The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DHCP over the 3 months to 17 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 England 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 190 190 214
Rank change year-on-year
0 +24
Contract jobs citing DHCP 471 508 455
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 1.075% 0.957% 0.809%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.464% 6.113% 6.148%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 229 189
Average daily rate £315 £340 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.35% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £178 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £350 £275
% change year-on-year
-21.42% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 62 74
Average hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% -12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.55 £12.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.78 £33.15 £37.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.25 £18.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-4.16% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6310 8310 7401
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.41% 15.66% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3257 3820 3437
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.07% +0.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £210 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £499 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-4.54% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 495 585 749
Average hourly rate £24.50 £24.38 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.51% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

England 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 England region.

England DHCP Hourly Rate Trend

DHCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DHCP across the England region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

England DHCP Hourly Rate Histogram

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 England region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London -40 186 £400 +18.51% 64
South East +20 91 £220 -32.30% 44
Yorkshire +41 57 £270 +10.20% 8
East of England +48 55 £350 +37.25% 12
North West +22 26 £250 +31.57% 13
South West -3 21 £353 -29.50% 9
West Midlands +25 18 £228 -17.27% 12
East Midlands -3 14 £258 +14.44% 8
North East +2 2 £295 -7.45% 3
Midlands - 2 £325 -
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 814 (93.35%) DNS
2 618 (70.87%) Windows
3 492 (56.42%) Active Directory
4 366 (41.97%) TCP/IP
5 360 (41.28%) VMware
6 347 (39.79%) Microsoft
7 321 (36.81%) Windows Server 2008
8 300 (34.40%) MS Exchange
9 281 (32.22%) Windows Server 2003
10 238 (27.29%) Cisco
11 236 (27.06%) Firewall
12 229 (26.26%) Citrix
13 217 (24.89%) SAN
14 214 (24.54%) VMware Infrastructure
15 197 (22.59%) HP
15 197 (22.59%) Linux
16 183 (20.99%) LAN
17 181 (20.76%) ITIL
18 173 (19.84%) Exchange Server 2010
19 170 (19.50%) WAN
20 167 (19.15%) Windows XP
21 139 (15.94%) MS Office
22 138 (15.83%) Windows 7
23 128 (14.68%) VPN
24 122 (13.99%) Microsoft Certification
25 111 (12.73%) Finance
26 110 (12.61%) SQL
27 106 (12.16%) SCCM
28 105 (12.04%) UNIX
29 103 (11.81%) Cisco Certification

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 27 (3.096%) Web Services
2 21 (2.408%) Middleware
3 17 (1.950%) Node.js
4 15 (1.720%) WebSphere
5 9 (1.032%) HTML
5 9 (1.032%) COM
6 7 (0.803%) Application Packaging
7 5 (0.573%) JDBC
8 4 (0.459%) CGI
8 4 (0.459%) CSS
9 3 (0.344%) .NET
9 3 (0.344%) WSH
10 2 (0.229%) ADSI
10 2 (0.229%) ASP
10 2 (0.229%) Flash
10 2 (0.229%) LAMP
11 1 (0.115%) Gearman
11 1 (0.115%) FIX Protocol
11 1 (0.115%) Oracle Fusion
11 1 (0.115%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 300 (34.40%) MS Exchange
2 173 (19.84%) Exchange Server 2010
3 103 (11.81%) Exchange Server 2007
4 93 (10.67%) Exchange Server 2003
5 82 (9.404%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 74 (8.486%) Apache
