DNS Jobs in Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for DNS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DNS over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Domain Name System (DNS) East of England / Hertfordshire
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	68	98	63
Rank change year-on-year	+30	-35
Permanent jobs citing DNS	84	46	130
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire	4.03%	2.03%	4.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	21.82%	10.20%	18.06%
Number of salaries quoted	57	38	75
Median salary	£35,000	£40,000	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-12.50%	-11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than	£24,400	£26,000	£25,700
10% offered a salary of more than	£67,000	£55,500	£55,000
UK excluding London median salary	£37,250	£36,500	£36,500
% change year-on-year	+2.05%	-

DNS is in the communications and computer networking skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills.

Communications & Computer Network Skills Hertfordshire
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications and computer networking skills	385	451	720
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire	18.49%	19.87%	25.03%
Number of salaries quoted	321	353	496
Median salary	£50,000	£44,500	£43,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+12.35%	+3.48%
90% offered a salary of more than	£26,000	£26,000	£27,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,000	£60,000	£60,000
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£42,000
% change year-on-year	-	+1.19%

DNS
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in Hertfordshire citing DNS as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Communications & Networking category.

Job vacancy trend for DNS in Hertfordshire

DNS
Salary Trend in Hertfordshire

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing DNS in Hertfordshire.

DNS
Salary Histogram in Hertfordshire

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing DNS in Hertfordshire over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Salary histogram for DNS in Hertfordshire

DNS
Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DNS within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Watford	+4	24	£40,000	+53.84%	1
Hemel Hempstead	+4	14	£40,000	-	2
Hatfield	+2	9	£26,500	-53.91%	1
Welwyn Garden City	+5	8	£32,000	-14.66%	4
St Albans	-	7	£52,500	-
Cheshunt	-	4	£25,000	-
Kings Langley	-	2	£31,250	-
Letchworth	-	2	-	-
Stevenage	+14	1	-	-
Bishop's Stortford	-	1	£40,000	-
Hitchin	-	1	£19,500	-
Rickmansworth	-	1	£45,000	-
DNS East of England

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Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in Hertfordshire

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT jobs citing DNS also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the Hertfordshire region with a requirement for DNS.

1	112 (78.87%)	DHCP
2	103 (72.54%)	Windows
3	99 (69.72%)	Active Directory
4	78 (54.93%)	Firewall
4	78 (54.93%)	Windows Server
5	77 (54.23%)	Microsoft
6	70 (49.30%)	VMware
7	65 (45.77%)	ITIL
8	64 (45.07%)	Office 365
9	61 (42.96%)	TCP/IP
10	60 (42.25%)	VMware Infrastructure
11	50 (35.21%)	Cisco
12	49 (34.51%)	MS Exchange
13	48 (33.80%)	VPN
14	46 (32.39%)	Citrix

14	46 (32.39%)	Windows Server 2008
15	41 (28.87%)	Skype for Business
16	40 (28.17%)	Microsoft Certification
16	40 (28.17%)	LAN
16	40 (28.17%)	WAN
17	37 (26.06%)	Linux
17	37 (26.06%)	Windows Server 2012
18	35 (24.65%)	Data Centre
18	35 (24.65%)	MCP
18	35 (24.65%)	Microsoft Office
19	34 (23.94%)	VoIP
19	34 (23.94%)	Windows 7
20	33 (23.24%)	VLAN
21	32 (22.54%)	Hyper-V
22	31 (21.83%)	MCSE

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Co-occurring IT Skills in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	49 (34.51%)	MS Exchange
2	41 (28.87%)	Skype for Business
3	18 (12.68%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	17 (11.97%)	SharePoint
5	14 (9.86%)	Exchange Server 2013
6	8 (5.63%)	IIS
6	8 (5.63%)	WebLogic
7	7 (4.93%)	Apache
8	6 (4.23%)	CMS
9	4 (2.82%)	GlassFish
9	4 (2.82%)	JBoss
9	4 (2.82%)	MQSeries
9	4 (2.82%)	OpenStack
9	4 (2.82%)	Oracle SOA Suite
9	4 (2.82%)	Tomcat
9	4 (2.82%)	WebSphere
10	2 (1.41%)	Confluence
10	2 (1.41%)	nginx
11	1 (0.70%)	Exchange Server 2007

