Kent DHCP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) skills within the Kent region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited DHCP over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Location Aberdeen Ascot Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Coventry Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Romford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	51
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	10	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	9.615 %	2.479 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£343
% change on same period last year	-12.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.50	£12.67
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£13.67
% change on same period last year	+9.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.50	£14.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.36	£26.65
% change on same period last year	-16.08 %
Communications & Networking Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	104	121
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.127 %
Daily rates quoted	9	18
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£236
Average daily rate	£304	£251
% change on same period last year	+21.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£266
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.86	£19.97
Average hourly rate	£24.38	£21.12
% change on same period last year	+15.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.90	£22.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.60	£28.49
% change on same period last year	-10.13 %
DHCP South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

DHCP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DHCP across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DHCP across the Kent region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DHCP across the Kent region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DHCP across the Kent region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing DHCP within the Kent region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Canterbury	-	1	-	-
Maidstone	-	1	-	-

DHCP South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 12 (85.71 %) DNS 2 11 (78.57 %) Active Directory 2 11 (78.57 %) Windows 3 8 (57.14 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (57.14 %) Microsoft 4 7 (50.00 %) SQL Server 5 5 (35.71 %) SQL 5 5 (35.71 %) WINS 5 5 (35.71 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3 (21.43 %) Health 6 3 (21.43 %) Avaya 6 3 (21.43 %) SAN 6 3 (21.43 %) MS Exchange 6 3 (21.43 %) Unix 7 2 (14.29 %) Oracle

7 2 (14.29 %) AIX 7 2 (14.29 %) Windows NT 7 2 (14.29 %) Windows XP 7 2 (14.29 %) HTTP 7 2 (14.29 %) NFS 7 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 7 2 (14.29 %) IBM 7 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (14.29 %) VERITAS 7 2 (14.29 %) Perl 7 2 (14.29 %) Migration 7 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 7 2 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 2 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 2 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (21.43 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 2 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (7.143 %) GroupWise	Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 12 (85.71 %) DNS 2 8 (57.14 %) TCP/IP 3 5 (35.71 %) WINS 4 3 (21.43 %) SAN 5 2 (14.29 %) HTTP 6 1 (7.143 %) Network Security 6 1 (7.143 %) Kerberos 6 1 (7.143 %) LAN 6 1 (7.143 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g 2 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 3 (21.43 %) Health	Job Titles 1 5 (35.71 %) Server Engineer 2 3 (21.43 %) Support Analyst 2 3 (21.43 %) Analyst 2 3 (21.43 %) Network Engineer 3 2 (14.29 %) Desktop Support 3 2 (14.29 %) Systems Engineer 3 2 (14.29 %) Server Support 3 2 (14.29 %) Consultant 3 2 (14.29 %) Network Support 3 2 (14.29 %) Technical Consultant 4 1 (7.143 %) Desktop Analyst 4 1 (7.143 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (7.143 %) Desktop Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) Informatics 1 1 (7.143 %) Fat Client 1 1 (7.143 %) Clustering 1 1 (7.143 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 11 (78.57 %) Windows 2 5 (35.71 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (21.43 %) Unix 4 2 (14.29 %) AIX 4 2 (14.29 %) Windows NT 4 2 (14.29 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (14.29 %) Migration 2 1 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 5 (35.71 %) SQL 2 2 (14.29 %) Perl
System Software 1 11 (78.57 %) Active Directory 2 2 (14.29 %) NFS 3 1 (7.143 %) NetBackup 3 1 (7.143 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (7.143 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (7.143 %) NDS	Vendors 1 8 (57.14 %) Microsoft 2 3 (21.43 %) Avaya 3 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 3 2 (14.29 %) IBM 3 2 (14.29 %) VERITAS 4 1 (7.143 %) Symantec 4 1 (7.143 %) Novell 4 1 (7.143 %) Citrix