South West DHCP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited DHCP over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bracknell Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Hove Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Romford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wirral Witham Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	93	143
Rank change on same period last year	+50
Matching contract IT job ads	49	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	6.749 %	2.854 %
Daily rates quoted	13	1
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£349
Average daily rate	£359	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£257	£356
% change on same period last year	-27.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.75	£25.94
Average hourly rate	£30.38	£26.17
% change on same period last year	+16.08 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	£26.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.52	£25.76
% change on same period last year	-8.71 %
Communications & Networking South West
Matching contract IT job ads	726	911
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.958 %	0.907 %
Daily rates quoted	203	214
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£327
Average daily rate	£335	£343
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£359
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£343
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	111	147
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£24.87
Average hourly rate	£26.91	£26.69
% change on same period last year	+0.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.83	£28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.88	£28.72
% change on same period last year	-9.87 %
DHCP England

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 South West 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 South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 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 jobs citing DHCP within the South West region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Gloucestershire	+15	18	£335	-
Dorset	+2	13	£371	-
Wiltshire	+6	8	£369	+5.65 %
Bristol	+11	4	-	-
Devon	+2	3	-	-

DHCP England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 63 (100.00 %) DNS 2 37 (58.73 %) Active Directory 3 29 (46.03 %) TCP/IP 4 28 (44.44 %) Windows 5 24 (38.10 %) HP 5 24 (38.10 %) SAN 6 22 (34.92 %) Security Cleared 7 21 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 8 20 (31.75 %) UNIX 8 20 (31.75 %) Clustering 9 19 (30.16 %) Microsoft 10 18 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 11 17 (26.98 %) Linux 12 16 (25.40 %) Solaris 12 16 (25.40 %) NFS

13 14 (22.22 %) HPUX 13 14 (22.22 %) VMware 14 13 (20.63 %) Firewall 14 13 (20.63 %) Backup Exec 14 13 (20.63 %) SQL 14 13 (20.63 %) DV Cleared 15 12 (19.05 %) C 15 12 (19.05 %) Perl 15 12 (19.05 %) Shell Script 15 12 (19.05 %) Service Management 16 10 (15.87 %) Government 16 10 (15.87 %) Windows XP 16 10 (15.87 %) Cisco 16 10 (15.87 %) VERITAS 17 9 (14.29 %) Citrix

