The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 17 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 69 45 56
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +11
Permanent jobs citing DNS 23 29 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 1.954% 4.067% 4.278%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.949% 16.86% 20.74%
Number of salaries quoted 20 29 41
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,400 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £42,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,329
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +5.01%
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
257 172 217
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 21.84% 24.12% 20.63%
Number of salaries quoted 216 161 184
Average salary £42,000 £35,000 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -1.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £51,250
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
DNS
South East

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the Kent region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 17 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
Sevenoaks - 4 £30,000 -
Maidstone -3 3 £30,000 -29.82%
Tunbridge Wells -4 2 £46,250 +32.14%
Dover - 2 £32,500 -
Tonbridge - 1 £40,000 -
DNS
South East

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 33 (63.46%) Windows
2 31 (59.62%) DHCP
3 30 (57.69%) Active Directory
4 29 (55.77%) MS Exchange
5 26 (50.00%) Microsoft
6 24 (46.15%) TCP/IP
6 24 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
7 23 (44.23%) Firewall
8 22 (42.31%) VMware
9 21 (40.38%) Exchange Server 2010
10 17 (32.69%) Windows Server 2003
10 17 (32.69%) Citrix
11 16 (30.77%) WAN
11 16 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
12 15 (28.85%) HP
12 15 (28.85%) MS Excel
13 14 (26.92%) VoIP
13 14 (26.92%) Lync
14 13 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
14 13 (25.00%) SQL
14 13 (25.00%) SQL Server
15 12 (23.08%) Windows XP
16 11 (21.15%) Terminal Services
16 11 (21.15%) Exchange Server 2003
17 9 (17.31%) VLAN
17 9 (17.31%) VMware ESXi
17 9 (17.31%) LAN
17 9 (17.31%) Linux
17 9 (17.31%) ITIL
18 8 (15.38%) IIS

