The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DHCP 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 Chester 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing DHCP 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 2.920% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £240 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £284 £500 £270
% change year-on-year
-43.25% +85.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £20.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-23.75% -24.52%
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
28 23 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 20.44% 20.00% 7.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 7
Average daily rate £270 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £170 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £425 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
Average hourly rate £16.60 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
DHCP
Cheshire

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester DHCP Hourly Rate Trend

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (85.71%) SCCM
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (71.43%) SCOM
3 5 (71.43%) Clustering
3 5 (71.43%) ITIL
3 5 (71.43%) Citrix
3 5 (71.43%) SAN
3 5 (71.43%) Windows 2000
3 5 (71.43%) Windows NT
3 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
4 4 (57.14%) HP
4 4 (57.14%) Migration
4 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
5 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
6 1 (14.29%) VLAN
6 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (14.29%) FMCG
6 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (14.29%) Dell
6 1 (14.29%) SQL
6 1 (14.29%) SSL
6 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
6 1 (14.29%) LAN
6 1 (14.29%) WAN

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) SMTP
3 1 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) SNMP
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
1 4 (57.14%) Wintel Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Wintel Specialist
1 4 (57.14%) Wintel Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Wintel Server Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (71.43%) Windows 2000
3 5 (71.43%) Windows NT
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) SCCM
2 5 (71.43%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Citrix
3 4 (57.14%) HP
4 1 (14.29%) Dell
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft