DHCP Contracts in Scotland

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 142 144
Rank change year-on-year +35 +2 -20
Contract jobs citing DHCP 24 23 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.09% 0.80% 0.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.68% 6.50% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 18
10th Percentile £203 £296 £270
25th Percentile £215 £395 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £258 £455 £405
Median % change year-on-year -43.44% +12.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £406 £538 £511
90th Percentile £494 £539 £538
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £40.95
25th Percentile - - £42.39
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £44.77
75th Percentile - - £47.16
90th Percentile - - £48.59
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £41.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.74% +82.78% +12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 248 354 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.24% 12.38% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 226 195
10th Percentile £187 £160 £176
25th Percentile £363 £358 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £626 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.41% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 16
10th Percentile £15.43 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.69 - £41.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.23% -77.62% -24.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £53.89
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.75 £56.63
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.41
% change year-on-year +100.00% -33.12% +1.46%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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
Renfrewshire +5 9 £525 -0.94%
Glasgow -8 8 £450 +1.12% 2
Edinburgh +44 7 £226 -39.99% 11
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Azure
2 8 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 5 (20.83%) IaaS
4 4 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 24 (100.00%) DNS
2 9 (37.50%) VPN
3 5 (20.83%) Firewall
3 5 (20.83%) SMTP
4 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Banking
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Desktop Support
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Linux Server Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
3 2 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Python Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) LDAP
2 1 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Clustering
1 7 (29.17%) PKI
2 4 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (29.17%) Linux
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (16.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (12.50%) Windows 7
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) High Availability
2 7 (29.17%) Project Delivery
3 6 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (20.83%) Identity Access Management
4 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (20.83%) Investment Management
4 5 (20.83%) Wealth Management
5 4 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 4 (16.67%) Open Source
6 3 (12.50%) Break/Fix
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) ITIL
6 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Project Management
7 2 (8.33%) Software Deployment
8 1 (4.17%) Computer Science
8 1 (4.17%) Configuration Management
8 1 (4.17%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) PowerShell
2 7 (29.17%) Perl
2 7 (29.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (41.67%) DV Cleared
2 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) A+ Certification
4 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 17 (70.83%) Active Directory
2 7 (29.17%) Hyper-V
2 7 (29.17%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (20.83%) BitLocker
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (20.83%) Terminal Services
4 4 (16.67%) Firmware
5 3 (12.50%) vSphere
6 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) vCenter Server
2 5 (20.83%) vMotion
3 4 (16.67%) SCCM
4 2 (8.33%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.17%) Ansible
5 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.17%) Puppet
5 1 (4.17%) Terraform
5 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (37.50%) VMware
3 7 (29.17%) Citrix
4 5 (20.83%) Infoblox
5 4 (16.67%) Cisco
6 3 (12.50%) HP
7 2 (8.33%) McAfee
7 2 (8.33%) Symantec
7 2 (8.33%) Veritas