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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 52 74 76
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +2
Permanent jobs citing DNS 41 22 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 3.374% 1.903% 1.419%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.60% 9.129% 12.30%
Number of salaries quoted 38 22 9
Average salary £27,500 £30,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £21,650 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £40,725 £46,800
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
All Communications & Networking
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
247 241 122
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 20.33% 20.85% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 231 204 108
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
UK

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the Wales region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Wales DNS Salary Histogram

DNS
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 Wales region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South Wales +21 39 £27,500 -8.33%
DNS
UK

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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 44 (78.57%) Windows
2 43 (76.79%) Microsoft
3 41 (73.21%) Active Directory
4 38 (67.86%) MS Exchange
5 35 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 34 (60.71%) DHCP
7 30 (53.57%) TCP/IP
7 30 (53.57%) VMware
8 27 (48.21%) VoIP
9 25 (44.64%) MS Excel
10 23 (41.07%) Exchange Server 2007
11 22 (39.29%) Firewall
12 20 (35.71%) Exchange Server 2003
13 19 (33.93%) Windows Server 2012
14 18 (32.14%) Windows 7
15 17 (30.36%) Cisco
16 16 (28.57%) WAN
17 15 (26.79%) IIS
17 15 (26.79%) Microsoft Certification
17 15 (26.79%) Exchange Server 2010
18 13 (23.21%) Cisco Certification
18 13 (23.21%) SQL
19 12 (21.43%) MCSE
19 12 (21.43%) Lync
19 12 (21.43%) Unified Communications
20 11 (19.64%) SaaS
20 11 (19.64%) VMware Infrastructure
20 11 (19.64%) Office 365
20 11 (19.64%) Windows Intune
20 11 (19.64%) Windows 8

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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 Development
1 3 (5.357%) CGI
2 2 (3.571%) Middleware
2 2 (3.571%) CSS
2 2 (3.571%) JSP
2 2 (3.571%) XML
2 2 (3.571%) .NET
2 2 (3.571%) HTML
3 1 (1.786%) COM
Application Platforms
1 38 (67.86%) MS Exchange
2 23 (41.07%) Exchange Server 2007
3 20 (35.71%) Exchange Server 2003
4 15 (26.79%) IIS
4 15 (26.79%) Exchange Server 2010
5 12 (21.43%) Lync
6 11 (19.64%) Apache
7 6 (10.71%) Office Communications Server
8 5 (8.929%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 5 (8.929%) Exchange Server 2000
9 4 (7.143%) SharePoint
10 1 (1.786%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 25 (44.64%) MS Excel
2 11 (19.64%) Office 365
3 3 (5.357%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 34 (60.71%) DHCP
2 30 (53.57%) TCP/IP
3 27 (48.21%) VoIP
4 22 (39.29%) Firewall
5 16 (28.57%) WAN
6 12 (21.43%) Unified Communications
7 11 (19.64%) VPN
8 10 (17.86%) MPLS
8 10 (17.86%) SAN
8 10 (17.86%) Ethernet
9 9 (16.07%) LAN
10 8 (14.29%) Junos
10 8 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (14.29%) HSRP
10 8 (14.29%) xDSL
10 8 (14.29%) OSPF
10 8 (14.29%) PPP
10 8 (14.29%) RIP
10 8 (14.29%) SNMP
10 8 (14.29%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.64%) MySQL
2 10 (17.86%) SQL Server
3 7 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (10.71%) Telecoms
2 3 (5.357%) Finance
2 3 (5.357%) Banking
2 3 (5.357%) Local Government
3 2 (3.571%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.786%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (17.86%) Support Engineer
4 8 (14.29%) Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Administrator
5 6 (10.71%) Implementation Engineer
6 5 (8.929%) Network Administrator
7 4 (7.143%) Network Support
7 4 (7.143%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.143%) Support Analyst
8 3 (5.357%) Wintel Engineer
8 3 (5.357%) Wintel Support Engineer
8 3 (5.357%) Technical Support
8 3 (5.357%) Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.357%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 3 (5.357%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 3 (5.357%) Technical Engineer
8 3 (5.357%) Technical Support Engineer
8 3 (5.357%) Wintel Support
9 2 (3.571%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) SaaS
2 6 (10.71%) Blackberry
2 6 (10.71%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (10.71%) Blog
3 5 (8.929%) Clustering
4 3 (5.357%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (3.571%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 44 (78.57%) Windows
2 35 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 19 (33.93%) Windows Server 2012
4 18 (32.14%) Windows 7
5 11 (19.64%) Windows 8
5 11 (19.64%) Windows Server 2003
6 10 (17.86%) UNIX
7 5 (8.929%) Linux
8 2 (3.571%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.786%) Android
9 1 (1.786%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (14.29%) Network Management
1 8 (14.29%) Network Design
2 7 (12.50%) ITIL
3 6 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (3.571%) Incident Management
4 2 (3.571%) Change Management
4 2 (3.571%) Communications Security
5 1 (1.786%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) SQL
2 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.929%) VBScript
4 2 (3.571%) VB.NET
4 2 (3.571%) Java
4 2 (3.571%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.571%) RPG
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (23.21%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (21.43%) MCSE
4 9 (16.07%) CCNP
5 8 (14.29%) MCSA
6 6 (10.71%) MCITP
6 6 (10.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (8.929%) SC Cleared
7 5 (8.929%) DV Cleared
7 5 (8.929%) Security Cleared
7 5 (8.929%) Degree
7 5 (8.929%) MCP
8 4 (7.143%) CCNA
9 1 (1.786%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.571%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.571%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.786%) QA
2 1 (1.786%) SLA
System Software
1 41 (73.21%) Active Directory
2 11 (19.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 9 (16.07%) XenApp
4 6 (10.71%) Hyper-V
5 5 (8.929%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 5 (8.929%) VMware ESX
5 5 (8.929%) Terminal Services
6 4 (7.143%) VMware Server
6 4 (7.143%) XenServer
7 2 (3.571%) ISA Server
7 2 (3.571%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) Windows Intune
2 7 (12.50%) Norton AntiVirus
2 7 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 7 (12.50%) Backup Exec
3 5 (8.929%) ARCserve
4 3 (5.357%) SCCM
4 3 (5.357%) WSUS
5 2 (3.571%) SCOM
5 2 (3.571%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 43 (76.79%) Microsoft
2 30 (53.57%) VMware
3 17 (30.36%) Cisco
4 9 (16.07%) Symantec
4 9 (16.07%) Juniper
4 9 (16.07%) Citrix
5 8 (14.29%) Dell
6 6 (10.71%) Dialogic
7 5 (8.929%) Sophos
7 5 (8.929%) Remedy
7 5 (8.929%) McAfee
8 4 (7.143%) NetApp
9 2 (3.571%) Veritas
9 2 (3.571%) Intel
9 2 (3.571%) Nortel
9 2 (3.571%) HP
10 1 (1.786%) 3Com
10 1 (1.786%) Apple
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