DHCP Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 42 46
Rank change year-on-year -29 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing DHCP 2 14 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.29% 2.59% 2.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.64% 17.95% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 4
10th Percentile - £338 £516
25th Percentile £313 £450 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £675 £563
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +20.00% +26.40%
75th Percentile £338 £744 £625
90th Percentile - £750 £648
North West median daily rate £438 £550 £424
% change year-on-year -20.45% +29.79% +5.94%

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 122 78 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.86% 14.44% 25.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 31 62
10th Percentile £313 £263 £365
25th Percentile £375 £386 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £510 £555
Median % change year-on-year -10.78% -8.11% +11.00%
75th Percentile £538 £656 £588
90th Percentile £688 £750 £612
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £486
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.88% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.06 - -
90th Percentile £67.25 - -
North West median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year -60.87% +191.13% -16.35%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Cheshire

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DHCP

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 3 October 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 -8 2 £325 -18.75%
DHCP
North West

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) VMWare Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Wintel Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Resource Management
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp OnCommand
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (100.00%) vMotion
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware