200
10 1 (0.018%) ION MarketView
10 1 (0.018%) LatentZero
10 1 (0.018%) Taleo
10 1 (0.018%) Visualfiles
Communications & Networking
1 2762 (50.94%) DHCP
2 2375 (43.80%) TCP/IP
3 1977 (36.46%) Firewall
4 1045 (19.27%) SAN
5 986 (18.19%) VPN
6 942 (17.37%) WAN
7 922 (17.00%) LAN
8 652 (12.03%) Internet
9 619 (11.42%) HTTP
10 563 (10.38%) SMTP
11 547 (10.09%) VoIP
12 463 (8.539%) Network Security
13 436 (8.041%) LDAP
14 415 (7.654%) FTP
15 392 (7.230%) SSL
16 391 (7.211%) Wireless
17 381 (7.027%) MPLS
18 354 (6.529%) BGP
19 348 (6.418%) OSPF
20 344 (6.345%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 962 (17.74%) SQL Server
2 556 (10.25%) MySQL
3 307 (5.662%) SQL Server 2008
4 225 (4.150%) SQL Server 2005
5 98 (1.807%) RDBMS
6 78 (1.439%) PostgreSQL
7 58 (1.070%) Oracle 8/8i
8 57 (1.051%) MongoDB
9 53 (0.977%) Oracle 11g
10 49 (0.904%) NoSQL
11 48 (0.885%) SQL Server 2000
12 40 (0.738%) DB2
13 36 (0.664%) SQL Server 2012
14 28 (0.516%) Crystal Reports
14 28 (0.516%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 27 (0.498%) Data Warehouse
16 25 (0.461%) Redis
16 25 (0.461%) Oracle Reports
17 24 (0.443%) OLAP
18 23 (0.424%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 161 (2.969%) Subversion
2 111 (2.047%) Git (software)
3 105 (1.937%) JIRA
4 89 (1.641%) Jenkins
5 47 (0.867%) Visual Studio
6 41 (0.756%) Hudson
7 30 (0.553%) Dreamweaver
7 30 (0.553%) JUnit
8 26 (0.480%) Team Foundation Server
9 23 (0.424%) Maven
10 18 (0.332%) TeamCity
11 17 (0.314%) InstallShield
12 16 (0.295%) GitHub
13 15 (0.277%) Selenium
13 15 (0.277%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 15 (0.277%) Mercurial
13 15 (0.277%) MSI
14 14 (0.258%) GDB
15 9 (0.166%) FitNesse
16 8 (0.148%) NUnit
General
1 737 (13.59%) Finance
2 350 (6.455%) Telecoms
3 244 (4.500%) Banking
4 183 (3.375%) Back Office
5 101 (1.863%) Marketing
6 100 (1.844%) Retail
7 96 (1.771%) French Language
8 68 (1.254%) Law
8 68 (1.254%) Publishing
8 68 (1.254%) German Language
9 57 (1.051%) Legal
10 53 (0.977%) Advertising
11 52 (0.959%) Games
12 41 (0.756%) Investment Banking
13 31 (0.572%) Italian Language
14 29 (0.535%) Billing
15 27 (0.498%) Financial Institution
16 16 (0.295%) Electronics
17 15 (0.277%) Manufacturing
18 14 (0.258%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 884 (16.30%) Administrator
2 659 (12.15%) Systems Administrator
3 649 (11.97%) Analyst
4 648 (11.95%) Support Engineer
5 419 (7.728%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 361 (6.658%) Network Engineer
7 356 (6.566%) Linux Administrator
8 316 (5.828%) Systems Engineer
9 314 (5.791%) Support Analyst
10 287 (5.293%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 267 (4.924%) Consultant
12 259 (4.777%) Architect
13 243 (4.482%) Developer
14 227 (4.187%) Technical Support
15 208 (3.836%) 3rd Line Support
16 171 (3.154%) 2nd Line Support
16 171 (3.154%) IT Support
17 149 (2.748%) Applications Support
18 139 (2.564%) Server Engineer
19 136 (2.508%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 430 (7.931%) Clustering
2 427 (7.875%) Blackberry
3 177 (3.264%) Computer Science
4 166 (3.062%) Open Source
5 154 (2.840%) Management Information System
6 138 (2.545%) SaaS
7 121 (2.232%) Replication
8 106 (1.955%) iPhone
9 82 (1.512%) Hedge funds
10 78 (1.439%) Video Conferencing
11 77 (1.420%) Handset
12 67 (1.236%) Digital Media
13 62 (1.143%) EqualLogic
14 58 (1.070%) Cloud Computing
15 53 (0.977%) Firmware
16 52 (0.959%) CESG
17 46 (0.848%) Enterprise Software
18 44 (0.812%) Client/Server
19 43 (0.793%) Fat Client
19 43 (0.793%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3429 (63.24%) Windows
2 2094 (38.62%) Linux
3 1932 (35.63%) Windows Server 2008
4 1514 (27.92%) Windows Server 2003
5 1060 (19.55%) UNIX
6 579 (10.68%) Windows 7
7 557 (10.27%) Windows XP
8 465 (8.576%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 444 (8.189%) Solaris
10 299 (5.515%) CentOS
11 285 (5.256%) Windows Server 2012
12 266 (4.906%) Windows Vista
13 141 (2.601%) Debian
14 123 (2.269%) Windows 8