Applications
1	35 (24.65%)	Microsoft Office
2	2 (1.41%)	Microsoft Excel
3	1 (0.70%)	Adobe Creative Suite

Business Applications
1	2 (1.41%)	SAP CRM

Cloud Services
1	64 (45.07%)	Office 365
2	23 (16.20%)	Amazon AWS
3	21 (14.79%)	Microsoft Azure
4	20 (14.08%)	PaaS
5	12 (8.45%)	Cloud Computing
6	9 (6.34%)	AWS CloudFormation
6	9 (6.34%)	IaaS
7	5 (3.52%)	Akamai
7	5 (3.52%)	Amazon CloudWatch
7	5 (3.52%)	Amazon EC2
7	5 (3.52%)	Amazon Glacier
7	5 (3.52%)	Amazon S3
7	5 (3.52%)	Amazon SQS
7	5 (3.52%)	AWS CloudTrail
7	5 (3.52%)	Virtual Private Cloud
8	4 (2.82%)	Mimecast
9	2 (1.41%)	GitHub
9	2 (1.41%)	OneDrive
9	2 (1.41%)	SaaS
10	1 (0.70%)	Azure Active Directory

Communications & Networking
1	112 (78.87%)	DHCP
2	78 (54.93%)	Firewall
3	61 (42.96%)	TCP/IP
4	48 (33.80%)	VPN
5	40 (28.17%)	LAN
5	40 (28.17%)	WAN
6	34 (23.94%)	VoIP
7	33 (23.24%)	VLAN
8	30 (21.13%)	Skype
9	29 (20.42%)	SAN
10	23 (16.20%)	MPLS
11	21 (14.79%)	PBX
12	19 (13.38%)	Remote Desktop
13	15 (10.56%)	ISDN
14	14 (9.86%)	BGP
14	14 (9.86%)	Network Security
15	13 (9.15%)	HTTP
16	12 (8.45%)	iSCSI
16	12 (8.45%)	OSPF
17	10 (7.04%)	Unified Communications

Database & Business Intelligence
1	21 (14.79%)	SQL Server
2	15 (10.56%)	SQL Server 2008
3	12 (8.45%)	Amazon RDS
4	4 (2.82%)	MySQL
5	3 (2.11%)	NoSQL
5	3 (2.11%)	SQL Server 2012
6	2 (1.41%)	DB2
7	1 (0.70%)	Big Data
7	1 (0.70%)	MongoDB

Development Applications
1	4 (2.82%)	MSI
2	3 (2.11%)	JIRA
3	2 (1.41%)	Jenkins
3	2 (1.41%)	VSS/SourceSafe

General
1	16 (11.27%)	Retail
2	13 (9.15%)	Games
3	9 (6.34%)	Finance
4	8 (5.63%)	Telecoms
5	7 (4.93%)	Advertising
6	6 (4.23%)	Back Office
6	6 (4.23%)	Military
7	2 (1.41%)	French Language
7	2 (1.41%)	German Language
7	2 (1.41%)	Swedish Language
8	1 (0.70%)	Banking
8	1 (0.70%)	Legal
8	1 (0.70%)	Manufacturing

