The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 18 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 43 38 32
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -6
Permanent jobs citing DNS 3 11 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 0.850% 3.081% 1.773%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.571% 14.67% 20.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3 9 5
Average salary £35,000 £42,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.64% +30.76%
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+5.71% +6.06%
All Communications & Networking
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
84 75 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 23.80% 21.01% 8.511%
Number of salaries quoted 74 63 23
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,800 £27,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £56,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
Bedfordshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the Luton region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Luton DNS Salary Histogram

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 22 (95.65%) DHCP
1 22 (95.65%) Microsoft
2 21 (91.30%) Windows
3 15 (65.22%) VMware
3 15 (65.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (60.87%) IIS
5 11 (47.83%) TCP/IP
5 11 (47.83%) VMware ESX
5 11 (47.83%) vSphere
5 11 (47.83%) iSCSI
6 10 (43.48%) Active Directory
7 8 (34.78%) Cisco
7 8 (34.78%) Windows Server 2008
8 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
8 7 (30.43%) FTP
8 7 (30.43%) ITIL
9 6 (26.09%) MS Excel
9 6 (26.09%) Service Management
9 6 (26.09%) Change Management
9 6 (26.09%) Problem Management
10 5 (21.74%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (21.74%) Publishing
10 5 (21.74%) SAN
11 4 (17.39%) DMZ
11 4 (17.39%) Dell
11 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
11 4 (17.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (17.39%) Service Delivery
11 4 (17.39%) VMFS
11 4 (17.39%) VMware ESXi

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 1 (4.348%) COM
Application Platforms
1 14 (60.87%) IIS
2 3 (13.04%) MS Exchange
2 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (8.696%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (4.348%) SharePoint
4 1 (4.348%) Lync
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.348%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 22 (95.65%) DHCP
2 11 (47.83%) TCP/IP
2 11 (47.83%) iSCSI
3 7 (30.43%) FTP
4 5 (21.74%) SAN
4 5 (21.74%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (17.39%) DMZ
6 2 (8.696%) Internet
7 1 (4.348%) ISUP
7 1 (4.348%) Firewall
7 1 (4.348%) HTTP
7 1 (4.348%) ISDN
7 1 (4.348%) PBX
7 1 (4.348%) VoIP
7 1 (4.348%) Softswitch
7 1 (4.348%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Git (software)
1 1 (4.348%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (21.74%) Publishing
2 2 (8.696%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) VMware Specialist
3 4 (17.39%) VMware Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Administrator
5 2 (8.696%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.348%) VMware Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Consultant
6 1 (4.348%) Server Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Security Administrator
6 1 (4.348%) Server Administrator
6 1 (4.348%) VoIP Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Messaging Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) SaaS
2 3 (13.04%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.348%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.348%) Handset
3 1 (4.348%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.348%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Windows
2 8 (34.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (8.696%) Linux
3 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.348%) Windows Phone
4 1 (4.348%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) ITIL
2 6 (26.09%) Change Management
2 6 (26.09%) Service Management
2 6 (26.09%) Problem Management
3 4 (17.39%) Service Delivery
4 2 (8.696%) Incident Management
4 2 (8.696%) E-Commerce
4 2 (8.696%) Configuration Management
5 1 (4.348%) Project Management
5 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.348%) Security Management
5 1 (4.348%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (4.348%) Information Security
5 1 (4.348%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (4.348%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (4.348%) ITIL V3
5 1 (4.348%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 1 (4.348%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (4.348%) MCITP
2 1 (4.348%) Degree
2 1 (4.348%) MCSE
2 1 (4.348%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) SLA
1 1 (4.348%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (47.83%) VMware ESX
2 11 (47.83%) vSphere
3 10 (43.48%) Active Directory
4 4 (17.39%) VMFS
4 4 (17.39%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (17.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.348%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (4.348%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) SCCM
1 3 (13.04%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Microsoft
2 15 (65.22%) VMware
3 8 (34.78%) Cisco
4 4 (17.39%) Dell
5 2 (8.696%) Postini
6 1 (4.348%) Acme Packet
6 1 (4.348%) Nimsoft
6 1 (4.348%) Sonus
6 1 (4.348%) Dialogic
6 1 (4.348%) BroadSoft
6 1 (4.348%) Lumesse
6 1 (4.348%) Nortel
6 1 (4.348%) Citrix
6 1 (4.348%) Avaya
6 1 (4.348%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (4.348%) Mitel