The first part of the table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited DHCP over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category.

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank212232245
Rank change year-on-year
Up+20Up+13
Matching permanent IT job ads14921240829
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.231 %1.016 %0.871 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category7.028 %6.477 %5.636 %
Number of salaries quoted12581045686
Average salary£36,000£32,500£34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.76 %-5.79 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£23,000£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£52,500£55,000£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£32,000£32,500
% change year-on-year
+9.37 %-1.53 %
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
212291914414709
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK17.52 %15.69 %15.45 %
Number of salaries quoted176921585812156
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£61,900£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66 %-

DHCP
Demand Trend

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

DHCP Demand Trend

DHCP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing DHCP within the UK.

DHCP Salary Trend

DHCP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DHCP over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

DHCP Salary Histogram

DHCP
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+231378£37,500+15.38 %
LondonUp+51732£37,500-
South EastDown-11249£38,000+33.33 %
City of LondonUp+54138£45,000-
South WestDown-4101£42,500+26.86 %
East of EnglandDown-797£39,500+12.85 %
ScotlandUp+1167£31,500-14.86 %
BerkshireDown-2157£40,000+33.33 %
YorkshireDown-1255£29,500-9.23 %
HampshireUp+2052£40,000+14.49 %
East MidlandsUp+1849£27,500-
GloucestershireUp+949£46,000+31.42 %
SurreyDown-2847£35,000+40.00 %
West YorkshireDown-3247£30,000-7.69 %
North WestDown-6543£28,500-8.80 %
DerbyshireUp+2133£27,500-8.33 %
DerbyUp+2129£27,500+44.73 %
West MidlandsDown-329£32,000+3.22 %
ReadingUp+428£40,000+28.00 %
HertfordshireUp+1126£36,250-9.37 %
WiltshireDown-1026£31,500-1.56 %
OxfordshireUp+2025£35,000+48.93 %
West SussexUp+325£42,500+37.09 %
GloucesterDown-324£42,500+26.86 %
CheltenhamDown-624£45,000+34.32 %
EssexDown-1824£39,000+56.00 %
ManchesterDown-2522£27,500-14.06 %
LeedsDown-820£23,250-16.96 %
North EastUp+1018£32,500-13.90 %
BristolUp+818£32,500-7.14 %

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

12696 (92.46 %)DNS
22177 (74.66 %)Windows
31726 (59.19 %)Active Directory
41465 (50.24 %)Microsoft
51454 (49.86 %)TCP/IP
61237 (42.42 %)VMware
71161 (39.81 %)Windows Server 2008
81119 (38.37 %)Windows Server 2003
91100 (37.72 %)MS Exchange
101024 (35.12 %)Cisco
11854 (29.29 %)Firewall
12851 (29.18 %)Linux
13814 (27.91 %)VMware Infrastructure
14756 (25.93 %)MS Excel
15713 (24.45 %)SAN
16633 (21.71 %)Microsoft Certification
17624 (21.40 %)Citrix
18608 (20.85 %)LAN
19603 (20.68 %)SQL Server
20585 (20.06 %)VPN
21574 (19.68 %)WAN
21574 (19.68 %)Windows XP
22556 (19.07 %)SQL
23554 (19.00 %)ITIL
24533 (18.28 %)Exchange Server 2007
25532 (18.24 %)Exchange Server 2010
26524 (17.97 %)Cisco Certification
27472 (16.19 %)MCSE
28466 (15.98 %)HP
29442 (15.16 %)MS Office

