The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 23 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 Northamptonshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 59 62 65
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +3
Permanent jobs citing DNS 8 10 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 1.214% 1.311% 1.595%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.970% 10.31% 9.924%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 13
Average salary £28,000 £30,750 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.94% +11.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,800 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £35,600 £37,500 £29,100
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
All Communications & Networking
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
134 97 131
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 20.33% 12.71% 16.07%
Number of salaries quoted 114 86 121
Average salary £39,000 £28,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.84% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £22,800 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
East Midlands

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire DNS Salary Trend

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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Northampton -3 2 £32,000 +24.27%
Wellingborough - 1 £28,000 -
DNS
East Midlands

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 21 (80.77%) DHCP
2 20 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 20 (76.92%) Windows
3 17 (65.38%) VMware
3 17 (65.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (65.38%) NAS
4 16 (61.54%) MS Exchange
4 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
5 15 (57.69%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (57.69%) Hyper-V
6 14 (53.85%) Firewall
6 14 (53.85%) SQL
7 13 (50.00%) MS Office
7 13 (50.00%) SharePoint
7 13 (50.00%) Citrix
7 13 (50.00%) SAN
7 13 (50.00%) Back Office
7 13 (50.00%) XenServer
7 13 (50.00%) XenDesktop
7 13 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 13 (50.00%) UAG
7 13 (50.00%) vSphere
7 13 (50.00%) Lync
7 13 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
7 13 (50.00%) Office 365
8 10 (38.46%) TCP/IP
9 5 (19.23%) UNIX
10 4 (15.38%) ISA Server
10 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
10 4 (15.38%) RHCE

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 16 (61.54%) MS Exchange
2 13 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 13 (50.00%) Lync
2 13 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 13 (50.00%) MS Office
1 13 (50.00%) Office 365
2 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 21 (80.77%) DHCP
2 17 (65.38%) NAS
3 14 (53.85%) Firewall
4 13 (50.00%) SAN
5 10 (38.46%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.846%) LAN
6 1 (3.846%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 13 (50.00%) Back Office
2 2 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (50.00%) Architect
2 9 (34.62%) Technical Solutions Architect
2 9 (34.62%) Technical Architect
2 9 (34.62%) Solutions Architect
3 5 (19.23%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (19.23%) Administrator
3 5 (19.23%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (7.692%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.846%) DBA
6 1 (3.846%) Systems Support
6 1 (3.846%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (3.846%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) UNIX Administrator
6 1 (3.846%) SQL DBA
6 1 (3.846%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 20 (76.92%) Windows
2 15 (57.69%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (19.23%) UNIX
5 4 (15.38%) Linux
6 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (7.692%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (3.846%) Windows 7
7 1 (3.846%) Windows Vista
7 1 (3.846%) Windows NT
7 1 (3.846%) Windows XP
7 1 (3.846%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (11.54%) ITIL
2 1 (3.846%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
2 4 (15.38%) C-shell
2 4 (15.38%) Bash shell
3 1 (3.846%) C#
3 1 (3.846%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) RHCE
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (7.692%) MCSE
2 2 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.846%) MCTS
3 1 (3.846%) MCITP
3 1 (3.846%) Sun Certification
System Software
1 20 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 17 (65.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (57.69%) Hyper-V
4 13 (50.00%) XenServer
4 13 (50.00%) XenDesktop
4 13 (50.00%) UAG
4 13 (50.00%) vSphere
5 4 (15.38%) ISA Server
5 4 (15.38%) NFS
5 4 (15.38%) Samba
6 2 (7.692%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (7.692%) VMware ESX
6 2 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (3.846%) Veritas Volume Manager
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) VMware
2 16 (61.54%) Microsoft
3 13 (50.00%) Citrix
4 3 (11.54%) LANDesk
5 1 (3.846%) Twitter
5 1 (3.846%) Sun
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