The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wakefield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 23 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 Wakefield region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 26 10 14
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +4
Permanent jobs citing DNS 7 18 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 5.072% 18.75% 13.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 39.13% 22.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 13
Average salary £34,000 £40,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
All Communications & Networking
Wakefield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
49 46 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 35.51% 47.92% 57.58%
Number of salaries quoted 44 32 55
Average salary £26,250 £38,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.81% -14.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £24,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,950 £50,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
West Yorkshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wakefield 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 Wakefield region.

Wakefield DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield 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 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 17 (94.44%) Active Directory
2 17 (94.44%) VMware
3 15 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (83.33%) MS Exchange
3 15 (83.33%) DHCP
3 15 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 15 (83.33%) SAN
4 13 (72.22%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (61.11%) Telecoms
6 11 (61.11%) Firewall
6 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
7 10 (55.56%) HP
8 9 (50.00%) EMC
8 9 (50.00%) SQL
8 9 (50.00%) Replication
8 9 (50.00%) Celerra
8 9 (50.00%) ProCurve
8 9 (50.00%) vSphere
8 9 (50.00%) Lync
9 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
10 6 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
10 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
10 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
10 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
11 4 (22.22%) MCSE
11 4 (22.22%) MCSA
11 4 (22.22%) Citrix

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield 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 15 (83.33%) MS Exchange
2 13 (72.22%) Exchange Server 2007
3 9 (50.00%) Lync
4 6 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (11.11%) IIS
5 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (5.556%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (83.33%) DHCP
1 15 (83.33%) SAN
2 11 (61.11%) Firewall
3 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 4 (22.22%) Wireless
5 2 (11.11%) VPN
6 1 (5.556%) Cisco PIX
6 1 (5.556%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (5.556%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (61.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Systems Manager
2 4 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (16.67%) Administrator
3 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Server Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Graduate Software Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Graduate Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Graduate
5 1 (5.556%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.556%) Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Analyst
5 1 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Replication
1 9 (50.00%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (83.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 15 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.556%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) MCSE
1 4 (22.22%) MCSA
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (22.22%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (94.44%) Active Directory
2 12 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (50.00%) vSphere
4 4 (22.22%) Terminal Services
4 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 4 (22.22%) XenApp
4 4 (22.22%) XenServer
5 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) Cacti
1 1 (5.556%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (5.556%) OpenView
1 1 (5.556%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 17 (94.44%) VMware
2 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
3 10 (55.56%) HP
4 9 (50.00%) EMC
4 9 (50.00%) ProCurve
5 4 (22.22%) Citrix
6 2 (11.11%) Avaya
7 1 (5.556%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.556%) Cisco