The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DHCP over the 3 months to 22 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 Scotland 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 104 62 94
Rank change year-on-year
-42 +32
Contract jobs citing DHCP 17 43 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.686% 1.607% 0.584%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.296% 12.99% 6.226%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 5
Average daily rate £370 £350 £208
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% +68.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £236 £149
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £420 £333
UK excluding London average daily rate £278 £420 £275
% change year-on-year
-33.92% +52.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +52.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-18.42% -24.00%
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
270 331 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 10.90% 12.37% 9.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 135 73
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £240 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £427 £420 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 31 26
Average hourly rate £30.25 £27.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +44.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.16 £22.50 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £35.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Renfrewshire -8 9 £370 -11.90%
Edinburgh -6 5 - -
Glasgow -29 1 £195 -44.28%
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 47 (92.16%) Windows
2 45 (88.24%) DNS
3 36 (70.59%) Microsoft
4 27 (52.94%) Windows XP
5 25 (49.02%) Windows Server 2008
6 23 (45.10%) Windows Server 2003
7 21 (41.18%) Active Directory
8 18 (35.29%) VMware
9 16 (31.37%) MS Office
10 15 (29.41%) Cisco
10 15 (29.41%) TCP/IP
11 13 (25.49%) FTP
11 13 (25.49%) MS Exchange
11 13 (25.49%) Linux
11 13 (25.49%) SAN
11 13 (25.49%) Clustering
11 13 (25.49%) MS PowerPoint
12 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
13 11 (21.57%) Cisco IPT
13 11 (21.57%) SCCM
13 11 (21.57%) Blackberry
14 10 (19.61%) SQL
14 10 (19.61%) Solaris
15 9 (17.65%) OpenView Configuration Management
15 9 (17.65%) Citrix
15 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (13.73%) Veritas
16 7 (13.73%) IIS
16 7 (13.73%) Exchange Server 2007
16 7 (13.73%) Exchange Server 2003

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 13 (25.49%) MS Exchange
2 7 (13.73%) IIS
2 7 (13.73%) Exchange Server 2007
2 7 (13.73%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (13.73%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (7.843%) Lotus Notes
4 2 (3.922%) Apache
Applications
1 16 (31.37%) MS Office
2 13 (25.49%) MS PowerPoint
3 4 (7.843%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 45 (88.24%) DNS
2 15 (29.41%) TCP/IP
3 13 (25.49%) FTP
3 13 (25.49%) SAN
4 11 (21.57%) Cisco IPT
5 6 (11.76%) NAS
5 6 (11.76%) Internet
6 5 (9.804%) WAN
6 5 (9.804%) LAN
7 3 (5.882%) Firewall
7 3 (5.882%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (3.922%) LDAP
8 2 (3.922%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.804%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.922%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (5.882%) StarTeam
General
1 4 (7.843%) Finance
2 2 (3.922%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.961%) Marketing
3 1 (1.961%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.961%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (17.65%) Analyst
2 7 (13.73%) Systems Administrator
2 7 (13.73%) Administrator
3 5 (9.804%) Support Analyst
3 5 (9.804%) Server Engineer
4 4 (7.843%) Help Desk Support
4 4 (7.843%) IT Support
4 4 (7.843%) Wintel Engineer
5 3 (5.882%) Architect
5 3 (5.882%) Server Support
5 3 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (5.882%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (5.882%) IT Support Analyst
6 2 (3.922%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (3.922%) Service Analyst
6 2 (3.922%) Help Desk Analyst
6 2 (3.922%) Wintel Server Engineer
6 2 (3.922%) Microsoft Specialist
7 1 (1.961%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Clustering
2 11 (21.57%) Blackberry
3 2 (3.922%) Handset
3 2 (3.922%) PKI
4 1 (1.961%) SaaS
4 1 (1.961%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.961%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.961%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 47 (92.16%) Windows
2 27 (52.94%) Windows XP
3 25 (49.02%) Windows Server 2008
4 23 (45.10%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (25.49%) Linux
6 10 (19.61%) Solaris
7 6 (11.76%) Windows 7
7 6 (11.76%) AIX
8 5 (9.804%) UNIX
9 3 (5.882%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (11.76%) Software Distribution
1 6 (11.76%) Configuration Management
2 4 (7.843%) ITIL
3 3 (5.882%) Project Management
3 3 (5.882%) Incident Management
3 3 (5.882%) Network Load Balancing
3 3 (5.882%) Service Delivery
4 2 (3.922%) Migration
4 2 (3.922%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (3.922%) High Availability
5 1 (1.961%) ERP
5 1 (1.961%) Performance Testing
5 1 (1.961%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.61%) SQL
2 3 (5.882%) C
3 1 (1.961%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (7.843%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.922%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (3.922%) MCITP
4 2 (3.922%) MCSA
5 1 (1.961%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.961%) CCNP
5 1 (1.961%) CCNA
5 1 (1.961%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.922%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 7 (13.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (11.76%) XenApp
4 4 (7.843%) vSphere
5 3 (5.882%) Terminal Services
5 3 (5.882%) Samba
5 3 (5.882%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.882%) VMware ESX
6 2 (3.922%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (3.922%) ISA Server
7 1 (1.961%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (1.961%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.961%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 11 (21.57%) SCCM
2 9 (17.65%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 6 (11.76%) Netcool
3 6 (11.76%) Tivoli
4 5 (9.804%) Backup Exec
5 4 (7.843%) WSUS
5 4 (7.843%) SCOM
6 3 (5.882%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 3 (5.882%) MOM
7 1 (1.961%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 36 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 18 (35.29%) VMware
3 15 (29.41%) Cisco
4 9 (17.65%) Citrix
5 7 (13.73%) Veritas
6 6 (11.76%) IBM
7 5 (9.804%) Symantec
8 4 (7.843%) Veeam
8 4 (7.843%) McAfee
8 4 (7.843%) Lotus
9 3 (5.882%) Borland
9 3 (5.882%) Red Hat
9 3 (5.882%) Sophos
10 2 (3.922%) HP
10 2 (3.922%) Nortel
11 1 (1.961%) NetApp
11 1 (1.961%) Intel