DHCP Contracts in Cheshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 47 54 62
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -22
Contract jobs citing DHCP 11 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.45% 0.79% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.92% 5.19% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile £291 £419 -
25th Percentile £313 £447 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% - -
75th Percentile £468 £495 -
90th Percentile £474 £509 -
North West median daily rate £425 £394 £425
% change year-on-year +7.94% -7.35% +47.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 65 77 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.48% 15.28% 17.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 58
10th Percentile £203 £65 £248
25th Percentile £313 £199 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.81% +20.38%
75th Percentile £492 £519 £569
90th Percentile £584 £582 £630
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - +19.55% -5.90%
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in Cheshire

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in Cheshire

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Cheshire

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in Cheshire

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Cheshire 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
Warrington +1 7 £350 -26.32% 2
Knutsford - 1 £470 -
Runcorn - 1 £210 - 1
DHCP
North West

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (27.27%) IIS
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) DMZ
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
General
1 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Administrator
1 6 (54.55%) VMWare Administrator
1 6 (54.55%) Wintel Administrator
2 3 (27.27%) Build Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Build Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Server Build Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Server Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (90.91%) Windows Server
3 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2012
3 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2016
3 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
4 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Patch Management
1 6 (54.55%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 3 (27.27%) High Availability
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Resource Management
3 3 (27.27%) Server Building
4 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) ITSM
4 1 (9.09%) Line Management
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) SC Cleared
1 6 (54.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (54.55%) Hyper-V
2 6 (54.55%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) vCenter Server
2 4 (36.36%) WSUS
3 3 (27.27%) Dell DRAC
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Clustering
3 3 (27.27%) NetApp OnCommand
3 3 (27.27%) vMotion
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (63.64%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) Dell
4 2 (18.18%) CyberArk