DHCP Contracts in Berkshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 68 81
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +24
Contract jobs citing DHCP 18 56 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.53% 2.82% 1.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.61% 11.38% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 52 23
10th Percentile £325 £351 £250
25th Percentile £344 £603 £555
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £605 £675
Median % change year-on-year -30.79% -10.37% +70.99%
75th Percentile £583 £609 £719
90th Percentile £668 £675 £792
South East median daily rate £575 £500 £516
% change year-on-year +15.00% -3.15% +29.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 209 492 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 17.82% 24.80% 18.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 217 184
10th Percentile £270 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £310 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +0.51% +4.48%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £590 £619 £675
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 25 14
10th Percentile £19.73 £40.70 £19.65
25th Percentile £21.58 £76.99 £25.13
Median hourly rate £24.66 £83.77 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.56% +26.92% +288.24%
75th Percentile £58.58 £87.46 £80.25
90th Percentile £78.93 £87.53 £81.26
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wokingham +1 17 £363 +16.94% 1
DHCP
South East

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 8 (44.44%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Storage
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) DNS
2 11 (61.11%) FTP
2 11 (61.11%) SMTP
2 11 (61.11%) Telnet
3 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
4 4 (22.22%) tcpdump
5 1 (5.56%) Firewall
General
1 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
1 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Support
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Coordinator
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Coordinator
4 1 (5.56%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) LDAP
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Linux
2 12 (66.67%) Windows
3 8 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (44.44%) Windows Server
4 5 (27.78%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
3 5 (27.78%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (27.78%) Workflow
3 5 (27.78%) Workflow Management
4 4 (22.22%) DevSecOps
4 4 (22.22%) High Availability
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (22.22%) Server Migrations
4 4 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (11.11%) Ticket Management
7 1 (5.56%) DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (5.56%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 1 (5.56%) Patch Management
7 1 (5.56%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Bicep
1 1 (5.56%) C#
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
1 1 (5.56%) VB
1 1 (5.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (94.44%) Security Cleared
2 16 (88.89%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) NFS
2 8 (44.44%) Samba
3 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
4 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) yum
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (22.22%) NetBackup
4 3 (16.67%) Ansible
5 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.56%) SCCM
5 1 (5.56%) SCOM
5 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) VMware
2 8 (44.44%) Red Hat
3 7 (38.89%) HP
4 4 (22.22%) 3PAR
4 4 (22.22%) Dell
4 4 (22.22%) Veritas
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.56%) Intel