The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DHCP 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 Bedfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 24 - 35
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing DHCP 7 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 3.684% - 2.414%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.50% - 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
Average daily rate £325 - £305
UK excluding London average daily rate £289 £420 £275
% change year-on-year
-31.25% +52.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £10.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-21.05% -20.83%
All Communications & Networking
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
40 49 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 21.05% 18.01% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 12
Average daily rate £325 £375 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +26.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £325 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
Average hourly rate £30.00 £38.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% +245.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
DHCP
East of England

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire DHCP Jobs Demand Trend

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DHCP across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire DHCP Daily Rate Trend

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DHCP across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire DHCP Hourly Rate Trend

DHCP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Bedfordshire 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton - 7 £325 -
DHCP
East of England

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing DHCP 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited DHCP.

1 16 (100.00%) Windows
1 16 (100.00%) DNS
2 11 (68.75%) IIS
3 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
4 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (50.00%) DMZ
4 8 (50.00%) SQL
4 8 (50.00%) MS Exchange
4 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (43.75%) Citrix
5 7 (43.75%) VMware
6 6 (37.50%) SAN
6 6 (37.50%) Firewall
6 6 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
6 6 (37.50%) SCOM
7 5 (31.25%) Publishing
7 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
7 5 (31.25%) Back Office
7 5 (31.25%) HP
7 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
7 5 (31.25%) FTP
7 5 (31.25%) MS Excel
7 5 (31.25%) ITIL
8 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
8 4 (25.00%) LAN
8 4 (25.00%) NetBackup
8 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (25.00%) Forefront TMG
9 3 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2010

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing DHCP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited DHCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (12.50%) COM
2 1 (6.250%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 11 (68.75%) IIS
2 8 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 6 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (6.250%) Lync
6 1 (6.250%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) MS Excel
2 2 (12.50%) Photoshop
2 2 (12.50%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) DNS
2 8 (50.00%) DMZ
3 6 (37.50%) SAN
3 6 (37.50%) Firewall
4 5 (31.25%) FTP
5 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (25.00%) LAN
6 2 (12.50%) VoIP
6 2 (12.50%) WAN
6 2 (12.50%) VPN
6 2 (12.50%) HTTP
6 2 (12.50%) Wireless
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (6.250%) NAS
7 1 (6.250%) Network Security
7 1 (6.250%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (31.25%) Publishing
1 5 (31.25%) Back Office
2 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Senior Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (12.50%) Support Technician
4 2 (12.50%) Network Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Technician
5 1 (6.250%) Web Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Wintel Support Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Wintel Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Systems Support Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Wintel Support
5 1 (6.250%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
5 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Configuration Management
1 5 (31.25%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) Change Management
2 3 (18.75%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (6.250%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (25.00%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (6.250%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.250%) XenApp
3 1 (6.250%) XenServer
3 1 (6.250%) XenDesktop
3 1 (6.250%) NFS
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) SCOM
2 4 (25.00%) NetBackup
3 3 (18.75%) WhatsUp Gold
3 3 (18.75%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (6.250%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) Citrix
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) HP
4 3 (18.75%) Symantec
5 2 (12.50%) Juniper
5 2 (12.50%) Adobe
5 2 (12.50%) Cisco
6 1 (6.250%) LANDesk