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
196 (3.292 %).NET
293 (3.189 %)Web Services
377 (2.641 %)J2EE
459 (2.023 %)HTML
553 (1.818 %)LAMP
635 (1.200 %)XML
734 (1.166 %)CSS
734 (1.166 %)Forefront TMG
830 (1.029 %)Application Packaging
925 (0.857 %)ASP.NET
1022 (0.754 %)WSH
1114 (0.480 %)XHTML
1114 (0.480 %)jQuery
1212 (0.412 %)COM
1212 (0.412 %)ASP
1212 (0.412 %)Zend Framework
1310 (0.343 %)SVG
1310 (0.343 %)KML
148 (0.274 %)Windows SharePoint Services
148 (0.274 %).NET Framework
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11100 (37.72 %)MS Exchange
2533 (18.28 %)Exchange Server 2007
3532 (18.24 %)Exchange Server 2010
4424 (14.54 %)Exchange Server 2003
5420 (14.40 %)IIS
6363 (12.45 %)Apache
7303 (10.39 %)SharePoint
8148 (5.075 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
993 (3.189 %)Amazon EC2
1082 (2.812 %)Tomcat
1163 (2.160 %)WebLogic
1251 (1.749 %)Lync
1340 (1.372 %)SharePoint 2010
1438 (1.303 %)Lotus Notes
1530 (1.029 %)Lotus Domino
1626 (0.892 %)Exchange Server 2000
1715 (0.514 %)CMS
1814 (0.480 %)SharePoint Server
1913 (0.446 %)Amazon S3
1913 (0.446 %)nginx
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1756 (25.93 %)MS Excel
2442 (15.16 %)MS Office
352 (1.783 %)MS Visio
442 (1.440 %)MS PowerPoint
533 (1.132 %)Google Apps
631 (1.063 %)Office 365
73 (0.103 %)AutoCAD
82 (0.069 %)Photoshop
91 (0.034 %)Final Cut Pro
91 (0.034 %)PrintSoft PReS
91 (0.034 %)MS Project
91 (0.034 %)Acrobat
91 (0.034 %)Adobe Illustrator
91 (0.034 %)InDesign
91 (0.034 %)LightWave 3D
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
121 (0.720 %)Dynamics CRM
213 (0.446 %)SoftGrid
310 (0.343 %)Remedy AR System
49 (0.309 %)Summit
57 (0.240 %)Dynamics AX
65 (0.171 %)Line 50
65 (0.171 %)SyteLine
65 (0.171 %)Agresso
72 (0.069 %)Dynamics NAV
81 (0.034 %)Remedy ITSM
81 (0.034 %)Sage 1000
81 (0.034 %)ION MarketView
81 (0.034 %)Visualfiles
81 (0.034 %)SalesLogix
81 (0.034 %)FLEXCUBE
81 (0.034 %)SAP R/3
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12696 (92.46 %)DNS
21454 (49.86 %)TCP/IP
3854 (29.29 %)Firewall
4713 (24.45 %)SAN
5608 (20.85 %)LAN
6585 (20.06 %)VPN
7574 (19.68 %)WAN
8337 (11.56 %)Internet
9304 (10.43 %)VoIP
10286 (9.808 %)VLAN
11222 (7.613 %)Wireless
12197 (6.756 %)SMTP
13148 (5.075 %)Ethernet
14145 (4.973 %)IPsec
15134 (4.595 %)SNMP
16129 (4.424 %)MPLS
17128 (4.390 %)OSPF
18125 (4.287 %)Cisco IOS
19124 (4.252 %)iSCSI
19124 (4.252 %)HTTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1603 (20.68 %)SQL Server
2185 (6.344 %)SQL Server 2005
3180 (6.173 %)MySQL
4152 (5.213 %)SQL Server 2008
548 (1.646 %)SQL Server 2000
629 (0.995 %)RDBMS
724 (0.823 %)Crystal Reports
823 (0.789 %)PostgreSQL
919 (0.652 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1014 (0.480 %)Oracle 8/8i
115 (0.171 %)NoSQL
115 (0.171 %)KDB
124 (0.137 %)FileMaker
124 (0.137 %)MS Access
124 (0.137 %)MongoDB
133 (0.103 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
133 (0.103 %)Oracle 10g
141 (0.034 %)TimesTen
141 (0.034 %)Oracle 11g
141 (0.034 %)Oracle 9i
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
164 (2.195 %)Subversion
220 (0.686 %)Git (software)
311 (0.377 %)ClearQuest
47 (0.240 %)JIRA
56 (0.206 %)JMeter
56 (0.206 %)Selenium
65 (0.171 %)GDB
65 (0.171 %)ClearCase
73 (0.103 %)Rational Rhapsody
73 (0.103 %)Rational DOORS
82 (0.069 %)InstallShield
82 (0.069 %)MSI
82 (0.069 %)Bugzilla
82 (0.069 %)Synon
82 (0.069 %)Visual Studio
82 (0.069 %)GCC
91 (0.034 %)VisualSVN
91 (0.034 %)Hudson
91 (0.034 %)WinDbg
91 (0.034 %)Cucumber
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1407 (13.96 %)Finance
2161 (5.521 %)Telecoms
3111 (3.807 %)Banking
463 (2.160 %)Back Office
562 (2.126 %)German Language
660 (2.058 %)Retail
756 (1.920 %)Law
848 (1.646 %)Manufacturing
938 (1.303 %)Investment Banking
1034 (1.166 %)French Language
1132 (1.097 %)Legal
1227 (0.926 %)Marketing
1324 (0.823 %)Italian Language
1324 (0.823 %)Spanish Language
1422 (0.754 %)Billing
1521 (0.720 %)Front Office
1619 (0.652 %)Advertising
1717 (0.583 %)Games
1816 (0.549 %)Electronics
1915 (0.514 %)Publishing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1487 (16.70 %)Support Engineer
2419 (14.37 %)Administrator
3416 (14.27 %)Analyst
4323 (11.08 %)Systems Administrator
5230 (7.888 %)Support Analyst
6219 (7.510 %)IT Support
7201 (6.893 %)Infrastructure Engineer
8190 (6.516 %)Systems Engineer
9186 (6.379 %)Network Engineer
10182 (6.241 %)2nd Line Support
11164 (5.624 %)3rd Line Support
12161 (5.521 %)Technical Support
13136 (4.664 %)Consultant
14134 (4.595 %)IT Support Engineer
15120 (4.115 %)Linux Administrator
16109 (3.738 %)Linux Systems Administrator
1787 (2.984 %)Desktop Support
1886 (2.949 %)Infrastructure Analyst
1886 (2.949 %)Server Engineer
1886 (2.949 %)Team Leader
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1273 (9.362 %)Clustering
2214 (7.339 %)Blackberry
3102 (3.498 %)Computer Science
477 (2.641 %)Replication
554 (1.852 %)CLARiiON
649 (1.680 %)Management Information System
744 (1.509 %)iPhone
840 (1.372 %)PKI
840 (1.372 %)Open Source
938 (1.303 %)Spread Betting
938 (1.303 %)Hedge funds
1028 (0.960 %)EqualLogic
1028 (0.960 %)SaaS
1127 (0.926 %)Device Driver
1224 (0.823 %)Thin Client
1224 (0.823 %)Fat Client
1323 (0.789 %)PDA
1421 (0.720 %)iPad
1520 (0.686 %)Cloud Computing
1619 (0.652 %)Statistics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12177 (74.66 %)Windows
21161 (39.81 %)Windows Server 2008
31119 (38.37 %)Windows Server 2003
4851 (29.18 %)Linux
5574 (19.68 %)Windows XP
6391 (13.41 %)UNIX
7348 (11.93 %)Windows 7
8275 (9.431 %)Windows Vista
9230 (7.888 %)Solaris
10183 (6.276 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11129 (4.424 %)CentOS
12105 (3.601 %)Debian
1393 (3.189 %)Windows 2000 Server
1484 (2.881 %)Windows 2000
1581 (2.778 %)HPUX
1669 (2.366 %)Ubuntu
1749 (1.680 %)Mac OS X
1838 (1.303 %)Mac OS
1928 (0.960 %)Windows NT
2016 (0.549 %)Embedded Linux
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1554 (19.00 %)ITIL
2153 (5.247 %)Service Delivery
3145 (4.973 %)Disaster Recovery
4134 (4.595 %)Load Balancing
595 (3.258 %)Migration
690 (3.086 %)Project Management
789 (3.052 %)Change Management
887 (2.984 %)Service Management
985 (2.915 %)Configuration Management
1084 (2.881 %)Network Management
1177 (2.641 %)Time Management
1275 (2.572 %)PRINCE2
1369 (2.366 %)Root Cause Analysis
