DHCP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 238 217 301
Rank change year-on-year -21 +84 +37
Contract jobs citing DHCP 103 279 359
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.68% 1.11% 0.82%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.57% 9.67% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 200 237
10th Percentile £300 £324 £300
25th Percentile £325 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.01% +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £540
90th Percentile £608 £700 £643
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.00 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £21.50
75th Percentile £21.38 - £57.29
90th Percentile £22.80 - £66.90
UK 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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,567 2,884 4,286
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.39% 11.50% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,020 1,907 2,899
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 94 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.10 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £26.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.19 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

DHCP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DHCP trend for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DHCP.

DHCP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DHCP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

DHCP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DHCP.

DHCP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 31 (30.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.77%) Confluence
3 4 (3.88%) IIS
4 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (40.78%) Azure
2 32 (31.07%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (21.36%) Entra ID
4 19 (18.45%) AWS
5 16 (15.53%) Azure Monitor
5 16 (15.53%) Azure Storage
5 16 (15.53%) IaaS
6 11 (10.68%) GCP
7 8 (7.77%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (7.77%) PaaS
8 7 (6.80%) Nutanix
8 7 (6.80%) Rubrik
8 7 (6.80%) SaaS
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.91%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 97 (94.17%) DNS
2 48 (46.60%) Firewall
3 28 (27.18%) TCP/IP
4 19 (18.45%) VLAN
5 14 (13.59%) VPN
6 13 (12.62%) SAN
7 11 (10.68%) LAN
8 9 (8.74%) BGP
8 9 (8.74%) NAS
8 9 (8.74%) Network Security
8 9 (8.74%) WAN
9 7 (6.80%) Kerberos
9 7 (6.80%) OSPF
10 6 (5.83%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (5.83%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (5.83%) HTTP
10 6 (5.83%) SNMP
11 5 (4.85%) MPLS
11 5 (4.85%) Wireless
12 4 (3.88%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.94%) Power BI
4 1 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.97%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.97%) MySQL
4 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.97%) Redis
4 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (9.71%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.74%) Git
2 9 (8.74%) JIRA
3 7 (6.80%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.97%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.97%) Darcs
5 1 (0.97%) Gradle
5 1 (0.97%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.97%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.97%) Subversion
5 1 (0.97%) Travis CI
General
1 33 (32.04%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.62%) Finance
3 6 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.85%) Banking
4 5 (4.85%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.91%) Retail
7 2 (1.94%) Front Office
8 1 (0.97%) Law
8 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (25.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (15.53%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (14.56%) Network Engineer
4 14 (13.59%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (13.59%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (13.59%) Support Specialist
5 11 (10.68%) Senior
6 10 (9.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Analyst
7 7 (6.80%) IT Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Active Directory Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Server Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 4 (3.88%) IT Support
9 4 (3.88%) Security Analyst
10 3 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.53%) ARM Templates
2 7 (6.80%) LDAP
3 4 (3.88%) .NET
4 2 (1.94%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.94%) ADSI
4 2 (1.94%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.97%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.97%) CSS
5 1 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.97%) HTML
5 1 (0.97%) Node.js
5 1 (0.97%) React
5 1 (0.97%) REST
5 1 (0.97%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.21%) PKI
2 19 (18.45%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (13.59%) Clustering
4 7 (6.80%) Replication
5 5 (4.85%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.88%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.91%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.94%) NHS
9 1 (0.97%) CBDC
9 1 (0.97%) Digital Currency
9 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.97%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 60 (58.25%) Windows
2 45 (43.69%) Windows Server
3 35 (33.98%) Linux
4 22 (21.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 19 (18.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (8.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (8.74%) Windows 10
6 9 (8.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (7.77%) Solaris
8 7 (6.80%) Oracle Linux
8 7 (6.80%) Windows 7
9 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (2.91%) Ubuntu
10 3 (2.91%) Unix
11 2 (1.94%) CentOS
11 2 (1.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (33.98%) Agile
2 29 (28.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 28 (27.18%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (25.24%) DevOps
4 26 (25.24%) ITIL
5 21 (20.39%) Release Management
6 20 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (18.45%) Service Management
8 18 (17.48%) RBAC
9 17 (16.50%) CI/CD
9 17 (16.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 16 (15.53%) Analytics
10 16 (15.53%) High Availability
10 16 (15.53%) Identity Management
10 16 (15.53%) Log Analytics
10 16 (15.53%) Privileged Identity Management
11 13 (12.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (9.71%) Computer Science
12 10 (9.71%) Security Hardening
12 10 (9.71%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (41.75%) PowerShell
2 20 (19.42%) VBScript
3 18 (17.48%) Python
4 17 (16.50%) C#
5 16 (15.53%) Bicep
5 16 (15.53%) VB
6 13 (12.62%) Bash
7 4 (3.88%) Perl
8 3 (2.91%) C++
8 3 (2.91%) Java
8 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.94%) SQL
9 2 (1.94%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.94%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.97%) C
10 1 (0.97%) Go
10 1 (0.97%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (32.04%) Degree
2 29 (28.16%) Security Cleared
3 24 (23.30%) SC Cleared
4 20 (19.42%) DV Cleared
5 18 (17.48%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (15.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 11 (10.68%) CCNA
7 11 (10.68%) CCNP
8 7 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (4.85%) CCDP
10 4 (3.88%) APMP
10 4 (3.88%) CEH
10 4 (3.88%) CISM
10 4 (3.88%) CISSP
10 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (3.88%) PMP
11 3 (2.91%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.94%) JNCIA
12 2 (1.94%) MCSA
12 2 (1.94%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) GDPR
2 7 (6.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (3.88%) SLA
4 2 (1.94%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.97%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.97%) NIST
5 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 71 (68.93%) Active Directory
2 30 (29.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (25.24%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (15.53%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (10.68%) Docker
6 9 (8.74%) Hyper-V
6 9 (8.74%) XenApp
7 8 (7.77%) vSphere
8 6 (5.83%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (4.85%) XenDesktop
10 3 (2.91%) Firmware
11 2 (1.94%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.94%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.97%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.97%) KVM
12 1 (0.97%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.97%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.97%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 33 (32.04%) SCCM
2 25 (24.27%) Kubernetes
3 22 (21.36%) WSUS
4 19 (18.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 18 (17.48%) SCOM
6 17 (16.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 12 (11.65%) Ansible
8 11 (10.68%) Terraform
9 7 (6.80%) EMC NetWorker
9 7 (6.80%) Netcool
9 7 (6.80%) Tivoli
9 7 (6.80%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 7 (6.80%) vCenter Server
10 4 (3.88%) Kibana
11 2 (1.94%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.94%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.94%) Nessus
11 2 (1.94%) Puppet
12 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.97%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 48 (46.60%) Microsoft
2 32 (31.07%) VMware
3 20 (19.42%) Cisco
4 12 (11.65%) Citrix
4 12 (11.65%) Dell
5 11 (10.68%) ServiceNow
5 11 (10.68%) Splunk
6 10 (9.71%) HP
7 9 (8.74%) Qualys
8 8 (7.77%) Oracle
8 8 (7.77%) Palo Alto
9 7 (6.80%) Aruba
9 7 (6.80%) CyberArk
9 7 (6.80%) EMC
9 7 (6.80%) IBM
9 7 (6.80%) Isilon
9 7 (6.80%) Serena
10 6 (5.83%) Arista
11 5 (4.85%) Symantec
11 5 (4.85%) Zscaler