The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the North East 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 North East region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 52 38 67
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +29
Permanent jobs citing DNS 18 34 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 2.727% 4.028% 0.687%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.59% 28.57% 3.247%
Number of salaries quoted 17 26 5
Average salary £26,500 £36,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.89% -9.37%
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+5.71% +6.06%
All Communications & Networking
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
143 119 154
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 21.67% 14.10% 21.15%
Number of salaries quoted 123 101 135
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £26,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
England

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

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

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Tyne and Wear -16 17 £26,500 -37.64% 1
Durham -1 1 - - 3
DNS
England

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 45 (97.83%) DHCP
2 34 (73.91%) Firewall
3 33 (71.74%) Linux
4 29 (63.04%) Cisco
5 26 (56.52%) HP
6 25 (54.35%) Apache
6 25 (54.35%) LDAP
6 25 (54.35%) MySQL
6 25 (54.35%) Red Hat
6 25 (54.35%) CentOS
7 22 (47.83%) Internet
8 21 (45.65%) Wireless
9 20 (43.48%) Windows
10 19 (41.30%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (41.30%) SAN
10 19 (41.30%) VLAN
11 18 (39.13%) Telecoms
11 18 (39.13%) TCP/IP
12 17 (36.96%) Citrix
12 17 (36.96%) OSPF
13 16 (34.78%) BGP
13 16 (34.78%) CCNA
13 16 (34.78%) XenServer
13 16 (34.78%) Degree
14 15 (32.61%) Disaster Recovery
14 15 (32.61%) VMware
15 14 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
15 14 (30.43%) Windows Server 2008
15 14 (30.43%) MS Exchange
15 14 (30.43%) Windows Server 2003

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 Development
1 4 (8.696%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 2 (4.348%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 25 (54.35%) Apache
2 14 (30.43%) MS Exchange
3 10 (21.74%) Exchange Server 2003
3 10 (21.74%) Exchange Server 2007
4 8 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (8.696%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (8.696%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (26.09%) MS Excel
2 5 (10.87%) MS Visio
3 2 (4.348%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 45 (97.83%) DHCP
2 34 (73.91%) Firewall
3 25 (54.35%) LDAP
4 22 (47.83%) Internet
5 21 (45.65%) Wireless
6 19 (41.30%) VLAN
6 19 (41.30%) SAN
7 18 (39.13%) TCP/IP
8 17 (36.96%) OSPF
9 16 (34.78%) BGP
10 11 (23.91%) VPN
11 8 (17.39%) iSCSI
11 8 (17.39%) NAS
12 6 (13.04%) LAN
13 4 (8.696%) VoIP
13 4 (8.696%) SMTP
14 3 (6.522%) WAN
15 2 (4.348%) Cisco ASA
15 2 (4.348%) IPsec
15 2 (4.348%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (54.35%) MySQL
2 4 (8.696%) SQL Server
General
1 18 (39.13%) Telecoms
2 5 (10.87%) French Language
2 5 (10.87%) German Language
2 5 (10.87%) Italian Language
3 1 (2.174%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) Administrator
1 22 (47.83%) Linux Administrator
2 13 (28.26%) Systems Administrator
3 12 (26.09%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 12 (26.09%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 8 (17.39%) Support Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) Network Support
6 6 (13.04%) Analyst
7 4 (8.696%) Support Analyst
7 4 (8.696%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.522%) Technical Support Engineer
8 3 (6.522%) Network Analyst
8 3 (6.522%) Technical Support
8 3 (6.522%) Network Support Analyst
8 3 (6.522%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 3 (6.522%) Technical Engineer
9 2 (4.348%) 2nd Line Support
9 2 (4.348%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
9 2 (4.348%) Help Desk Support
10 1 (2.174%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.696%) Blackberry
1 4 (8.696%) Replication
2 2 (4.348%) BBC
2 2 (4.348%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 33 (71.74%) Linux
2 25 (54.35%) CentOS
3 20 (43.48%) Windows
4 14 (30.43%) Windows Server 2003
4 14 (30.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (19.57%) UNIX
6 4 (8.696%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.348%) Windows 8
7 2 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (4.348%) Windows XP
8 1 (2.174%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (13.04%) Validation
3 5 (10.87%) Identity Management
3 5 (10.87%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (8.696%) Change Control
4 4 (8.696%) ITIL
4 4 (8.696%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (6.522%) Network Management
6 2 (4.348%) Incident Management
6 2 (4.348%) Time Management
7 1 (2.174%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.174%) Project Management
7 1 (2.174%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.696%) C
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (34.78%) Degree
2 16 (34.78%) CCNA
3 12 (26.09%) RHCE
4 5 (10.87%) MCSE
4 5 (10.87%) MCSA
4 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (8.696%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (6.522%) CCNP
7 1 (2.174%) MCP
7 1 (2.174%) MCDST
7 1 (2.174%) MCITP
7 1 (2.174%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.174%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.09%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (34.78%) XenServer
2 14 (30.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (26.09%) VMware ESX
4 9 (19.57%) Active Directory
4 9 (19.57%) Hyper-V
5 8 (17.39%) NFS
6 5 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (8.696%) Forefront TMG
7 4 (8.696%) ISA Server
8 1 (2.174%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Nagios
2 4 (8.696%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 29 (63.04%) Cisco
2 26 (56.52%) HP
3 25 (54.35%) Red Hat
4 17 (36.96%) Citrix
5 15 (32.61%) VMware
6 8 (17.39%) Symantec
7 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
8 4 (8.696%) Sophos
9 2 (4.348%) Remedy
10 1 (2.174%) Apple
10 1 (2.174%) Juniper
10 1 (2.174%) F5
Durham, County Durham
Working to ITIL standards providing support to the Department of Health, Care Quality Commission, NHS England and other arms-length bodies. This is a fast paced environment working...
Atos
Posted: 28 May 2013
Durham, County Durham
The successful candidates will be part of a large service desk team (c90) working to ITIL standards supporting the BBC account. This is a fast paced environment working...
Atos
Posted: 31 May 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Ability to diagnose faults and offer solutions across a broad range of IT and communication systems with an emphasis on Linux environments, Virtualisation and Cisco networking equipment *Design,...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + + Corporate benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
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