The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 164 150 177
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +27
Contract jobs citing DHCP 39 68 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.611% 0.865% 0.694%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.727% 6.746% 6.820%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 33
Average daily rate £328 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.42% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £158 £155 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £458 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £289 £420 £275
% change year-on-year
-31.25% +52.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 17
Average hourly rate - £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-21.05% -20.83%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
825 1008 997
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.93% 12.82% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 686 637
Average daily rate £400 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £256 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 38 76
Average hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+98.86% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
DHCP
London

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London DHCP Daily Rate Trend

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DHCP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London DHCP Daily Rate Histogram

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London DHCP Hourly Rate Trend

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 82 (96.47%) DNS
2 69 (81.18%) Windows
3 55 (64.71%) Active Directory
4 42 (49.41%) VMware
5 35 (41.18%) MS Exchange
6 34 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 32 (37.65%) Microsoft
7 32 (37.65%) VMware Infrastructure
8 31 (36.47%) ITIL
9 29 (34.12%) Windows Server 2008
10 26 (30.59%) Cisco
11 22 (25.88%) Windows 7
12 21 (24.71%) Citrix
12 21 (24.71%) TCP/IP
13 20 (23.53%) HP
13 20 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2010
14 19 (22.35%) MS Office
14 19 (22.35%) SCCM
15 17 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
15 17 (20.00%) Windows XP
15 17 (20.00%) Firewall
16 16 (18.82%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 16 (18.82%) Exchange Server 2007
16 16 (18.82%) SCOM
16 16 (18.82%) PowerShell
17 15 (17.65%) vSphere
17 15 (17.65%) Finance
17 15 (17.65%) Symantec
17 15 (17.65%) SAN
18 14 (16.47%) VPN

