Scotland DHCP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) skills within the Scotland 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 4 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 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 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	85
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	17	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.051 %
As % of the category below	5.414 %	9.856 %
Daily rates quoted	3	13
Average minimum daily rate	£177	£351
Average daily rate	£187	£362
% change on same period last year	-48.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£198	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£342
% change on same period last year	-12.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£21.50
Average hourly rate	£42.50	£23.00
% change on same period last year	+84.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.47	£26.91
% change on same period last year	-16.49 %
Communications & Networking Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	314	487
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.414 %	0.517 %
Daily rates quoted	65	86
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£343
Average daily rate	£299	£353
% change on same period last year	-15.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	29	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.28	£21.52
Average hourly rate	£26.45	£23.70
% change on same period last year	+11.60 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.62	£25.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing DHCP across the Scotland 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 Scotland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DHCP across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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 Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 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
Aberdeen	0	10	-	-
Edinburgh	+6	6	£187	-34.01 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 26 (96.30 %) DNS 2 21 (77.78 %) Windows 3 17 (62.96 %) WINS 4 15 (55.56 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 12 (44.44 %) TCP/IP 5 12 (44.44 %) Microsoft 5 12 (44.44 %) Windows NT 6 10 (37.04 %) MS Exchange 7 9 (33.33 %) Cisco 8 8 (29.63 %) Windows XP 9 7 (25.93 %) Windows 2000 9 7 (25.93 %) Active Directory 10 6 (22.22 %) RIP 10 6 (22.22 %) MIMEsweeper 10 6 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2007

10 6 (22.22 %) VLAN 11 5 (18.52 %) Gigabit Ethernet 11 5 (18.52 %) BGP 11 5 (18.52 %) Blackberry 11 5 (18.52 %) EIGRP 11 5 (18.52 %) FDDI 11 5 (18.52 %) Finance 11 5 (18.52 %) ITIL 11 5 (18.52 %) ATM 11 5 (18.52 %) Ethernet 12 4 (14.81 %) MS Office 12 4 (14.81 %) VBScript 12 4 (14.81 %) VB 12 4 (14.81 %) Backup Exec 12 4 (14.81 %) Telecoms

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 15 (55.56 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 10 (37.04 %) MS Exchange 3 6 (22.22 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 3 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (7.407 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 2 (7.407 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (3.704 %) IIS	Applications 1 4 (14.81 %) MS Office 2 3 (11.11 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 26 (96.30 %) DNS 2 17 (62.96 %) WINS 3 12 (44.44 %) TCP/IP 4 6 (22.22 %) RIP 4 6 (22.22 %) VLAN 5 5 (18.52 %) FDDI 5 5 (18.52 %) Gigabit Ethernet 5 5 (18.52 %) BGP 5 5 (18.52 %) EIGRP 5 5 (18.52 %) Ethernet 5 5 (18.52 %) ATM 6 4 (14.81 %) Internet 7 3 (11.11 %) SMS 7 3 (11.11 %) VPN 7 3 (11.11 %) SAN 8 1 (3.704 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server
General 1 5 (18.52 %) Finance 2 4 (14.81 %) Telecoms 3 2 (7.407 %) Government 3 2 (7.407 %) Law 4 1 (3.704 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 16 (59.26 %) Analyst 2 5 (18.52 %) Support Analyst 3 4 (14.81 %) Network Analyst 4 3 (11.11 %) Technical Support Analyst 4 3 (11.11 %) Technical Analyst 4 3 (11.11 %) Cisco Engineer 4 3 (11.11 %) Desktop Support 4 3 (11.11 %) Technical Support 4 3 (11.11 %) Infrastructure Analyst 4 3 (11.11 %) Server Analyst 5 2 (7.407 %) 3rd Line Support 5 2 (7.407 %) Systems Analyst 5 2 (7.407 %) Desktop Analyst 5 2 (7.407 %) Desktop Support Analyst 6 1 (3.704 %) Server Support Analyst 6 1 (3.704 %) Cisco Network Engineer 6 1 (3.704 %) Network Engineer 6 1 (3.704 %) Server Support 6 1 (3.704 %) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (18.52 %) Blackberry 2 2 (7.407 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 21 (77.78 %) Windows 2 12 (44.44 %) Windows NT 3 8 (29.63 %) Windows XP 4 7 (25.93 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (7.407 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (18.52 %) ITIL 2 2 (7.407 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (7.407 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 4 (14.81 %) VBScript 1 4 (14.81 %) VB
Qualifications 1 2 (7.407 %) MCSE 1 2 (7.407 %) CCNP 1 2 (7.407 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (7.407 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.704 %) CCNA 2 1 (3.704 %) CCDA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (7.407 %) SLA
System Software 1 7 (25.93 %) Active Directory 2 4 (14.81 %) Backup Exec 3 3 (11.11 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (11.11 %) MetaFrame 4 2 (7.407 %) Terminal Server 5 1 (3.704 %) ISA Server	Systems Management 1 6 (22.22 %) MIMEsweeper 2 4 (14.81 %) MOM
Vendors 1 12 (44.44 %) Microsoft 2 9 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 4 (14.81 %) NetApp 4 3 (11.11 %) Citrix 4 3 (11.11 %) VMware 5 2 (7.407 %) Dell 5 2 (7.407 %) Lotus 5 2 (7.407 %) Apple 6 1 (3.704 %) BT