7 71 (8.142%) SharePoint
8 58 (6.651%) IIS
9 36 (4.128%) Tomcat
10 32 (3.670%) Amazon AWS
11 23 (2.638%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (2.294%) SharePoint 2010
13 19 (2.179%) nginx
14 18 (2.064%) Lync
15 17 (1.950%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.950%) Route 53
16 16 (1.835%) Exchange Server 2013
17 15 (1.720%) SharePoint Server
18 12 (1.376%) WebLogic
19 8 (0.917%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 139 (15.94%) MS Office
2 97 (11.12%) MS Excel
3 11 (1.261%) Office 365
4 8 (0.917%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.803%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.344%) MS PowerPoint
6 3 (0.344%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.115%) Google Apps
7 1 (0.115%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.115%) QuarkXPress
Business Applications
1 9 (1.032%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.688%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.573%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.115%) Maximo
4 1 (0.115%) assyst
4 1 (0.115%) Oracle CRM
Communications & Networking
1 814 (93.35%) DNS
2 366 (41.97%) TCP/IP
3 236 (27.06%) Firewall
4 217 (24.89%) SAN
5 183 (20.99%) LAN
6 170 (19.50%) WAN
7 128 (14.68%) VPN
8 84 (9.633%) VoIP
8 84 (9.633%) Internet
9 65 (7.454%) MPLS
10 63 (7.225%) Wireless
11 61 (6.995%) SSL
12 52 (5.963%) OSPF
12 52 (5.963%) VLAN
13 51 (5.849%) Cisco ASA
14 48 (5.505%) NAS
14 48 (5.505%) BGP
15 47 (5.390%) SMTP
16 46 (5.275%) SNMP
17 44 (5.046%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (8.945%) SQL Server
2 39 (4.472%) MySQL
3 37 (4.243%) SQL Server 2008
4 17 (1.950%) MongoDB
4 17 (1.950%) Redis
4 17 (1.950%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (1.720%) Oracle 11g
6 14 (1.606%) SQL Server 2005
7 8 (0.917%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (0.917%) Oracle 10g
8 7 (0.803%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (0.688%) SQL Server 2000
10 5 (0.573%) Oracle Exadata
11 3 (0.344%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.115%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.115%) SimpleDB
12 1 (0.115%) EDRMS
12 1 (0.115%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.115%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.115%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (1.261%) MSI
2 10 (1.147%) Git (software)
3 9 (1.032%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.917%) Hudson
4 8 (0.917%) ClearCase
5 7 (0.803%) JIRA
6 4 (0.459%) Trac
6 4 (0.459%) Subversion
7 3 (0.344%) ClearQuest
8 2 (0.229%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.229%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.229%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.115%) JUnit
9 1 (0.115%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.115%) Maven
9 1 (0.115%) Bugzilla
9 1 (0.115%) Valgrind
General
1 111 (12.73%) Finance
2 66 (7.569%) Telecoms
3 43 (4.931%) Banking
4 29 (3.326%) Back Office
5 25 (2.867%) Legal
6 21 (2.408%) Publishing
7 16 (1.835%) Investment Banking
8 10 (1.147%) Retail
8 10 (1.147%) Advertising
9 8 (0.917%) Law
10 5 (0.573%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.344%) Electronics
11 3 (0.344%) Online Betting
12 2 (0.229%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.229%) Games
13 1 (0.115%) Billing
13 1 (0.115%) Local Government
13 1 (0.115%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.115%) Automotive
13 1 (0.115%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 158 (18.12%) Analyst
2 125 (14.33%) Support Engineer
3 103 (11.81%) Administrator
4 85 (9.748%) 3rd Line Support
5 79 (9.060%) Support Analyst
6 70 (8.028%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 68 (7.798%) Systems Administrator
8 55 (6.307%) 2nd Line Support
9 51 (5.849%) IT Support
10 50 (5.734%) Desktop Support
11 38 (4.358%) Network Engineer
12 36 (4.128%) Consultant
13 35 (4.014%) Desktop Engineer
13 35 (4.014%) Linux Engineer
14 32 (3.670%) Server Engineer
14 32 (3.670%) Architect
