The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DHCP over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 78 94 79
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -15
Contract jobs citing DHCP 17 9 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.041% 0.401% 1.216%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.113% 3.114% 8.156%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 11
Average daily rate £250 £323 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.48% +21.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £103 £245 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £391 £401 £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £289 £420 £275
% change year-on-year
-31.25% +52.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 5
Average hourly rate £12.50 £12.75 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.96% -63.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.55 £18.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.95 £37.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-21.05% -20.83%
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
239 289 282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 14.64% 12.89% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 104 117
Average daily rate £283 £265 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.60% -14.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £142 £140 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 38 44
Average hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.40 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
DHCP
England

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Warwickshire -1 7 - -
Coventry 0 3 £104 -
Birmingham +13 2 - -
Dudley - 2 - -
Herefordshire - 2 £250 -
Worcestershire - 1 - -
DHCP
England

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 41 (97.62%) DNS
2 37 (88.10%) Windows
3 34 (80.95%) Active Directory
4 27 (64.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 27 (64.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 22 (52.38%) TCP/IP
6 21 (50.00%) Microsoft
7 20 (47.62%) MS Exchange
7 20 (47.62%) VMware
8 14 (33.33%) Terminal Services
9 13 (30.95%) Windows XP
9 13 (30.95%) Cisco
10 12 (28.57%) MS Excel
10 12 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 12 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
11 11 (26.19%) HP
11 11 (26.19%) SAN
11 11 (26.19%) LAN
12 10 (23.81%) Finance
13 9 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2010
14 8 (19.05%) Windows 7
14 8 (19.05%) Firewall
14 8 (19.05%) Citrix
15 7 (16.67%) WAN
15 7 (16.67%) xDSL
16 6 (14.29%) Clustering
16 6 (14.29%) SCCM
16 6 (14.29%) EMC
17 5 (11.90%) ITIL
17 5 (11.90%) Exchange Server 2003

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 (2.381%) XML
1 1 (2.381%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 20 (47.62%) MS Exchange
2 9 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (11.90%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (9.524%) SharePoint 2010
4 4 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (9.524%) SharePoint
5 2 (4.762%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.381%) IIS
6 1 (2.381%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 12 (28.57%) MS Excel
2 4 (9.524%) Office 365
2 4 (9.524%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.381%) CODA-Financials
Communications & Networking
1 41 (97.62%) DNS
2 22 (52.38%) TCP/IP
3 11 (26.19%) SAN
3 11 (26.19%) LAN
4 8 (19.05%) Firewall
5 7 (16.67%) WAN
5 7 (16.67%) xDSL
6 3 (7.143%) MPLS
7 2 (4.762%) Network Security
8 1 (2.381%) HTTP
8 1 (2.381%) VoIP
8 1 (2.381%) IPv4
8 1 (2.381%) Wireless
8 1 (2.381%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (2.381%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.762%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (2.381%) MySQL
2 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.381%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 10 (23.81%) Finance
2 5 (11.90%) Legal
3 3 (7.143%) Corporate Banking
3 3 (7.143%) Banking
3 3 (7.143%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.381%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.381%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Analyst
2 9 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support
3 7 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Systems Support
4 6 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) IT Manager
6 4 (9.524%) Network Support
7 3 (7.143%) Desktop Support
7 3 (7.143%) Helpdesk Technician
7 3 (7.143%) Network Support Engineer
7 3 (7.143%) Support Analyst
7 3 (7.143%) Network Engineer
8 2 (4.762%) IT Support
8 2 (4.762%) Customer Engineer
8 2 (4.762%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.762%) Support Manager
8 2 (4.762%) Customer Support Engineer
8 2 (4.762%) Wintel Engineer
9 1 (2.381%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.381%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Clustering
2 3 (7.143%) Blackberry
3 2 (4.762%) Replication
3 2 (4.762%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.381%) Handset
4 1 (2.381%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 37 (88.10%) Windows
2 27 (64.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 27 (64.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (30.95%) Windows XP
4 8 (19.05%) Windows 7
5 3 (7.143%) Windows 2000
6 2 (4.762%) Linux
7 1 (2.381%) AIX
7 1 (2.381%) Solaris
7 1 (2.381%) UNIX
7 1 (2.381%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (11.90%) ITIL
1 5 (11.90%) Strategic Planning
2 3 (7.143%) Fund Management
2 3 (7.143%) Wealth Management
2 3 (7.143%) Problem Management
2 3 (7.143%) Business Transformation
3 2 (4.762%) Business Continuity
4 1 (2.381%) Configuration Management
4 1 (2.381%) Project Management
4 1 (2.381%) CRM
4 1 (2.381%) SOA
4 1 (2.381%) PRINCE2
4 1 (2.381%) Project Planning
4 1 (2.381%) Incident Management
4 1 (2.381%) Migration
4 1 (2.381%) Service Delivery
4 1 (2.381%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.143%) C
1 3 (7.143%) VB
2 2 (4.762%) SQL
3 1 (2.381%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.381%) PHP
3 1 (2.381%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (9.524%) MCP
3 2 (4.762%) Degree
3 2 (4.762%) MCSE
3 2 (4.762%) CCNA
3 2 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.381%) MCSA
4 1 (2.381%) CCNP
4 1 (2.381%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.381%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.381%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.381%) MCITP
4 1 (2.381%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) QA
System Software
1 34 (80.95%) Active Directory
2 14 (33.33%) Terminal Services
3 12 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (11.90%) vSphere
5 2 (4.762%) VMware Server
5 2 (4.762%) XenServer
5 2 (4.762%) DFS Replication
6 1 (2.381%) ISA Server
6 1 (2.381%) XenApp
6 1 (2.381%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (14.29%) SCCM
2 2 (4.762%) WSUS
2 2 (4.762%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (2.381%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (2.381%) SCOM
3 1 (2.381%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.381%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (2.381%) HP SIM
3 1 (2.381%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 21 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (47.62%) VMware
3 13 (30.95%) Cisco
4 11 (26.19%) HP
5 8 (19.05%) Citrix
6 6 (14.29%) EMC
7 5 (11.90%) Panasonic
8 4 (9.524%) NetApp
9 2 (4.762%) McAfee
9 2 (4.762%) Symantec
10 1 (2.381%) Juniper
10 1 (2.381%) Veritas
10 1 (2.381%) CODA
10 1 (2.381%) Sage
10 1 (2.381%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.381%) Sophos
10 1 (2.381%) Altiris
10 1 (2.381%) SolarWinds
10 1 (2.381%) Aastra
10 1 (2.381%) ProCurve
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