Job Titles
1	42 (29.58%)	Support Engineer
2	32 (22.54%)	3rd Line Engineer
2	32 (22.54%)	Infrastructure Engineer
3	21 (14.79%)	3rd Line Support
4	19 (13.38%)	Office 365 Engineer
5	18 (12.68%)	Infrastructure Support
6	17 (11.97%)	Active Directory Support
7	16 (11.27%)	3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7	16 (11.27%)	3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7	16 (11.27%)	3rd Line Support Engineer
8	15 (10.56%)	Active Directory Engineer
8	15 (10.56%)	Active Directory Support Engineer
9	14 (9.86%)	Infrastructure Support Engineer
9	14 (9.86%)	IT Engineer
10	13 (9.15%)	IT Support
10	13 (9.15%)	Server Engineer
10	13 (9.15%)	Server Support
11	11 (7.75%)	Administrator
11	11 (7.75%)	IT Support Engineer
12	10 (7.04%)	Network Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	21 (14.79%)	Web Services
2	7 (4.93%)	Node.js
3	6 (4.23%)	POSIX
4	5 (3.52%)	HTML
5	4 (2.82%)	ActiveMQ
5	4 (2.82%)	EJB
5	4 (2.82%)	EJB 3.0
5	4 (2.82%)	HornetQ
5	4 (2.82%)	Java EE
5	4 (2.82%)	Java SE
5	4 (2.82%)	JMS
5	4 (2.82%)	WebSphere MQ
6	3 (2.11%)	Middleware
7	2 (1.41%)	LAMP
7	2 (1.41%)	LEMP Stack
7	2 (1.41%)	REST
7	2 (1.41%)	SOAP
7	2 (1.41%)	WSH
8	1 (0.70%)	Regular Expression

Miscellaneous
1	35 (24.65%)	Data Centre
2	12 (8.45%)	Replication
3	10 (7.04%)	Analytical Skills
4	7 (4.93%)	Algorithms
4	7 (4.93%)	Client/Server
4	7 (4.93%)	Data Structures
4	7 (4.93%)	Driving Licence
5	6 (4.23%)	Blackberry
5	6 (4.23%)	Hybrid Cloud
5	6 (4.23%)	Management Information System
6	4 (2.82%)	Data Protection Act
6	4 (2.82%)	Fat Client
6	4 (2.82%)	Linux Command Line
6	4 (2.82%)	Thin Client
6	4 (2.82%)	User Experience
7	3 (2.11%)	Enterprise Software
7	3 (2.11%)	Fintech
7	3 (2.11%)	PKI
7	3 (2.11%)	Public Cloud
8	2 (1.41%)	Microsoft Licensing

Operating Systems
1	103 (72.54%)	Windows
2	78 (54.93%)	Windows Server
3	46 (32.39%)	Windows Server 2008
4	37 (26.06%)	Linux
4	37 (26.06%)	Windows Server 2012
5	34 (23.94%)	Windows 7
6	24 (16.90%)	Windows 10
7	18 (12.68%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	18 (12.68%)	Windows Server 2003
8	15 (10.56%)	Unix
9	7 (4.93%)	Windows 8
10	6 (4.23%)	Mac OS X
11	5 (3.52%)	Mac OS
12	4 (2.82%)	AIX
12	4 (2.82%)	Solaris
13	3 (2.11%)	Android
14	2 (1.41%)	Windows Mobile

Processes & Methodologies
1	65 (45.77%)	ITIL
2	21 (14.79%)	E-Commerce
3	20 (14.08%)	Mentoring
4	18 (12.68%)	Change Management
4	18 (12.68%)	Disaster Recovery
5	15 (10.56%)	Coaching
6	14 (9.86%)	Problem Management
7	13 (9.15%)	Project Management
8	12 (8.45%)	DevOps
8	12 (8.45%)	ITIL V3
8	12 (8.45%)	Kalman Filter
9	11 (7.75%)	Load Balancing
10	9 (6.34%)	Build Automation
11	7 (4.93%)	Application Packaging
11	7 (4.93%)	Capacity Planning
11	7 (4.93%)	Data Protection
11	7 (4.93%)	Demand Forecasting
11	7 (4.93%)	Performance Analysis
11	7 (4.93%)	SIEM
11	7 (4.93%)	Software Engineering

