The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DHCP over the 3 months to 21 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 Bristol 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 44 58 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing DHCP 6 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 1.128% 0.359% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.091% 2.521% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £288 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £278 £450 £273
% change year-on-year
-38.33% +65.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £20.50 £21.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.38% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £19.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-18.42% -28.30%
All Communications & Networking
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
66 119 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 12.41% 14.23% 9.340%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 72 18
Average daily rate £300 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £475 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 8
Average hourly rate £20.50 £21.25 £24.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% -14.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £16.50 £7.39
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £41.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
DHCP
South West

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol DHCP Hourly Rate Trend

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
2 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (80.00%) VMware
4 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (70.00%) TCP/IP
5 6 (60.00%) LAN
6 5 (50.00%) WAN
7 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
7 4 (40.00%) Firewall
7 4 (40.00%) HP
7 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (30.00%) Change Control
8 3 (30.00%) ProCurve
8 3 (30.00%) Network Security
8 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
8 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
8 3 (30.00%) NetApp
8 3 (30.00%) Internet
9 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
9 2 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
9 2 (20.00%) Project Management
9 2 (20.00%) Siemens
9 2 (20.00%) Veritas
9 2 (20.00%) Citrix
9 2 (20.00%) MS Office
9 2 (20.00%) ITIL
9 2 (20.00%) SLA
9 2 (20.00%) DameWare

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
2 7 (70.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (60.00%) LAN
4 5 (50.00%) WAN
5 4 (40.00%) Firewall
6 3 (30.00%) Network Security
6 3 (30.00%) Internet
7 1 (10.00%) VoIP
7 1 (10.00%) VPN
7 1 (10.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Help Desk Assistant
3 1 (10.00%) IT Assistant
3 1 (10.00%) Help Desk Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (10.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Change Control
2 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
3 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (10.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (10.00%) MCTS
1 1 (10.00%) MCITP
1 1 (10.00%) MCP
1 1 (10.00%) MCSE
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) XenApp
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (10.00%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) DameWare
2 1 (10.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (10.00%) WSUS
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (10.00%) SCOM
2 1 (10.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) VMware
2 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) HP
4 3 (30.00%) ProCurve
4 3 (30.00%) NetApp
5 2 (20.00%) Siemens
5 2 (20.00%) Veritas
5 2 (20.00%) Citrix
6 1 (10.00%) Dell
6 1 (10.00%) Juniper
6 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
6 1 (10.00%) Symantec
6 1 (10.00%) McAfee