The first part of the table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category.

Domain Name System (DNS)
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank120141148
Rank change year-on-year
Up+21Up+7
Matching permanent IT job ads263322271578
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.173 %1.825 %1.657 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category12.40 %11.63 %10.73 %
Number of salaries quoted225519151318
Average salary£37,500£36,500£36,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73 %-0.68 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£24,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£57,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£33,500£32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.47 %+3.07 %
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
212291914414709
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK17.52 %15.69 %15.45 %
Number of salaries quoted176921585812156
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£61,900£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %-

DNS
Demand Trend

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

DNS Demand Trend

DNS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing DNS within the UK.

DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

DNS Salary Histogram

DNS
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+202449£37,500+4.16 %
LondonUp+311277£42,500-
South EastUp+11605£35,309+0.88 %
City of LondonUp+42265£45,000-5.26 %
BerkshireDown-5150£42,500+9.67 %
East of EnglandDown-21144£37,500+7.14 %
SurreyUp+11133£37,500+15.38 %
South WestDown-36117£35,000+1.44 %
HampshireUp+20105£30,000-23.07 %
ScotlandUp+30101£30,750-16.89 %
YorkshireDown-1894£32,000-1.53 %
OxfordshireUp+2881£35,000-22.22 %
West YorkshireDown-3572£32,000+0.78 %
ReadingDown-565£39,000-13.33 %
East MidlandsUp+2361£27,500-
North WestDown-8061£30,000-4.00 %
West MidlandsDown-350£33,500+8.06 %
CambridgeshireUp+1047£35,000-
LeedsDown-742£28,750-4.16 %
North EastUp+2739£28,500-24.00 %
DerbyshireUp+2639£27,500-4.34 %
CambridgeUp+1438£36,250+3.57 %
WiltshireDown-636£32,500-
DerbyUp+2635£27,500+44.73 %
GloucestershireDown-1735£50,000+33.33 %
ManchesterDown-3735£30,000-0.82 %
HertfordshireDown-1834£37,500-11.55 %
West SussexDown-1930£41,250+11.48 %
KentUp+1429£35,000+16.94 %
CheltenhamDown-429£42,500+13.33 %

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

13400 (64.28 %)Windows
22696 (50.97 %)DHCP
32458 (46.47 %)Active Directory
42399 (45.36 %)TCP/IP
52235 (42.26 %)Microsoft
61967 (37.19 %)VMware
71877 (35.49 %)Linux
81769 (33.45 %)Windows Server 2008
91751 (33.11 %)Firewall
101679 (31.75 %)Windows Server 2003
111637 (30.95 %)Cisco
121504 (28.44 %)MS Exchange
131281 (24.22 %)VMware Infrastructure
141133 (21.42 %)MS Excel
151091 (20.63 %)SAN
161082 (20.46 %)SQL Server
17963 (18.21 %)SQL
18949 (17.94 %)VPN
19914 (17.28 %)Microsoft Certification
20911 (17.22 %)IIS
21903 (17.07 %)UNIX
22888 (16.79 %)Apache
23840 (15.88 %)WAN
24834 (15.77 %)LAN
25829 (15.67 %)Citrix
26815 (15.41 %)Cisco Certification
27797 (15.07 %)ITIL
28763 (14.43 %)Internet
29731 (13.82 %)Exchange Server 2007
30717 (13.56 %)Exchange Server 2010

