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 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 111 120 151
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 +6
Contract jobs citing DHCP 18 13 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.90% 0.53% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.37% 5.35% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 16
10th Percentile £211 - £239
25th Percentile £263 £385 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -9.09% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £456 £578
90th Percentile £624 £475 £681
London median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +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 215 243 388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.77% 9.93% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 169 269
10th Percentile £263 £211 £208
25th Percentile £448 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £600 £675
90th Percentile £711 £739 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £560
% change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £16.59 £24.64
90th Percentile - £17.99 £30.86
London median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%

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

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Central London

DHCP
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

DHCP
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 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
City of London +15 16 £556 +33.05% 8
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 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Entra ID
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) Google Workspace
4 2 (11.11%) Serverless
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.56%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
3 4 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (16.67%) Firewall
4 3 (16.67%) VPN
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (11.11%) VLAN
5 2 (11.11%) Wireshark
6 1 (5.56%) BGP
6 1 (5.56%) BIG-IP
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (5.56%) HTTP
6 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
6 1 (5.56%) LAN
6 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.56%) VRRP
6 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.11%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) IT Support
2 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Senior
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Support
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (11.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 3 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Smartphone
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
2 5 (27.78%) Apple iOS
2 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
3 4 (22.22%) Mac OS
4 3 (16.67%) Android
4 3 (16.67%) Unix
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 3 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
5 2 (11.11%) Asset Management
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
5 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (11.11%) ITSM
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (11.11%) Network Design
5 2 (11.11%) Protective Monitoring
5 2 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 6 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.11%) Perl
2 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.56%) Bicep
3 1 (5.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) JNCIP
4 1 (5.56%) MCSE
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) BitLocker
3 1 (5.56%) Firmware
3 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (22.22%) SCCM
3 3 (16.67%) Terraform
4 2 (11.11%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco LMS
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (5.56%) OPNET
5 1 (5.56%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco
2 3 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 2 (11.11%) Google
3 2 (11.11%) Infoblox
3 2 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (5.56%) Apple
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) F5
4 1 (5.56%) Meraki
4 1 (5.56%) Nexthink
4 1 (5.56%) Remedy
4 1 (5.56%) Veeam
4 1 (5.56%) Zscaler