North East DNS Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Domain Name System (DNS) skills within the North East 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 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alfreton Altrincham Andover Ascot Aylesbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bodmin Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Cheshunt Chessington Chester Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edgware Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Flint Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grantham Greenford Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Huddersfield Hull Ilford Kent Kettering Kidlington King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughton Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nelson New Milton Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Rayleigh Reading Retford Rochester Rotherham Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sleaford Slough Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke Mandeville Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	92
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching permanent IT job ads	19	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	10.44 %	2.020 %
Salaries quoted	19	4
Average minimum salary	£29,526	£25,400
Average salary	£31,026	£26,400
% change on same period last year	+17.52 %
Average maximum salary	£32,526	£27,400
UK excluding London average salary	£33,579	£36,565
% change on same period last year	-8.16 %
Communications & Networking North East
Matching permanent IT job ads	182	198
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.106 %	0.085 %
Salaries quoted	138	182
Average minimum salary	£31,278	£30,863
Average salary	£34,032	£32,892
% change on same period last year	+3.46 %
Average maximum salary	£36,786	£34,921
UK excluding London average salary	£37,898	£38,996
% change on same period last year	-2.81 %
DNS England

DNS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing DNS across the North East 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 citing DNS across the North East region.

DNS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the North East region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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 North East region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Tyne and Wear	+28	16	£30,594	+5.49 %
Durham	-6	1	£30,000	+33.33 %
Northumberland	-	1	£40,000	-

DNS England

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the North East 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 32 (86.49 %) Windows 2 29 (78.38 %) Windows Server 2003 3 24 (64.86 %) Active Directory 3 24 (64.86 %) DHCP 4 21 (56.76 %) Microsoft 5 15 (40.54 %) TCP/IP 6 13 (35.14 %) Windows 2000 7 11 (29.73 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 10 (27.03 %) Firewall 8 10 (27.03 %) MS Excel 8 10 (27.03 %) Windows XP 9 9 (24.32 %) MS Exchange 9 9 (24.32 %) Cisco 9 9 (24.32 %) MCSE 9 9 (24.32 %) Microsoft Certification

10 8 (21.62 %) Linux 10 8 (21.62 %) VPN 10 8 (21.62 %) WAN 10 8 (21.62 %) VMware 10 8 (21.62 %) Security Cleared 10 8 (21.62 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 7 (18.92 %) LAN 12 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server 12 6 (16.22 %) Shell Script 12 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server 2000 12 6 (16.22 %) VMware Infrastructure 12 6 (16.22 %) DV Cleared 12 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server 2005 13 5 (13.51 %) Red Hat Linux 13 5 (13.51 %) Citrix

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the North East 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 Platforms 1 9 (24.32 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (21.62 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (8.108 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 3 (8.108 %) Apache 4 2 (5.405 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (2.703 %) CMS	Applications 1 10 (27.03 %) MS Excel 2 2 (5.405 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 24 (64.86 %) DHCP 2 15 (40.54 %) TCP/IP 3 10 (27.03 %) Firewall 4 8 (21.62 %) VPN 4 8 (21.62 %) WAN 5 7 (18.92 %) LAN 6 4 (10.81 %) Internet 7 2 (5.405 %) SNMP 8 1 (2.703 %) POP3 8 1 (2.703 %) SMTP 8 1 (2.703 %) IP Telephony 8 1 (2.703 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server 1 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server 2000 1 6 (16.22 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (5.405 %) MySQL 2 2 (5.405 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (5.405 %) Datawarehouse
General 1 4 (10.81 %) Manufacturing 2 1 (2.703 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 5 (13.51 %) Linux Systems Administrator 2 4 (10.81 %) Linux Administrator 2 4 (10.81 %) Analyst 2 4 (10.81 %) Systems Administrator 2 4 (10.81 %) Support Analyst 2 4 (10.81 %) Administrator 3 3 (8.108 %) Infrastructure Engineer 3 3 (8.108 %) Systems Support 3 3 (8.108 %) IT Manager 3 3 (8.108 %) Systems Analyst 3 3 (8.108 %) Systems Support Analyst 4 2 (5.405 %) Technical Support Specialist 4 2 (5.405 %) Support Manager 4 2 (5.405 %) IT Support Manager 4 2 (5.405 %) Senior Infrastructure Engineer 4 2 (5.405 %) Senior Linux Systems Administrator 4 2 (5.405 %) Technical Specialist 4 2 (5.405 %) Network Engineer 4 2 (5.405 %) Technical Support 4 2 (5.405 %) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.405 %) Blackberry 2 1 (2.703 %) Mainframe 2 1 (2.703 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 32 (86.49 %) Windows 2 29 (78.38 %) Windows Server 2003 3 13 (35.14 %) Windows 2000 4 11 (29.73 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 10 (27.03 %) Windows XP 6 8 (21.62 %) Linux 7 5 (13.51 %) Red Hat Linux 8 4 (10.81 %) UNIX 9 2 (5.405 %) Windows Vista 10 1 (2.703 %) VMS 10 1 (2.703 %) Windows NT 10 1 (2.703 %) Debian 10 1 (2.703 %) Gentoo 10 1 (2.703 %) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (21.62 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (16.22 %) DV Cleared 3 2 (5.405 %) Time Management 3 2 (5.405 %) ITIL 3 2 (5.405 %) CRM 3 2 (5.405 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (5.405 %) Service Management 4 1 (2.703 %) Information Security 4 1 (2.703 %) Network Planning 4 1 (2.703 %) Release Management 4 1 (2.703 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 6 (16.22 %) Shell Script 2 5 (13.51 %) SQL 3 1 (2.703 %) C 3 1 (2.703 %) C#
Qualifications 1 9 (24.32 %) MCSE 1 9 (24.32 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (8.108 %) Degree 3 2 (5.405 %) MCP 4 1 (2.703 %) CCSE 4 1 (2.703 %) CCNA 4 1 (2.703 %) Cisco Certification	System Software 1 24 (64.86 %) Active Directory 2 6 (16.22 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (8.108 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (2.703 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 1 (2.703 %) Terminal Server
Systems Management 1 2 (5.405 %) Norton AntiVirus 1 2 (5.405 %) WSUS 2 1 (2.703 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (2.703 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 21 (56.76 %) Microsoft 2 9 (24.32 %) Cisco 3 8 (21.62 %) VMware 4 5 (13.51 %) Red Hat 4 5 (13.51 %) Citrix 5 2 (5.405 %) Lotus 5 2 (5.405 %) WatchGuard 5 2 (5.405 %) Symantec 5 2 (5.405 %) Sophos 6 1 (2.703 %) Clearswift 6 1 (2.703 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (2.703 %) CA 6 1 (2.703 %) VERITAS