DHCP Contracts in the North West

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for DHCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DHCP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 106 123
Rank change year-on-year -17 +17 -5
Contract jobs citing DHCP 18 51 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.65% 1.58% 1.48%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.90% 11.86% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 42 38
10th Percentile £200 £142 £123
25th Percentile £253 £230 £157
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £426 £275
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% +54.73% -31.25%
75th Percentile £466 £511 £523
90th Percentile £509 £550 £583
England median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +5.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
Median hourly rate - £52.13 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +160.65% -29.82%
England median hourly rate £40.00 £38.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +3.90% +79.07% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

DHCP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 367 430 516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.21% 13.32% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 309 341
10th Percentile £199 £288 £181
25th Percentile £322 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +11.11% +21.62%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 13
10th Percentile - £17.92 £12.07
25th Percentile £17.72 £19.17 £16.23
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.25 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +68.92% -61.00%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £42.20
90th Percentile £89.18 £52.13 £63.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -4.36%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the North West.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -6 5 £400 -17.95% 17
Cheshire +8 4 £475 - 14
Merseyside +17 3 £295 -9.23% 6
Lancashire -3 2 £200 +25.00% 6
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (16.67%) GCP
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) DNS
2 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 5 (27.78%) LAN
4 3 (16.67%) Firewall
4 3 (16.67%) SAN
4 3 (16.67%) VLAN
4 3 (16.67%) VPN
4 3 (16.67%) WAN
4 3 (16.67%) Wireless
5 2 (11.11%) Broadband
5 2 (11.11%) VoIP
6 1 (5.56%) BGP
6 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
1 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Network Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) IT Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) IT Architect
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Systems Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) NHS
2 2 (11.11%) CMDB
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Clustering
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
2 4 (22.22%) ITIL
3 3 (16.67%) Change Management
3 3 (16.67%) Migration
3 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Capacity Management
4 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 2 (11.11%) Incident Response
4 2 (11.11%) Informatics
4 2 (11.11%) Network Design
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
4 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Security Hardening
4 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Time Management
5 1 (5.56%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (27.78%) CCNA
3 4 (22.22%) CCNP
4 2 (11.11%) JNCIA
4 2 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (5.56%) CCIE
5 1 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (5.56%) MCSA
5 1 (5.56%) MCSE
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Nagios
1 2 (11.11%) ZABBIX
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
2 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Google
2 3 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Dell
3 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) EMC
4 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.56%) HP