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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 48 66 66
Rank change year-on-year
+18 0
Permanent jobs citing DNS 38 23 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 4.497% 2.486% 1.140%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 19.69% 13.37% 8.537%
Number of salaries quoted 36 23 7
Average salary £40,000 £23,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+73.91% -29.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £17,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £39,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +4.47%
All Communications & Networking
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
193 172 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 22.84% 18.59% 13.36%
Number of salaries quoted 177 157 73
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
Hampshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

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

Southampton DNS Salary Histogram

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 58 (74.36%) Windows
1 58 (74.36%) TCP/IP
2 46 (58.97%) Linux
3 39 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 37 (47.44%) MS Exchange
5 32 (41.03%) LAN
5 32 (41.03%) WAN
6 31 (39.74%) Firewall
7 28 (35.90%) SMTP
7 28 (35.90%) FTP
8 25 (32.05%) MS Excel
9 24 (30.77%) Active Directory
9 24 (30.77%) Internet
10 23 (29.49%) DHCP
10 23 (29.49%) HTTP
10 23 (29.49%) Solaris
10 23 (29.49%) Snort
10 23 (29.49%) Incident Management
10 23 (29.49%) SIEM
11 21 (26.92%) Information Assurance
11 21 (26.92%) LDAP
11 21 (26.92%) VMware
11 21 (26.92%) CESG
12 20 (25.64%) Change Control
13 19 (24.36%) tcpdump
13 19 (24.36%) Wireshark
13 19 (24.36%) UNIX
14 18 (23.08%) HP
14 18 (23.08%) SC Cleared
14 18 (23.08%) DV Cleared

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 11 (14.10%) JSP
2 2 (2.564%) SOAP
2 2 (2.564%) REST
3 1 (1.282%) .NET
3 1 (1.282%) Web Services
3 1 (1.282%) XML
3 1 (1.282%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 37 (47.44%) MS Exchange
2 11 (14.10%) IIS
3 9 (11.54%) Apache
4 6 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (5.128%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (2.564%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (2.564%) nginx
7 1 (1.282%) CMS
Applications
1 25 (32.05%) MS Excel
2 12 (15.38%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.282%) Google Analytics
1 1 (1.282%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 58 (74.36%) TCP/IP
2 32 (41.03%) LAN
2 32 (41.03%) WAN
3 31 (39.74%) Firewall
4 28 (35.90%) SMTP
4 28 (35.90%) FTP
5 24 (30.77%) Internet
6 23 (29.49%) DHCP
6 23 (29.49%) HTTP
7 21 (26.92%) LDAP
8 19 (24.36%) tcpdump
8 19 (24.36%) Wireshark
9 16 (20.51%) Intrusion Detection
10 9 (11.54%) VPN
11 8 (10.26%) SSL
12 7 (8.974%) SAN
13 6 (7.692%) TELNET
13 6 (7.692%) Wireless
13 6 (7.692%) SSH
14 5 (6.410%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.54%) MySQL
2 6 (7.692%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (2.564%) Couchbase
General
1 3 (3.846%) Back Office
2 2 (2.564%) Legal
2 2 (2.564%) French Language
3 1 (1.282%) Banking
3 1 (1.282%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.282%) Finance
3 1 (1.282%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (35.90%) Analyst
2 25 (32.05%) Security Analyst
3 15 (19.23%) Support Engineer
4 13 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
5 8 (10.26%) Technical Manager
6 7 (8.974%) Network Support
6 7 (8.974%) Network Support Engineer
6 7 (8.974%) Network Engineer
7 6 (7.692%) Account Manager
7 6 (7.692%) Consultant
7 6 (7.692%) Test Engineer
7 6 (7.692%) Technical Account Manager
8 5 (6.410%) Junior Support Engineer
8 5 (6.410%) Citrix Consultant
8 5 (6.410%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (6.410%) Junior
9 4 (5.128%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (5.128%) Operations Analyst
9 4 (5.128%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 4 (5.128%) IT Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 21 (26.92%) CESG
2 17 (21.79%) Client/Server
2 17 (21.79%) Management Information System
3 13 (16.67%) Firmware
4 7 (8.974%) Cryptography
4 7 (8.974%) Blackberry
5 5 (6.410%) PKI
6 4 (5.128%) Replication
6 4 (5.128%) Clustering
7 2 (2.564%) Open Source
8 1 (1.282%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 58 (74.36%) Windows
2 46 (58.97%) Linux
3 23 (29.49%) Solaris
4 19 (24.36%) UNIX
5 15 (19.23%) Windows XP
6 12 (15.38%) Windows Vista
7 11 (14.10%) Windows Server 2003
7 11 (14.10%) Windows Server 2008
8 9 (11.54%) Windows 7
9 7 (8.974%) Windows 2000
10 3 (3.846%) CentOS
11 2 (2.564%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (1.282%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.49%) Incident Management
1 23 (29.49%) SIEM
2 21 (26.92%) Information Assurance
3 20 (25.64%) Change Control
4 17 (21.79%) Information Security
5 15 (19.23%) Ethical Hacking
5 15 (19.23%) Security Testing
6 12 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
7 6 (7.692%) Test Automation
7 6 (7.692%) Software Testing
7 6 (7.692%) Test Scripting
8 5 (6.410%) Service Management
8 5 (6.410%) Change Management
9 4 (5.128%) Computer Forensics
10 3 (3.846%) ITIL
11 2 (2.564%) Disaster Recovery
11 2 (2.564%) Migration
11 2 (2.564%) Capacity Planning
11 2 (2.564%) WAN Optimisation
11 2 (2.564%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.95%) SQL
2 8 (10.26%) Bash shell
3 6 (7.692%) Python
3 6 (7.692%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.564%) PHP
5 1 (1.282%) C
5 1 (1.282%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 18 (23.08%) DV Cleared
1 18 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.23%) GCIA
3 14 (17.95%) GIAC
4 13 (16.67%) GCIH
5 9 (11.54%) MCSE
5 9 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (10.26%) CEH
7 6 (7.692%) ISEB
8 5 (6.410%) A+ Certification
9 4 (5.128%) CCA
9 4 (5.128%) Citrix Certification
9 4 (5.128%) CCAA
10 3 (3.846%) Degree
11 2 (2.564%) MCITP
11 2 (2.564%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (1.282%) GPEN
12 1 (1.282%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.10%) JSP 440
2 7 (8.974%) SLA
2 7 (8.974%) ISO 9001
3 6 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 24 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 23 (29.49%) Snort
3 13 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (12.82%) vSphere
5 7 (8.974%) Postfix
6 6 (7.692%) XenServer
7 4 (5.128%) ISA Server
7 4 (5.128%) VMware ESX
7 4 (5.128%) XenDesktop
7 4 (5.128%) XenApp
8 3 (3.846%) Samba
8 3 (3.846%) NFS
9 2 (2.564%) Forefront TMG
9 2 (2.564%) Varnish
9 2 (2.564%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (2.564%) Sendmail
9 2 (2.564%) Hyper-V
9 2 (2.564%) VMware Server
10 1 (1.282%) qmail
10 1 (1.282%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (5.128%) ARCserve
3 2 (2.564%) NetBackup
3 2 (2.564%) Backup Exec
3 2 (2.564%) WSUS
3 2 (2.564%) SCCM
3 2 (2.564%) SCOM
3 2 (2.564%) SCVMM
4 1 (1.282%) Plesk
Vendors
1 39 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (26.92%) VMware
3 18 (23.08%) HP
4 8 (10.26%) Cisco
4 8 (10.26%) Citrix
5 7 (8.974%) Sourcefire
6 6 (7.692%) Oracle
7 5 (6.410%) Red Hat
8 4 (5.128%) Dell
8 4 (5.128%) Veeam
8 4 (5.128%) Riverbed
9 3 (3.846%) Foundry
9 3 (3.846%) Intel
9 3 (3.846%) Sun
10 2 (2.564%) IBM
10 2 (2.564%) Symantec
10 2 (2.564%) Alcatel-Lucent
10 2 (2.564%) Veritas
10 2 (2.564%) Avaya
10 2 (2.564%) Juniper
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