The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 17 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 Watford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 41 59 61
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +2
Permanent jobs citing DNS 6 4 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 2.083% 1.120% 1.402%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.500% 3.540% 7.692%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 3
Average salary £48,750 £38,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.28% +16.92%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,329
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +5.01%
All Communications & Networking
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
80 113 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 27.78% 31.65% 18.22%
Number of salaries quoted 61 61 35
Average salary £50,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+42.85% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £30,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
DNS
Hertfordshire

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford 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 Watford region.

Watford DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the Watford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Watford DNS Salary Histogram

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 8 (57.14%) Perl
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
1 8 (57.14%) TCP/IP
2 7 (50.00%) HTTP
2 7 (50.00%) Games
3 6 (42.86%) SNMP
3 6 (42.86%) DHCP
4 5 (35.71%) SAN
4 5 (35.71%) Linux
4 5 (35.71%) E-Commerce
4 5 (35.71%) UNIX
4 5 (35.71%) DB2
5 4 (28.57%) VB
5 4 (28.57%) LAN
5 4 (28.57%) AIX
5 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (28.57%) VPN
5 4 (28.57%) Cisco
5 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
5 4 (28.57%) Firewall
5 4 (28.57%) ITSM
5 4 (28.57%) Service Management
5 4 (28.57%) Korn
5 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (28.57%) FMCG
6 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
6 3 (21.43%) Internet
6 3 (21.43%) VMware
6 3 (21.43%) Finance

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford 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 1 (7.143%) HTML
1 1 (7.143%) SOAP
1 1 (7.143%) Web Services
1 1 (7.143%) Apache CXF
1 1 (7.143%) REST
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Apache
1 3 (21.43%) MS Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
2 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (7.143%) IIS
3 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (7.143%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) TCP/IP
2 7 (50.00%) HTTP
3 6 (42.86%) SNMP
3 6 (42.86%) DHCP
4 5 (35.71%) SAN
5 4 (28.57%) VPN
5 4 (28.57%) LAN
5 4 (28.57%) Firewall
6 3 (21.43%) WAN
6 3 (21.43%) Internet
7 2 (14.29%) IPv6
7 2 (14.29%) UMTS
7 2 (14.29%) VoIP
7 2 (14.29%) FTP
7 2 (14.29%) ADSL
7 2 (14.29%) Broadband
7 2 (14.29%) GPRS
7 2 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (14.29%) VSAT
7 2 (14.29%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) DB2
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Ant
1 1 (7.143%) Subversion
1 1 (7.143%) Maven
1 1 (7.143%) Git (software)
1 1 (7.143%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (50.00%) Games
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Marketing
4 1 (7.143%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Applications Support
2 2 (14.29%) Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) Service Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Storage Administrator
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Support
2 2 (14.29%) Linux Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) AIX Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Network Services Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Network Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Team Leader
3 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) FMCG
2 2 (14.29%) Online Games
3 1 (7.143%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (7.143%) Blackberry
3 1 (7.143%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) UNIX
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (28.57%) AIX
3 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.143%) CentOS
4 1 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.143%) Windows 7
4 1 (7.143%) VMS
4 1 (7.143%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) E-Commerce
2 4 (28.57%) Service Management
2 4 (28.57%) ITSM
3 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Information Security
4 2 (14.29%) Network Design
4 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.143%) Release Management
5 1 (7.143%) High Availability
5 1 (7.143%) Capacity Management
5 1 (7.143%) ITIL
5 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.143%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Perl
2 4 (28.57%) VB
2 4 (28.57%) Korn
3 3 (21.43%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
5 1 (7.143%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) CCIE
2 2 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (7.143%) CCNP
3 1 (7.143%) MCP
3 1 (7.143%) MCSE
3 1 (7.143%) MCSA
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.143%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (7.143%) MCTS
3 1 (7.143%) MCITP
3 1 (7.143%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.143%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.143%) XenApp
3 1 (7.143%) vSphere
3 1 (7.143%) Terminal Server
3 1 (7.143%) VMware ESX
3 1 (7.143%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Netcool
2 2 (14.29%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 2 (14.29%) Control-M
2 2 (14.29%) Tivoli
2 2 (14.29%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (7.143%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (7.143%) Puppet
3 1 (7.143%) Backup Exec
3 1 (7.143%) WSUS
3 1 (7.143%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco
2 3 (21.43%) IBM
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) JBoss
3 2 (14.29%) Verint
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) BMC
4 1 (7.143%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.143%) Symantec
4 1 (7.143%) McAfee
4 1 (7.143%) Citrix
4 1 (7.143%) Avaya
4 1 (7.143%) Altiris
4 1 (7.143%) 3PAR
Watford, Hertfordshire
As a 2nd Line Support Analyst you will be situated on the Helpdesk providing remote support to external clients on Windows Server, Exchange, Active Directory, LAN/WAN and...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + training
Posted: 14 May 2013
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The Essential Skills CentOS / Redhat - Linux / UNIX Systems Administrator for at least 5 years... LAMP. Shell - Perl / Bash... UNIX / Linux Systems Administrator - Team Leader - CentOS / Redhat / LAMP / Web...
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Salary: £45000 - £52000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013