The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 25 40 30
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -10
Permanent jobs citing DNS 11 2 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 7.432% 1.075% 2.688%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 55.00% 16.67% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 5
Average salary £45,000 £30,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+48.76% -13.57%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +4.47%
All Communications & Networking
Stoke-on-Trent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
20 12 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 13.51% 6.452% 18.28%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 29
Average salary £45,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
Staffordshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

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

Stoke-on-Trent DNS Salary Histogram

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 13 (76.47%) DHCP
1 13 (76.47%) TCP/IP
2 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
3 9 (52.94%) LAN
3 9 (52.94%) WAN
4 8 (47.06%) SSL
4 8 (47.06%) Cisco
4 8 (47.06%) McAfee
4 8 (47.06%) Sophos
4 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
4 8 (47.06%) Juniper
4 8 (47.06%) CA
4 8 (47.06%) Security Management
4 8 (47.06%) Network Security
4 8 (47.06%) Data Protection
5 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (35.29%) Internet
5 6 (35.29%) MS Office
5 6 (35.29%) SaaS
5 6 (35.29%) Unified Communications
5 6 (35.29%) Mobile App
6 5 (29.41%) Windows 7
6 5 (29.41%) Windows
6 5 (29.41%) Windows XP
6 5 (29.41%) VPN
7 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
7 4 (23.53%) VoIP
7 4 (23.53%) MS Exchange
7 4 (23.53%) Lotus Notes
7 4 (23.53%) LDAP

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 4 (23.53%) MS Exchange
1 4 (23.53%) Lotus Notes
1 4 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) MS Office
2 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (76.47%) DHCP
1 13 (76.47%) TCP/IP
2 9 (52.94%) LAN
2 9 (52.94%) WAN
3 8 (47.06%) SSL
3 8 (47.06%) Network Security
4 6 (35.29%) Internet
4 6 (35.29%) Unified Communications
5 5 (29.41%) VPN
6 4 (23.53%) VoIP
6 4 (23.53%) LDAP
6 4 (23.53%) MPLS
6 4 (23.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Support Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Consultant
3 7 (41.18%) Technical Consultant
4 6 (35.29%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (35.29%) Help Desk Engineer
4 6 (35.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (29.41%) IT Support
5 5 (29.41%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Help Desk Support Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Storage Systems Administrator
6 2 (11.76%) Help Desk Support
7 1 (5.882%) Network Support Engineer
7 1 (5.882%) Network Support
7 1 (5.882%) Network Engineer
7 1 (5.882%) Sales Consultant
7 1 (5.882%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) SaaS
1 6 (35.29%) Mobile App
2 4 (23.53%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows 7
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
1 5 (29.41%) Windows XP
2 1 (5.882%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.882%) Windows Vista
2 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.882%) Linux
2 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Security Management
1 8 (47.06%) Data Protection
2 6 (35.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
3 4 (23.53%) Validation
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) Cisco
2 8 (47.06%) McAfee
2 8 (47.06%) Sophos
2 8 (47.06%) Juniper
2 8 (47.06%) CA
3 4 (23.53%) Lotus
3 4 (23.53%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) Citrix