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (1.587 %) CORBA	Application Platforms 1 18 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (12.70 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 6 (9.524 %) SharePoint 4 5 (7.937 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (4.762 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 3 (4.762 %) IIS 6 2 (3.175 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 6 2 (3.175 %) Lotus Notes 6 2 (3.175 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 1 (1.587 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 5 (7.937 %) MS Office 2 4 (6.349 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.587 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 63 (100.00 %) DNS 2 29 (46.03 %) TCP/IP 3 24 (38.10 %) SAN 4 13 (20.63 %) Firewall 5 9 (14.29 %) LAN 6 8 (12.70 %) VPN 7 7 (11.11 %) WAN 8 4 (6.349 %) SMS 8 4 (6.349 %) VLAN 9 3 (4.762 %) VoIP 9 3 (4.762 %) FTP 10 2 (3.175 %) SMTP 10 2 (3.175 %) LDAP 11 1 (1.587 %) Cisco ASA 11 1 (1.587 %) Cisco PIX 11 1 (1.587 %) Network Security 11 1 (1.587 %) IP Telephony 11 1 (1.587 %) HTTPS 11 1 (1.587 %) SSL 11 1 (1.587 %) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (4.762 %) SQL Server 2005 1 3 (4.762 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.587 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 10 (15.87 %) Government 2 3 (4.762 %) Aerospace 3 2 (3.175 %) Telecoms 3 2 (3.175 %) Finance 4 1 (1.587 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.587 %) Law 4 1 (1.587 %) Home Office
Job Titles 1 12 (19.05 %) Analyst 1 12 (19.05 %) Consultant 2 11 (17.46 %) Support Engineer 3 9 (14.29 %) UNIX Engineer 4 6 (9.524 %) Support Analyst 4 6 (9.524 %) Systems Support 4 6 (9.524 %) Infrastructure Consultant 5 5 (7.937 %) UNIX Consultant 5 5 (7.937 %) Systems Engineer 5 5 (7.937 %) Server Support 5 5 (7.937 %) Network Support 6 4 (6.349 %) Server Engineer 6 4 (6.349 %) Administrator 6 4 (6.349 %) Systems Administrator 6 4 (6.349 %) 3rd Line Support 6 4 (6.349 %) Systems Support Engineer 6 4 (6.349 %) Server Support Engineer 7 3 (4.762 %) Server Analyst 7 3 (4.762 %) Microsoft Consultant 7 3 (4.762 %) Infrastructure Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 20 (31.75 %) Clustering 2 3 (4.762 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.587 %) PKI 3 1 (1.587 %) SecurID 3 1 (1.587 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.587 %) Thin Client 3 1 (1.587 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 28 (44.44 %) Windows 2 21 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 20 (31.75 %) UNIX 4 17 (26.98 %) Linux 5 16 (25.40 %) Solaris 6 14 (22.22 %) HPUX 7 10 (15.87 %) Windows XP 8 8 (12.70 %) Windows 2000 9 5 (7.937 %) Windows NT 10 4 (6.349 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 3 (4.762 %) Red Hat Linux 11 3 (4.762 %) Windows Vista 12 2 (3.175 %) Tru64 12 2 (3.175 %) AIX 12 2 (3.175 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (34.92 %) Security Cleared 2 13 (20.63 %) DV Cleared 3 12 (19.05 %) Service Management 4 4 (6.349 %) Project Management 4 4 (6.349 %) SC Cleared 5 3 (4.762 %) Technical Architecture 6 2 (3.175 %) Change Management 6 2 (3.175 %) ITIL 6 2 (3.175 %) Test Scripting 7 1 (1.587 %) Network Load Balancing 7 1 (1.587 %) Release Management 7 1 (1.587 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 13 (20.63 %) SQL 2 12 (19.05 %) C 2 12 (19.05 %) Perl 2 12 (19.05 %) Shell Script 3 2 (3.175 %) VBScript 4 1 (1.587 %) Java	Qualifications 1 7 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (7.937 %) MCSE 3 4 (6.349 %) Citrix Certification 4 3 (4.762 %) Cisco Certification 4 3 (4.762 %) CCA 4 3 (4.762 %) MCP 5 2 (3.175 %) MCSA 5 2 (3.175 %) CCNA 6 1 (1.587 %) CCSE 6 1 (1.587 %) CCNP 6 1 (1.587 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (1.587 %) CCSA
System Software 1 37 (58.73 %) Active Directory 2 16 (25.40 %) NFS 3 13 (20.63 %) Backup Exec 4 9 (14.29 %) VMware ESX 5 6 (9.524 %) ISA Server 6 2 (3.175 %) NetBackup 7 1 (1.587 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 1 (1.587 %) MailMarshal 7 1 (1.587 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 5 (7.937 %) NNM 1 5 (7.937 %) CiscoWorks 1 5 (7.937 %) OpenView 1 5 (7.937 %) MOM 2 3 (4.762 %) SCCM 2 3 (4.762 %) SCOM 3 2 (3.175 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 2 (3.175 %) AutoSys 3 2 (3.175 %) WSUS 3 2 (3.175 %) Veritas Storage Foundation 4 1 (1.587 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (1.587 %) MIMEsweeper 4 1 (1.587 %) MAILsweeper
Vendors 1 24 (38.10 %) HP 2 19 (30.16 %) Microsoft 3 14 (22.22 %) VMware 4 10 (15.87 %) Cisco 4 10 (15.87 %) VERITAS 5 9 (14.29 %) Citrix 6 7 (11.11 %) Symantec 7 6 (9.524 %) IBM 8 5 (7.937 %) Sun 8 5 (7.937 %) McAfee Security 9 4 (6.349 %) Juniper 10 2 (3.175 %) Infovista 10 2 (3.175 %) Novell 10 2 (3.175 %) CheckPoint 10 2 (3.175 %) Lotus 10 2 (3.175 %) Fujitsu 11 1 (1.587 %) Blue Coat 11 1 (1.587 %) Nortel 11 1 (1.587 %) Red Hat 11 1 (1.587 %) Avaya