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1442 (8.357 %).NET
2338 (6.391 %)CSS
3305 (5.767 %)HTML
4272 (5.143 %)Web Services
5219 (4.141 %)XML
6183 (3.460 %)ASP.NET
7180 (3.403 %)LAMP
8113 (2.137 %)Ajax
987 (1.645 %).NET Framework
1085 (1.607 %)ASP
1176 (1.437 %)jQuery
1270 (1.324 %)Flash
1367 (1.267 %)WebSphere
1367 (1.267 %)XHTML
1465 (1.229 %)XSLT
1559 (1.116 %)SOAP
1654 (1.021 %)J2EE
1750 (0.945 %)Forefront TMG
1837 (0.700 %)HTML5
1936 (0.681 %)Google Maps API
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11504 (28.44 %)MS Exchange
2911 (17.22 %)IIS
3888 (16.79 %)Apache
4731 (13.82 %)Exchange Server 2007
5717 (13.56 %)Exchange Server 2010
6636 (12.02 %)Exchange Server 2003
7511 (9.662 %)SharePoint
8268 (5.067 %)Tomcat
9200 (3.781 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
10136 (2.571 %)CMS
11118 (2.231 %)Amazon EC2
1286 (1.626 %)SharePoint 2010
1380 (1.513 %)Lync
1475 (1.418 %)WebLogic
1555 (1.040 %)nginx
1653 (1.002 %)Lotus Notes
1749 (0.926 %)SharePoint Server
1845 (0.851 %)BizTalk Server
1943 (0.813 %)Drupal
2039 (0.737 %)Lotus Domino
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11133 (21.42 %)MS Excel
2593 (11.21 %)MS Office
3103 (1.947 %)MS Visio
460 (1.134 %)Google Apps
541 (0.775 %)MS PowerPoint
639 (0.737 %)Office 365
722 (0.416 %)Photoshop
86 (0.113 %)Adobe Illustrator
94 (0.076 %)GIMP
103 (0.057 %)AutoCAD
103 (0.057 %)Acrobat
112 (0.038 %)MS Project
112 (0.038 %)Quicktime
112 (0.038 %)Final Cut Pro
121 (0.019 %)LightWave 3D
121 (0.019 %)InfoPath
121 (0.019 %)PrintSoft PReS
121 (0.019 %)InDesign
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
142 (0.794 %)Dynamics CRM
216 (0.303 %)Summit
216 (0.303 %)SAP Retail
313 (0.246 %)BASE24
313 (0.246 %)SoftGrid
412 (0.227 %)Google Analytics
511 (0.208 %)Remedy AR System
68 (0.151 %)Dynamics NAV
77 (0.132 %)Dynamics AX
86 (0.113 %)Remedy ITSM
95 (0.095 %)SyteLine
95 (0.095 %)Agresso
95 (0.095 %)GoldMine
95 (0.095 %)Line 50
95 (0.095 %)assyst
104 (0.076 %)Oracle Applications
104 (0.076 %)SAP ERP
113 (0.057 %)Oracle BPM
113 (0.057 %)WebTrends
121 (0.019 %)Lawson M3
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12696 (50.97 %)DHCP
22399 (45.36 %)TCP/IP
31751 (33.11 %)Firewall
41091 (20.63 %)SAN
5949 (17.94 %)VPN
6840 (15.88 %)WAN
7834 (15.77 %)LAN
8763 (14.43 %)Internet
9582 (11.00 %)HTTP
10560 (10.59 %)SMTP
11468 (8.849 %)VoIP
12455 (8.603 %)VLAN
13366 (6.920 %)FTP
14349 (6.599 %)SSL
15321 (6.069 %)Network Security
16300 (5.672 %)Wireless
17279 (5.275 %)SNMP
18271 (5.124 %)OSPF
19245 (4.632 %)LDAP
20243 (4.594 %)BGP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11082 (20.46 %)SQL Server
2627 (11.85 %)MySQL
3261 (4.935 %)SQL Server 2005
4218 (4.122 %)SQL Server 2008
590 (1.702 %)PostgreSQL
682 (1.550 %)SQL Server 2000
759 (1.116 %)RDBMS
839 (0.737 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
933 (0.624 %)Oracle 8/8i
1027 (0.510 %)Oracle 11g
1126 (0.492 %)Crystal Reports
1225 (0.473 %)Apache Cassandra
1322 (0.416 %)DB2
1416 (0.303 %)MongoDB
1513 (0.246 %)Oracle 9i
1513 (0.246 %)DTS
1513 (0.246 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1612 (0.227 %)NoSQL
1711 (0.208 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
187 (0.132 %)Hadoop
