DHCP Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 24 35
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing DHCP 4 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.86% 4.32% 1.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.18% 28.00% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £47 £82 -
25th Percentile £55 £135 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £68 £224 £325
Median % change year-on-year -69.51% -31.15% -43.97%
75th Percentile £82 £312 £338
90th Percentile £90 £365 -
East of England median daily rate £225 £245 £363
% change year-on-year -8.16% -32.41% -14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £47.36 £32.00 -
25th Percentile £56.21 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £72.23 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.56% - -
75th Percentile £89.49 £45.00 -
90th Percentile £99.10 £48.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £72.23 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +80.56% +122.22% +4.44%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 22 25 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 10.23% 15.43% 14.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 20
10th Percentile £61 £187 £311
25th Percentile £95 £306 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £511 £545 £500
90th Percentile £643 £580 £553
East of England median daily rate £413 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -13.16% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £49.16 £29.20 -
25th Percentile £60.73 £29.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £80.00 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% -42.86% +237.40%
75th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £100.40 £46.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £55.50 £35.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +58.57% -46.15% +4.00%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DHCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

DHCP job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing DHCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing DHCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DHCP in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DHCP in Bedfordshire

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 2025. 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
Bedford +3 2 £41 -
Luton -7 2 £95 - 3
DHCP
East of England

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Local Government
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE
1 2 (50.00%) CCIE Security
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
1 2 (50.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (50.00%) Zscaler