The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DHCP over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Edinburgh 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 58 52 58
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +6
Contract jobs citing DHCP 5 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.541% 0.847% 0.750%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.250% 6.923% 7.194%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 5
Average daily rate - £275 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.06%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £350 £278
% change year-on-year
-21.42% +26.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
80 130 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 8.649% 12.24% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 48 39
Average daily rate £318 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.28% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £215 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £433 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
Average hourly rate £9.20 £32.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-71.25% +109.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
DHCP
Scotland

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh DHCP Hourly Rate Trend

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 14 (93.33%) DNS
2 13 (86.67%) Windows
3 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
4 10 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (46.67%) VMware
5 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
5 7 (46.67%) SQL
5 7 (46.67%) Linux
6 6 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (33.33%) MS Exchange
8 4 (26.67%) LAN
8 4 (26.67%) WAN
8 4 (26.67%) Solaris
8 4 (26.67%) UNIX
8 4 (26.67%) Internet
8 4 (26.67%) Backup Exec
8 4 (26.67%) Veeam
8 4 (26.67%) WSUS
8 4 (26.67%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (26.67%) vSphere
8 4 (26.67%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (20.00%) Windows Vista
9 3 (20.00%) Samba
9 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
9 3 (20.00%) Firewall
9 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
9 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
9 3 (20.00%) MS Office

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 5 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 4 (26.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (26.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (13.33%) IIS
3 2 (13.33%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Office
1 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (93.33%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) LAN
2 4 (26.67%) WAN
2 4 (26.67%) Internet
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall
3 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (13.33%) LDAP
5 1 (6.667%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Systems Administrator
1 7 (46.67%) Administrator
2 4 (26.67%) IT Support
3 3 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Server Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) IT Administrator
5 1 (6.667%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 1 (6.667%) Network Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (6.667%) Wintel Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Blackberry
1 2 (13.33%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Windows
2 10 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (46.67%) Linux
4 6 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (26.67%) Solaris
5 4 (26.67%) UNIX
6 3 (20.00%) Windows Vista
6 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
7 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) ITIL
1 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.667%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) MCSA
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (13.33%) MCITP
2 1 (6.667%) CCNP
2 1 (6.667%) CCNA
2 1 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) vSphere
3 3 (20.00%) Samba
3 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.667%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Backup Exec
1 4 (26.67%) WSUS
2 1 (6.667%) SCCM
2 1 (6.667%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
1 7 (46.67%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) Veeam
3 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (13.33%) IBM
4 2 (13.33%) HP
4 2 (13.33%) Nortel
5 1 (6.667%) Citrix
5 1 (6.667%) Intel
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