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1252 (4.765 %)Subversion
291 (1.721 %)Git (software)
358 (1.097 %)Visual Studio
450 (0.945 %)JIRA
522 (0.416 %)Team Foundation Server
620 (0.378 %)PEAR
719 (0.359 %)TeamCity
818 (0.340 %)Bugzilla
916 (0.303 %)Talend Open Studio
109 (0.170 %)Hudson
118 (0.151 %)Maven
118 (0.151 %)Dreamweaver
127 (0.132 %)VisualSVN
127 (0.132 %)Atlassian Bamboo
136 (0.113 %)Selenium
136 (0.113 %)WebLOAD
136 (0.113 %)TortoiseSVN
145 (0.095 %)Ant
154 (0.076 %)ClearCase
154 (0.076 %)JBuilder
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1603 (11.40 %)Finance
2279 (5.275 %)Telecoms
3158 (2.987 %)Banking
4113 (2.137 %)Back Office
5112 (2.118 %)Retail
695 (1.796 %)Marketing
786 (1.626 %)German Language
879 (1.494 %)Games
977 (1.456 %)Law
1065 (1.229 %)Investment Banking
1150 (0.945 %)Manufacturing
1246 (0.870 %)Legal
1246 (0.870 %)French Language
1345 (0.851 %)Publishing
1432 (0.605 %)Spanish Language
1531 (0.586 %)Advertising
1630 (0.567 %)Italian Language
1723 (0.435 %)Billing
1822 (0.416 %)Front Office
1920 (0.378 %)Electronics
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1961 (18.17 %)Administrator
2799 (15.11 %)Systems Administrator
3696 (13.16 %)Support Engineer
4651 (12.31 %)Analyst
5408 (7.714 %)Network Engineer
6342 (6.466 %)Support Analyst
7337 (6.372 %)Linux Administrator
8320 (6.050 %)Systems Engineer
9307 (5.804 %)Linux Systems Administrator
10300 (5.672 %)Consultant
11293 (5.540 %)Developer
12270 (5.105 %)3rd Line Support
13267 (5.048 %)Technical Support
14255 (4.821 %)IT Support
15254 (4.802 %)Infrastructure Engineer
16241 (4.557 %)2nd Line Support
17204 (3.857 %)Architect
18146 (2.760 %)IT Support Engineer
19136 (2.571 %)Technical Engineer
20132 (2.496 %)Linux Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1445 (8.414 %)Clustering
2312 (5.899 %)Blackberry
3221 (4.178 %)Computer Science
4141 (2.666 %)Open Source
5140 (2.647 %)Replication
6104 (1.966 %)Management Information System
799 (1.872 %)SaaS
876 (1.437 %)iPhone
957 (1.078 %)Cloud Computing
957 (1.078 %)CLARiiON
1056 (1.059 %)PKI
1150 (0.945 %)Hedge funds
1247 (0.889 %)Social Media
1344 (0.832 %)Spread Betting
1442 (0.794 %)Video Conferencing
1541 (0.775 %)Social Network
1635 (0.662 %)iPad
1635 (0.662 %)EqualLogic
1732 (0.605 %)Web 2.0
1830 (0.567 %)Thin Client
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13400 (64.28 %)Windows
21877 (35.49 %)Linux
31769 (33.45 %)Windows Server 2008
41679 (31.75 %)Windows Server 2003
5903 (17.07 %)UNIX
6705 (13.33 %)Windows XP
7494 (9.340 %)Windows 7
8439 (8.300 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9392 (7.412 %)Windows Vista
10343 (6.485 %)Solaris
11301 (5.691 %)CentOS
12219 (4.141 %)Debian
13148 (2.798 %)Ubuntu
14128 (2.420 %)Windows 2000
15118 (2.231 %)Windows 2000 Server
1692 (1.739 %)Mac OS X
1772 (1.361 %)AIX
1865 (1.229 %)HPUX
1941 (0.775 %)Mac OS
2037 (0.700 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1797 (15.07 %)ITIL
2440 (8.319 %)Load Balancing
3307 (5.804 %)Disaster Recovery
4269 (5.086 %)Service Delivery
5252 (4.765 %)E-Commerce
6206 (3.895 %)Configuration Management
7192 (3.630 %)Migration
8186 (3.517 %)Project Management
9168 (3.176 %)Capacity Planning
10149 (2.817 %)Change Management
11144 (2.723 %)Network Management
