England DNS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the England 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.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Aylesbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Billericay Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Cheshunt Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Daresbury Darlington Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenford Greenwich Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Hounslow Hull Ilford Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Lowestoft Luton Lytham St Annes Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ormskirk Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Austell Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Winsford Wirral Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	119	126
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	3346	3199
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.641 %	1.416 %
As % of the category below	9.870 %	9.138 %
Salaries quoted	2876	2551
Average minimum salary	£33,411	£36,471
Average salary	£35,680	£38,694
% change on same period last year	-7.79 %
Average maximum salary	£37,949	£40,918
UK excluding London average salary	£32,343	£35,106
% change on same period last year	-7.86 %
Communications & Networking England
Matching permanent IT job ads	33899	35009
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	16.62 %	15.50 %
Salaries quoted	28526	28234
Average minimum salary	£37,748	£38,849
Average salary	£40,509	£41,793
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Average maximum salary	£43,271	£44,738
UK excluding London average salary	£37,693	£39,086
% change on same period last year	-3.56 %
DNS UK

DNS
Demand Trend

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

DNS
Salary Trend

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

DNS
Salary Histogram

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

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	London	+6	1428	£40,467	-4.69 %
2	South East	-2	916	£34,708	-7.03 %
3	East of England	+32	248	£32,522	-10.73 %
4	North West	+35	221	£29,316	-8.49 %
5	Yorkshire	+3	201	£32,491	+4.27 %
6	West Midlands	+24	136	£26,073	-13.91 %
7	South West	-6	127	£32,980	+24.45 %
8	East Midlands	+16	79	£27,969	-7.19 %
9	Midlands	-4	17	£24,176	-63.27 %
10	North East	+1	15	£27,042	-10.45 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England 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.

1 4041 (62.42 %) Windows 2 3347 (51.70 %) TCP/IP 3 2904 (44.86 %) Active Directory 4 2845 (43.95 %) DHCP 5 2001 (30.91 %) Microsoft 6 1747 (26.98 %) Linux 7 1681 (25.97 %) Firewall 8 1604 (24.78 %) MS Exchange 9 1525 (23.56 %) Cisco 10 1505 (23.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 1416 (21.87 %) Unix 12 1341 (20.71 %) LAN 13 1333 (20.59 %) WAN 14 1312 (20.27 %) Microsoft Certification 15 1305 (20.16 %) Windows 2000

