DHCP Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 44 46
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +24
Contract jobs citing DHCP 1 2 10
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.19% 0.71% 1.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.92% 4.76% 9.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 10
10th Percentile - - £410
25th Percentile - £149 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £150 £465
Median % change year-on-year +274.58% -67.85% -9.27%
75th Percentile - £150 -
90th Percentile - - £465
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.85%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 52 42 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 10.08% 14.84% 19.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 27 86
10th Percentile £130 £140 £239
25th Percentile £313 £318 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £578
90th Percentile £641 £656 £825
South East median daily rate £480 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -4.00% +7.53% -7.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 20
10th Percentile - - £17.93
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.18%
75th Percentile - - £34.69
90th Percentile - - £48.75
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £56.95
% change year-on-year -22.05% +9.75% +26.56%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing DHCP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing DHCP

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 21 February 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -11 1 £560 - 4
DHCP
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory