DHCP Contracts in the East Midlands

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 48 59 54
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +23
Contract jobs citing DHCP 8 7 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.49% 0.91% 2.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.27% 7.61% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 25
10th Percentile £373 - -
25th Percentile £425 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £325 £375
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -13.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £603 £375 £700
90th Percentile £619 £435 -
England median daily rate £519 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +9.21% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - - £38.50
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.80 £40.00 £41.13
% change year-on-year -35.51% -2.74% +91.28%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 71 92 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.25% 11.90% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 58 123
10th Percentile - £176 £231
25th Percentile £200 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +12.36% +22.76%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £622
90th Percentile £651 £653 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 11
10th Percentile - £12.47 £16.25
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £22.26
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -35.89% +11.30%
75th Percentile - £26.15 £36.25
90th Percentile £21.98 - £40.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the East Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the East Midlands

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the East Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the East Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire - 7 £500 - 4
Nottinghamshire +7 1 - - 4
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
2 6 (75.00%) Firewall
3 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (12.50%) LAN
5 1 (12.50%) VPN
5 1 (12.50%) WAN
5 1 (12.50%) WLAN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support
2 1 (12.50%) IT Support Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) CentOS
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Rocky
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Agile
1 1 (12.50%) Coaching
1 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
1 1 (12.50%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (12.50%) ITIL
1 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
1 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
1 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
1 1 (12.50%) Project Management
1 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
1 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) CCNA
1 5 (62.50%) CCNP
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Firmware
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
1 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) CheckPoint
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft