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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 39 - 37
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing DNS 4 0 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 1.970% - 2.210%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% - 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 4
Average salary £25,000 - £26,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,329
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +5.01%
All Communications & Networking
Stockport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
40 26 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 19.70% 13.27% 17.68%
Number of salaries quoted 39 19 30
Average salary £35,000 £29,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.68% +1.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £18,100 £18,000 £22,550
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £38,500 £36,250
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 Stockport region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) MCITP
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) Time Management
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) MCSE
2 3 (75.00%) MCSA
2 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) VoIP
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) VMware

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 (75.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) VoIP
2 3 (75.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Time Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) MCSE
1 3 (75.00%) MCSA
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (75.00%) MCITP
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (25.00%) VMware