The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DHCP over the 3 months to 23 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 51 - 50
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 1 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.297% - 0.397%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.538% - 5.556%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £27,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,250 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+3.57% +9.37%
All Communications & Networking
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
65 21 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 19.29% 13.46% 7.143%
Number of salaries quoted 27 20 17
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,800 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,900 £42,500 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DHCP
Cheshire

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester DHCP Jobs Demand Trend

DHCP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing DHCP across the Chester region.

Chester DHCP Salary Trend

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 IT job ads sampled that cited DHCP.

1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) Juniper
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) VLAN
4 2 (40.00%) DMZ
4 2 (40.00%) Internet
4 2 (40.00%) BGP
4 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (40.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
5 1 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) Clustering
5 1 (20.00%) SCOM
5 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
5 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
5 1 (20.00%) vSphere
5 1 (20.00%) EqualLogic
5 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 IT job ads sampled that cited DHCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) LAN
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) VLAN
4 2 (40.00%) DMZ
4 2 (40.00%) Internet
4 2 (40.00%) BGP
4 2 (40.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
5 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Database Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCOM
1 1 (20.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Juniper
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) NetApp