DNS Jobs in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for DNS skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands region.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Domain Name System (DNS)
Rank 94 129 129
Rank change year-on-year
+35 0
Permanent jobs citing DNS 117 57 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 2.327% 1.251% 1.174%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.43% 7.873% 6.586%
Number of salaries quoted 90 46 42
Average salary £39,250 £34,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.76% +11.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £23,100
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £32,750
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +6.87%
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 871 724 744
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.32% 15.88% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 708 594 586
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% -4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,050 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DNS
England

DNS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands DNS Salary Trend

DNS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DNS across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Coventry +1 31 £41,250 +71.87%
Birmingham -16 27 £40,000 +14.28%
Shropshire +13 16 £27,500 +29.41%
Staffordshire +13 16 £40,000 +26.98%
Warwickshire - 8 £42,500 -
Worcestershire +1 2 £32,500 -7.14%
Solihull - 2 £34,250 -
Walsall - 2 £21,250 -
West Bromwich - 1 £40,000 -
Wolverhampton - 1 £70,000 -
Sutton Coldfield - 1 £30,000 -
DNS
England

DNS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 169 (72.22%) DHCP
2 163 (69.66%) Windows
3 158 (67.52%) Active Directory
4 119 (50.85%) Microsoft
5 112 (47.86%) Windows Server 2008
6 102 (43.59%) Cisco
7 95 (40.60%) MS Exchange
7 95 (40.60%) Firewall
8 83 (35.47%) Windows Server 2003
9 75 (32.05%) VMware
10 61 (26.07%) Linux
10 61 (26.07%) Exchange Server 2010
11 59 (25.21%) SQL
12 57 (24.36%) TCP/IP
13 56 (23.93%) Citrix
14 55 (23.50%) SAN
14 55 (23.50%) LAN
15 52 (22.22%) WAN
16 46 (19.66%) VPN
17 45 (19.23%) SharePoint
17 45 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
18 43 (18.38%) UNIX
18 43 (18.38%) MS Office
19 41 (17.52%) MS Excel
20 40 (17.09%) SQL Server
21 36 (15.38%) vSphere
22 33 (14.10%) Back Office
23 32 (13.68%) Lync
24 31 (13.25%) Exchange Server 2007
24 31 (13.25%) NetApp

DNS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 20 (8.547%) HTML
1 20 (8.547%) CSS
2 4 (1.709%) LAMP
2 4 (1.709%) Application Packaging
3 3 (1.282%) COM
3 3 (1.282%) Web Services
4 1 (0.427%) jQuery
4 1 (0.427%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.427%) Middleware
4 1 (0.427%) X-Windows
4 1 (0.427%) XHTML
4 1 (0.427%) JMS
4 1 (0.427%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 95 (40.60%) MS Exchange
2 61 (26.07%) Exchange Server 2010
3 45 (19.23%) SharePoint
4 32 (13.68%) Lync
5 31 (13.25%) Exchange Server 2007
6 26 (11.11%) Apache
7 25 (10.68%) IIS
8 20 (8.547%) Exchange Server 2003
9 7 (2.991%) SharePoint 2010
10 6 (2.564%) Tomcat
11 5 (2.137%) nginx
12 4 (1.709%) Lotus Notes
12 4 (1.709%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.855%) Office Communications Server
13 2 (0.855%) SharePoint Server
14 1 (0.427%) Exchange Server 2013
14 1 (0.427%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 1 (0.427%) IBM HTTP Server
14 1 (0.427%) WebSphere Process Server
Applications
1 43 (18.38%) MS Office
2 41 (17.52%) MS Excel
3 13 (5.556%) Office 365
4 2 (0.855%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.274%) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1 169 (72.22%) DHCP
2 95 (40.60%) Firewall
3 57 (24.36%) TCP/IP
4 55 (23.50%) SAN
4 55 (23.50%) LAN
5 52 (22.22%) WAN
6 46 (19.66%) VPN
7 27 (11.54%) VLAN
8 25 (10.68%) Wireless
9 23 (9.829%) Unified Communications
10 22 (9.402%) HTTP
11 20 (8.547%) Network Security
12 19 (8.120%) VoIP
12 19 (8.120%) IP Telephony
13 18 (7.692%) MPLS
14 15 (6.410%) NAS
15 14 (5.983%) Cisco IOS
16 13 (5.556%) SSL
17 12 (5.128%) Internet
17 12 (5.128%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (17.09%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.274%) MySQL
3 6 (2.564%) SQL Server 2000
4 5 (2.137%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (1.709%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.709%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.427%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (0.855%) Bugzilla
2 1 (0.427%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.427%) MSI
2 1 (0.427%) Subversion
General
1 33 (14.10%) Back Office
2 19 (8.120%) Banking
3 18 (7.692%) Finance
4 11 (4.701%) Telecoms
5 7 (2.991%) Automotive
6 5 (2.137%) French Language
6 5 (2.137%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.137%) Retail
7 3 (1.282%) Legal
8 2 (0.855%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.855%) Advertising
8 2 (0.855%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.427%) Marketing
9 1 (0.427%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 37 (15.81%) Network Engineer
2 27 (11.54%) Consultant
3 24 (10.26%) Support Engineer
4 23 (9.829%) Architect
5 21 (8.974%) Analyst
6 19 (8.120%) Developer
7 15 (6.410%) IT Support
8 12 (5.128%) Technical Consultant
8 12 (5.128%) Technical Architect
9 11 (4.701%) Technical Specialist
9 11 (4.701%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.701%) Administrator
10 10 (4.274%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.274%) 3rd Line Support
10 10 (4.274%) Support Analyst
11 9 (3.846%) Technical Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.846%) Server Engineer
12 8 (3.419%) Infrastructure Architect
12 8 (3.419%) 2nd Line Support
13 7 (2.991%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.410%) Blackberry
2 13 (5.556%) iPhone
2 13 (5.556%) Management Information System
3 10 (4.274%) Computer Science
4 9 (3.846%) Open Source
4 9 (3.846%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (3.846%) Device Driver
5 6 (2.564%) SaaS
5 6 (2.564%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.137%) Clustering
7 4 (1.709%) Replication
7 4 (1.709%) CMDB
7 4 (1.709%) Statistics
8 3 (1.282%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.855%) VLE
9 2 (0.855%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.855%) Wiki
10 1 (0.427%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.427%) Fat Client
10 1 (0.427%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 163 (69.66%) Windows
2 112 (47.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 83 (35.47%) Windows Server 2003
4 61 (26.07%) Linux
5 43 (18.38%) UNIX
6 30 (12.82%) Solaris
7 26 (11.11%) Windows 7
8 16 (6.838%) Windows XP
9 14 (5.983%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (5.556%) Windows Phone
11 10 (4.274%) OpenVMS
11 10 (4.274%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 8 (3.419%) AIX
12 8 (3.419%) CentOS
13 6 (2.564%) Windows 2000
13 6 (2.564%) Windows 2000 Server
14 5 (2.137%) Windows 8
14 5 (2.137%) Windows Vista
15 4 (1.709%) Debian
16 3 (1.282%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (9.829%) Time Management
2 21 (8.974%) Service Delivery
3 20 (8.547%) Data Protection
4 18 (7.692%) Project Management
5 17 (7.265%) ITIL
5 17 (7.265%) Security Management
5 17 (7.265%) Business Continuity
6 13 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (4.701%) Information Security
8 9 (3.846%) Risk Analysis
8 9 (3.846%) Risk Management
8 9 (3.846%) Penetration Testing
9 8 (3.419%) Agile Software Development
10 7 (2.991%) Risk Assessment
11 6 (2.564%) Network Management
11 6 (2.564%) Security Architecture
11 6 (2.564%) Web Development
11 6 (2.564%) Incident Management
12 5 (2.137%) Migration
12 5 (2.137%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 59 (25.21%) SQL
2 23 (9.829%) Python
3 20 (8.547%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.701%) C
5 5 (2.137%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.137%) PHP
5 5 (2.137%) Java
6 4 (1.709%) VBScript
6 4 (1.709%) VB
6 4 (1.709%) Perl
7 1 (0.427%) PHP5
7 1 (0.427%) Bash shell
7 1 (0.427%) C++
Qualifications
1 27 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (10.68%) MCSE
3 24 (10.26%) MCITP
4 20 (8.547%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (7.265%) CCNP
6 16 (6.838%) Degree
7 13 (5.556%) CCNA
8 11 (4.701%) CISSP
8 11 (4.701%) CEH
8 11 (4.701%) CISA
8 11 (4.701%) CISM
9 9 (3.846%) CCSA
10 7 (2.991%) VCP5
10 7 (2.991%) Security Cleared
11 6 (2.564%) SC Cleared
12 5 (2.137%) MCSA
12 5 (2.137%) MCP
13 4 (1.709%) CCSE
13 4 (1.709%) Check Point Certification
14 3 (1.282%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.983%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.564%) SLA
3 5 (2.137%) QA
4 4 (1.709%) COBIT
System Software
1 158 (67.52%) Active Directory
2 45 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (15.38%) vSphere
4 29 (12.39%) Hyper-V
5 21 (8.974%) ISA Server
6 16 (6.838%) XenServer
7 15 (6.410%) Squid
7 15 (6.410%) XenDesktop
7 15 (6.410%) UAG
8 13 (5.556%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 13 (5.556%) Samba
9 12 (5.128%) XenApp
10 11 (4.701%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (3.419%) VMware ESX
11 8 (3.419%) PowerHA
12 7 (2.991%) Forefront TMG
12 7 (2.991%) Postfix
13 4 (1.709%) MetaFrame
13 4 (1.709%) Sendmail
13 4 (1.709%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 22 (9.402%) SCCM
2 21 (8.974%) SCOM
3 9 (3.846%) SolarWinds Orion
4 8 (3.419%) WSUS
5 6 (2.564%) EMC NetWorker
6 5 (2.137%) Backup Exec
7 4 (1.709%) Nagios
8 3 (1.282%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.855%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.855%) ARCserve
9 2 (0.855%) MOM
9 2 (0.855%) Cacti
9 2 (0.855%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 1 (0.427%) MAILsweeper
10 1 (0.427%) OpenView
10 1 (0.427%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 119 (50.85%) Microsoft
2 102 (43.59%) Cisco
3 75 (32.05%) VMware
4 56 (23.93%) Citrix
5 31 (13.25%) NetApp
6 29 (12.39%) HP
7 23 (9.829%) CheckPoint
8 15 (6.410%) IBM
9 14 (5.983%) McAfee
9 14 (5.983%) Nokia
10 13 (5.556%) Red Hat
11 12 (5.128%) Mitel
11 12 (5.128%) Nortel
11 12 (5.128%) Avaya
11 12 (5.128%) SolarWinds
11 12 (5.128%) DataCore
11 12 (5.128%) Dialogic
12 11 (4.701%) EMC
13 10 (4.274%) SAP
13 10 (4.274%) Juniper
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