12143 (2.704 %)Service Management
13141 (2.666 %)Root Cause Analysis
14125 (2.363 %)Web Development
15113 (2.137 %)Time Management
16107 (2.023 %)PRINCE2
17104 (1.966 %)CRM
18103 (1.947 %)Business Continuity
1995 (1.796 %)OO
2091 (1.721 %)Problem Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1963 (18.21 %)SQL
2554 (10.47 %)Perl
3404 (7.638 %)PHP
4372 (7.033 %)Bash shell
5320 (6.050 %)Java
5320 (6.050 %)Shell Script
6295 (5.578 %)JavaScript
7237 (4.481 %)Python
8236 (4.462 %)PowerShell
9191 (3.611 %)C#
10189 (3.573 %)C
11158 (2.987 %)VBScript
12130 (2.458 %)Ruby
1390 (1.702 %)C++
1483 (1.569 %)VB
1551 (0.964 %)AWK
1648 (0.908 %)T-SQL
1747 (0.889 %)PHP5
1747 (0.889 %)Korn
1837 (0.700 %)ActionScript
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1914 (17.28 %)Microsoft Certification
2815 (15.41 %)Cisco Certification
3689 (13.03 %)MCSE
4561 (10.61 %)CCNA
5474 (8.962 %)Degree
6422 (7.979 %)MCITP
7360 (6.807 %)CCNP
8299 (5.653 %)MCP
9271 (5.124 %)MCSA
10173 (3.271 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11172 (3.252 %)RHCE
12168 (3.176 %)Security Cleared
1391 (1.721 %)SC Cleared
1484 (1.588 %)ITIL Certification
1583 (1.569 %)MCTS
1675 (1.418 %)CCSP
1774 (1.399 %)Citrix Certification
1859 (1.116 %)DV Cleared
1952 (0.983 %)CCIE
2051 (0.964 %)CCVP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1273 (5.162 %)SLA
283 (1.569 %)ISO/IEC 27001
370 (1.324 %)PCI DSS
440 (0.756 %)QA
531 (0.586 %)ISO 9001
622 (0.416 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
76 (0.113 %)BS7799
82 (0.038 %)ISO 9000
91 (0.019 %)GAAP
91 (0.019 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12458 (46.47 %)Active Directory
21281 (24.22 %)VMware Infrastructure
3482 (9.113 %)vSphere
4464 (8.773 %)Hyper-V
5316 (5.975 %)VMware ESX
6256 (4.840 %)XenApp
7240 (4.538 %)NFS
8188 (3.555 %)Terminal Services
9180 (3.403 %)VMware ESXi
10150 (2.836 %)ISA Server
11124 (2.344 %)Samba
12122 (2.307 %)Citrix Presentation Server
13109 (2.061 %)Xen
1496 (1.815 %)XenServer
1582 (1.550 %)Postfix
1676 (1.437 %)XenDesktop
1768 (1.286 %)Sendmail
1866 (1.248 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1964 (1.210 %)Squid
2043 (0.813 %)Varnish
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1327 (6.183 %)SCCM
2287 (5.426 %)Backup Exec
3276 (5.218 %)SCOM
4208 (3.933 %)Nagios
5167 (3.157 %)Puppet
6156 (2.950 %)WSUS
7147 (2.779 %)NetBackup
884 (1.588 %)Cacti
979 (1.494 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1073 (1.380 %)Norton AntiVirus
1170 (1.324 %)Tivoli
1268 (1.286 %)SCVMM
1366 (1.248 %)vCenter
1456 (1.059 %)CiscoWorks
1549 (0.926 %)OpenView
1645 (0.851 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1743 (0.813 %)Cisco UCCX
1842 (0.794 %)HP SIM
1935 (0.662 %)MOM
2032 (0.605 %)SolarWinds Orion
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12235 (42.26 %)Microsoft
21967 (37.19 %)VMware
31637 (30.95 %)Cisco
4829 (15.67 %)Citrix
5717 (13.56 %)Red Hat
6674 (12.74 %)HP
7406 (7.676 %)Symantec
8349 (6.599 %)Juniper
9334 (6.315 %)Oracle
10294 (5.559 %)CheckPoint
11271 (5.124 %)Dell
12229 (4.330 %)IBM
13221 (4.178 %)NetApp
14195 (3.687 %)EMC
15171 (3.233 %)F5
16148 (2.798 %)Veritas
17147 (2.779 %)Sun
18126 (2.382 %)Google
19113 (2.137 %)Intel
20109 (2.061 %)Avaya