15 30 (3.440%) Linux Administrator
16 29 (3.326%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
17 28 (3.211%) Desktop Support Engineer
18 26 (2.982%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 98 (11.24%) Clustering
2 91 (10.44%) Blackberry
3 21 (2.408%) Client/Server
4 20 (2.294%) EqualLogic
5 18 (2.064%) PKI
6 16 (1.835%) iPhone
7 14 (1.606%) iPad
8 13 (1.491%) Fat Client
8 13 (1.491%) Thin Client
9 11 (1.261%) Replication
10 10 (1.147%) Video Conferencing
10 10 (1.147%) Hedge funds
11 9 (1.032%) Open Source
12 8 (0.917%) Derivative
13 7 (0.803%) PaaS
13 7 (0.803%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.803%) Cryptography
13 7 (0.803%) IaaS
14 6 (0.688%) NHS
15 5 (0.573%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 618 (70.87%) Windows
2 321 (36.81%) Windows Server 2008
3 281 (32.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 197 (22.59%) Linux
5 167 (19.15%) Windows XP
6 138 (15.83%) Windows 7
7 105 (12.04%) UNIX
8 66 (7.569%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 45 (5.161%) Solaris
10 35 (4.014%) Windows Vista
11 30 (3.440%) Mac OS X
12 28 (3.211%) Windows 2000 Server
13 25 (2.867%) Windows Server 2012
14 23 (2.638%) Windows 2000
15 20 (2.294%) NetWare
16 16 (1.835%) Windows 8
17 14 (1.606%) VMS
18 13 (1.491%) CentOS
19 12 (1.376%) AIX
20 10 (1.147%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (20.76%) ITIL
2 77 (8.830%) Migration
3 65 (7.454%) Disaster Recovery
4 52 (5.963%) Configuration Management
4 52 (5.963%) Load Balancing
5 46 (5.275%) Project Management
6 41 (4.702%) Service Delivery
7 39 (4.472%) Change Management
8 35 (4.014%) Incident Management
9 29 (3.326%) PRINCE2
10 24 (2.752%) Business Continuity
10 24 (2.752%) Capacity Planning
11 22 (2.523%) Capacity Management
11 22 (2.523%) Service Management
12 21 (2.408%) Network Management
13 19 (2.179%) Change Control
13 19 (2.179%) Network Load Balancing
14 18 (2.064%) Test Automation
15 17 (1.950%) Kanban
16 16 (1.835%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 110 (12.61%) SQL
2 81 (9.289%) PowerShell
3 80 (9.174%) Perl
4 51 (5.849%) Shell Script
5 49 (5.619%) C
6 42 (4.817%) Bash shell
7 41 (4.702%) Python
8 38 (4.358%) Java
9 25 (2.867%) VB
10 23 (2.638%) PHP
10 23 (2.638%) C++
11 22 (2.523%) VBScript
11 22 (2.523%) Ruby
12 6 (0.688%) Korn
13 5 (0.573%) AWK
13 5 (0.573%) JavaScript
13 5 (0.573%) sed
14 4 (0.459%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.344%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.229%) C#
Qualifications
1 122 (13.99%) Microsoft Certification
2 103 (11.81%) Cisco Certification
3 77 (8.830%) Security Cleared
4 76 (8.716%) MCSE
5 55 (6.307%) CCNP
6 54 (6.193%) CCNA
7 50 (5.734%) Degree
8 36 (4.128%) SC Cleared
9 32 (3.670%) DV Cleared
10 27 (3.096%) MCITP
11 24 (2.752%) MCP
12 22 (2.523%) RHCE
13 18 (2.064%) CCIE
14 14 (1.606%) MCSA
14 14 (1.606%) Citrix Certification
14 14 (1.606%) JNCIP
15 12 (1.376%) CCA
16 11 (1.261%) CCEA
16 11 (1.261%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 10 (1.147%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (5.849%) SLA
2 14 (1.606%) QA
3 7 (0.803%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.344%) Solvency II
4 3 (0.344%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.229%) COBIT
System Software
1 492 (56.42%) Active Directory
2 214 (24.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 83 (9.518%) vSphere
4 76 (8.716%) XenApp
5 63 (7.225%) VMware ESX
6 48 (5.505%) Hyper-V
7 27 (3.096%) XenDesktop
7 27 (3.096%) Terminal Services
8 23 (2.638%) NFS
8 23 (2.638%) XenServer
9 20 (2.294%) VMware ESXi
10 17 (1.950%) ISA Server
11 16 (1.835%) Oracle RAC
12 14 (1.606%) ProxySG
12 14 (1.606%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 13 (1.491%) UAG
14 12 (1.376%) Microsoft App-V
15 11 (1.261%) Citrix Presentation Server
16 10 (1.147%) Postfix
16 10 (1.147%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 106 (12.16%) SCCM
2 93 (10.67%) SCOM
3 51 (5.849%) Backup Exec
4 48 (5.505%) WSUS
5 43 (4.931%) Puppet
