DHCP Contracts in the Thames Valley

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 100 111
Rank change year-on-year +33 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing DHCP 68 50 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.56% 1.72% 1.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.62% 10.87% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 37 29
10th Percentile £351 £185 £178
25th Percentile £465 £250 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £520 £388
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% +34.19% -6.06%
75th Percentile £608 £694 £455
90th Percentile £649 £757 £529
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £400
% change year-on-year -3.85% +29.99% -8.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.25 £43.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year +26.29% +103.49% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 585 460 616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 22.00% 15.86% 17.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 288 348
10th Percentile £205 £300 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £467
Median % change year-on-year +2.51% +4.54% +16.65%
75th Percentile £600 £571 £560
90th Percentile £650 £650 £641
South East median daily rate £490 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +0.51% +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 14 18
10th Percentile £17.58 £19.65 £12.19
25th Percentile £23.63 £25.13 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -47.29%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.47 £81.26 £38.80
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £54.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +5.23% +153.49% -49.41%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the Thames Valley

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 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
Berkshire +23 57 £605 -10.37% 10
Buckinghamshire +23 8 £465 +23.99% 5
Oxfordshire +4 3 £180 -24.21% 6
DHCP
South East

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 24 (35.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 36 (52.94%) Azure
2 18 (26.47%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 17 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 14 (20.59%) OCI
5 3 (4.41%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (100.00%) DNS
2 35 (51.47%) Firewall
3 18 (26.47%) SAN
4 4 (5.88%) NAS
5 1 (1.47%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.47%) IP Telephony
5 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.47%) VLAN
5 1 (1.47%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (5.88%) MySQL
2 4 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Axure RP
1 1 (1.47%) MSI
General
1 36 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (4.41%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (1.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (45.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (23.53%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (22.06%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (20.59%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (20.59%) Support Specialist
5 11 (16.18%) Architect
6 10 (14.71%) Storage Engineer
7 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
7 8 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
9 6 (8.82%) Senior
9 6 (8.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (8.82%) Support Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Server Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support
11 3 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) PowerShell Engineer
11 3 (4.41%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (23.53%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 30 (44.12%) PKI
2 23 (33.82%) Data Centre
3 18 (26.47%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (13.24%) Private Cloud
5 4 (5.88%) Fat Client
5 4 (5.88%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.47%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 49 (72.06%) Windows
2 42 (61.76%) Windows Server
3 36 (52.94%) Linux
3 36 (52.94%) Windows Server 2019
4 32 (47.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (25.00%) Windows 10
6 16 (23.53%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (20.59%) Windows XP
8 4 (5.88%) Ubuntu
9 3 (4.41%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (58.82%) ITIL
2 33 (48.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (36.76%) Agile
4 22 (32.35%) Release Management
5 20 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (26.47%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 17 (25.00%) Analytics
7 17 (25.00%) Identity Management
7 17 (25.00%) Log Analytics
7 17 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
7 17 (25.00%) RBAC
7 17 (25.00%) Service Management
8 16 (23.53%) CI/CD
8 16 (23.53%) DevOps
8 16 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (22.06%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (22.06%) Project Management
10 14 (20.59%) Performance Monitoring
10 14 (20.59%) Performance Tuning
10 14 (20.59%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (54.41%) PowerShell
2 17 (25.00%) C#
2 17 (25.00%) VB
2 17 (25.00%) VBScript
3 16 (23.53%) Bicep
4 1 (1.47%) Perl
4 1 (1.47%) Python
Qualifications
1 53 (77.94%) Security Cleared
2 44 (64.71%) DV Cleared
3 42 (61.76%) SC Cleared
4 39 (57.35%) Degree
5 17 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (20.59%) CCNA
6 14 (20.59%) CCNP
6 14 (20.59%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 52 (76.47%) Active Directory
2 25 (36.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (29.41%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (26.47%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (22.06%) Hyper-V
7 6 (8.82%) XenApp
7 6 (8.82%) XenDesktop
8 1 (1.47%) Docker
8 1 (1.47%) NFS
8 1 (1.47%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 38 (55.88%) WSUS
2 37 (54.41%) SCCM
3 31 (45.59%) SCOM
4 21 (30.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 21 (30.88%) vCenter Server
5 20 (29.41%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (26.47%) Kubernetes
7 14 (20.59%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (20.59%) NetBackup
8 7 (10.29%) Ansible
9 4 (5.88%) Nessus
9 4 (5.88%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (5.88%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.47%) CFEngine
10 1 (1.47%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 27 (39.71%) VMware
3 18 (26.47%) Oracle
3 18 (26.47%) Veeam
4 14 (20.59%) 3PAR
4 14 (20.59%) Cisco
4 14 (20.59%) Dell
4 14 (20.59%) EMC
4 14 (20.59%) Extreme Networks
4 14 (20.59%) HP
4 14 (20.59%) Juniper
4 14 (20.59%) Palo Alto
4 14 (20.59%) Symantec
5 8 (11.76%) Citrix
6 4 (5.88%) FireEye
6 4 (5.88%) Red Hat
6 4 (5.88%) Tanium
7 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow