DHCP Contracts in the City of London

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 103 118 159
Rank change year-on-year +15 +41 -8
Contract jobs citing DHCP 16 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.41% 0.52%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.47% 4.27% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 14
10th Percentile £192 - -
25th Percentile £313 £385 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £418 £510
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -18.14% -7.27%
75th Percentile £600 £475 £584
90th Percentile £629 £546 £684
Central London median daily rate £525 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +16.67% -9.09% -10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 169 211 362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.62% 9.60% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 141 249
10th Percentile £258 £213 £246
25th Percentile £475 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £744 £775 £759
Central London median daily rate £538 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.44% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (12.50%) GitHub
4 2 (12.50%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.25%) OneDrive
5 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
3 3 (18.75%) Firewall
3 3 (18.75%) VPN
4 2 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (12.50%) VLAN
4 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (12.50%) Wireshark
5 1 (6.25%) BGP
5 1 (6.25%) BIG-IP
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (6.25%) HTTP
5 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
5 1 (6.25%) LAN
5 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
5 1 (6.25%) VRRP
5 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) IT Support
2 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Support
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Data Centre
1 3 (18.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Windows 10
3 3 (18.75%) Apple iOS
3 3 (18.75%) Unix
4 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (6.25%) Android
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Agile
3 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Asset Management
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
4 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 2 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (12.50%) Network Design
4 2 (12.50%) Protective Monitoring
4 2 (12.50%) SDLC
5 1 (6.25%) Customer Service
5 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
1 6 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 2 (12.50%) Perl
2 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CCNP
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) JNCIP
2 1 (6.25%) MCSE
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) BitLocker
3 1 (6.25%) Firmware
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) SCCM
4 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco LMS
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (6.25%) OPNET
4 1 (6.25%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
3 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint
3 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 2 (12.50%) Infoblox
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) Apple
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) F5
4 1 (6.25%) Meraki
4 1 (6.25%) Nexthink
4 1 (6.25%) Remedy
4 1 (6.25%) Veeam
4 1 (6.25%) Zscaler