DHCP Contracts in Birmingham

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 57 51
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 +19
Contract jobs citing DHCP 9 9 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.70% 1.16% 2.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.52% 7.03% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 20
10th Percentile £207 - £301
25th Percentile £243 £200 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.14% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £400 £380 £700
90th Percentile - £551 -
West Midlands median daily rate £255 £400 £425
% change year-on-year -36.25% -5.88% +21.43%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 128 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.74% 16.49% 19.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 76 88
10th Percentile £237 £216 £289
25th Percentile £391 £263 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £568 £488 £700
90th Percentile £609 £600 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £44.35 £13.78 -
25th Percentile £44.88 £14.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £21.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +121.44% +41.50% -25.00%
75th Percentile £50.38 £28.75 £18.75
90th Percentile £51.65 £41.99 £20.21
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £16.98 £22.41
% change year-on-year +76.73% -24.25% +19.52%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in Birmingham

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in Birmingham

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Birmingham over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in Birmingham

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) Wireless
3 2 (22.22%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
3 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
4 1 (11.11%) HTTP
4 1 (11.11%) Internet
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (11.11%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
4 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) VLAN
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Maven
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Network Support
2 2 (22.22%) Network Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Project Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Driving Licence
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) CentOS
3 1 (11.11%) Debian
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Agile
1 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
1 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
1 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
1 1 (11.11%) DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) High Availability
1 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL
1 1 (11.11%) Log Aggregation
1 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
1 1 (11.11%) Network Management
1 1 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
1 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
1 1 (11.11%) Server Management
1 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CCNA
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) MCP
2 1 (11.11%) MCSA
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Prime
1 2 (22.22%) OpenView
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
2 1 (11.11%) Nessus
2 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper
4 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (11.11%) Sophos