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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 219 254
Rank change year-on-year -51 +35 -5
Contract jobs citing DHCP 420 329 352
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 1.22% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.87% 9.66% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 226 265
10th Percentile £210 £250 £232
25th Percentile £400 £391 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +7.37% -2.56%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £575
90th Percentile £630 £631 £608
UK median daily rate £475 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -5.94% +6.32% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 13 16
10th Percentile £12.43 £28.20 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.33 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £73.00 £41.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £55.65 £68.13
UK median hourly rate £33.86 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.87% -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 4,254 3,407 4,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.51% 12.63% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,623 2,116 2,892
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +4.06% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 148 390
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.90 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.45 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £40.50 £45.44
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -10.87% +65.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £74.10
UK median hourly rate £26.55 £45.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -41.00% +2.27% +53.04%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -66 135 £450 -10.00% 37
South East -3 114 £520 -8.53% 58
North of England -68 64 £519 +11.61% 35
South West -17 45 £500 -16.67% 36
Midlands -52 43 £444 +16.01% 24
North West -42 36 £609 +36.24% 15
West Midlands -61 31 £444 +36.54% 16
Yorkshire -41 24 £460 -16.36% 14
East of England -27 15 £485 -7.62% 28
East Midlands -8 12 £375 -31.82% 8
North East -29 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 39 (9.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (8.57%) 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 (3.10%) 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
1 173 (41.19%) Azure
2 91 (21.67%) Entra ID
3 85 (20.24%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (17.38%) AWS
5 27 (6.43%) OneDrive
6 23 (5.48%) IaaS
7 20 (4.76%) PaaS
8 18 (4.29%) GCP
9 17 (4.05%) SaaS
10 11 (2.62%) Route 53
11 8 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.43%) Datadog
14 5 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (1.19%) Nutanix
15 4 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (0.95%) GitHub
15 4 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 410 (97.62%) DNS
2 164 (39.05%) Firewall
3 118 (28.10%) TCP/IP
4 97 (23.10%) VPN
5 86 (20.48%) LAN
6 84 (20.00%) WAN
7 79 (18.81%) VLAN
8 53 (12.62%) Network Security
9 51 (12.14%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (10.95%) Wireless
11 43 (10.24%) BGP
12 42 (10.00%) OSPF
13 41 (9.76%) SAN
14 39 (9.29%) BIG-IP
15 30 (7.14%) Kerberos
16 28 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
16 28 (6.67%) VXLAN
17 25 (5.95%) Ethernet VPN
17 25 (5.95%) Junos
18 24 (5.71%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.71%) Big Data
4 3 (0.71%) Db2
5 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.24%) Power BI
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (7.38%) JIRA
2 6 (1.43%) 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
1 117 (27.86%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (8.10%) Finance
4 28 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.95%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.81%) Banking
7 8 (1.90%) Legal
7 8 (1.90%) Local Government
8 7 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.67%) Military
8 7 (1.67%) 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 88 (20.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 59 (14.05%) Network Engineer
3 46 (10.95%) Architect
3 46 (10.95%) Support Engineer
4 42 (10.00%) IT Support
5 39 (9.29%) IT Engineer
6 38 (9.05%) Senior
7 27 (6.43%) IT Support Engineer
8 26 (6.19%) Analyst
9 15 (3.57%) Administrator
9 15 (3.57%) Network Specialist
9 15 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
10 14 (3.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 14 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
