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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 54 50 53
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +3
Permanent jobs citing DNS 2 2 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 0.509% 0.440% 1.883%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.439% 3.226% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 9
Average salary £32,000 £25,750 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+24.27% -6.36%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,600 £23,150 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £36,400 £28,350 £28,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,329
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +5.01%
All Communications & Networking
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
82 62 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 20.87% 13.63% 16.32%
Number of salaries quoted 73 58 71
Average salary £39,000 £28,250 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.05% -5.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £54,000 £39,064
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
DNS
Northamptonshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 10 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 7 (58.33%) DHCP
3 6 (50.00%) Windows
3 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (41.67%) UNIX
5 4 (33.33%) Samba
5 4 (33.33%) Degree
5 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 4 (33.33%) ISA Server
5 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
5 4 (33.33%) RHCE
5 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 4 (33.33%) NFS
5 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
5 4 (33.33%) Linux
5 4 (33.33%) NAS
5 4 (33.33%) C-shell
5 4 (33.33%) Bash shell
6 3 (25.00%) ITIL
6 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (25.00%) LANDesk
7 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (16.67%) VMware
7 2 (16.67%) VMware ESX
7 2 (16.67%) Firewall
7 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (16.67%) SQL

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 4 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 7 (58.33%) DHCP
3 4 (33.33%) NAS
4 2 (16.67%) Firewall
5 1 (8.333%) Wireless
5 1 (8.333%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
1 1 (8.333%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (41.67%) Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Systems Support
3 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Windows Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) DBA
4 1 (8.333%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (8.333%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (41.67%) UNIX
3 4 (33.33%) Linux
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (8.333%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (8.333%) Windows 7
5 1 (8.333%) Windows NT
5 1 (8.333%) Windows XP
5 1 (8.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
2 1 (8.333%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 4 (33.33%) C-shell
1 4 (33.33%) Bash shell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.333%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) RHCE
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (16.67%) MCSE
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (8.333%) Sun Certification
3 1 (8.333%) MCTS
3 1 (8.333%) MCITP
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) ISA Server
2 4 (33.33%) Samba
2 4 (33.33%) NFS
3 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 2 (16.67%) VMware ESX
4 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (8.333%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) LANDesk
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.333%) Sun
3 1 (8.333%) Symantec