The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DHCP over the 3 months to 20 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 Manchester 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 64 76 61
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -15
Contract jobs citing DHCP 6 8 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.617% 0.657% 0.682%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.769% 3.540% 5.738%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
Average daily rate £213 £325 £208
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.61% +56.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £217 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £325 £276
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £340 £275
% change year-on-year
-19.11% +23.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Average hourly rate £20.00 £14.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -30.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £18.00 £16.88
% change year-on-year
-1.38% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
104 226 122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 10.70% 18.57% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 66 37
Average daily rate £263 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £163 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £341 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 16
Average hourly rate £17.42 £22.00 £14.24
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.81% +54.49%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.75 £35.00 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
DHCP
North West

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester DHCP Hourly Rate Trend

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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 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
Salford -2 1 - -
Stockport - - - - 4
Bolton - - - - 2
Bury - - - -
Oldham - - - - 1
Rochdale - - - -
Sale - - - -
DHCP
North West

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 20 (100.00%) DNS
2 14 (70.00%) MS Exchange
2 14 (70.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (60.00%) Windows
4 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 8 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
5 7 (35.00%) MS Excel
5 7 (35.00%) Windows XP
5 7 (35.00%) ITIL
5 7 (35.00%) Exchange Server 2007
6 6 (30.00%) Windows 7
6 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
7 5 (25.00%) LAN
7 5 (25.00%) SAN
8 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (15.00%) Citrix
8 3 (15.00%) WAN
8 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (10.00%) Cisco
9 2 (10.00%) MS Office
9 2 (10.00%) C
9 2 (10.00%) Blackberry
9 2 (10.00%) VMware
10 1 (5.000%) VMware ESX
10 1 (5.000%) Maximo
10 1 (5.000%) Symposium
10 1 (5.000%) ACSA
10 1 (5.000%) MCTS
10 1 (5.000%) MCITP

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (5.000%) COM
Application Platforms
1 14 (70.00%) MS Exchange
2 8 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 7 (35.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 6 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (5.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (5.000%) CMS
5 1 (5.000%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 7 (35.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) DNS
2 8 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (25.00%) LAN
3 5 (25.00%) SAN
4 3 (15.00%) WAN
5 1 (5.000%) Symposium
5 1 (5.000%) VLAN
5 1 (5.000%) 3G
5 1 (5.000%) Firewall
5 1 (5.000%) Wireless
5 1 (5.000%) VoIP
5 1 (5.000%) Ethernet
5 1 (5.000%) HTTP
5 1 (5.000%) VPN
5 1 (5.000%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (5.000%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Customer Support Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (20.00%) Customer Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) Help Desk Support
5 1 (5.000%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Network Administrator
5 1 (5.000%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Active Directory Specialist
5 1 (5.000%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Avaya Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Desktop Support
5 1 (5.000%) Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Administrator
5 1 (5.000%) Systems Support
5 1 (5.000%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.000%) iPhone
2 1 (5.000%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (60.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows XP
3 6 (30.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.000%) Linux
5 1 (5.000%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) ITIL
2 1 (5.000%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) C
2 1 (5.000%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.000%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) ACSA
1 1 (5.000%) MCTS
1 1 (5.000%) MCITP
1 1 (5.000%) MCP
1 1 (5.000%) MCSE
1 1 (5.000%) CCNP
1 1 (5.000%) CCNA
1 1 (5.000%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.000%) VMware ESX
2 1 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) DameWare
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Citrix
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.000%) Remedy
4 1 (5.000%) HP
4 1 (5.000%) Nortel
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle
4 1 (5.000%) Avaya
4 1 (5.000%) NetApp
4 1 (5.000%) Lotus
4 1 (5.000%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.000%) Infoblox