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 5 (9.615%) HTML
1 5 (9.615%) CSS
2 3 (5.769%) .NET
2 3 (5.769%) ASP
2 3 (5.769%) CodeIgniter
2 3 (5.769%) HTML5
2 3 (5.769%) CSS3
2 3 (5.769%) Laravel
3 2 (3.846%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (3.846%) Memcached
3 2 (3.846%) CGI
4 1 (1.923%) Application Packaging
4 1 (1.923%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 29 (55.77%) MS Exchange
2 21 (40.38%) Exchange Server 2010
3 14 (26.92%) Lync
4 13 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (21.15%) Exchange Server 2003
6 8 (15.38%) IIS
7 6 (11.54%) Apache
8 5 (9.615%) SharePoint
8 5 (9.615%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 3 (5.769%) Joomla!
10 2 (3.846%) nginx
11 1 (1.923%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (1.923%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (28.85%) MS Excel
2 8 (15.38%) MS Office
3 2 (3.846%) Quicktime
Communications & Networking
1 31 (59.62%) DHCP
2 24 (46.15%) TCP/IP
3 23 (44.23%) Firewall
4 16 (30.77%) WAN
5 14 (26.92%) VoIP
6 9 (17.31%) LAN
6 9 (17.31%) VLAN
7 8 (15.38%) SAN
8 6 (11.54%) VPN
9 4 (7.692%) SSL
9 4 (7.692%) HTTP
9 4 (7.692%) Internet
9 4 (7.692%) MPLS
10 3 (5.769%) Network Security
10 3 (5.769%) iSCSI
11 2 (3.846%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (3.846%) NAS
11 2 (3.846%) Unified Communications
11 2 (3.846%) 4G
11 2 (3.846%) DLNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.54%) MySQL
3 2 (3.846%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (3.846%) ClearCase
1 2 (3.846%) JIRA
1 2 (3.846%) Trac
General
1 4 (7.692%) Retail
2 2 (3.846%) Investment Banking
2 2 (3.846%) Banking
3 1 (1.923%) Finance
3 1 (1.923%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (15.38%) Analyst
1 8 (15.38%) Support Analyst
2 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 6 (11.54%) Network Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 5 (9.615%) Administrator
3 5 (9.615%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (9.615%) Messaging Engineer
4 4 (7.692%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.692%) Desktop Support
4 4 (7.692%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 4 (7.692%) Desktop Analyst
5 3 (5.769%) Support Manager
5 3 (5.769%) Applications Support Manager
5 3 (5.769%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (5.769%) Applications Manager
5 3 (5.769%) PHP Developer
5 3 (5.769%) Developer
5 3 (5.769%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Blackberry
2 5 (9.615%) Clustering
3 3 (5.769%) iSeries
4 2 (3.846%) Streaming Video
4 2 (3.846%) Open Source
4 2 (3.846%) PKI
4 2 (3.846%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (3.846%) iPhone
4 2 (3.846%) MPEG
4 2 (3.846%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.923%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.923%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 33 (63.46%) Windows
2 24 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (32.69%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (23.08%) Windows XP
5 9 (17.31%) Linux
6 6 (11.54%) Windows 7
7 5 (9.615%) UNIX
8 3 (5.769%) Windows 8
9 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (3.846%) CentOS
9 2 (3.846%) Android
9 2 (3.846%) FreeBSD
9 2 (3.846%) Debian
9 2 (3.846%) OpenBSD
9 2 (3.846%) Ubuntu
9 2 (3.846%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (1.923%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (17.31%) ITIL
2 7 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (13.46%) Security Management
2 7 (13.46%) Migration
3 6 (11.54%) Change Management
4 5 (9.615%) Problem Management
5 4 (7.692%) Load Balancing
5 4 (7.692%) Information Security
5 4 (7.692%) Configuration Management
5 4 (7.692%) Project Management
6 3 (5.769%) E-Commerce
6 3 (5.769%) MVC
6 3 (5.769%) SEO
6 3 (5.769%) Capacity Management
7 2 (3.846%) Software Deployment
7 2 (3.846%) Change Control
7 2 (3.846%) Network Design
7 2 (3.846%) Project Planning
7 2 (3.846%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (3.846%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) SQL
2 5 (9.615%) PHP
3 3 (5.769%) Python
4 2 (3.846%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.846%) C
4 2 (3.846%) C++
4 2 (3.846%) Java
4 2 (3.846%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.923%) Bash shell
5 1 (1.923%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (9.615%) Degree
1 5 (9.615%) SC Cleared
1 5 (9.615%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (5.769%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.769%) MCITP
3 3 (5.769%) CCNP
3 3 (5.769%) CCNA
4 2 (3.846%) CCSP
5 1 (1.923%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.769%) BS7799
3 2 (3.846%) SLA
4 1 (1.923%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 16 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (21.15%) Terminal Services
4 9 (17.31%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (11.54%) XenApp
6 5 (9.615%) vSphere
7 3 (5.769%) Hyper-V
8 2 (3.846%) Squid
8 2 (3.846%) VMware ESX
9 1 (1.923%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.923%) Snort
9 1 (1.923%) NFS
9 1 (1.923%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (13.46%) SCCM
2 4 (7.692%) Backup Exec
3 3 (5.769%) Tivoli
3 3 (5.769%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 3 (5.769%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (5.769%) SCOM
3 3 (5.769%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (3.846%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.846%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (42.31%) VMware
3 17 (32.69%) Citrix
4 15 (28.85%) HP
5 8 (15.38%) Dell
6 7 (13.46%) IBM
7 5 (9.615%) CheckPoint
7 5 (9.615%) Cisco
7 5 (9.615%) NetApp
7 5 (9.615%) F5
8 3 (5.769%) Symantec
8 3 (5.769%) McAfee
8 3 (5.769%) Websense
9 2 (3.846%) Sophos
9 2 (3.846%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.846%) Avaya
9 2 (3.846%) Capita
10 1 (1.923%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.923%) Riverbed
10 1 (1.923%) Oracle
Kent
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