DHCP Contract Job Trends in England

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 222 250
Rank change year-on-year -35 +28 -2
Contract jobs citing DHCP 421 330 351
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 1.22% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.89% 9.66% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 226 263
10th Percentile £210 £250 £243
25th Percentile £394 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £511 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% +7.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £575
90th Percentile £630 £631 £608
UK median daily rate £475 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 13 17
10th Percentile £13.24 £28.20 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £33.86 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.87% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £74.00 £41.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £55.65 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.40% -25.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,256 3,417 4,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.64% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,623 2,129 2,881
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £364 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 149 388
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.93 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.98 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £41.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.83% -6.82% +60.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.03 £81.50 £74.30
UK median hourly rate £26.55 £45.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -41.00% +8.43% +38.33%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in England

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DHCP

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in England over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in England

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing DHCP

DHCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DHCP in England over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DHCP in England

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
London -62 134 £450 -10.00% 48
South East -9 114 £520 -8.53% 70
North of England -69 64 £519 +11.61% 42
South West -11 47 £475 -20.83% 58
Midlands -47 43 £438 +14.38% 26
North West -42 36 £609 +36.24% 21
West Midlands -64 30 £438 +34.62% 19
Yorkshire -39 24 £460 -16.36% 15
East of England -36 15 £485 -7.62% 28
East Midlands -8 13 £300 -45.45% 7
North East -34 4 £350 +40.00% 9
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 40 (9.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (8.79%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.43%) IIS
4 4 (0.95%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.71%) Confluence
5 3 (0.71%) nginx
6 2 (0.48%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.24%) Houdini
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.24%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 174 (41.33%) Azure
2 93 (22.09%) Entra ID
3 87 (20.67%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (17.34%) AWS
5 28 (6.65%) OneDrive
6 23 (5.46%) IaaS
7 20 (4.75%) PaaS
8 18 (4.28%) GCP
8 18 (4.28%) SaaS
9 11 (2.61%) Route 53
10 8 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.66%) Datadog
12 5 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.19%) Nutanix
13 4 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (0.95%) GitHub
13 4 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.95%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 411 (97.62%) DNS
2 165 (39.19%) Firewall
3 121 (28.74%) TCP/IP
4 96 (22.80%) VPN
5 85 (20.19%) LAN
6 83 (19.71%) WAN
7 80 (19.00%) VLAN
8 52 (12.35%) Network Security
8 52 (12.35%) Wi-Fi
9 46 (10.93%) Wireless
10 43 (10.21%) BGP
11 42 (9.98%) OSPF
11 42 (9.98%) SAN
12 39 (9.26%) BIG-IP
13 30 (7.13%) Kerberos
14 28 (6.65%) Cisco ISE
14 28 (6.65%) VXLAN
15 25 (5.94%) Ethernet VPN
15 25 (5.94%) Junos
16 24 (5.70%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.36%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.71%) Big Data
3 3 (0.71%) Db2
4 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.24%) Power BI
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (7.36%) JIRA
2 7 (1.66%) Chocolatey
3 5 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
3 5 (1.19%) Git
4 3 (0.71%) GitLab
5 2 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.24%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.24%) MSI
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 118 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 45 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (8.31%) Finance
4 28 (6.65%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.94%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (4.04%) Banking
7 8 (1.90%) Local Government
8 7 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.66%) Legal
8 7 (1.66%) Military
8 7 (1.66%) Police
9 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.95%) Law
10 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.71%) Retail
12 2 (0.48%) Advertising
12 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.48%) Publishing
13 1 (0.24%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 89 (21.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 58 (13.78%) Network Engineer
3 47 (11.16%) Support Engineer
4 46 (10.93%) Architect
5 42 (9.98%) IT Support
6 39 (9.26%) IT Engineer
6 39 (9.26%) Senior
7 27 (6.41%) IT Support Engineer
8 26 (6.18%) Analyst
9 15 (3.56%) Administrator
9 15 (3.56%) Network Specialist
9 15 (3.56%) Senior Network Engineer
10 14 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (3.33%) Firewall Specialist
11 13 (3.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 12 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (2.85%) Infrastructure Support
13 11 (2.61%) Desktop Support
13 11 (2.61%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 11 (2.61%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.98%) 802.1X
2 31 (7.36%) LDAP
3 20 (4.75%) SAML
4 14 (3.33%) OAuth
5 10 (2.38%) JSON
6 6 (1.43%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.95%) OpenID
8 3 (0.71%) .NET
8 3 (0.71%) Middleware
8 3 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.71%) Redfish
8 3 (0.71%) REST
8 3 (0.71%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.48%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.48%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.48%) Blazor
9 2 (0.48%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.48%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.48%) Qt
10 1 (0.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (20.19%) Data Centre
2 61 (14.49%) PKI
3 38 (9.03%) Clustering
4 31 (7.36%) Onboarding
5 28 (6.65%) Replication
6 17 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.61%) Virtual Team
9 9 (2.14%) IoT
10 7 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.43%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.19%) Fat Client
12 5 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.19%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.19%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 271 (64.37%) Windows
2 136 (32.30%) Windows Server
3 54 (12.83%) Linux
4 45 (10.69%) Windows 10
5 24 (5.70%) Mac OS
6 19 (4.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (3.09%) Apple iOS
7 13 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (2.61%) Android
8 11 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (1.66%) Unix
11 6 (1.43%) Windows 7
12 5 (1.19%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.71%) VMS
14 2 (0.48%) CentOS
14 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.24%) Rocky
15 1 (0.24%) SUSE
15 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (25.89%) Problem-Solving
2 102 (24.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 85 (20.19%) ITIL
4 84 (19.95%) High Availability
5 72 (17.10%) ITSM
6 49 (11.64%) Identity Access Management
6 49 (11.64%) Load Balancing
6 49 (11.64%) Migration
7 39 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
8 38 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
9 36 (8.55%) Observability
9 36 (8.55%) Root Cause Analysis
10 31 (7.36%) Project Delivery
11 30 (7.13%) User Experience
12 29 (6.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (6.41%) Network Segmentation
14 25 (5.94%) Service Management
14 25 (5.94%) Task Automation
15 24 (5.70%) Incident Management
15 24 (5.70%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (25.65%) PowerShell
2 50 (11.88%) Python
3 28 (6.65%) Bash
4 11 (2.61%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.14%) VBA
6 6 (1.43%) SQL
6 6 (1.43%) VBScript
7 4 (0.95%) VB
8 3 (0.71%) Lisp
9 2 (0.48%) Bicep
10 1 (0.24%) C
10 1 (0.24%) C++
10 1 (0.24%) Go
10 1 (0.24%) Perl
10 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 167 (39.67%) Security Cleared
2 94 (22.33%) SC Cleared
3 62 (14.73%) Cisco Certification
4 57 (13.54%) DV Cleared
5 40 (9.50%) CCNP
6 34 (8.08%) Degree
7 27 (6.41%) CCNA
8 22 (5.23%) Network+ Certification
9 15 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (3.56%) Server+ Certification
10 13 (3.09%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.66%) CCIE
11 7 (1.66%) JNCIA
11 7 (1.66%) JNCIP
11 7 (1.66%) JNCIS
12 6 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.19%) CCIE Security
13 5 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (0.95%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.18%) SLA
2 15 (3.56%) GDPR
3 13 (3.09%) NIST
4 12 (2.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.19%) NCSC
6 5 (1.19%) QA
7 4 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.71%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.48%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.24%) RMADS
System Software
1 241 (57.24%) Active Directory
2 118 (28.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 70 (16.63%) Hyper-V
4 35 (8.31%) VMware ESXi
5 34 (8.08%) vSphere
6 25 (5.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (4.51%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (4.28%) Docker
9 15 (3.56%) BitLocker
10 13 (3.09%) VMware NSX
11 10 (2.38%) Microsoft App-V
12 9 (2.14%) Firmware
13 8 (1.90%) NFS
14 6 (1.43%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.95%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
17 2 (0.48%) UAG
17 2 (0.48%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.48%) XenApp
17 2 (0.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (14.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 47 (11.16%) Ansible
3 41 (9.74%) SCCM
4 35 (8.31%) FortiGate
4 35 (8.31%) Terraform
5 30 (7.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 30 (7.13%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (4.99%) Kubernetes
7 19 (4.51%) vCenter Server
8 16 (3.80%) WSUS
9 12 (2.85%) Jamf Pro
10 11 (2.61%) vMotion
11 7 (1.66%) Nagios
11 7 (1.66%) Puppet
12 6 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (1.19%) CA Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.19%) Prometheus
13 5 (1.19%) VxRail
14 4 (0.95%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.95%) SCOM
Vendors
1 189 (44.89%) Microsoft
2 133 (31.59%) VMware
3 95 (22.57%) Cisco
4 78 (18.53%) ServiceNow
5 50 (11.88%) F5
6 45 (10.69%) Infoblox
7 43 (10.21%) Citrix
8 41 (9.74%) SolarWinds
9 36 (8.55%) Juniper
10 26 (6.18%) Splunk
11 22 (5.23%) Extreme Networks
12 21 (4.99%) Palo Alto
13 17 (4.04%) Google
14 16 (3.80%) Fortinet
15 14 (3.33%) CheckPoint
16 13 (3.09%) HP
17 12 (2.85%) Okta
18 11 (2.61%) Dell
19 10 (2.38%) Veeam
19 10 (2.38%) Zscaler