6 32 (3.670%) NetBackup
7 27 (3.096%) HP SIM
8 25 (2.867%) Norton AntiVirus
9 19 (2.179%) EMC NetWorker
9 19 (2.179%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 17 (1.950%) McAfee ePO
11 16 (1.835%) Nagios
12 15 (1.720%) Cisco CUCM
13 14 (1.606%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 11 (1.261%) SCVMM
15 9 (1.032%) Cisco UCCX
15 9 (1.032%) Cobbler
16 8 (0.917%) Tivoli
17 7 (0.803%) OpenView
17 7 (0.803%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 360 (41.28%) VMware
2 347 (39.79%) Microsoft
3 238 (27.29%) Cisco
4 229 (26.26%) Citrix
5 197 (22.59%) HP
6 91 (10.44%) Red Hat
7 85 (9.748%) Juniper
7 85 (9.748%) Symantec
8 74 (8.486%) Oracle
9 61 (6.995%) EMC
10 57 (6.537%) CheckPoint
11 56 (6.422%) NetApp
12 54 (6.193%) Dell
13 48 (5.505%) F5
14 41 (4.702%) Altiris
15 37 (4.243%) Sophos
16 31 (3.555%) McAfee
17 26 (2.982%) Blue Coat
17 26 (2.982%) Apple
18 25 (2.867%) Veritas
London
A great opportunity has arisen working for my London based client, they are looking for an infrastructure support engineer to join their busy team on a 6 month...
Computer Futures
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warrington, North West
Key skills and experience required: Experience with MS Windows 2008 R2 / 2012 ServerVirtualisation Technologies, Hyper-V. Networking - LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, Firewalls (Sonic Wall), Vlans, Natting,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 12 June 2013
Epping, Essex
Marcus Donald People are currently recruiting for a 1st-3rd Line Support Engineer to work for an outsourcing company based in Epping on a 3 month contract basis...
Marcus Donald People
Rate: £17 to £19 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013
Gloucester, South West
Infrastructure Engineer, 3rd Line Engineer,- Contract - GloucesterOur client, has an urgent requirement for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join their team-The postholder will be responsible for the...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Essex
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Rate: £14 to £15 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013
West Midlands
Coal IT Services
Rate: Up to £250 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Connectus
Rate: £18 - £21.5 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013
Warrington, North West
Computer Futures
Posted: 7 June 2013
Leeds, Pudsey, West Yorkshire, Bradford, Halifax,...
Networx Recruitment
Rate: £25,000
Posted: 29 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Connectus
Rate: £22 - £26 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Marcus Donald People
Rate: £18 to £20 per hour
Posted: 12 June 2013
Southampton, South East
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £120 - £130 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Warrington, North West
Computer Futures
Posted: 10 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £400 - £475 per annum + Market Rate
Posted: 7 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £350 - £450 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013
South East England
Rate: £150 - £200 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
City, London
Just IT Recruitment
Rate: £120 - £130 per day + Temp - Perm
Posted: 12 June 2013
Halifax, West Yorkshire
Spinnaker Red
Rate: From £280 to £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Imperial Wharf, London, United Kingdom
Matsco Solutions
Rate: Highly competitive rates
Posted: 10 June 2013
Brentford, Middlesex
Experis IT
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Essex
Logic Engagements Ltd
Posted: 12 June 2013
Bradford, Yorkshire
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £180.00 - £210.00 per day
Posted: 31 May 2013
City of London
ITHR
Rate: £320 - £350 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
Hook, South East
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £250.00 - £330.00 per day
Posted: 7 June 2013
City of London
WorldPay
Posted: 6 June 2013