DHCP Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DHCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DHCP over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 92 111
Rank change year-on-year +11 +19 +14
Contract jobs citing DHCP 58 56 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.16% 1.95% 1.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.94% 11.02% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 42 37
10th Percentile £412 £185 £202
25th Percentile £573 £222 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £516 £410
Median % change year-on-year +17.19% +25.91% +9.33%
75th Percentile £608 £698 £488
90th Percentile - £751 £538
South East median daily rate £519 £513 £410
% change year-on-year +1.22% +25.00% -0.61%
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 £47.50 £43.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year +8.57% +103.49% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

DHCP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 530 508 660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.76% 17.66% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 300 373
10th Percentile £206 £267 £231
25th Percentile £363 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £550
90th Percentile £638 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £481 £450
% change year-on-year +4.05% +6.79% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 21
10th Percentile £16.73 £18.05 £12.25
25th Percentile £22.58 £19.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £69.42 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +308.34% -47.69%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.04 £25.00
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £22.10
% change year-on-year -4.42% +171.49% -48.00%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 +1 48 £605 -10.37% 13
Buckinghamshire +26 9 £465 +23.99% 3
Oxfordshire -5 1 - - 9
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 29 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (60.34%) Azure
2 21 (36.21%) Azure Monitor
2 21 (36.21%) Azure Storage
2 21 (36.21%) Entra ID
2 21 (36.21%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (24.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 58 (100.00%) DNS
2 35 (60.34%) Firewall
3 18 (31.03%) SAN
4 4 (6.90%) NAS
5 1 (1.72%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.72%) LAN
5 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (6.90%) MySQL
1 4 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) MSI
General
1 37 (63.79%) Social Skills
2 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (41.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (36.21%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (24.14%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (24.14%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (24.14%) Support Specialist
4 11 (18.97%) Support Engineer
5 10 (17.24%) Storage Engineer
6 9 (15.52%) Active Directory Engineer
7 7 (12.07%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 7 (12.07%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Architect
8 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Architect
8 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 5 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (6.90%) Server Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) 3rd Line Support
10 3 (5.17%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (36.21%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 33 (56.90%) PKI
2 21 (36.21%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (32.76%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.62%) Private Cloud
5 4 (6.90%) Fat Client
5 4 (6.90%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.72%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 46 (79.31%) Windows
2 41 (70.69%) Windows Server
3 40 (68.97%) Linux
3 40 (68.97%) Windows Server 2019
4 36 (62.07%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (27.59%) Windows 10
6 15 (25.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 14 (24.14%) Windows XP
8 4 (6.90%) Ubuntu
9 2 (3.45%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
10 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (75.86%) ITIL
2 29 (50.00%) Agile
3 27 (46.55%) Release Management
4 26 (44.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (36.21%) Analytics
5 21 (36.21%) CI/CD
5 21 (36.21%) DevOps
5 21 (36.21%) Identity Management
5 21 (36.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (36.21%) Log Analytics
5 21 (36.21%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 21 (36.21%) Privileged Identity Management
5 21 (36.21%) RBAC
5 21 (36.21%) Service Management
6 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (25.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (25.86%) Project Management
8 14 (24.14%) Converged Infrastructure
8 14 (24.14%) Performance Monitoring
8 14 (24.14%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 41 (70.69%) PowerShell
2 21 (36.21%) Bicep
2 21 (36.21%) C#
2 21 (36.21%) VB
2 21 (36.21%) VBScript
3 1 (1.72%) Perl
3 1 (1.72%) Python
Qualifications
1 54 (93.10%) Security Cleared
2 47 (81.03%) SC Cleared
3 44 (75.86%) Degree
3 44 (75.86%) DV Cleared
4 21 (36.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (24.14%) CCNA
5 14 (24.14%) CCNP
5 14 (24.14%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 52 (89.66%) Active Directory
2 22 (37.93%) Virtual Machines
3 21 (36.21%) Virtual Desktop
4 19 (32.76%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (32.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (24.14%) Hyper-V
6 4 (6.90%) XenApp
6 4 (6.90%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.72%) Docker
7 1 (1.72%) NFS
7 1 (1.72%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (67.24%) SCCM
1 39 (67.24%) WSUS
2 35 (60.34%) SCOM
3 25 (43.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 22 (37.93%) Kubernetes
5 21 (36.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (31.03%) vCenter Server
7 14 (24.14%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (24.14%) NetBackup
8 7 (12.07%) Ansible
9 4 (6.90%) Nessus
9 4 (6.90%) Red Hat Satellite
9 4 (6.90%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.72%) CFEngine
10 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 47 (81.03%) Microsoft
2 21 (36.21%) VMware
3 18 (31.03%) Oracle
3 18 (31.03%) Veeam
4 14 (24.14%) 3PAR
4 14 (24.14%) Cisco
4 14 (24.14%) Dell
4 14 (24.14%) EMC
4 14 (24.14%) Extreme Networks
4 14 (24.14%) HP
4 14 (24.14%) Juniper
4 14 (24.14%) Palo Alto
4 14 (24.14%) Symantec
5 5 (8.62%) Citrix
6 4 (6.90%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.45%) FireEye
7 2 (3.45%) Tanium
8 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow