DHCP Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 64 76
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 -
Contract jobs citing DHCP 5 5 7
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.85% 0.80% 0.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.80% 7.04% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £294 £203
25th Percentile £625 £375 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £468 £425
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% +10.18% -
75th Percentile £675 £498 £450
90th Percentile - £499 -
Scotland median daily rate £445 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +1.71% -2.78% +50.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 51 71 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.70% 11.41% 8.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 35 48
10th Percentile £258 £179 £130
25th Percentile £413 £405 £161
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £522 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +30.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile - £616 £541
90th Percentile £610 £671 £699
Scotland median daily rate £425 £438 £531
% change year-on-year -2.86% -17.53% +20.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £70.50 £20.68
25th Percentile - £71.25 £27.31
Median hourly rate £75.00 £72.50 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +84.71% +9.26%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £50.81
90th Percentile - £74.50 £57.23
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year +7.14% +18.58% +264.83%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing DHCP

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing DHCP

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Executive
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security
3 1 (20.00%) Information Security Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) COBIT
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP