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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 53 62 52
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -10
Permanent jobs citing DNS 16 3 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 2.680% 0.519% 1.590%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.38% 5.660% 7.317%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 7
Average salary £40,000 £31,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.98% -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £29,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,300 £36,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +4.47%
All Communications & Networking
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
104 53 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 17.42% 9.170% 21.73%
Number of salaries quoted 94 48 100
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,100 £27,350
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £62,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
West Midlands

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire 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
Stoke-on-Trent +15 11 £45,000 +48.76%
Tamworth - 2 - -
DNS
West Midlands

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 22 (70.97%) DHCP
2 21 (67.74%) Active Directory
3 17 (54.84%) TCP/IP
4 15 (48.39%) Cisco
4 15 (48.39%) Windows
5 13 (41.94%) MS Exchange
5 13 (41.94%) LAN
5 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
5 13 (41.94%) VMware
6 11 (35.48%) WAN
7 10 (32.26%) SAN
7 10 (32.26%) Network Security
8 9 (29.03%) Citrix
9 8 (25.81%) SSL
9 8 (25.81%) CA
9 8 (25.81%) Juniper
9 8 (25.81%) McAfee
9 8 (25.81%) Sophos
9 8 (25.81%) Data Protection
9 8 (25.81%) Security Management
10 7 (22.58%) Firewall
10 7 (22.58%) vSphere
11 6 (19.35%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (19.35%) MPLS
11 6 (19.35%) Internet
11 6 (19.35%) LDAP
11 6 (19.35%) MS Office
11 6 (19.35%) SaaS
11 6 (19.35%) Unified Communications
11 6 (19.35%) Exchange Server 2010

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (6.452%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 13 (41.94%) MS Exchange
2 6 (19.35%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (16.13%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (12.90%) Lotus Notes
5 2 (6.452%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (19.35%) MS Office
2 2 (6.452%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 22 (70.97%) DHCP
2 17 (54.84%) TCP/IP
3 13 (41.94%) LAN
4 11 (35.48%) WAN
5 10 (32.26%) SAN
5 10 (32.26%) Network Security
6 8 (25.81%) SSL
7 7 (22.58%) Firewall
8 6 (19.35%) MPLS
8 6 (19.35%) Internet
8 6 (19.35%) LDAP
8 6 (19.35%) Unified Communications
9 5 (16.13%) VPN
10 4 (12.90%) VoIP
11 3 (9.677%) Cisco IOS
12 2 (6.452%) WLAN
12 2 (6.452%) Kerberos
12 2 (6.452%) SNMP
12 2 (6.452%) NAS
12 2 (6.452%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 4 (12.90%) Finance
2 3 (9.677%) Automotive
2 3 (9.677%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.452%) Back Office
3 2 (6.452%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Support Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Consultant
3 7 (22.58%) Technical Consultant
4 6 (19.35%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (19.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) Help Desk Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) IT Support
5 5 (16.13%) Technical Support
5 5 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (16.13%) Analyst
6 4 (12.90%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (12.90%) Administrator
6 4 (12.90%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (9.677%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (9.677%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (9.677%) Support Analyst
8 2 (6.452%) 3rd Line Technical Support
8 2 (6.452%) Storage Systems Administrator
8 2 (6.452%) Help Desk Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) SaaS
1 6 (19.35%) Mobile App
2 4 (12.90%) CMDB
3 2 (6.452%) Statistics
3 2 (6.452%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.226%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 15 (48.39%) Windows
2 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (16.13%) Windows 7
3 5 (16.13%) Windows XP
4 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (9.677%) Linux
6 2 (6.452%) Windows 8
7 1 (3.226%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.226%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Data Protection
1 8 (25.81%) Security Management
2 6 (19.35%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (12.90%) Configuration Management
3 4 (12.90%) Project Management
3 4 (12.90%) Validation
4 3 (9.677%) Business Continuity
4 3 (9.677%) Capacity Management
4 3 (9.677%) Service Delivery
5 2 (6.452%) Change Management
5 2 (6.452%) ITIL
5 2 (6.452%) Software Deployment
6 1 (3.226%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) SQL
2 3 (9.677%) VBScript
3 1 (3.226%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.226%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (12.90%) MCSE
1 4 (12.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.452%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.452%) CCNA
System Software
1 21 (67.74%) Active Directory
2 7 (22.58%) vSphere
3 4 (12.90%) MetaFrame
4 2 (6.452%) ISA Server
4 2 (6.452%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.452%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.226%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (3.226%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.226%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) Backup Exec
2 1 (3.226%) WSUS
2 1 (3.226%) SCCM
2 1 (3.226%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 15 (48.39%) Cisco
2 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 13 (41.94%) VMware
3 9 (29.03%) Citrix
4 8 (25.81%) CA
4 8 (25.81%) Juniper
4 8 (25.81%) McAfee
4 8 (25.81%) Sophos
5 4 (12.90%) Lotus
5 4 (12.90%) CheckPoint
6 2 (6.452%) NetApp
6 2 (6.452%) Veritas
6 2 (6.452%) IBM
7 1 (3.226%) HP
7 1 (3.226%) Symantec