15 122 (2.250%) Ubuntu
16 103 (1.900%) AIX
17 99 (1.826%) Windows 2000
18 85 (1.568%) HPUX
19 83 (1.531%) Windows 2000 Server
20 72 (1.328%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 883 (16.29%) ITIL
2 386 (7.119%) Disaster Recovery
3 385 (7.101%) Load Balancing
4 365 (6.732%) Service Delivery
5 270 (4.980%) Change Management
6 254 (4.685%) Project Management
7 253 (4.666%) E-Commerce
8 197 (3.633%) Migration
9 186 (3.430%) Network Management
10 176 (3.246%) Capacity Planning
11 159 (2.932%) Time Management
12 158 (2.914%) Configuration Management
12 158 (2.914%) Service Management
13 145 (2.674%) CRM
14 139 (2.564%) Problem Management
15 126 (2.324%) Incident Management
15 126 (2.324%) Agile Software Development
16 124 (2.287%) Business Continuity
17 116 (2.139%) Security Management
18 115 (2.121%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1014 (18.70%) SQL
2 595 (10.97%) Perl
3 413 (7.617%) Bash shell
4 395 (7.285%) Python
5 383 (7.064%) PHP
6 337 (6.215%) PowerShell
7 327 (6.031%) Java
8 322 (5.939%) Shell Script
9 235 (4.334%) JavaScript
10 181 (3.338%) C#
11 160 (2.951%) C
12 106 (1.955%) Ruby
13 101 (1.863%) VB
14 84 (1.549%) C++
15 76 (1.402%) VBScript
16 75 (1.383%) T-SQL
17 50 (0.922%) Korn
18 46 (0.848%) VB.NET
19 33 (0.609%) AWK
20 27 (0.498%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 877 (16.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 772 (14.24%) Cisco Certification
3 636 (11.73%) MCSE
4 545 (10.05%) CCNA
5 496 (9.148%) Degree
6 402 (7.414%) MCITP
7 341 (6.289%) CCNP
8 318 (5.865%) Security Cleared
9 307 (5.662%) MCP
10 303 (5.588%) MCSA
11 178 (3.283%) SC Cleared
12 161 (2.969%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 155 (2.859%) DV Cleared
14 127 (2.342%) MCTS
15 125 (2.305%) RHCE
16 105 (1.937%) CCIE
17 101 (1.863%) Citrix Certification
18 81 (1.494%) CCA
19 77 (1.420%) ITIL Certification
20 62 (1.143%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 399 (7.359%) SLA
2 132 (2.435%) PCI DSS
3 119 (2.195%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 65 (1.199%) QA
5 25 (0.461%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 12 (0.221%) BS7799
7 11 (0.203%) JSP 440
8 10 (0.184%) WAI
9 9 (0.166%) WCAG
10 8 (0.148%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.111%) COBIT
12 4 (0.074%) ISO 9000
13 1 (0.018%) BS25999
System Software
1 2513 (46.35%) Active Directory
2 1451 (26.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 601 (11.08%) Hyper-V
4 529 (9.757%) vSphere
5 394 (7.267%) VMware ESX
6 390 (7.193%) XenApp
7 296 (5.459%) NFS
8 263 (4.851%) XenServer
9 203 (3.744%) XenDesktop
10 193 (3.560%) Terminal Services
11 180 (3.320%) VMware ESXi
12 160 (2.951%) ISA Server
13 142 (2.619%) Sendmail
14 128 (2.361%) Xen
15 127 (2.342%) Samba
16 116 (2.139%) Postfix
17 111 (2.047%) UAG
18 93 (1.715%) Squid
19 91 (1.678%) Microsoft App-V
20 82 (1.512%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 342 (6.308%) SCCM
2 277 (5.109%) Puppet
2 277 (5.109%) SCOM
3 258 (4.758%) WSUS
4 246 (4.537%) Nagios
5 239 (4.408%) Backup Exec
6 113 (2.084%) NetBackup
7 108 (1.992%) Norton AntiVirus
8 102 (1.881%) Tivoli
9 85 (1.568%) Cacti
10 77 (1.420%) CiscoWorks
11 67 (1.236%) HP SIM
12 66 (1.217%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 65 (1.199%) OpenView
14 60 (1.107%) SolarWinds Orion
15 53 (0.977%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
16 45 (0.830%) MOM
17 44 (0.812%) YUM
18 43 (0.793%) WMI
19 36 (0.664%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2381 (43.91%) Microsoft
2 2137 (39.41%) VMware
3 1599 (29.49%) Cisco
4 976 (18.00%) Citrix
5 697 (12.86%) HP
6 672 (12.39%) Red Hat
7 514 (9.480%) Oracle
8 507 (9.351%) Juniper
9 338 (6.234%) Symantec
10 331 (6.105%) NetApp
11 329 (6.068%) CheckPoint
12 258 (4.758%) IBM
13 215 (3.965%) Dell
14 168 (3.098%) EMC
15 166 (3.062%) SolarWinds
16 152 (2.803%) F5
17 145 (2.674%) Sun
18 128 (2.361%) Avaya
19 121 (2.232%) Apple
20 120 (2.213%) Sophos
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