The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 74 92 94
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +2
Contract jobs citing DHCP 39 20 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 2.055% 0.873% 0.385%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.19% 7.168% 3.535%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 14 3
Average daily rate £263 £245 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -36.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £284 £500 £270
% change year-on-year
-43.25% +85.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £15.50 £13.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.23% -48.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £20.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-23.75% -24.52%
All Communications & Networking
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
320 279 198
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 16.86% 12.17% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 142 80
Average daily rate £300 £280 £336
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -16.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 35 32
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.25 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.78% -54.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £35.00 £60.00
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +17 31 £250 +2.04%
East Yorkshire -2 3 - -
North Yorkshire - 3 £394 -
South Yorkshire -1 1 £263 -19.23%
DHCP
England

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 46 (97.87%) DNS
2 30 (63.83%) TCP/IP
3 28 (59.57%) Linux
4 27 (57.45%) SSL
5 23 (48.94%) Python
5 23 (48.94%) Web Services
5 23 (48.94%) Load Balancing
5 23 (48.94%) Amazon AWS
5 23 (48.94%) Bash shell
6 21 (44.68%) Client/Server
7 20 (42.55%) PHP
7 20 (42.55%) C++
7 20 (42.55%) Ruby
8 19 (40.43%) Puppet
9 18 (38.30%) Apache
10 17 (36.17%) MySQL
10 17 (36.17%) Oracle
10 17 (36.17%) Telecoms
10 17 (36.17%) Configuration Management
10 17 (36.17%) MongoDB
10 17 (36.17%) Node.js
10 17 (36.17%) Redis
10 17 (36.17%) Route 53
10 17 (36.17%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (36.17%) Test Automation
10 17 (36.17%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (36.17%) Amazon S3
10 17 (36.17%) nginx
10 17 (36.17%) Kanban
11 16 (34.04%) Capacity Management

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 (48.94%) Web Services
2 17 (36.17%) Node.js
3 1 (2.128%) POSIX
3 1 (2.128%) LAMP
3 1 (2.128%) .NET
3 1 (2.128%) ASP
3 1 (2.128%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 23 (48.94%) Amazon AWS
2 18 (38.30%) Apache
3 17 (36.17%) nginx
3 17 (36.17%) Amazon EC2
3 17 (36.17%) Amazon S3
3 17 (36.17%) Route 53
4 11 (23.40%) MS Exchange
5 7 (14.89%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (8.511%) IIS
6 4 (8.511%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (8.511%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (4.255%) Lync
Applications
1 4 (8.511%) MS Office
2 3 (6.383%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.383%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (4.255%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (97.87%) DNS
2 30 (63.83%) TCP/IP
3 27 (57.45%) SSL
4 14 (29.79%) Internet
5 11 (23.40%) Intrusion Detection
6 6 (12.77%) SAN
6 6 (12.77%) LAN
6 6 (12.77%) WAN
7 4 (8.511%) Firewall
7 4 (8.511%) SSH
7 4 (8.511%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (6.383%) Frame Relay
8 3 (6.383%) HTTP
9 2 (4.255%) OSPF
9 2 (4.255%) BIG-IP
9 2 (4.255%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (4.255%) Network Security
9 2 (4.255%) iSCSI
10 1 (2.128%) VLAN
10 1 (2.128%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) MySQL
1 17 (36.17%) MongoDB
1 17 (36.17%) Redis
1 17 (36.17%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.383%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.383%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.128%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.128%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.128%) SimpleDB
3 1 (2.128%) Couchbase
General
1 17 (36.17%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.128%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Operations Engineer
2 7 (14.89%) Support Engineer
2 7 (14.89%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (8.511%) Software Engineer
4 3 (6.383%) Network Consultant
4 3 (6.383%) Consultant
4 3 (6.383%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (6.383%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (4.255%) Exchange Engineer
5 2 (4.255%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (4.255%) Customer Support Engineer
5 2 (4.255%) Network Engineer
5 2 (4.255%) Customer Engineer
5 2 (4.255%) Administrator
6 1 (2.128%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (2.128%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (2.128%) Server Engineer
6 1 (2.128%) Security Specialist
6 1 (2.128%) Network Support
6 1 (2.128%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 21 (44.68%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.128%) Firmware
2 1 (2.128%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.128%) SecurID
2 1 (2.128%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 28 (59.57%) Linux
2 12 (25.53%) Windows
3 9 (19.15%) Windows XP
4 4 (8.511%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (8.511%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (8.511%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.128%) CentOS
5 1 (2.128%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.128%) Debian
5 1 (2.128%) VMS
5 1 (2.128%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Load Balancing
2 17 (36.17%) Kanban
2 17 (36.17%) Configuration Management
2 17 (36.17%) Test Automation
3 16 (34.04%) Incident Management
3 16 (34.04%) Capacity Management
4 11 (23.40%) Security Testing
5 6 (12.77%) Performance Testing
6 3 (6.383%) Network Load Balancing
6 3 (6.383%) ITIL
6 3 (6.383%) TDD
7 2 (4.255%) Project Management
7 2 (4.255%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (4.255%) Resource Management
7 2 (4.255%) Load Testing
7 2 (4.255%) Data Protection
8 1 (2.128%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (2.128%) Migration
8 1 (2.128%) Network Design
8 1 (2.128%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) Python
1 23 (48.94%) Bash shell
2 20 (42.55%) Ruby
2 20 (42.55%) C++
2 20 (42.55%) PHP
3 16 (34.04%) Java
3 16 (34.04%) Perl
4 3 (6.383%) SQL
5 1 (2.128%) VB
5 1 (2.128%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (8.511%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.511%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.255%) MCP
2 2 (4.255%) CCNP
2 2 (4.255%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.255%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.128%) CCSE
3 1 (2.128%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.128%) MCITP
3 1 (2.128%) Degree
3 1 (2.128%) CCNA
3 1 (2.128%) MCSE
3 1 (2.128%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.128%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.128%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.128%) XenApp
3 1 (2.128%) XenServer
3 1 (2.128%) vSphere
3 1 (2.128%) Terminal Services
3 1 (2.128%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 19 (40.43%) Puppet
2 1 (2.128%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (2.128%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (2.128%) Nagios
2 1 (2.128%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.128%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 17 (36.17%) Oracle
2 10 (21.28%) VMware
2 10 (21.28%) Percona
3 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
4 7 (14.89%) Cisco
5 6 (12.77%) Citrix
6 5 (10.64%) HP
7 4 (8.511%) F5
8 3 (6.383%) SolarWinds
8 3 (6.383%) CheckPoint
8 3 (6.383%) Juniper
9 2 (4.255%) NetApp
9 2 (4.255%) IBM
9 2 (4.255%) Dell
9 2 (4.255%) Blue Coat
10 1 (2.128%) Brocade
10 1 (2.128%) NetScout
10 1 (2.128%) TippingPoint
10 1 (2.128%) Syncsort
10 1 (2.128%) EMC
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