1463 (2.160 %)Capacity Planning
1562 (2.126 %)Web Development
1660 (2.058 %)Incident Management
1758 (1.989 %)Business Continuity
1758 (1.989 %)Software Architecture
1857 (1.955 %)Validation
1956 (1.920 %)CRM
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1556 (19.07 %)SQL
2287 (9.842 %)Perl
3155 (5.316 %)Bash shell
4143 (4.904 %)PowerShell
5137 (4.698 %)Python
6130 (4.458 %)Java
7118 (4.047 %)Shell Script
8115 (3.944 %)C
9113 (3.875 %)VBScript
1082 (2.812 %)C#
1176 (2.606 %)C++
1269 (2.366 %)PHP
1347 (1.612 %)VB
1347 (1.612 %)Ruby
1443 (1.475 %)JavaScript
1532 (1.097 %)Korn
1618 (0.617 %)Tcl
1712 (0.412 %)AWK
1712 (0.412 %)PHP5
1811 (0.377 %)Embedded C
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1633 (21.71 %)Microsoft Certification
2524 (17.97 %)Cisco Certification
3472 (16.19 %)MCSE
4396 (13.58 %)CCNA
5334 (11.45 %)MCITP
6285 (9.774 %)Degree
7225 (7.716 %)MCSA
8213 (7.305 %)MCP
9189 (6.481 %)CCNP
10178 (6.104 %)Security Cleared
11119 (4.081 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12105 (3.601 %)DV Cleared
13100 (3.429 %)RHCE
1493 (3.189 %)SC Cleared
1563 (2.160 %)ITIL Certification
1656 (1.920 %)MCTS
1754 (1.852 %)Citrix Certification
1848 (1.646 %)CCVP
1943 (1.475 %)JNCIA
2040 (1.372 %)RHCT
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1169 (5.796 %)SLA
215 (0.514 %)QA
313 (0.446 %)ISO 9001
412 (0.412 %)JTAG
510 (0.343 %)ISO/IEC 27001
67 (0.240 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
74 (0.137 %)PCI DSS
82 (0.069 %)ISO 9000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11726 (59.19 %)Active Directory
2814 (27.91 %)VMware Infrastructure
3436 (14.95 %)vSphere
4285 (9.774 %)Hyper-V
5277 (9.499 %)VMware ESX
6223 (7.647 %)XenApp
7157 (5.384 %)Terminal Services
8130 (4.458 %)ISA Server
9112 (3.841 %)VMware ESXi
10110 (3.772 %)NFS
1188 (3.018 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1270 (2.401 %)XenDesktop
1364 (2.195 %)XenServer
1460 (2.058 %)Samba
1559 (2.023 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1640 (1.372 %)Xen
1738 (1.303 %)Postfix
1837 (1.269 %)UAG
1934 (1.166 %)Squid
2021 (0.720 %)Terminal Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1223 (7.647 %)Backup Exec
1223 (7.647 %)SCCM
2153 (5.247 %)NetBackup
3152 (5.213 %)SCOM
4123 (4.218 %)WSUS
558 (1.989 %)Puppet
657 (1.955 %)Nagios
753 (1.818 %)Norton AntiVirus
843 (1.475 %)Cisco UCCX
939 (1.337 %)vCenter
1034 (1.166 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1133 (1.132 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1230 (1.029 %)SCVMM
1326 (0.892 %)CiscoWorks
1326 (0.892 %)HP SIM
1425 (0.857 %)MOM
1522 (0.754 %)Tivoli
1522 (0.754 %)SolarWinds Orion
1619 (0.652 %)Cisco CUCM
1717 (0.583 %)ARCserve
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11465 (50.24 %)Microsoft
21237 (42.42 %)VMware
31024 (35.12 %)Cisco
4624 (21.40 %)Citrix
5466 (15.98 %)HP
6363 (12.45 %)Symantec
7314 (10.77 %)Red Hat
8222 (7.613 %)Dell
9209 (7.167 %)NetApp
10176 (6.036 %)Juniper
11163 (5.590 %)EMC
12162 (5.556 %)CheckPoint
13136 (4.664 %)Veritas
14128 (4.390 %)Oracle
15118 (4.047 %)IBM
1683 (2.846 %)JBoss
1776 (2.606 %)F5
1873 (2.503 %)Apple
1969 (2.366 %)Avaya
2067 (2.298 %)Brocade