DHCP Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 46 40
Rank change year-on-year -28 -6 +19
Contract jobs citing DHCP 2 8 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.22% 1.42% 3.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.00% 9.30% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - £210 £160
25th Percentile £238 £251 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £320 £338
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% -5.19% -3.57%
75th Percentile £313 £354 £491
90th Percentile - £374 £559
England median daily rate £521 £423 £465
% change year-on-year +23.37% -9.13% -1.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.20 -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £27.10 £26.06
% change year-on-year +176.75% +4.00% +18.44%

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 50 86 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.52% 15.22% 15.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 37 75
10th Percentile £143 £151 £199
25th Percentile £154 £180 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £320 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% -24.71% -0.70%
75th Percentile £475 £638 £550
90th Percentile £550 £715 £618
England median daily rate £490 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -2.00% +0.50% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £15.58 £20.30 £10.76
25th Percentile £15.61 £21.00 £12.51
Median hourly rate £17.79 £24.18 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -26.44% +8.55% -5.21%
75th Percentile £20.44 - £54.00
90th Percentile £23.27 £24.74 -
England median hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +10.00% -38.04% +125.96%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DHCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DHCP

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DHCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DHCP

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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 9 January 2026. 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
Derbyshire -2 1 - - 3
Nottinghamshire - 1 £275 - 2
DHCP
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware