The first table below looks at the demand for DHCP skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Rank 120 153 147
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -6
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 84 32 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.671% 0.702% 0.695%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.644% 4.420% 3.898%
Number of salaries quoted 59 23 27
Average salary £39,250 £33,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.93% +6.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,150 £24,100 £22,300
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £35,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,667 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
+4.76% +9.37%
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
871 724 744
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.32% 15.88% 17.83%
Number of salaries quoted 708 594 586
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% -4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,050 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
DHCP
England

DHCP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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
Salary Trend

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

West Midlands DHCP Salary Trend

DHCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing DHCP across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands DHCP Salary Histogram

DHCP
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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Coventry -10 17 £37,500 -
Birmingham -16 17 £34,000 +19.29%
Shropshire - 11 £35,750 -
Staffordshire - 11 £45,000 -
Warwickshire - 9 £45,000 -
Worcestershire +1 2 £32,500 -7.14%
Solihull - 2 £34,250 -
Walsall - 2 £21,250 -
DHCP
England

DHCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited DHCP.

1 169 (90.86%) DNS
2 123 (66.13%) Windows
3 117 (62.90%) Active Directory
4 99 (53.23%) Windows Server 2008
5 86 (46.24%) Microsoft
6 83 (44.62%) Firewall
7 71 (38.17%) MS Exchange
8 70 (37.63%) Windows Server 2003
9 68 (36.56%) Cisco
10 62 (33.33%) VMware
11 60 (32.26%) Linux
12 48 (25.81%) SQL
13 46 (24.73%) Exchange Server 2010
14 45 (24.19%) VMware Infrastructure
14 45 (24.19%) SAN
15 43 (23.12%) UNIX
16 41 (22.04%) VPN
17 38 (20.43%) Citrix
18 37 (19.89%) LAN
19 36 (19.35%) WAN
20 34 (18.28%) TCP/IP
21 32 (17.20%) vSphere
22 31 (16.67%) MS Excel
22 31 (16.67%) SharePoint
22 31 (16.67%) Back Office
23 28 (15.05%) MS Office
23 28 (15.05%) HP
24 26 (13.98%) NetApp
24 26 (13.98%) Hyper-V
24 26 (13.98%) Windows 7

DHCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited DHCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (12.37%) HTML
1 23 (12.37%) CSS
2 17 (9.140%) Ruby on Rails
3 15 (8.065%) Web Services
4 13 (6.989%) LAMP
5 10 (5.376%) Ajax
6 4 (2.151%) Application Packaging
7 3 (1.613%) COM
8 1 (0.538%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 71 (38.17%) MS Exchange
2 46 (24.73%) Exchange Server 2010
3 31 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 24 (12.90%) Apache
5 23 (12.37%) IIS
6 20 (10.75%) Exchange Server 2003
7 18 (9.677%) Lync
8 16 (8.602%) Exchange Server 2007
9 7 (3.763%) SharePoint 2010
10 4 (2.151%) Lotus Notes
11 2 (1.075%) Office Communications Server
12 1 (0.538%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 31 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 28 (15.05%) MS Office
3 13 (6.989%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 169 (90.86%) DNS
2 83 (44.62%) Firewall
3 45 (24.19%) SAN
4 41 (22.04%) VPN
5 37 (19.89%) LAN
6 36 (19.35%) WAN
7 34 (18.28%) TCP/IP
8 25 (13.44%) Wireless
9 22 (11.83%) VLAN
10 18 (9.677%) IP Telephony
10 18 (9.677%) MPLS
11 16 (8.602%) Network Security
12 15 (8.065%) NAS
12 15 (8.065%) Modbus
13 13 (6.989%) SSL
13 13 (6.989%) VoIP
13 13 (6.989%) HTTP
14 12 (6.452%) iSCSI
14 12 (6.452%) Fibre Channel
15 10 (5.376%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.677%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.065%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.226%) SQL Server 2000
4 5 (2.688%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (2.151%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (1.613%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (5.914%) Selenium
2 8 (4.301%) Subversion
3 3 (1.613%) WATIR
3 3 (1.613%) RSpec
3 3 (1.613%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.538%) MSI
General
1 31 (16.67%) Back Office
2 19 (10.22%) Banking
3 12 (6.452%) Finance
4 7 (3.763%) Automotive
5 5 (2.688%) French Language
5 5 (2.688%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.688%) Telecoms
5 5 (2.688%) Retail
6 2 (1.075%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.075%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (1.075%) Advertising
7 1 (0.538%) Legal
7 1 (0.538%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 32 (17.20%) Network Engineer
2 28 (15.05%) Developer
3 23 (12.37%) Architect
4 14 (7.527%) Analyst
4 14 (7.527%) Consultant
4 14 (7.527%) Support Engineer
5 13 (6.989%) IT Support
6 12 (6.452%) Technical Architect
7 11 (5.914%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.914%) Applications Developer
8 10 (5.376%) Technical Consultant
9 9 (4.839%) Ruby on Rails Developer
9 9 (4.839%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.839%) Server Engineer
9 9 (4.839%) Technical Solutions Architect
10 8 (4.301%) Infrastructure Architect
10 8 (4.301%) Team Leader
10 8 (4.301%) Support Analyst
11 6 (3.226%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (3.226%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.140%) Device Driver
2 11 (5.914%) Management Information System
3 10 (5.376%) Computer Science
4 9 (4.839%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (4.839%) Open Source
5 6 (3.226%) SaaS
5 6 (3.226%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.151%) Clustering
6 4 (2.151%) CMDB
7 3 (1.613%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.613%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.075%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.538%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.538%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.538%) iPhone
9 1 (0.538%) iPad
9 1 (0.538%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.538%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 123 (66.13%) Windows
2 99 (53.23%) Windows Server 2008
3 70 (37.63%) Windows Server 2003
4 60 (32.26%) Linux
5 43 (23.12%) UNIX
6 26 (13.98%) Windows 7
7 20 (10.75%) Solaris
8 16 (8.602%) Windows XP
9 14 (7.527%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (4.301%) AIX
11 6 (3.226%) Windows 2000
12 5 (2.688%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (2.688%) Windows 8
12 5 (2.688%) Windows Vista
13 3 (1.613%) CentOS
14 2 (1.075%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.538%) Android
15 1 (0.538%) Windows Phone
15 1 (0.538%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (10.75%) Time Management
1 20 (10.75%) Data Protection
2 17 (9.140%) Security Management
3 14 (7.527%) ITIL
4 13 (6.989%) Project Management
5 11 (5.914%) Information Security
6 9 (4.839%) Risk Analysis
6 9 (4.839%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (4.839%) Risk Management
6 9 (4.839%) Business Continuity
6 9 (4.839%) Penetration Testing
7 7 (3.763%) Risk Assessment
7 7 (3.763%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (3.226%) Security Architecture
8 6 (3.226%) Network Management
9 5 (2.688%) Service Delivery
9 5 (2.688%) Migration
9 5 (2.688%) TOGAF
10 4 (2.151%) Validation
10 4 (2.151%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (25.81%) SQL
2 23 (12.37%) JavaScript
3 18 (9.677%) C++
4 17 (9.140%) Java
4 17 (9.140%) Perl
4 17 (9.140%) PHP
4 17 (9.140%) ActionScript
4 17 (9.140%) Ruby
5 13 (6.989%) Python
6 11 (5.914%) C
7 4 (2.151%) VBScript
7 4 (2.151%) VB
8 3 (1.613%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (8.065%) Degree
2 14 (7.527%) Cisco Certification
3 13 (6.989%) CCNP
4 11 (5.914%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (5.914%) CISSP
4 11 (5.914%) CISA
4 11 (5.914%) CISM
4 11 (5.914%) MCITP
4 11 (5.914%) CEH
5 10 (5.376%) MCSE
5 10 (5.376%) CCNA
6 9 (4.839%) CCSA
7 7 (3.763%) VCP5
8 6 (3.226%) Security Cleared
9 5 (2.688%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.688%) MCSA
10 4 (2.151%) CCSE
10 4 (2.151%) Check Point Certification
11 3 (1.613%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.613%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.527%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.151%) COBIT
3 3 (1.613%) SLA
4 1 (0.538%) QA
System Software
1 117 (62.90%) Active Directory
2 45 (24.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (17.20%) vSphere
4 26 (13.98%) Hyper-V
5 15 (8.065%) XenServer
5 15 (8.065%) XenDesktop
5 15 (8.065%) UAG
6 14 (7.527%) ISA Server
7 13 (6.989%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 12 (6.452%) Samba
9 10 (5.376%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (4.839%) Squid
11 8 (4.301%) PowerHA
11 8 (4.301%) XenApp
12 4 (2.151%) MetaFrame
12 4 (2.151%) Forefront TMG
13 3 (1.613%) Postfix
13 3 (1.613%) VMware ESX
14 2 (1.075%) Terminal Services
14 2 (1.075%) IAG
Systems Management
1 21 (11.29%) SCCM
2 20 (10.75%) SCOM
3 8 (4.301%) WSUS
4 6 (3.226%) EMC NetWorker
5 5 (2.688%) SolarWinds Orion
5 5 (2.688%) Backup Exec
6 2 (1.075%) NetBackup
6 2 (1.075%) Norton AntiVirus
6 2 (1.075%) ARCserve
6 2 (1.075%) MOM
6 2 (1.075%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 2 (1.075%) Cacti
7 1 (0.538%) MAILsweeper
7 1 (0.538%) OpenView
7 1 (0.538%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 86 (46.24%) Microsoft
2 68 (36.56%) Cisco
3 62 (33.33%) VMware
4 38 (20.43%) Citrix
5 28 (15.05%) HP
6 26 (13.98%) NetApp
7 19 (10.22%) CheckPoint
8 14 (7.527%) IBM
9 12 (6.452%) DataCore
10 10 (5.376%) Juniper
10 10 (5.376%) Nokia
10 10 (5.376%) McAfee
11 9 (4.839%) Veritas
11 9 (4.839%) EMC
12 8 (4.301%) CA
12 8 (4.301%) Red Hat
12 8 (4.301%) Sophos
12 8 (4.301%) SolarWinds
13 5 (2.688%) IronPort
13 5 (2.688%) Riverbed
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Extensive Networking Knowledge(Routing Protocols, DNS, DHCP,TCP/IP, VLAN) Experience with Network Security. Enterprise Directory Solutions(Microsoft Active Directory, Novell, Open Directory) Virtualised Environments with specific experience...
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