The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 21 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 115 63 93
Rank change year-on-year
-52 +30
Permanent jobs citing DNS 40 101 67
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.263% 2.895% 1.969%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.662% 19.92% 15.02%
Number of salaries quoted 23 58 48
Average salary £40,000 £30,750 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.08% -16.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £20,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,300 £40,150 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +4.47%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
414 507 446
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 13.07% 14.53% 13.11%
Number of salaries quoted 222 329 312
Average salary £40,500 £35,000 £38,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.71% -8.49%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £77,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
UK

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Aberdeen -11 9 £40,000 +6.66%
Edinburgh -6 8 £21,000 -33.33%
Glasgow -35 5 £38,000 +52.00%
Highlands - 4 £25,000 -
Renfrewshire +5 1 - -
Dundee - 1 £32,500 -
Argyll and Bute - 1 - -
DNS
UK

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 86 (70.49%) Windows
2 81 (66.39%) DHCP
3 73 (59.84%) Active Directory
4 60 (49.18%) Microsoft
5 59 (48.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 56 (45.90%) TCP/IP
7 50 (40.98%) Windows Server 2003
8 45 (36.89%) VMware
9 37 (30.33%) VMware Infrastructure
10 35 (28.69%) Firewall
11 34 (27.87%) WAN
12 32 (26.23%) Cisco
13 30 (24.59%) Linux
14 28 (22.95%) SQL
14 28 (22.95%) IIS
14 28 (22.95%) Citrix
14 28 (22.95%) Finance
15 27 (22.13%) SAN
16 25 (20.49%) Cisco Certification
16 25 (20.49%) CCNA
16 25 (20.49%) HP
16 25 (20.49%) SCCM
17 24 (19.67%) MS Exchange
18 22 (18.03%) MPLS
18 22 (18.03%) LAN
19 21 (17.21%) Microsoft Certification
19 21 (17.21%) Exchange Server 2007
20 18 (14.75%) Cisco ASA
20 18 (14.75%) Exchange Server 2003
20 18 (14.75%) Dell

