The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DHCP over the 3 months to 19 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 Oxford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 25 34 21
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -13
Contract jobs citing DHCP 8 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 3.738% 0.645% 2.841%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.18% 5.405% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £340 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £340 £278
% change year-on-year
-19.11% +22.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
Average hourly rate £13.75 - £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £18.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-1.38% +5.88%
All Communications & Networking
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
44 37 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 20.56% 11.94% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 11 4
Average daily rate £300 £350 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +0.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £238 £120
10% offered a daily rate of more than £364 £370 £353
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 10
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £11.35 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.95 £14.60 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
DHCP
Oxfordshire

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford DHCP Hourly Rate Trend

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 23 (92.00%) DNS
2 21 (84.00%) TCP/IP
3 18 (72.00%) Windows
4 12 (48.00%) Cisco
5 10 (40.00%) Windows XP
5 10 (40.00%) Firewall
6 9 (36.00%) VMware
6 9 (36.00%) Altiris
6 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
8 7 (28.00%) Degree
9 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
9 6 (24.00%) NetWare
9 6 (24.00%) UNIX
10 5 (20.00%) MS Office
11 4 (16.00%) ITIL
11 4 (16.00%) Windows 2000
12 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
12 3 (12.00%) SQL
12 3 (12.00%) VB
12 3 (12.00%) WSH
12 3 (12.00%) MS Exchange
12 3 (12.00%) CCNA
12 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (12.00%) Tivoli
12 3 (12.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (12.00%) Nagios
12 3 (12.00%) vSphere
12 3 (12.00%) SharePoint 2010

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 3 (12.00%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (12.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (12.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 3 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 23 (92.00%) DNS
2 21 (84.00%) TCP/IP
3 10 (40.00%) Firewall
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (8.000%) IP Telephony
5 2 (8.000%) VLAN
5 2 (8.000%) MPLS
5 2 (8.000%) LAN
5 2 (8.000%) PBX
5 2 (8.000%) VoIP
5 2 (8.000%) WAN
5 2 (8.000%) VPN
General
1 2 (8.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Administrator
2 8 (32.00%) IT Support
2 8 (32.00%) Analyst
2 8 (32.00%) Support Analyst
3 6 (24.00%) Network Administrator
4 5 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Support
5 3 (12.00%) Network Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Windows Administrator
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (12.00%) Technical Support Analyst
6 2 (8.000%) Telecoms Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (4.000%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (4.000%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (4.000%) Help Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) Handset
2 1 (4.000%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 9 (36.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (24.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (24.00%) NetWare
4 6 (24.00%) UNIX
5 4 (16.00%) Windows 2000
6 3 (12.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.00%) ITIL
2 3 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (12.00%) Migration
3 1 (4.000%) Service Management
3 1 (4.000%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) SQL
1 3 (12.00%) VB
2 1 (4.000%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) CCNA
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) vSphere
2 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (12.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (12.00%) Nagios
1 3 (12.00%) SCCM
1 3 (12.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Cisco
2 9 (36.00%) VMware
2 9 (36.00%) Altiris
3 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (8.000%) Blue Coat
4 2 (8.000%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.000%) F5
4 2 (8.000%) Riverbed
4 2 (8.000%) Juniper
4 2 (8.000%) CheckPoint