DHCP Contracts in Central London

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
London > Central London

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 125 148
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 +26
Contract jobs citing DHCP 17 9 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.87% 0.38% 0.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.37% 3.70% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 21
10th Percentile £253 - £213
25th Percentile £291 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £473
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +3.17% -14.09%
75th Percentile £600 £528 £675
90th Percentile £624 £542 £700
London median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 203 243 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.37% 10.36% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 161 270
10th Percentile £250 £239 £180
25th Percentile £385 £350 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £669
90th Percentile £760 £738 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £27.56 - £20.43
25th Percentile £33.28 £12.75 £20.74
Median hourly rate £44.11 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +226.72% -40.00% -46.75%
75th Percentile £55.49 £14.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £61.54 - £32.75
London median hourly rate £37.50 £23.80 £38.27
% change year-on-year +57.56% -37.81% +39.16%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in Central London

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Central London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
City of London +14 16 £500 - 44
West End of London +2 1 £250 -52.38% 2
City of Westminster - 1 £250 - 2
DHCP
London

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (11.76%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (100.00%) DNS
2 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
3 4 (23.53%) VPN
4 3 (17.65%) VLAN
5 2 (11.76%) Firewall
5 2 (11.76%) NetScaler
5 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (5.88%) HTTP
6 1 (5.88%) IOS XR
6 1 (5.88%) IPsec
6 1 (5.88%) LAN
6 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) IT Support
2 3 (17.65%) Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Citrix Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Documentation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) SCCM Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix Support
4 1 (5.88%) IT Operations Manager
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Support Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows 10
3 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Apple iOS
4 2 (11.76%) Mac OS
4 2 (11.76%) Unix
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (23.53%) Migration
3 3 (17.65%) Asset Management
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) Load Balancing
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Time Management
4 2 (11.76%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
4 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (11.76%) SDLC
5 1 (5.88%) ITSM
5 1 (5.88%) Network Design
5 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
5 1 (5.88%) Service Management
5 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) VBScript
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) Perl
4 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.88%) CCNA
2 1 (5.88%) CCNP
2 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) SCCM
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.76%) Terraform
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco LMS
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Citrix
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) F5
3 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
3 1 (5.88%) Meraki
3 1 (5.88%) Nexthink
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) Zscaler