The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 14 17 13
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -4
Permanent jobs citing DNS 7 8 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex 8.140% 5.839% 3.774%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 36.84% 26.67% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 8 2
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +55.17%
UK excluding London average salary £37,000 £35,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+5.71% +4.47%
All Communications & Networking
Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
19 30 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex 22.09% 21.90% 9.434%
Number of salaries quoted 17 17 5
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +42.85%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
South East

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sussex 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 Sussex region.

Sussex DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex 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 7 (87.50%) Windows
1 7 (87.50%) MS Exchange
1 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (75.00%) SCCM
2 6 (75.00%) vSphere
2 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (75.00%) DHCP
3 5 (62.50%) Windows XP
3 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 5 (62.50%) VPN
3 5 (62.50%) SSL
3 5 (62.50%) SLA
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco
3 5 (62.50%) McAfee
3 5 (62.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 5 (62.50%) CheckPoint
3 5 (62.50%) IPsec
3 5 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (62.50%) WSUS
3 5 (62.50%) McAfee ePO
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (25.00%) Clustering
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (25.00%) SAN
5 1 (12.50%) Red Hat

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex 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 7 (87.50%) MS Exchange
2 6 (75.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (62.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 5 (62.50%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (12.50%) Apache
4 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
2 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) DHCP
3 5 (62.50%) VPN
3 5 (62.50%) SSL
3 5 (62.50%) IPsec
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (25.00%) SAN
5 1 (12.50%) LAN
5 1 (12.50%) PBX
5 1 (12.50%) VoIP
5 1 (12.50%) WAN
5 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
General
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Support Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SAN Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 7 (87.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (62.50%) Windows XP
3 1 (12.50%) UNIX
3 1 (12.50%) HPUX
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Debian
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (12.50%) CentOS
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) MCP
2 1 (12.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) vSphere
2 1 (12.50%) ISA Server
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) SCCM
2 5 (62.50%) WSUS
2 5 (62.50%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (12.50%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
3 1 (12.50%) SCOM
3 1 (12.50%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) McAfee
2 5 (62.50%) CheckPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) Symantec
3 1 (12.50%) Sophos
3 1 (12.50%) HP