16 1182 (18.26 %) IIS 17 1130 (17.45 %) VPN 18 1093 (16.88 %) SQL Server 19 1090 (16.84 %) MCSE 20 1086 (16.77 %) WINS 21 1082 (16.71 %) SQL 22 1071 (16.54 %) Internet 23 1032 (15.94 %) MS Excel 24 875 (13.52 %) Citrix 25 812 (12.54 %) Apache 26 810 (12.51 %) Solaris 27 799 (12.34 %) Windows Server 2003 28 775 (11.97 %) Exchange Server 2000 29 757 (11.69 %) SMTP 30 726 (11.21 %) Cisco Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the England 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 1 256 (3.954 %) HTML 2 224 (3.460 %) .NET 3 214 (3.306 %) XML 4 173 (2.672 %) ASP 4 173 (2.672 %) CSS 5 108 (1.668 %) ASP.NET 6 103 (1.591 %) J2EE 7 82 (1.267 %) WebServices 7 82 (1.267 %) WebSphere 8 49 (0.757 %) AJAX 9 46 (0.711 %) SOAP 9 46 (0.711 %) XHTML 10 35 (0.541 %) .NET Framework 11 27 (0.417 %) Application Packaging 11 27 (0.417 %) WSH 11 27 (0.417 %) XSLT 12 18 (0.278 %) LAMP 13 14 (0.216 %) WAP 14 12 (0.185 %) CGI 14 12 (0.185 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 1604 (24.78 %) MS Exchange 2 1505 (23.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1182 (18.26 %) IIS 4 812 (12.54 %) Apache 5 775 (11.97 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 306 (4.727 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 241 (3.723 %) SharePoint 8 230 (3.553 %) Tomcat 9 217 (3.352 %) Exchange Server 5.5 10 163 (2.518 %) Lotus Notes 11 126 (1.946 %) JBoss 12 120 (1.854 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 13 118 (1.823 %) WebLogic 14 76 (1.174 %) ColdFusion 15 67 (1.035 %) Lotus Domino 16 57 (0.880 %) CMS 17 26 (0.402 %) GroupWise 18 19 (0.293 %) WorkSite 19 17 (0.263 %) BizTalk Server 20 16 (0.247 %) Documentum
Applications 1 1032 (15.94 %) MS Excel 2 639 (9.870 %) MS Office 3 52 (0.803 %) MS PowerPoint 4 35 (0.541 %) MS Visio 5 34 (0.525 %) Photoshop 6 16 (0.247 %) ImageReady 7 12 (0.185 %) MS Project 8 7 (0.108 %) Fireworks 9 2 (0.031 %) AutoCAD 10 1 (0.015 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 45 (0.695 %) GoldMine 2 37 (0.572 %) RMDS 3 29 (0.448 %) SoftGrid 4 15 (0.232 %) Fidessa 5 14 (0.216 %) Microsoft CRM 6 11 (0.170 %) WebTrends 7 10 (0.154 %) Oracle EBS 8 9 (0.139 %) ADP Wilco Gloss 9 7 (0.108 %) Great Plains 9 7 (0.108 %) Bankmaster 9 7 (0.108 %) FLEXCUBE 9 7 (0.108 %) Dynamics CRM 10 5 (0.077 %) Remedy AR System 11 3 (0.046 %) Kondor+ 11 3 (0.046 %) Misys Midas 11 3 (0.046 %) SunGard Vivista 11 3 (0.046 %) Academy Housing 11 3 (0.046 %) arcHouse 12 1 (0.015 %) BusinessWorks 12 1 (0.015 %) Endur
Communications & Networking 1 3347 (51.70 %) TCP/IP 2 2845 (43.95 %) DHCP 3 1681 (25.97 %) Firewall 4 1341 (20.71 %) LAN 5 1333 (20.59 %) WAN 6 1130 (17.45 %) VPN 7 1086 (16.77 %) WINS 8 1071 (16.54 %) Internet 9 757 (11.69 %) SMTP 10 699 (10.80 %) SAN 11 501 (7.739 %) VoIP 12 445 (6.874 %) HTTP 13 385 (5.947 %) FTP 14 312 (4.819 %) Network Security 15 287 (4.433 %) MPLS 16 282 (4.356 %) OSPF 17 281 (4.340 %) VLAN 18 254 (3.923 %) BGP 19 250 (3.862 %) LDAP 20 240 (3.707 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1093 (16.88 %) SQL Server 2 504 (7.785 %) MySQL 3 324 (5.005 %) SQL Server 2000 4 230 (3.553 %) SQL Server 2005 5 151 (2.332 %) RDBMS 6 99 (1.529 %) SQL Server 7 7 85 (1.313 %) DB2 8 75 (1.158 %) BusinessObjects 9 62 (0.958 %) Oracle 8/8i 10 51 (0.788 %) Oracle 9i 11 42 (0.649 %) PostgreSQL 12 37 (0.572 %) Oracle 10g 13 26 (0.402 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 25 (0.386 %) DTS 15 18 (0.278 %) MS Access 16 16 (0.247 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 16 16 (0.247 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 17 10 (0.154 %) Crystal Reports 17 10 (0.154 %) Oracle Reports 18 6 (0.093 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 47 (0.726 %) MSI 2 44 (0.680 %) Flash 3 35 (0.541 %) Subversion 4 22 (0.340 %) Dreamweaver 5 16 (0.247 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 13 (0.201 %) Visual Studio 7 9 (0.139 %) FrontPage 7 9 (0.139 %) InstallShield 8 8 (0.124 %) ClearCase 9 4 (0.062 %) Ant 10 3 (0.046 %) StarTeam 11 2 (0.031 %) JUnit 12 1 (0.015 %) Rational Rose 12 1 (0.015 %) Eclipse 12 1 (0.015 %) Selenium 12 1 (0.015 %) Telelogic DOORS 12 1 (0.015 %) AppScan	General 1 705 (10.89 %) Finance 2 382 (5.901 %) Telecoms 3 272 (4.201 %) Health 4 232 (3.584 %) Pensions 5 213 (3.290 %) Banking 6 133 (2.054 %) Education 7 128 (1.977 %) Law 8 110 (1.699 %) Retail 9 102 (1.576 %) Back Office 10 81 (1.251 %) Insurance 11 77 (1.189 %) Legal 12 76 (1.174 %) Marketing 13 69 (1.066 %) Government 14 59 (0.911 %) Investment Banking 15 49 (0.757 %) Publishing 16 43 (0.664 %) Financial Institution 17 35 (0.541 %) Advertising 18 33 (0.510 %) Games 19 32 (0.494 %) Multimedia 19 32 (0.494 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 1164 (17.98 %) Analyst 2 1138 (17.58 %) Administrator 3 768 (11.86 %) Support Engineer 4 747 (11.54 %) Systems Administrator 5 668 (10.32 %) Support Analyst 6 496 (7.661 %) Network Engineer 7 397 (6.132 %) Systems Engineer 8 296 (4.572 %) Technical Support 9 276 (4.263 %) 3rd Line Support 10 262 (4.047 %) Linux Administrator 11 259 (4.001 %) Network Support 11 259 (4.001 %) 2nd Line Support 12 245 (3.784 %) Consultant 13 214 (3.306 %) UNIX Administrator 14 210 (3.244 %) Developer 15 205 (3.167 %) Linux Systems Administrator 16 199 (3.074 %) Infrastructure Engineer 17 185 (2.858 %) Server Support 18 182 (2.811 %) Desktop Support 18 182 (2.811 %) Network Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 457 (7.059 %) Clustering 2 389 (6.009 %) Blackberry 3 89 (1.375 %) Client/Server 4 66 (1.019 %) French Language 5 61 (0.942 %) Computer Science 6 59 (0.911 %) Replication 7 44 (0.680 %) Thin Client 7 44 (0.680 %) Fat Client 8 41 (0.633 %) German Language 9 32 (0.494 %) Asset Management 10 26 (0.402 %) CLARiiON 10 26 (0.402 %) Mainframe 11 25 (0.386 %) Video Conferencing 12 23 (0.355 %) HACMP 12 23 (0.355 %) Fixed Income 13 22 (0.340 %) Mathematics 14 21 (0.324 %) PKI 15 19 (0.293 %) PDA 16 17 (0.263 %) IBM Mainframe 17 16 (0.247 %) SecurID
Operating Systems 1 4041 (62.42 %) Windows 2 1747 (26.98 %) Linux 3 1416 (21.87 %) Unix 4 1305 (20.16 %) Windows 2000 5 810 (12.51 %) Solaris 6 799 (12.34 %) Windows Server 2003 7 543 (8.387 %) Windows NT 8 501 (7.739 %) Windows XP 9 130 (2.008 %) AIX 10 109 (1.684 %) Debian 11 92 (1.421 %) HPUX 12 67 (1.035 %) SUSE 13 53 (0.819 %) FreeBSD 14 41 (0.633 %) Ubuntu 15 22 (0.340 %) Fedora 16 16 (0.247 %) Windows Mobile 17 13 (0.201 %) NetWare 18 11 (0.170 %) VMS 19 10 (0.154 %) Windows Vista 20 9 (0.139 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 494 (7.631 %) ITIL 2 347 (5.360 %) Disaster Recovery 3 281 (4.340 %) Load Balancing 4 269 (4.155 %) Project Management 5 160 (2.471 %) E-Commerce 6 134 (2.070 %) Migration 7 128 (1.977 %) Network Design 8 90 (1.390 %) Change Management 9 88 (1.359 %) Service Delivery 10 75 (1.158 %) Web Development 11 69 (1.066 %) Configuration Management 12 65 (1.004 %) Problem Management 13 57 (0.880 %) Service Management 13 57 (0.880 %) CRM 14 53 (0.819 %) OO 15 52 (0.803 %) PRINCE2 16 51 (0.788 %) Validation 17 46 (0.711 %) Content Management 18 45 (0.695 %) Business Continuity 19 42 (0.649 %) Identity Management
