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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 16 17 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Permanent jobs citing DNS 2 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oldham 4.255% 12.00% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 33.33% 66.67% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 0
Average salary £21,500 £24,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.41% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,329
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +5.01%
All Communications & Networking
Oldham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6 9 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oldham 12.77% 18.00% 9.091%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 3
Average salary £32,500 £24,000 £27,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.41% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,000 £22,250
10% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £30,000 £34,950
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
DNS
Manchester

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oldham 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 Oldham region.

Oldham DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oldham 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 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
3 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
3 3 (60.00%) DHCP
4 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (40.00%) Citrix
4 2 (40.00%) CA
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Vista
4 2 (40.00%) Service Management
4 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) VoIP
4 2 (40.00%) MS Office
4 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (40.00%) Thin Client
4 2 (40.00%) Fat Client
4 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (20.00%) iPad
5 1 (20.00%) Office 365
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
5 1 (20.00%) iPhone
5 1 (20.00%) NAS
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (20.00%) Internet
5 1 (20.00%) Sophos
5 1 (20.00%) Blackberry

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oldham 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 3 (60.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (40.00%) MS Office
3 1 (20.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) NAS
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Help Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Help Desk Team Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Thin Client
1 2 (40.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (20.00%) iPhone
2 1 (20.00%) iPad
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) CA
2 1 (20.00%) Sage
2 1 (20.00%) Sophos
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco