The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 51 74 75
Rank change year-on-year
+23 +1
Contract jobs citing DHCP 37 17 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.948% 1.086% 0.356%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.02% 8.673% 4.444%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 12 2
Average daily rate £250 £245 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.04% -36.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £289 £420 £275
% change year-on-year
-31.25% +52.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 £13.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.23% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-21.05% -20.83%
All Communications & Networking
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
231 196 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 18.41% 12.52% 8.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 100 33
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £188 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £420 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 18
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.00 £23.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -35.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £11.53
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £34.00 £31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
DHCP
Yorkshire

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds +12 32 £250 +2.04%
Wakefield - 3 £263 -
Bradford - 2 - -
DHCP
Yorkshire

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 39 (100.00%) DNS
2 29 (74.36%) TCP/IP
3 27 (69.23%) Linux
4 25 (64.10%) SSL
5 23 (58.97%) Web Services
5 23 (58.97%) Python
5 23 (58.97%) Load Balancing
5 23 (58.97%) Amazon AWS
5 23 (58.97%) Bash shell
6 21 (53.85%) Client/Server
7 20 (51.28%) C++
7 20 (51.28%) PHP
7 20 (51.28%) Ruby
8 19 (48.72%) Puppet
9 18 (46.15%) Apache
10 17 (43.59%) MySQL
10 17 (43.59%) Oracle
10 17 (43.59%) Configuration Management
10 17 (43.59%) MongoDB
10 17 (43.59%) Test Automation
10 17 (43.59%) nginx
10 17 (43.59%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (43.59%) Amazon S3
10 17 (43.59%) Node.js
10 17 (43.59%) Redis
10 17 (43.59%) Route 53
10 17 (43.59%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (43.59%) Kanban
10 17 (43.59%) Telecoms
11 16 (41.03%) Incident Management

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 23 (58.97%) Web Services
2 17 (43.59%) Node.js
3 1 (2.564%) LAMP
3 1 (2.564%) POSIX
3 1 (2.564%) .NET
3 1 (2.564%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 23 (58.97%) Amazon AWS
2 18 (46.15%) Apache
3 17 (43.59%) nginx
3 17 (43.59%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (43.59%) Amazon S3
3 17 (43.59%) Route 53
4 5 (12.82%) MS Exchange
5 2 (5.128%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (5.128%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (2.564%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (5.128%) MS Office
1 2 (5.128%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (100.00%) DNS
2 29 (74.36%) TCP/IP
3 25 (64.10%) SSL
4 13 (33.33%) Internet
5 11 (28.21%) Intrusion Detection
6 7 (17.95%) Firewall
7 5 (12.82%) VPN
8 4 (10.26%) SSH
9 3 (7.692%) SAN
10 2 (5.128%) HTTP
10 2 (5.128%) LAN
10 2 (5.128%) WAN
11 1 (2.564%) BIG-IP
11 1 (2.564%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (2.564%) SMTP
11 1 (2.564%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) MySQL
1 17 (43.59%) MongoDB
1 17 (43.59%) Redis
1 17 (43.59%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.692%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.564%) SimpleDB
3 1 (2.564%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.564%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.564%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.564%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (43.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Operations Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Support Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (7.692%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.692%) Analyst
5 3 (7.692%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (5.128%) Administrator
6 2 (5.128%) Customer Engineer
6 2 (5.128%) Desktop Support
6 2 (5.128%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.128%) Customer Support Engineer
6 2 (5.128%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 1 (2.564%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.564%) Support Analyst
7 1 (2.564%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 21 (53.85%) Client/Server
2 3 (7.692%) Replication
3 1 (2.564%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 27 (69.23%) Linux
2 12 (30.77%) Windows
3 7 (17.95%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (17.95%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (12.82%) Windows XP
4 5 (12.82%) NetWare
5 4 (10.26%) Windows 7
6 3 (7.692%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (2.564%) Debian
7 1 (2.564%) CentOS
7 1 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (2.564%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (58.97%) Load Balancing
2 17 (43.59%) Configuration Management
2 17 (43.59%) Test Automation
2 17 (43.59%) Kanban
3 16 (41.03%) Incident Management
3 16 (41.03%) Capacity Management
4 11 (28.21%) Security Testing
5 6 (15.38%) Performance Testing
6 3 (7.692%) TDD
7 2 (5.128%) ITIL
8 1 (2.564%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (2.564%) Network Design
8 1 (2.564%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 23 (58.97%) Python
1 23 (58.97%) Bash shell
2 20 (51.28%) C++
2 20 (51.28%) PHP
2 20 (51.28%) Ruby
3 16 (41.03%) Java
3 16 (41.03%) Perl
4 2 (5.128%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (7.692%) MCP
2 1 (2.564%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (2.564%) Degree
2 1 (2.564%) MCSE
System Software
1 7 (17.95%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.564%) vSphere
2 1 (2.564%) XenServer
2 1 (2.564%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.564%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 19 (48.72%) Puppet
2 3 (7.692%) McAfee ePO
2 3 (7.692%) ARCserve
3 1 (2.564%) PureDisk
3 1 (2.564%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) Oracle
2 10 (25.64%) Percona
3 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
4 7 (17.95%) Cisco
4 7 (17.95%) VMware
5 6 (15.38%) Citrix
6 5 (12.82%) Novell
7 3 (7.692%) Riverbed
7 3 (7.692%) Blue Coat
7 3 (7.692%) McAfee
7 3 (7.692%) NetApp
8 1 (2.564%) F5
8 1 (2.564%) Brocade
8 1 (2.564%) Syncsort
8 1 (2.564%) Juniper
8 1 (2.564%) HP
8 1 (2.564%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.564%) CheckPoint
Bradford, West Yorkshire
Good knowledge of Microsoft Office products in network environment... * Windows Server 2003 and 2008 * Understanding of IP networking DNS, DHCP, Routing, etc Desirable Skills: Microsoft Qualified or Certifications...
ninesharp
Posted: 20 May 2013
Halifax, West Yorkshire
VMWare. Citrix. Active directory and Windows based domains... DNS, DHCP servers... Antivirus solutions (Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro) Backup solutions (Symantec backup exec, ArcServe etc.) TCP/ IP and Networking...
Spinnaker Red
Rate: From £280 to £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Graduate Cloud Operations Engineer, Amazon Web Services, Linux Systems-£80-90 Per day - 6 MonthsMy worldwide market leading client is currently searching for enthusiastic IT Graduates to join...
OPUS
Rate: GBP80 to GBP90 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013