The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DHCP over the 3 months to 17 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 South West 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 87 72 107
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +35
Contract jobs citing DHCP 28 67 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.367% 2.022% 0.357%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.556% 12.25% 2.660%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 40 3
Average daily rate £375 £500 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +53.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £450 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £284 £500 £270
% change year-on-year
-43.25% +85.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 2
Average hourly rate £20.50 £21.25 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% -43.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £20.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-23.75% -24.52%
All Communications & Networking
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
293 547 376
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.31% 16.51% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 280 154
Average daily rate £350 £400 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +18.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £198 £240 £201
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 37 56
Average hourly rate £20.50 £27.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.45% -5.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £20.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £42.50 £40.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
DHCP
England

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Gloucestershire -3 11 £425 -15.00%
Bristol +14 6 £288 -
Wiltshire +3 5 £345 +9.52%
Somerset - 3 £200 -
Dorset -1 2 £251 +35.81%
Devon 0 1 £330 -
DHCP
England

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 58 (96.67%) DNS
2 36 (60.00%) UNIX
3 35 (58.33%) Windows
4 34 (56.67%) Linux
5 31 (51.67%) Security Cleared
6 30 (50.00%) Red Hat
7 29 (48.33%) TCP/IP
7 29 (48.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 28 (46.67%) Clustering
9 27 (45.00%) DV Cleared
10 26 (43.33%) VMware
10 26 (43.33%) C
10 26 (43.33%) Perl
10 26 (43.33%) Active Directory
11 24 (40.00%) Shell Script
12 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
13 17 (28.33%) SAN
13 17 (28.33%) Firewall
14 16 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
15 14 (23.33%) Windows Server 2008
16 12 (20.00%) Cisco
17 11 (18.33%) Solaris
18 10 (16.67%) LAN
18 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
18 10 (16.67%) vSphere
19 9 (15.00%) HP
20 8 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
20 8 (13.33%) WAN
21 7 (11.67%) Oracle Application Server
21 7 (11.67%) WebLogic

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 7 (11.67%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 7 (11.67%) WebLogic
1 7 (11.67%) Oracle Application Server
1 7 (11.67%) GlassFish
1 7 (11.67%) Windows Azure
2 6 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (10.00%) MS Exchange
3 5 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
5 3 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (3.333%) Apache
6 2 (3.333%) SharePoint
6 2 (3.333%) nginx
7 1 (1.667%) IIS
7 1 (1.667%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 5 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 3 (5.000%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.667%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 58 (96.67%) DNS
2 29 (48.33%) TCP/IP
3 17 (28.33%) SAN
3 17 (28.33%) Firewall
4 10 (16.67%) LAN
5 8 (13.33%) WAN
6 7 (11.67%) MPLS
7 6 (10.00%) Internet
8 5 (8.333%) Network Security
9 3 (5.000%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (5.000%) SMTP
9 3 (5.000%) HTTP
9 3 (5.000%) S/MIME
10 2 (3.333%) VPN
10 2 (3.333%) VoIP
10 2 (3.333%) VLAN
11 1 (1.667%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.67%) Oracle 10g
2 7 (11.67%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.333%) MySQL
4 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (3.333%) Subversion
1 2 (3.333%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (8.333%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.333%) Legal
3 1 (1.667%) Advertising
3 1 (1.667%) Marketing
3 1 (1.667%) Finance
3 1 (1.667%) Law
3 1 (1.667%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 24 (40.00%) UNIX Engineer
1 24 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) Architect
3 7 (11.67%) Analyst
3 7 (11.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 6 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.000%) Design Engineer
5 3 (5.000%) Support Analyst
5 3 (5.000%) Network Engineer
5 3 (5.000%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (5.000%) Server Support
5 3 (5.000%) Security Specialist
5 3 (5.000%) Firewall Specialist
5 3 (5.000%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.000%) Server Analyst
6 2 (3.333%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 2 (3.333%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (3.333%) Server Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 28 (46.67%) Clustering
2 7 (11.67%) PaaS
2 7 (11.67%) IaaS
3 5 (8.333%) Blackberry
4 2 (3.333%) Fat Client
4 2 (3.333%) Open Source
4 2 (3.333%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.667%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (60.00%) UNIX
2 35 (58.33%) Windows
3 34 (56.67%) Linux
4 29 (48.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (23.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 11 (18.33%) Solaris
7 8 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (5.000%) Windows XP
9 2 (3.333%) Mac OS X Server
9 2 (3.333%) FreeBSD
9 2 (3.333%) HPUX
10 1 (1.667%) SUSE
10 1 (1.667%) Ubuntu
10 1 (1.667%) Windows Vista
10 1 (1.667%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (11.67%) Load Balancing
2 6 (10.00%) ITIL
3 5 (8.333%) Change Control
4 4 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (6.667%) Scrum
5 3 (5.000%) Configuration Management
5 3 (5.000%) Service Management
6 2 (3.333%) Data Protection
6 2 (3.333%) Project Management
6 2 (3.333%) Migration
6 2 (3.333%) Business Continuity
6 2 (3.333%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (1.667%) Capacity Management
7 1 (1.667%) Software Deployment
7 1 (1.667%) Network Load Balancing
7 1 (1.667%) Problem Management
7 1 (1.667%) Data Migration
7 1 (1.667%) Asset Management
7 1 (1.667%) Project Planning
7 1 (1.667%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 26 (43.33%) C
1 26 (43.33%) Perl
2 24 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.333%) SQL
4 1 (1.667%) VBScript
4 1 (1.667%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (51.67%) Security Cleared
2 27 (45.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.000%) MCP
4 3 (5.000%) MCSE
4 3 (5.000%) MCITP
4 3 (5.000%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.667%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.667%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.667%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.000%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (43.33%) Active Directory
2 16 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (16.67%) vSphere
4 7 (11.67%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (6.667%) XenApp
6 3 (5.000%) VMware ESX
7 2 (3.333%) NFS
7 2 (3.333%) Xen
8 1 (1.667%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (1.667%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.667%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 3 (5.000%) MIMEsweeper
1 3 (5.000%) WSUS
1 3 (5.000%) HP SIM
2 2 (3.333%) Puppet
2 2 (3.333%) Backup Exec
2 2 (3.333%) SCCM
2 2 (3.333%) SCOM
2 2 (3.333%) DameWare
3 1 (1.667%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.667%) ZENworks
3 1 (1.667%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (1.667%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 30 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 26 (43.33%) VMware
3 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
4 12 (20.00%) Cisco
5 9 (15.00%) HP
6 7 (11.67%) Oracle
6 7 (11.67%) Sun
7 6 (10.00%) Citrix
7 6 (10.00%) McAfee
8 5 (8.333%) Juniper
9 4 (6.667%) NetApp
9 4 (6.667%) ProCurve
10 3 (5.000%) M86 Security
10 3 (5.000%) Sophos
10 3 (5.000%) Dell
11 2 (3.333%) Siemens
11 2 (3.333%) Veritas
11 2 (3.333%) CheckPoint
12 1 (1.667%) Symantec
12 1 (1.667%) Wyse
Swindon, Wiltshire
Essential Requirements: o Multi-Site Active Directory / DNS / DHCP o Windows Server 2003 / 2008 o VMware (ESX / vSphere) o Microsoft SQL Server (2005 / 2008 / Reporting) o Citrix XenApp...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 13 May 2013