Programming Languages
1	30 (21.13%)	PowerShell
2	24 (16.90%)	VBScript
3	23 (16.20%)	SQL
4	15 (10.56%)	Python
5	11 (7.75%)	Java
6	8 (5.63%)	C
6	8 (5.63%)	Shell Script
6	8 (5.63%)	VB
7	7 (4.93%)	Scala
8	4 (2.82%)	AWK
8	4 (2.82%)	Bash Shell
8	4 (2.82%)	Bourne shell
8	4 (2.82%)	C-shell
8	4 (2.82%)	Perl
9	2 (1.41%)	Go
9	2 (1.41%)	PHP
9	2 (1.41%)	Ruby

Qualifications
1	40 (28.17%)	Microsoft Certification
2	35 (24.65%)	MCP
3	31 (21.83%)	MCSE
4	25 (17.61%)	MCSA
5	24 (16.90%)	CCNA
5	24 (16.90%)	Cisco Certification
6	21 (14.79%)	Security Cleared
7	20 (14.08%)	SC Cleared
7	20 (14.08%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8	18 (12.68%)	Degree
9	12 (8.45%)	CCAA
9	12 (8.45%)	Citrix Certification
10	8 (5.63%)	MCTS
11	6 (4.23%)	Master's Degree
11	6 (4.23%)	MCITP
12	5 (3.52%)	ITIL Certification
13	4 (2.82%)	AWS Certification
13	4 (2.82%)	CISSP
14	3 (2.11%)	CCNP
15	1 (0.70%)	A+ Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	14 (9.86%)	SLA
2	4 (2.82%)	Cyber Essentials
2	4 (2.82%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS
2	4 (2.82%)	ISO/IEC 27001
2	4 (2.82%)	PCI DSS

System Software
1	99 (69.72%)	Active Directory
2	60 (42.25%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	32 (22.54%)	Hyper-V
4	30 (21.13%)	VMware ESXi
5	17 (11.97%)	Terminal Services
6	11 (7.75%)	vSphere
6	11 (7.75%)	XenApp
6	11 (7.75%)	XenDesktop
7	6 (4.23%)	Forefront TMG
8	4 (2.82%)	Microsoft App-V
9	3 (2.11%)	VMware Workstation
10	1 (0.70%)	Terminal Server
10	1 (0.70%)	Virtual Machines

Systems Management
1	14 (9.86%)	SCCM
1	14 (9.86%)	WSUS
2	8 (5.63%)	Opscode Chef
2	8 (5.63%)	SCOM
3	6 (4.23%)	Puppet
4	5 (3.52%)	Microsoft Intune
5	4 (2.82%)	Backup Exec
5	4 (2.82%)	BladeLogic
5	4 (2.82%)	BMC PATROL
5	4 (2.82%)	SCOrch
6	3 (2.11%)	vCenter Server
7	2 (1.41%)	Ansible
7	2 (1.41%)	cPanel
7	2 (1.41%)	Plesk
7	2 (1.41%)	Terraform
8	1 (0.70%)	Cisco CUCM

Vendors
1	77 (54.23%)	Microsoft
2	70 (49.30%)	VMware
3	50 (35.21%)	Cisco
4	46 (32.39%)	Citrix
5	22 (15.49%)	HP
6	16 (11.27%)	CheckPoint
7	13 (9.15%)	SonicWALL
8	11 (7.75%)	Oracle
9	8 (5.63%)	Blue Coat
9	8 (5.63%)	BMC
9	8 (5.63%)	Dell
9	8 (5.63%)	Juniper
9	8 (5.63%)	Veeam
10	6 (4.23%)	CA
10	6 (4.23%)	Fortinet
10	6 (4.23%)	IBM
10	6 (4.23%)	Palo Alto
10	6 (4.23%)	Xerox
11	5 (3.52%)	Red Hat
12	4 (2.82%)	Apple