The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Highlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 22 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 Highlands region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 14 - 4
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing DNS 4 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Highlands 9.756% - 18.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 100.00% - 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Average salary £25,000 - £22,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.06%
All Communications & Networking
Highlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
4 15 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Highlands 9.756% 41.67% 54.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 9 2
Average salary £25,000 £21,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.04% -6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
Scotland

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Highlands 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 Highlands region.

Highlands DNS Salary Trend

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 Highlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Inverness - 4 £25,000 -
DNS
Scotland

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Highlands 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 9 (100.00%) DHCP
2 6 (66.67%) Capacity Management
3 5 (55.56%) Change Management
3 5 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (55.56%) CCTV
3 5 (55.56%) C
3 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 5 (55.56%) HP
4 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (44.44%) MPLS
4 4 (44.44%) EIGRP
4 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
4 4 (44.44%) Cisco
4 4 (44.44%) CCNP
4 4 (44.44%) CCNA
4 4 (44.44%) Firewall
4 4 (44.44%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (33.33%) vSphere
5 3 (33.33%) HP SIM
5 3 (33.33%) ITSM
5 3 (33.33%) Advertising
5 3 (33.33%) VMware
5 3 (33.33%) VMware ESX
5 3 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (33.33%) SCCM
5 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
5 3 (33.33%) OpenView
5 3 (33.33%) Remedy
5 3 (33.33%) MS Excel

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Highlands 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.

Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) DHCP
2 4 (44.44%) MPLS
2 4 (44.44%) EIGRP
2 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco ASA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 4 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Network Support
2 4 (44.44%) Network Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Capacity Management
2 5 (55.56%) Change Management
2 5 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (33.33%) ITSM
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (44.44%) CCNP
1 4 (44.44%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCSP
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) vSphere
1 3 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) HP SIM
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
1 3 (33.33%) OpenView
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) HP
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco
3 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 3 (33.33%) Remedy