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 12 (9.836%) .NET
2 4 (3.279%) ASP
3 3 (2.459%) ASP.NET
3 3 (2.459%) XML
4 1 (0.820%) Application Packaging
4 1 (0.820%) Ajax
4 1 (0.820%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.820%) COM
4 1 (0.820%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 28 (22.95%) IIS
2 24 (19.67%) MS Exchange
3 21 (17.21%) Exchange Server 2007
4 18 (14.75%) Exchange Server 2003
5 16 (13.11%) Exchange Server 2010
6 8 (6.557%) Site Server
7 6 (4.918%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 5 (4.098%) Apache
9 4 (3.279%) Lync
9 4 (3.279%) SharePoint
9 4 (3.279%) Office Communications Server
10 3 (2.459%) SharePoint 2010
11 2 (1.639%) Tomcat
11 2 (1.639%) CMS
12 1 (0.820%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 14 (11.48%) MS Excel
2 11 (9.016%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.459%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.820%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 81 (66.39%) DHCP
2 56 (45.90%) TCP/IP
3 35 (28.69%) Firewall
4 34 (27.87%) WAN
5 27 (22.13%) SAN
6 22 (18.03%) MPLS
6 22 (18.03%) LAN
7 18 (14.75%) Cisco ASA
8 15 (12.30%) Wireless
9 14 (11.48%) IPsec
9 14 (11.48%) EIGRP
9 14 (11.48%) VPN
10 12 (9.836%) SNMP
11 10 (8.197%) Cisco IOS
12 9 (7.377%) NAS
12 9 (7.377%) Unified Communications
12 9 (7.377%) Wireshark
13 8 (6.557%) Cisco PIX
14 7 (5.738%) MRTG
14 7 (5.738%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.30%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.377%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (6.557%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.459%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (2.459%) MySQL
5 2 (1.639%) DB2
6 1 (0.820%) SQLite
6 1 (0.820%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.820%) Informix
Development Applications
1 2 (1.639%) Subversion
2 1 (0.820%) MSI
2 1 (0.820%) InstallShield
General
1 28 (22.95%) Finance
2 5 (4.098%) Advertising
3 4 (3.279%) Legal
3 4 (3.279%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.639%) Banking
4 2 (1.639%) Investment Banking
5 1 (0.820%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (18.85%) Support Engineer
2 18 (14.75%) Analyst
3 15 (12.30%) Consultant
4 14 (11.48%) Architect
5 13 (10.66%) Solutions Architect
5 13 (10.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (9.016%) Network Engineer
6 11 (9.016%) Support Analyst
7 9 (7.377%) Network Support
7 9 (7.377%) Technical Consultant
8 8 (6.557%) IT Consultant
8 8 (6.557%) Network Support Engineer
9 7 (5.738%) Administrator
9 7 (5.738%) Systems Administrator
10 6 (4.918%) Desktop Support
10 6 (4.918%) Server Engineer
10 6 (4.918%) Integration Engineer
11 5 (4.098%) Data Consultant
11 5 (4.098%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 5 (4.098%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.30%) Clustering
2 10 (8.197%) Blackberry
3 7 (5.738%) Client/Server
4 5 (4.098%) CCTV
5 3 (2.459%) EqualLogic
6 2 (1.639%) Computer Science
7 1 (0.820%) CMDB
7 1 (0.820%) FMCG
7 1 (0.820%) PKI
7 1 (0.820%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.820%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 86 (70.49%) Windows
2 59 (48.36%) Windows Server 2008
3 50 (40.98%) Windows Server 2003
4 30 (24.59%) Linux
5 9 (7.377%) Windows 7
6 7 (5.738%) UNIX
7 6 (4.918%) Windows XP
8 3 (2.459%) Android
8 3 (2.459%) Windows Mobile
8 3 (2.459%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.459%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.639%) AIX
10 1 (0.820%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (0.820%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.820%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (14.75%) ITIL
2 17 (13.93%) Capacity Management
3 13 (10.66%) Service Delivery
3 13 (10.66%) Business Continuity
3 13 (10.66%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (10.66%) Financial Modelling
4 12 (9.836%) Project Management
5 10 (8.197%) Problem Management
6 9 (7.377%) Capacity Planning
7 8 (6.557%) Change Management
7 8 (6.557%) Network Architecture
8 7 (5.738%) Performance Management
9 6 (4.918%) Network Design
10 5 (4.098%) RDF
10 5 (4.098%) BCP
10 5 (4.098%) Network Management
11 4 (3.279%) Asset Management
12 3 (2.459%) Time Management
12 3 (2.459%) Document Management
12 3 (2.459%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 28 (22.95%) SQL
2 13 (10.66%) PHP
3 12 (9.836%) Perl
4 10 (8.197%) C#
5 8 (6.557%) VB.NET
6 7 (5.738%) Java
6 7 (5.738%) C
7 5 (4.098%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.459%) VBScript
9 2 (1.639%) sed
9 2 (1.639%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.639%) AWK
9 2 (1.639%) XAML
10 1 (0.820%) Korn
10 1 (0.820%) C++
10 1 (0.820%) VB
10 1 (0.820%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.820%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 25 (20.49%) Cisco Certification
1 25 (20.49%) CCNA
2 21 (17.21%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (10.66%) MCSE
3 13 (10.66%) MCITP
4 12 (9.836%) MCTS
5 8 (6.557%) CCA
5 8 (6.557%) Citrix Certification
5 8 (6.557%) CCNP
5 8 (6.557%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 8 (6.557%) Degree
6 7 (5.738%) MCP
7 4 (3.279%) A+ Certification
7 4 (3.279%) MCDST
8 2 (1.639%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.639%) CISSP
8 2 (1.639%) MCSA
8 2 (1.639%) CCSA
8 2 (1.639%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.639%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.48%) SLA
System Software
1 73 (59.84%) Active Directory
2 37 (30.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (8.197%) XenApp
4 8 (6.557%) vSphere
4 8 (6.557%) Hyper-V
5 7 (5.738%) VMware ESX
6 4 (3.279%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 2 (1.639%) Terminal Server
7 2 (1.639%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.639%) NFS
7 2 (1.639%) Nmap
8 1 (0.820%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.820%) Xen
8 1 (0.820%) Samba
8 1 (0.820%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.820%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.820%) Forefront TMG
8 1 (0.820%) XenServer
8 1 (0.820%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (20.49%) SCCM
2 13 (10.66%) WSUS
3 8 (6.557%) SCOM
4 6 (4.918%) Backup Exec
5 3 (2.459%) WMI
5 3 (2.459%) OpenView
5 3 (2.459%) MOM
5 3 (2.459%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (2.459%) HP SIM
6 2 (1.639%) Puppet
6 2 (1.639%) McAfee ePO
6 2 (1.639%) Nagios
7 1 (0.820%) HP NNM
7 1 (0.820%) OpenView Configuration Management
7 1 (0.820%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 60 (49.18%) Microsoft
2 45 (36.89%) VMware
3 32 (26.23%) Cisco
4 28 (22.95%) Citrix
5 25 (20.49%) HP
6 18 (14.75%) Dell
7 9 (7.377%) Juniper
8 8 (6.557%) CommVault
9 5 (4.098%) Symantec
10 4 (3.279%) EMC
11 3 (2.459%) Remedy
11 3 (2.459%) McAfee
12 2 (1.639%) Veeam
12 2 (1.639%) Acronis
12 2 (1.639%) F5
12 2 (1.639%) NetApp
12 2 (1.639%) CheckPoint
12 2 (1.639%) JBoss
12 2 (1.639%) Oracle
12 2 (1.639%) Blue Coat
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