DHCP Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 42 64
Rank change year-on-year -22 +22 -5
Contract jobs citing DHCP 14 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.64% 2.10% 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.29% 19.64% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £128 £358 -
25th Percentile £170 £366 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £385 £275
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +40.00% -43.59%
75th Percentile £491 £426 £397
90th Percentile £525 £447 £481
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £385 £400
% change year-on-year +10.39% -3.75% -13.98%

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 124 56 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.55% 10.69% 21.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 34 97
10th Percentile £200 £158 £200
25th Percentile £263 £355 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £510 £350
Median % change year-on-year -16.71% +45.79% -22.22%
75th Percentile £525 £590 £488
90th Percentile £600 £697 £615
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £475 £400
% change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 12
10th Percentile - - £13.33
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year - +110.53% +90.00%
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - £72.36
West Midlands median hourly rate £58.00 £24.22 £22.50
% change year-on-year +139.47% +7.64% +4.37%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Birmingham

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing DHCP

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Birmingham over the 6 months to 12 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Birmingham

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing DHCP

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 7 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) DNS
2 7 (50.00%) BGP
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 7 (50.00%) NX-OS
2 7 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 7 (50.00%) Wireless
3 6 (42.86%) VPN
4 4 (28.57%) Firewall
5 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
6 2 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 7 (50.00%) Banking
1 7 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Network Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) RF Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Wireless Engineer
2 7 (50.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 2 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) IT Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) IT Support
3 2 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) User Experience
2 4 (28.57%) High Availability
2 4 (28.57%) Network Optimisation
3 3 (21.43%) Change Management
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (14.29%) CRM
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 2 (14.29%) Disk Encryption
4 2 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 2 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.14%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) CCNP
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (14.29%) MCDST
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Cisco
1 7 (50.00%) Ekahau
1 7 (50.00%) Remedy
1 7 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) iManage
3 2 (14.29%) Mitel