The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 47 56 55
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -1
Contract jobs citing DHCP 29 12 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 3.893% 1.348% 0.319%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.48% 10.00% 3.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 1
Average daily rate £250 £245 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.04% -36.77%
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
176 120 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 23.62% 13.48% 9.425%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 57 21
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £235 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £350 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 12
Average hourly rate £34.75 £13.50 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+157.40% -31.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £30.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
DHCP
West Yorkshire

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds DHCP Hourly Rate Trend

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 32 (100.00%) DNS
2 29 (90.63%) TCP/IP
3 27 (84.38%) Linux
4 25 (78.13%) SSL
5 23 (71.88%) Web Services
5 23 (71.88%) Python
5 23 (71.88%) Load Balancing
5 23 (71.88%) Amazon AWS
5 23 (71.88%) Bash shell
6 21 (65.63%) Client/Server
7 20 (62.50%) C++
7 20 (62.50%) PHP
7 20 (62.50%) Ruby
8 19 (59.38%) Puppet
9 18 (56.25%) Apache
10 17 (53.13%) MySQL
10 17 (53.13%) Oracle
10 17 (53.13%) Configuration Management
10 17 (53.13%) Telecoms
10 17 (53.13%) MongoDB
10 17 (53.13%) Node.js
10 17 (53.13%) Test Automation
10 17 (53.13%) nginx
10 17 (53.13%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (53.13%) Amazon S3
10 17 (53.13%) Kanban
10 17 (53.13%) Redis
10 17 (53.13%) Route 53
10 17 (53.13%) Amazon RDS
11 16 (50.00%) Capacity Management

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 23 (71.88%) Web Services
2 17 (53.13%) Node.js
3 1 (3.125%) POSIX
3 1 (3.125%) LAMP
3 1 (3.125%) .NET
3 1 (3.125%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 23 (71.88%) Amazon AWS
2 18 (56.25%) Apache
3 17 (53.13%) nginx
3 17 (53.13%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (53.13%) Amazon S3
3 17 (53.13%) Route 53
4 3 (9.375%) MS Exchange
5 2 (6.250%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (100.00%) DNS
2 29 (90.63%) TCP/IP
3 25 (78.13%) SSL
4 14 (43.75%) Internet
5 11 (34.38%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (12.50%) SSH
7 3 (9.375%) SAN
8 2 (6.250%) HTTP
8 2 (6.250%) Firewall
9 1 (3.125%) BIG-IP
9 1 (3.125%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (3.125%) LAN
9 1 (3.125%) WAN
9 1 (3.125%) SMTP
9 1 (3.125%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (53.13%) MySQL
1 17 (53.13%) MongoDB
1 17 (53.13%) Redis
1 17 (53.13%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.375%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.250%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.125%) Data Mining
4 1 (3.125%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.125%) SimpleDB
4 1 (3.125%) Couchbase
General
1 17 (53.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Support Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 3 (9.375%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) Customer Support Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (6.250%) Customer Engineer
5 2 (6.250%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (6.250%) Administrator
6 1 (3.125%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) Server Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) Graduate
6 1 (3.125%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.125%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.125%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (65.63%) Client/Server
2 1 (3.125%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 27 (84.38%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows
3 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (6.250%) Windows XP
3 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (6.250%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.125%) Debian
4 1 (3.125%) CentOS
4 1 (3.125%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.125%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) Load Balancing
2 17 (53.13%) Configuration Management
2 17 (53.13%) Kanban
2 17 (53.13%) Test Automation
3 16 (50.00%) Capacity Management
3 16 (50.00%) Incident Management
4 11 (34.38%) Security Testing
5 6 (18.75%) Performance Testing
6 3 (9.375%) TDD
7 1 (3.125%) Network Design
7 1 (3.125%) Project Management
7 1 (3.125%) ITIL
7 1 (3.125%) Network Load Balancing
7 1 (3.125%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.125%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) Python
1 23 (71.88%) Bash shell
2 20 (62.50%) Ruby
2 20 (62.50%) C++
2 20 (62.50%) PHP
3 16 (50.00%) Java
3 16 (50.00%) Perl
4 2 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.125%) MCP
1 1 (3.125%) MCSE
1 1 (3.125%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (3.125%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (3.125%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.125%) XenServer
3 1 (3.125%) vSphere
3 1 (3.125%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 19 (59.38%) Puppet
2 1 (3.125%) Nagios
2 1 (3.125%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 17 (53.13%) Oracle
2 10 (31.25%) Percona
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (9.375%) VMware
5 2 (6.250%) HP
5 2 (6.250%) Cisco
6 1 (3.125%) IBM
6 1 (3.125%) Dell
6 1 (3.125%) Citrix
6 1 (3.125%) Juniper
6 1 (3.125%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.125%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.125%) Brocade
6 1 (3.125%) Syncsort
6 1 (3.125%) F5
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