DHCP Contracts in the East of England

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 89 99
Rank change year-on-year +16 +10 -11
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DHCP 18 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.41% 0.58% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.56% 3.45% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 12
10th Percentile £196 £149 £300
25th Percentile £305 £302 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £413 £600
Median % change year-on-year +26.06% -31.25% +41.18%
75th Percentile £575 £497 £700
90th Percentile £590 £559 -
England median daily rate £500 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £32.00 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £35.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.73 £40.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% +150.00% -2.85%
75th Percentile £57.46 £45.00 £16.50
90th Percentile £86.29 £48.00 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -36.84% +39.71% +58.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East of England

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 of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 238 261 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.70% 16.72% 18.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 122 212
10th Percentile £225 £206 £225
25th Percentile £363 £261 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £575
90th Percentile £688 £575 £700
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 70 49
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £16.77
25th Percentile £28.85 £17.27 £57.50
Median hourly rate £62.25 £49.28 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -24.18% +136.41%
75th Percentile £76.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.65 - £73.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.76% -1.32% +50.64%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the East of England

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the East of England

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

DHCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DHCP in the East of England over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DHCP in the East of England

DHCP
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +12 9 £479 +12.65% 7
Hertfordshire +15 4 £550 -8.33% 6
Bedfordshire -8 2 - - 2
Suffolk - 2 £520 - 6
Essex - 1 £238 - 6
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
3 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) DNS
2 10 (55.56%) Firewall
3 9 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
4 7 (38.89%) PuTTY
5 6 (33.33%) LAN
6 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
7 4 (22.22%) WAN
7 4 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (22.22%) Wireless
7 4 (22.22%) WLAN
8 3 (16.67%) SAN
9 2 (11.11%) BIG-IP
9 2 (11.11%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (11.11%) IOS XR
9 2 (11.11%) IPsec
9 2 (11.11%) Network Security
9 2 (11.11%) VLAN
9 2 (11.11%) VPN
10 1 (5.56%) iSCSI
10 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
General
1 7 (38.89%) Manufacturing
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Local Government
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Analyst
1 8 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Network Analyst
2 7 (38.89%) Support Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Network Support
3 5 (27.78%) Network Support Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Network Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Designer
5 2 (11.11%) Network Designer
6 1 (5.56%) 1st Line Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Network Security Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Security Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Senior
6 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.56%) CentOS
4 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (11.11%) Break/Fix
3 2 (11.11%) Change Management
3 2 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL
3 2 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 2 (11.11%) Network Design
3 2 (11.11%) Process Improvement
3 2 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (5.56%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.56%) Server Building
4 1 (5.56%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Bash
2 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (61.11%) CCNA
3 7 (38.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (38.89%) Degree
4 5 (27.78%) CCNP
5 1 (5.56%) CCIE
5 1 (5.56%) CCIE Security
5 1 (5.56%) CISSP
5 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) GIAC
5 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) AppManager
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Cisco
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) ServiceNow
4 3 (16.67%) VMware
5 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 2 (11.11%) F5
5 2 (11.11%) Meraki
5 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 2 (11.11%) Peregrine
5 2 (11.11%) Remedy
6 1 (5.56%) Aruba
6 1 (5.56%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (5.56%) Citrix
6 1 (5.56%) Dell
6 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.56%) HP
6 1 (5.56%) Ivanti
6 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.56%) Veeam
6 1 (5.56%) Zscaler