Programming Languages 1 1082 (16.71 %) SQL 2 617 (9.530 %) Perl 3 281 (4.340 %) Shell Script 4 270 (4.171 %) PHP 5 237 (3.661 %) Java 6 216 (3.336 %) C 7 201 (3.105 %) JavaScript 8 153 (2.363 %) VB 9 136 (2.101 %) Python 10 122 (1.884 %) C# 11 108 (1.668 %) VBScript 12 61 (0.942 %) Korn 13 55 (0.850 %) VB.NET 14 52 (0.803 %) C++ 15 49 (0.757 %) Ruby 16 40 (0.618 %) Transact-SQL 17 35 (0.541 %) VBA 18 31 (0.479 %) Delphi 19 29 (0.448 %) PL/SQL 20 26 (0.402 %) AWK	Qualifications 1 1312 (20.27 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1090 (16.84 %) MCSE 3 726 (11.21 %) Cisco Certification 4 504 (7.785 %) CCNA 5 478 (7.383 %) MCP 6 364 (5.622 %) Degree 7 331 (5.113 %) CCNP 8 285 (4.402 %) MCSA 9 92 (1.421 %) CCIE 10 77 (1.189 %) Citrix Certification 11 60 (0.927 %) CCIP 12 53 (0.819 %) CCDP 12 53 (0.819 %) MCDST 13 50 (0.772 %) HND 14 47 (0.726 %) CCSA 15 43 (0.664 %) CCSE 16 41 (0.633 %) ITIL Certification 17 39 (0.602 %) CCA 18 36 (0.556 %) CCEA 19 29 (0.448 %) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 242 (3.738 %) SLA 2 24 (0.371 %) QA 3 11 (0.170 %) WAI 4 7 (0.108 %) ISO9001 5 6 (0.093 %) JSP 440 6 5 (0.077 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 7 3 (0.046 %) ISO27001 8 2 (0.031 %) BS7799 8 2 (0.031 %) ISO17799 9 1 (0.015 %) ISO9000 9 1 (0.015 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 2904 (44.86 %) Active Directory 2 341 (5.267 %) Backup Exec 3 185 (2.858 %) ISA Server 3 185 (2.858 %) NetBackup 4 167 (2.580 %) Terminal Services 5 161 (2.487 %) NFS 6 140 (2.162 %) VMware ESX 7 135 (2.085 %) MetaFrame 8 110 (1.699 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 81 (1.251 %) Terminal Server 10 53 (0.819 %) Samba 11 49 (0.757 %) Squid 12 29 (0.448 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 13 27 (0.417 %) Oracle RAC 14 20 (0.309 %) Oracle RMAN 15 13 (0.201 %) Snort 16 10 (0.154 %) VMware GSX 17 5 (0.077 %) NDS 18 4 (0.062 %) Novell eDirectory 18 4 (0.062 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 275 (4.248 %) MOM 2 257 (3.970 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 105 (1.622 %) WSUS 4 94 (1.452 %) CiscoWorks 5 72 (1.112 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 67 (1.035 %) OpenView 7 62 (0.958 %) Tivoli 8 54 (0.834 %) Nagios 9 35 (0.541 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 10 30 (0.463 %) Legato 11 28 (0.432 %) ARCserve 12 21 (0.324 %) EMC NetWorker 13 18 (0.278 %) MAILsweeper 14 17 (0.263 %) SCOM 15 16 (0.247 %) MIMEsweeper 16 15 (0.232 %) Unicenter 17 14 (0.216 %) ZENworks 17 14 (0.216 %) HP Data Protector 18 12 (0.185 %) Netcool 19 11 (0.170 %) Tivoli Monitoring	Vendors 1 2001 (30.91 %) Microsoft 2 1525 (23.56 %) Cisco 3 875 (13.52 %) Citrix 4 642 (9.917 %) VMware 5 634 (9.793 %) HP 6 546 (8.434 %) Red Hat 7 431 (6.657 %) Oracle 8 407 (6.287 %) VERITAS 9 352 (5.437 %) Sun 10 300 (4.634 %) CheckPoint 11 235 (3.630 %) IBM 12 233 (3.599 %) Symantec 13 197 (3.043 %) Lotus 14 153 (2.363 %) Dell 15 138 (2.132 %) EMC 16 137 (2.116 %) Avaya 17 129 (1.993 %) Reuters 18 127 (1.962 %) Bloomberg 19 111 (1.715 %) Remedy 19 111 (1.715 %) Juniper