DHCP Contracts in the South East

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 121 136
Rank change year-on-year +43 +15 +9
Contract jobs citing DHCP 126 98 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.29% 1.72% 1.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.37% 10.56% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 65 84
10th Percentile £288 £213 £185
25th Percentile £407 £281 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £403
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +36.64% -3.88%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £488
90th Percentile £623 £720 £575
England median daily rate £475 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £43.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +103.49% +7.50%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £22.25
90th Percentile - - £31.30
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,215 928 1,245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 22.06% 16.31% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 558 756
10th Percentile £205 £240 £189
25th Percentile £363 £363 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £560
90th Percentile £646 £700 £657
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 71 71
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.25 £16.11
25th Percentile £27.50 £42.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £55.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +158.14% -36.30%
75th Percentile £64.69 £68.13 £47.50
90th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the South East

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the South East

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the South East

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the South East

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the South East region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Thames Valley +25 65 £605 +16.35% 19
Berkshire +18 54 £605 -10.37% 11
Hampshire -9 24 £538 -10.42% 12
Surrey +23 15 £215 -14.00% 4
West Sussex - 13 £450 - 10
Buckinghamshire +19 8 £465 +23.99% 4
East Sussex +11 6 £475 -32.14% 3
Kent +6 3 £205 -45.33% 7
Oxfordshire +3 3 £180 -24.21% 4
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 38 (30.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (7.14%) Confluence
3 6 (4.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.79%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.16%) Azure
2 28 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (13.49%) Entra ID
4 16 (12.70%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (12.70%) Azure Storage
5 14 (11.11%) OCI
6 3 (2.38%) IaaS
6 3 (2.38%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.59%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 122 (96.83%) DNS
2 61 (48.41%) Firewall
3 25 (19.84%) SAN
4 16 (12.70%) VLAN
5 13 (10.32%) TCP/IP
6 12 (9.52%) Wireless
7 9 (7.14%) VPN
8 8 (6.35%) LAN
8 8 (6.35%) WAN
9 6 (4.76%) iSCSI
10 5 (3.97%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (3.17%) NAS
12 3 (2.38%) Cisco ISE
12 3 (2.38%) WebEx
13 2 (1.59%) 4G
13 2 (1.59%) BGP
13 2 (1.59%) MPLS
13 2 (1.59%) Unified Communications
13 2 (1.59%) VoIP
14 1 (0.79%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.17%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (3.17%) MySQL
1 4 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) Git
2 1 (0.79%) MSI
2 1 (0.79%) Subversion
General
1 59 (46.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (7.14%) Military
3 4 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (2.38%) Front Office
4 3 (2.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.59%) Automotive
5 2 (1.59%) French Language
5 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.59%) Portuguese Language
5 2 (1.59%) Spanish Language
6 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.79%) Finance
6 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (37.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (15.08%) Support Specialist
3 16 (12.70%) Active Directory Support
4 14 (11.11%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (11.11%) Architect
4 14 (11.11%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (11.11%) Senior
5 12 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (9.52%) Storage Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) IT Support
6 10 (7.94%) Server Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Support Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Test and Integration Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
9 7 (5.56%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 6 (4.76%) Network Engineer
11 5 (3.97%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.70%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.38%) .NET
2 3 (2.38%) XMPP
3 1 (0.79%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (30.95%) PKI
2 25 (19.84%) Data Centre
3 17 (13.49%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (6.35%) Private Cloud
5 5 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.17%) Fat Client
6 4 (3.17%) Thin Client
7 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.79%) Clustering
8 1 (0.79%) CMDB
8 1 (0.79%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 92 (73.02%) Windows
2 71 (56.35%) Windows Server
3 52 (41.27%) Linux
4 44 (34.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 38 (30.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 34 (26.98%) Windows Server 2012
7 31 (24.60%) Windows 10
8 14 (11.11%) Windows XP
9 9 (7.14%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (6.35%) Unix
10 8 (6.35%) Windows 7
11 7 (5.56%) Ubuntu
12 6 (4.76%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (2.38%) Android
13 3 (2.38%) Apple iOS
14 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.79%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (40.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 45 (35.71%) ITIL
3 33 (26.19%) Agile
4 27 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (19.05%) RBAC
5 24 (19.05%) Release Management
6 18 (14.29%) Service Management
7 17 (13.49%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (12.70%) Analytics
8 16 (12.70%) CI/CD
8 16 (12.70%) DevOps
8 16 (12.70%) Identity Management
8 16 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (12.70%) Log Analytics
8 16 (12.70%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 16 (12.70%) Privileged Identity Management
8 16 (12.70%) Project Management
9 15 (11.90%) Performance Tuning
9 15 (11.90%) Server Management
9 15 (11.90%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (43.65%) PowerShell
2 22 (17.46%) VBScript
3 16 (12.70%) Bicep
3 16 (12.70%) C#
3 16 (12.70%) VB
4 11 (8.73%) SQL
5 4 (3.17%) Python
6 3 (2.38%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.59%) C++
7 2 (1.59%) Perl
8 1 (0.79%) Bash
Qualifications
1 63 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 49 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 45 (35.71%) Degree
4 42 (33.33%) DV Cleared
5 19 (15.08%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (14.29%) CCNA
6 18 (14.29%) CCNP
7 16 (12.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 14 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (7.94%) MCSA
9 10 (7.94%) MCSE
10 9 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (3.17%) DBS Check
12 3 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.79%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.79%) CCIE
13 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.79%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.97%) GDPR
1 5 (3.97%) SLA
2 3 (2.38%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 96 (76.19%) Active Directory
2 59 (46.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (19.84%) Hyper-V
4 23 (18.25%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (17.46%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (15.08%) XenApp
7 16 (12.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (7.94%) vSphere
9 6 (4.76%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.79%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.79%) Docker
10 1 (0.79%) NFS
10 1 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.79%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (40.48%) SCCM
2 42 (33.33%) WSUS
3 30 (23.81%) SCOM
4 23 (18.25%) vCenter Server
5 20 (15.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 20 (15.87%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (13.49%) Kubernetes
7 14 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (11.11%) NetBackup
8 8 (6.35%) Ansible
9 5 (3.97%) Nessus
9 5 (3.97%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (3.17%) ZABBIX
11 3 (2.38%) AppManager
12 1 (0.79%) CFEngine
12 1 (0.79%) Cisco Prime
12 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.79%) Puppet
12 1 (0.79%) SELinux
12 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 70 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 63 (50.00%) VMware
3 22 (17.46%) Cisco
4 21 (16.67%) Citrix
4 21 (16.67%) Symantec
5 19 (15.08%) Veeam
6 18 (14.29%) Oracle
6 18 (14.29%) Palo Alto
7 17 (13.49%) Dell
8 16 (12.70%) Ivanti
9 15 (11.90%) Juniper
10 14 (11.11%) 3PAR
10 14 (11.11%) EMC
10 14 (11.11%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (11.11%) HP
11 8 (6.35%) SolarWinds
12 5 (3.97%) Red Hat
13 4 (3.17%) F5
13 4 (3.17%) FireEye
13 4 (3.17%) ServiceNow