10 14 (3.33%) Firewall Specialist
11 12 (2.86%) Infrastructure Support
12 11 (2.62%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (2.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 11 (2.62%) Server Engineer
12 11 (2.62%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.00%) 802.1X
2 31 (7.38%) LDAP
3 20 (4.76%) 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%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 85 (20.24%) Data Centre
2 61 (14.52%) PKI
3 39 (9.29%) Clustering
4 30 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 28 (6.67%) Replication
6 17 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.62%) Virtual Team
9 9 (2.14%) IoT
10 6 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.43%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.19%) Fat Client
11 5 (1.19%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.19%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.19%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 270 (64.29%) Windows
2 139 (33.10%) Windows Server
3 53 (12.62%) Linux
4 44 (10.48%) Windows 10
5 24 (5.71%) Mac OS
6 20 (4.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (3.10%) Apple iOS
7 13 (3.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (2.62%) Android
8 11 (2.62%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (1.67%) Unix
11 6 (1.43%) Windows 7
11 6 (1.43%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.71%) VMS
13 2 (0.48%) CentOS
13 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.24%) Rocky
14 1 (0.24%) SUSE
14 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (25.48%) Problem-Solving
2 101 (24.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 85 (20.24%) High Availability
4 83 (19.76%) ITIL
5 70 (16.67%) ITSM
6 50 (11.90%) Load Balancing
7 48 (11.43%) Identity Access Management
7 48 (11.43%) Migration
8 38 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (8.81%) Disaster Recovery
10 36 (8.57%) Observability
10 36 (8.57%) Root Cause Analysis
11 30 (7.14%) Project Delivery
11 30 (7.14%) User Experience
12 29 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (6.43%) Network Segmentation
14 25 (5.95%) Incident Management
14 25 (5.95%) Task Automation
15 24 (5.71%) Patch Management
15 24 (5.71%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 108 (25.71%) PowerShell
2 48 (11.43%) Python
3 26 (6.19%) Bash
4 11 (2.62%) 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
1 166 (39.52%) Security Cleared
2 94 (22.38%) SC Cleared
3 62 (14.76%) Cisco Certification
4 56 (13.33%) DV Cleared
5 40 (9.52%) CCNP
6 33 (7.86%) Degree
7 27 (6.43%) CCNA
8 22 (5.24%) Network+ Certification
9 15 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (3.57%) Server+ Certification
10 12 (2.86%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.67%) CCIE
11 7 (1.67%) JNCIA
11 7 (1.67%) JNCIP
11 7 (1.67%) 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 24 (5.71%) SLA
2 15 (3.57%) GDPR
3 13 (3.10%) NIST
4 12 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (1.67%) 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
1 240 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 118 (28.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (16.43%) Hyper-V
4 36 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
5 35 (8.33%) vSphere
6 25 (5.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (4.52%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (4.29%) Docker
9 16 (3.81%) BitLocker
10 13 (3.10%) VMware NSX
11 11 (2.62%) 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 59 (14.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 46 (10.95%) Ansible
3 39 (9.29%) SCCM
4 35 (8.33%) FortiGate
5 33 (7.86%) Terraform
6 30 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 30 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (5.00%) Kubernetes
8 20 (4.76%) vCenter Server
9 16 (3.81%) WSUS
10 12 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (2.86%) vMotion
11 8 (1.90%) Puppet
12 7 (1.67%) Nagios
13 6 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
14 5 (1.19%) CA Single Sign-On
14 5 (1.19%) Prometheus
14 5 (1.19%) VxRail
15 4 (0.95%) Packer
15 4 (0.95%) SCOM
Vendors
1 189 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 132 (31.43%) VMware
3 95 (22.62%) Cisco
4 78 (18.57%) ServiceNow
5 50 (11.90%) F5
6 45 (10.71%) Infoblox
7 44 (10.48%) Citrix
8 41 (9.76%) SolarWinds
9 36 (8.57%) Juniper
10 26 (6.19%) Splunk
11 22 (5.24%) Extreme Networks
12 21 (5.00%) Palo Alto
13 17 (4.05%) Google
14 16 (3.81%) Fortinet
15 14 (3.33%) CheckPoint
16 13 (3.10%) HP
17 12 (2.86%) Dell
17 12 (2.86%) Okta
18 10 (2.38%) NetApp
18 10 (2.38%) Zscaler