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 (2.353%) Middleware
1 2 (2.353%) COM
2 1 (1.176%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.176%) XML
2 1 (1.176%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 35 (41.18%) MS Exchange
2 20 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2010
3 17 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 16 (18.82%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 16 (18.82%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (14.12%) SharePoint
6 10 (11.76%) IIS
7 7 (8.235%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (4.706%) Apache
9 3 (3.529%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (2.353%) Lync
10 2 (2.353%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (2.353%) Lotus Notes
10 2 (2.353%) Office Communications Server
11 1 (1.176%) Tomcat
11 1 (1.176%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 19 (22.35%) MS Office
2 13 (15.29%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.176%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 82 (96.47%) DNS
2 21 (24.71%) TCP/IP
3 17 (20.00%) Firewall
4 15 (17.65%) SAN
5 14 (16.47%) VPN
6 11 (12.94%) VoIP
7 9 (10.59%) WAN
7 9 (10.59%) LAN
8 8 (9.412%) Wireless
9 7 (8.235%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (8.235%) SNMP
10 6 (7.059%) Internet
10 6 (7.059%) MPLS
10 6 (7.059%) OSPF
10 6 (7.059%) FTP
10 6 (7.059%) VLAN
11 5 (5.882%) IP Telephony
11 5 (5.882%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (5.882%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (5.882%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.412%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.706%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (3.529%) MySQL
4 2 (2.353%) Oracle BI EE
4 2 (2.353%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.176%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (4.706%) MSI
2 2 (2.353%) Fiddler
General
1 15 (17.65%) Finance
2 12 (14.12%) Banking
3 7 (8.235%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.529%) Publishing
5 2 (2.353%) Retail Banking
5 2 (2.353%) Retail
5 2 (2.353%) Legal
6 1 (1.176%) Law
6 1 (1.176%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.176%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 17 (20.00%) Administrator
2 13 (15.29%) Systems Administrator
3 12 (14.12%) 2nd Line Support
4 10 (11.76%) Desktop Support
5 8 (9.412%) Support Engineer
5 8 (9.412%) Analyst
6 7 (8.235%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.882%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 5 (5.882%) Linux Administrator
7 5 (5.882%) Network Engineer
7 5 (5.882%) Support Analyst
8 4 (4.706%) Consultant
8 4 (4.706%) 1st Line Support
8 4 (4.706%) Windows Administrator
8 4 (4.706%) Firewall Engineer
8 4 (4.706%) Senior Windows Administrator
8 4 (4.706%) Windows Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.706%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 4 (4.706%) Help Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Blackberry
2 4 (4.706%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (3.529%) Clustering
4 2 (2.353%) iPad
4 2 (2.353%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.176%) CLARiiON
5 1 (1.176%) Replication
5 1 (1.176%) EqualLogic
5 1 (1.176%) Celerra
5 1 (1.176%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.176%) HP StorageWorks
Operating Systems
1 69 (81.18%) Windows
2 34 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 29 (34.12%) Windows Server 2008
4 22 (25.88%) Windows 7
5 17 (20.00%) Windows XP
6 13 (15.29%) Linux
6 13 (15.29%) Windows Vista
7 8 (9.412%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (5.882%) Windows 2000
8 5 (5.882%) Solaris
8 5 (5.882%) Mac OS X
9 4 (4.706%) Mac OS
10 3 (3.529%) Gentoo
10 3 (3.529%) Windows 2000 Server
10 3 (3.529%) CentOS
11 2 (2.353%) Windows 8
11 2 (2.353%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (2.353%) UNIX
12 1 (1.176%) Android
12 1 (1.176%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (36.47%) ITIL
2 9 (10.59%) Service Delivery
3 8 (9.412%) Service Management
4 7 (8.235%) Disaster Recovery
4 7 (8.235%) Migration
5 5 (5.882%) Incident Management
5 5 (5.882%) Network Architecture
5 5 (5.882%) Network Management
6 4 (4.706%) Project Planning
7 3 (3.529%) Workflow
7 3 (3.529%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (3.529%) PRINCE2
7 3 (3.529%) Project Management
8 2 (2.353%) Change Control
8 2 (2.353%) Software Distribution
8 2 (2.353%) Configuration Management
8 2 (2.353%) SOA
8 2 (2.353%) Problem Management
8 2 (2.353%) Load Balancing
8 2 (2.353%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.82%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.412%) VB
3 5 (5.882%) SQL
4 4 (4.706%) VBScript
5 3 (3.529%) PHP
6 2 (2.353%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.353%) Perl
7 1 (1.176%) Korn
7 1 (1.176%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 8 (9.412%) MCSE
3 8 (9.412%) Degree
4 7 (8.235%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.882%) MCDST
5 5 (5.882%) MCTS
5 5 (5.882%) MCSA
5 5 (5.882%) MCP
6 4 (4.706%) CCIE
6 4 (4.706%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.706%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.706%) JNCIE
7 2 (2.353%) CCNA
8 1 (1.176%) MCITP
8 1 (1.176%) CCDP
8 1 (1.176%) CCNP
8 1 (1.176%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.706%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.529%) SLA
2 3 (3.529%) Solvency II
3 2 (2.353%) COBIT
4 1 (1.176%) QA
System Software
1 55 (64.71%) Active Directory
2 32 (37.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (17.65%) vSphere
4 8 (9.412%) VMware ESX
4 8 (9.412%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (8.235%) Hyper-V
6 6 (7.059%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (4.706%) NFS
7 4 (4.706%) DFS Replication
8 3 (3.529%) XenDesktop
8 3 (3.529%) Terminal Services
9 2 (2.353%) ISA Server
9 2 (2.353%) XenApp
10 1 (1.176%) Veritas File System
10 1 (1.176%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (1.176%) MetaFrame
10 1 (1.176%) NDS
Systems Management
1 19 (22.35%) SCCM
2 16 (18.82%) SCOM
3 8 (9.412%) WSUS
4 6 (7.059%) Norton AntiVirus
5 4 (4.706%) FortiGate
5 4 (4.706%) Legato
5 4 (4.706%) HP Data Protector
5 4 (4.706%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (3.529%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (3.529%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 3 (3.529%) HP SIM
7 2 (2.353%) MAILsweeper
7 2 (2.353%) Tivoli
7 2 (2.353%) Tivoli Monitoring
7 2 (2.353%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 2 (2.353%) NetBackup
7 2 (2.353%) Backup Exec
8 1 (1.176%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (1.176%) SCVMM
8 1 (1.176%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 42 (49.41%) VMware
2 32 (37.65%) Microsoft
3 26 (30.59%) Cisco
4 21 (24.71%) Citrix
5 20 (23.53%) HP
6 15 (17.65%) Symantec
7 14 (16.47%) EMC
8 11 (12.94%) F5
9 10 (11.76%) Juniper
10 9 (10.59%) Sophos
11 8 (9.412%) Red Hat
12 7 (8.235%) Veritas
13 5 (5.882%) Sun
13 5 (5.882%) Dell
14 4 (4.706%) Aruba
14 4 (4.706%) McAfee
14 4 (4.706%) Polycom
14 4 (4.706%) Fortinet
14 4 (4.706%) Veeam
14 4 (4.706%) SolarWinds
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