The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 23 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 Gloucestershire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 46 69 59
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -10
Permanent jobs citing DNS 50 35 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 5.656% 2.800% 3.096%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.05% 13.51% 16.16%
Number of salaries quoted 36 21 27
Average salary £37,500 £50,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £34,400 £22,400
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
All Communications & Networking
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
277 259 229
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 31.33% 20.72% 19.16%
Number of salaries quoted 233 197 190
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £28,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £52,500
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 Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Gloucester +1 16 £42,000 -16.00%
Cheltenham -1 10 £37,500 -11.76%
Tewkesbury -9 2 £22,500 -55.00%
DNS
South West

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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.

1 103 (81.75%) Linux
2 98 (77.78%) UNIX
3 92 (73.02%) Shell Script
4 88 (69.84%) Perl
5 85 (67.46%) Security Cleared
6 68 (53.97%) DV Cleared
7 64 (50.79%) SMTP
7 64 (50.79%) DHCP
8 63 (50.00%) HTTP
9 58 (46.03%) Internet
10 56 (44.44%) LDAP
10 56 (44.44%) Clustering
11 55 (43.65%) Microsoft
12 52 (41.27%) Cisco
12 52 (41.27%) ISA Server
12 52 (41.27%) Squid
13 51 (40.48%) Firewall
14 50 (39.68%) Load Balancing
14 50 (39.68%) Juniper
15 41 (32.54%) Python
15 41 (32.54%) MS Exchange
16 40 (31.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 38 (30.16%) qmail
17 38 (30.16%) Postfix
17 38 (30.16%) Sendmail
17 38 (30.16%) Bash shell
18 34 (26.98%) SaaS
19 31 (24.60%) Red Hat
20 29 (23.02%) TCP/IP
21 25 (19.84%) MS Excel

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 6 (4.762%) WSDL
1 6 (4.762%) HTML
1 6 (4.762%) SOAP
1 6 (4.762%) XML
2 3 (2.381%) Ajax
2 3 (2.381%) LAMP
3 1 (0.794%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 41 (32.54%) MS Exchange
2 3 (2.381%) Apache
3 1 (0.794%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.794%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (0.794%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 25 (19.84%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.794%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 64 (50.79%) SMTP
1 64 (50.79%) DHCP
2 63 (50.00%) HTTP
3 58 (46.03%) Internet
4 56 (44.44%) LDAP
5 51 (40.48%) Firewall
6 29 (23.02%) TCP/IP
7 16 (12.70%) SAN
8 12 (9.524%) SNMP
9 11 (8.730%) FTP
10 6 (4.762%) POP3
10 6 (4.762%) SSH
11 3 (2.381%) tcpdump
11 3 (2.381%) Network Security
11 3 (2.381%) TELNET
11 3 (2.381%) SSL
11 3 (2.381%) Wireshark
12 2 (1.587%) VPN
12 2 (1.587%) Ethernet
13 1 (0.794%) PPTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.381%) MySQL
2 2 (1.587%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.794%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (2.381%) Subversion
General
1 3 (2.381%) Finance
1 3 (2.381%) Games
2 1 (0.794%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (38.89%) Administrator
2 34 (26.98%) Linux Administrator
3 29 (23.02%) UNIX Engineer
3 29 (23.02%) Linux Engineer
4 28 (22.22%) UNIX Administrator
5 21 (16.67%) Consultant
6 19 (15.08%) Systems Administrator
7 17 (13.49%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 17 (13.49%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 16 (12.70%) Technical Consultant
9 15 (11.90%) UNIX Consultant
9 15 (11.90%) Linux Consultant
10 14 (11.11%) Security Administrator
10 14 (11.11%) Technical Support
10 14 (11.11%) Support Consultant
10 14 (11.11%) Technical Support Consultant
11 10 (7.937%) Linux Support
11 10 (7.937%) UNIX Support
12 8 (6.349%) Windows Administrator
13 7 (5.556%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 56 (44.44%) Clustering
2 34 (26.98%) SaaS
3 3 (2.381%) Social Media
3 3 (2.381%) iPad
3 3 (2.381%) Social Gaming
3 3 (2.381%) iPhone
3 3 (2.381%) Mobile Games
4 1 (0.794%) Blackberry
4 1 (0.794%) PDA
4 1 (0.794%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 103 (81.75%) Linux
2 98 (77.78%) UNIX
3 40 (31.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (17.46%) Windows
5 20 (15.87%) HPUX
5 20 (15.87%) Solaris
6 3 (2.381%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.381%) Windows 7
6 3 (2.381%) Android
6 3 (2.381%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.381%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.794%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (39.68%) Load Balancing
2 25 (19.84%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (4.762%) OO
3 6 (4.762%) Service Delivery
4 3 (2.381%) Network Architecture
4 3 (2.381%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (2.381%) Reverse Engineering
4 3 (2.381%) Information Security
4 3 (2.381%) Web Development
5 2 (1.587%) Service Management
5 2 (1.587%) ITIL
6 1 (0.794%) Asset Management
6 1 (0.794%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 92 (73.02%) Shell Script
2 88 (69.84%) Perl
3 41 (32.54%) Python
4 38 (30.16%) Bash shell
5 22 (17.46%) C
6 9 (7.143%) SQL
7 6 (4.762%) C++
8 3 (2.381%) PHP
Qualifications
1 85 (67.46%) Security Cleared
2 68 (53.97%) DV Cleared
3 25 (19.84%) SC Cleared
4 13 (10.32%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (9.524%) CCNA
5 12 (9.524%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (9.524%) MCSA
6 11 (8.730%) Degree
7 1 (0.794%) RHCE
7 1 (0.794%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.794%) MCDST
7 1 (0.794%) MCITP
7 1 (0.794%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.381%) QA
System Software
1 52 (41.27%) ISA Server
1 52 (41.27%) Squid
2 38 (30.16%) qmail
2 38 (30.16%) Postfix
2 38 (30.16%) Sendmail
3 18 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 10 (7.937%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (2.381%) Snort
6 1 (0.794%) NFS
6 1 (0.794%) MetaFrame
6 1 (0.794%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.794%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.794%) XenDesktop
6 1 (0.794%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (9.524%) Zenoss
2 10 (7.937%) Veritas Storage Foundation
3 3 (2.381%) Nagios
4 1 (0.794%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 55 (43.65%) Microsoft
2 52 (41.27%) Cisco
3 50 (39.68%) Juniper
4 31 (24.60%) Red Hat
5 12 (9.524%) NetApp
6 11 (8.730%) Symantec
7 10 (7.937%) Veritas
8 6 (4.762%) HP
9 4 (3.175%) VMware
10 3 (2.381%) Citrix
10 3 (2.381%) Perforce
11 1 (0.794%) IBM
11 1 (0.794%) Dell
11 1 (0.794%) Avaya
11 1 (0.794%) Apple
11 1 (0.794%) Websense
11 1 (0.794%) SonicWALL
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