Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 239 295
Rank change year-on-year -17 +56 +50
Contract jobs citing DHCP 416 676 831
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.96% 1.13% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.41% 9.17% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 499 568
10th Percentile £213 £213 £200
25th Percentile £350 £356 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £543
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £390
% change year-on-year +0.95% +21.79% -2.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 29
10th Percentile £17.00 £20.28 £20.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £33.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £41.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% +82.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £48.75 £52.13 £48.48
90th Percentile £67.50 - £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £44.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year -10.97% +108.97% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DHCP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +17 376 £475 -4.52% 292
UK excluding London -3 269 £480 +0.95% 243
South East +41 128 £500 -3.15% 59
London +28 124 £450 -17.05% 60
Work from Home -23 108 £465 -10.58% 84
Midlands +2 40 £413 +3.13% 56
North of England -28 35 £384 -21.28% 67
South West -12 34 £538 +13.16% 19
West Midlands +22 32 £525 - 37
Scotland +34 24 £258 -43.44% 15
North West -18 18 £394 -7.46% 47
Yorkshire -10 15 £378 -28.10% 18
East Midlands -8 7 £325 -13.33% 19
East of England -20 6 £425 -20.93% 29
Wales +7 4 £725 +31.82% 4
North East +16 2 £613 +46.27% 3

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 96 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (6.25%) Confluence
3 20 (4.81%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.44%) IIS
5 4 (0.96%) Apache
5 4 (0.96%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.72%) Apache Solr
6 3 (0.72%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 24 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.48%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 116 (27.88%) Azure
2 100 (24.04%) Microsoft 365
3 67 (16.11%) AWS
4 46 (11.06%) Entra ID
5 23 (5.53%) IaaS
6 21 (5.05%) GCP
7 19 (4.57%) Azure Storage
7 19 (4.57%) OCI
8 17 (4.09%) PaaS
9 16 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
10 15 (3.61%) SaaS
11 13 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (2.40%) Nutanix
13 9 (2.16%) Rubrik
14 8 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (1.92%) OneDrive
15 7 (1.68%) Mimecast
15 7 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (1.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 396 (95.19%) DNS
2 157 (37.74%) Firewall
3 105 (25.24%) TCP/IP
4 90 (21.63%) LAN
5 84 (20.19%) WAN
6 70 (16.83%) VPN
7 59 (14.18%) VLAN
8 58 (13.94%) SAN
9 42 (10.10%) Wi-Fi
10 38 (9.13%) Wireless
11 34 (8.17%) BGP
12 31 (7.45%) MPLS
13 29 (6.97%) OSPF
14 23 (5.53%) Cisco Nexus
15 22 (5.29%) NAS
16 21 (5.05%) Network Security
17 19 (4.57%) Cisco ASA
18 17 (4.09%) SNMP
19 14 (3.37%) SD-WAN
20 13 (3.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.01%) SQL Server
2 16 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (2.16%) MySQL
4 6 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.20%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (0.96%) Redis
7 3 (0.72%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.72%) Power BI
8 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.24%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.24%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 31 (7.45%) JIRA
2 16 (3.85%) Git
3 11 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.92%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) Axure RP
7 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.24%) Darcs
7 1 (0.24%) Gradle
7 1 (0.24%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.24%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.24%) MSI
7 1 (0.24%) Subversion
7 1 (0.24%) Travis CI
General
1 144 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 42 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (9.62%) Finance
4 26 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.81%) Telecoms
6 18 (4.33%) Military
7 16 (3.85%) Banking
8 9 (2.16%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.92%) Mandarin Language
10 5 (1.20%) Investment Banking
11 4 (0.96%) Retail
12 3 (0.72%) French Language
12 3 (0.72%) Front Office
12 3 (0.72%) German Language
12 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.48%) Automotive
13 2 (0.48%) Cantonese Language
13 2 (0.48%) Portuguese Language
13 2 (0.48%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 96 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (12.74%) Network Engineer
3 43 (10.34%) Senior
4 33 (7.93%) Analyst
4 33 (7.93%) Architect
4 33 (7.93%) Support Engineer
5 23 (5.53%) IT Support
6 22 (5.29%) IT Engineer
7 19 (4.57%) Support Specialist
8 18 (4.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (4.09%) IT Analyst
9 17 (4.09%) Test Engineer
10 16 (3.85%) Active Directory Support
10 16 (3.85%) Wintel Engineer
11 15 (3.61%) Active Directory Specialist
11 15 (3.61%) Azure Specialist
11 15 (3.61%) Integration Engineer
11 15 (3.61%) Test and Integration Engineer
12 14 (3.37%) Server Engineer
13 12 (2.88%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.45%) LDAP
2 15 (3.61%) ARM Templates
3 8 (1.92%) .NET
4 5 (1.20%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.20%) NETCONF
4 5 (1.20%) Node.js
4 5 (1.20%) Web Services
5 4 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.72%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.72%) Jinja
6 3 (0.72%) JSON
6 3 (0.72%) Kafka
6 3 (0.72%) RESTful
6 3 (0.72%) XML
6 3 (0.72%) XMPP
6 3 (0.72%) YANG
7 2 (0.48%) ADSI
7 2 (0.48%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.48%) React
8 1 (0.24%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 81 (19.47%) PKI
2 77 (18.51%) Data Centre
3 39 (9.38%) Clustering
4 24 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.37%) Client/Server
5 14 (3.37%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.37%) Private Cloud
6 13 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.40%) Replication
8 9 (2.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 8 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.68%) NHS
11 6 (1.44%) CCTV
12 5 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 4 (0.96%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (0.96%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.96%) Embedded Systems
13 4 (0.96%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 243 (58.41%) Windows
2 166 (39.90%) Windows Server
3 89 (21.39%) Linux
4 67 (16.11%) Windows 10
5 59 (14.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 56 (13.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 47 (11.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 29 (6.97%) Windows 7
9 28 (6.73%) Unix
10 18 (4.33%) Windows Server 2008
11 17 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 13 (3.13%) Windows Server 2003
12 13 (3.13%) Windows XP
13 9 (2.16%) Solaris
13 9 (2.16%) Ubuntu
14 8 (1.92%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.96%) Apple iOS
16 3 (0.72%) Android
16 3 (0.72%) CentOS
16 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (26.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 82 (19.71%) ITIL
3 70 (16.83%) Agile
4 66 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (13.94%) Migration
6 42 (10.10%) Infrastructure as Code
7 36 (8.65%) DevOps
8 35 (8.41%) High Availability
9 33 (7.93%) Disaster Recovery
10 32 (7.69%) Service Management
11 31 (7.45%) Customer Service
12 30 (7.21%) Computer Science
13 29 (6.97%) Project Management
13 29 (6.97%) RBAC
14 28 (6.73%) Cybersecurity
14 28 (6.73%) Release Management
14 28 (6.73%) Server Management
14 28 (6.73%) Storage Management
15 25 (6.01%) Analytics
15 25 (6.01%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (30.05%) PowerShell
2 51 (12.26%) Python
3 35 (8.41%) SQL
4 28 (6.73%) C#
5 26 (6.25%) VBScript
6 20 (4.81%) Java
7 16 (3.85%) Bash
7 16 (3.85%) VB
8 15 (3.61%) Bicep
9 11 (2.64%) Perl
10 9 (2.16%) Go
11 6 (1.44%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.20%) C
13 4 (0.96%) Ruby
14 3 (0.72%) C++
14 3 (0.72%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.72%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 122 (29.33%) Security Cleared
2 90 (21.63%) Degree
3 81 (19.47%) SC Cleared
4 74 (17.79%) Cisco Certification
5 69 (16.59%) DV Cleared
6 55 (13.22%) CCNA
7 47 (11.30%) CCNP
8 42 (10.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (6.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 23 (5.53%) MCSE
11 20 (4.81%) MCSA
12 16 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 15 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (2.64%) Azure Certification
15 8 (1.92%) A+ Certification
15 8 (1.92%) AWS Certification
15 8 (1.92%) CCIE
15 8 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (1.44%) Network+ Certification
17 5 (1.20%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.13%) GDPR
2 10 (2.40%) SLA
3 8 (1.92%) NIST
3 8 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (0.96%) QA
5 3 (0.72%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.72%) NCSC
6 2 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 255 (61.30%) Active Directory
2 133 (31.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (13.94%) Hyper-V
3 58 (13.94%) VMware ESXi
4 38 (9.13%) Virtual Machines
5 30 (7.21%) vSphere
6 26 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (5.29%) Docker
8 21 (5.05%) XenApp
9 18 (4.33%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (3.85%) VMware Workstation
11 15 (3.61%) VMware NSX
12 12 (2.88%) Terminal Services
13 10 (2.40%) BitLocker
14 8 (1.92%) KVM
15 6 (1.44%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (1.44%) XenDesktop
16 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.96%) Firmware
18 2 (0.48%) NFS
Systems Management
1 98 (23.56%) SCCM
2 56 (13.46%) vCenter Server
3 48 (11.54%) WSUS
4 42 (10.10%) SCOM
5 38 (9.13%) Kubernetes
6 33 (7.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 33 (7.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 31 (7.45%) Ansible
8 26 (6.25%) Terraform
9 21 (5.05%) EMC NetWorker
9 21 (5.05%) NetBackup
10 14 (3.37%) Microsoft Clustering
11 11 (2.64%) FortiGate
11 11 (2.64%) Nagios
12 8 (1.92%) Netcool
12 8 (1.92%) Puppet
12 8 (1.92%) Tivoli
12 8 (1.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 7 (1.68%) Nessus
13 7 (1.68%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 193 (46.39%) Microsoft
2 162 (38.94%) VMware
3 93 (22.36%) Cisco
4 45 (10.82%) Citrix
4 45 (10.82%) Palo Alto
5 42 (10.10%) Dell
6 34 (8.17%) Veeam
7 32 (7.69%) HP
8 28 (6.73%) Symantec
9 27 (6.49%) Oracle
10 26 (6.25%) SolarWinds
11 24 (5.77%) Infoblox
12 23 (5.53%) EMC
13 21 (5.05%) F5
13 21 (5.05%) Juniper
14 20 (4.81%) CheckPoint
15 16 (3.85%) Splunk
16 15 (3.61%) Ivanti
16 15 (3.61%) ServiceNow
17 14 (3.37%) Google