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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 227 250
Rank change year-on-year -45 +23 +7
Contract jobs citing DHCP 425 308 321
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 1.12% 0.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.07% 8.97% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 209 242
10th Percentile £225 £250 £285
25th Percentile £372 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.28% +0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £674 £625 £608
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.38% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 17 8
10th Percentile £25.10 £28.60 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £29.00 £22.33
Median hourly rate £58.49 £30.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +94.98% -22.58% +15.67%
75th Percentile £74.00 £83.00 £66.56
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £73.28
UK median hourly rate £58.25 £30.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year +94.17% -22.58% +15.67%

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 4,219 3,433 4,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.35% 12.43% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,555 2,133 2,592
10th Percentile £263 £235 £240
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 162 291
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £19.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £45.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% -12.62% -0.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -46.68% +5.26% -5.79%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -48 145 £450 -10.00% 74
South East -10 120 £510 -10.29% 66
North of England -42 57 £508 +9.14% 47
South West -11 49 £475 -17.39% 39
Midlands -47 41 £413 +3.13% 26
North West -45 32 £608 +36.02% 33
West Midlands -61 27 £431 +7.81% 16
Yorkshire -34 21 £500 -9.09% 12
East Midlands +1 14 £300 -47.83% 10
East of England -25 10 £475 -9.52% 30
North East -38 4 £363 -14.71% 4
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 47 (11.06%) SharePoint
2 42 (9.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.41%) IIS
3 6 (1.41%) nginx
4 5 (1.18%) Apache
4 5 (1.18%) Confluence
5 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.47%) Houdini
4 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.47%) NUKE
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 184 (43.29%) Azure
2 104 (24.47%) Microsoft 365
3 84 (19.76%) AWS
3 84 (19.76%) Entra ID
4 38 (8.94%) OneDrive
5 22 (5.18%) IaaS
6 20 (4.71%) GCP
6 20 (4.71%) PaaS
7 18 (4.24%) SaaS
8 12 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.82%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
10 10 (2.35%) OpenShift
11 9 (2.12%) GitHub
12 8 (1.88%) Datadog
12 8 (1.88%) Route 53
13 7 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.18%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 420 (98.82%) DNS
2 201 (47.29%) Firewall
3 156 (36.71%) TCP/IP
4 123 (28.94%) VPN
5 90 (21.18%) VLAN
6 88 (20.71%) LAN
7 84 (19.76%) WAN
8 60 (14.12%) Network Security
9 53 (12.47%) Wi-Fi
10 51 (12.00%) BGP
11 50 (11.76%) OSPF
11 50 (11.76%) Wireless
12 43 (10.12%) SAN
13 35 (8.24%) BIG-IP
14 31 (7.29%) VXLAN
15 26 (6.12%) Cisco ISE
15 26 (6.12%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (5.88%) Junos
16 25 (5.88%) NAS
17 23 (5.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (9.18%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.94%) Db2
4 3 (0.71%) Big Data
5 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (7.76%) JIRA
2 8 (1.88%) Chocolatey
2 8 (1.88%) Git
3 5 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (1.18%) Bitbucket
3 5 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
4 4 (0.94%) GitLab
5 3 (0.71%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.24%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.24%) MSI
7 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 126 (29.65%) Social Skills
2 55 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (9.88%) Finance
4 35 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.65%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (4.24%) Banking
7 10 (2.35%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.12%) Military
8 9 (2.12%) Police
9 8 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.88%) Local Government
10 7 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.94%) Automotive
11 4 (0.94%) Law
11 4 (0.94%) Legal
11 4 (0.94%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.71%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.71%) Retail
13 2 (0.47%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 109 (25.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (17.41%) Network Engineer
3 66 (15.53%) Senior
4 49 (11.53%) Support Engineer
5 43 (10.12%) IT Support
6 39 (9.18%) IT Engineer
7 38 (8.94%) Architect
8 29 (6.82%) Senior Network Engineer
9 28 (6.59%) IT Support Engineer
9 28 (6.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (5.65%) Analyst
11 19 (4.47%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (3.76%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (3.53%) Administrator
13 15 (3.53%) Network Specialist
14 14 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (3.29%) Firewall Specialist
15 13 (3.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 12 (2.82%) Server Engineer
16 12 (2.82%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.65%) 802.1X
2 13 (3.06%) ARM Templates
3 10 (2.35%) LDAP
4 8 (1.88%) JSON
4 8 (1.88%) SAML
5 4 (0.94%) Middleware
5 4 (0.94%) OpenID
5 4 (0.94%) Software Packaging
6 3 (0.71%) .NET
6 3 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (0.71%) Redfish
6 3 (0.71%) REST
7 2 (0.47%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.47%) Blazor
7 2 (0.47%) eBPF
7 2 (0.47%) ModSecurity
7 2 (0.47%) OAuth
7 2 (0.47%) Qt
7 2 (0.47%) Unreal Engine
7 2 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (22.82%) Data Centre
2 82 (19.29%) PKI
3 41 (9.65%) Clustering
4 38 (8.94%) Onboarding
5 34 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 20 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.82%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.35%) Driving Licence
9 9 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.65%) Replication
12 6 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
12 6 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.18%) ARM Cortex
13 5 (1.18%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.18%) Fat Client
13 5 (1.18%) iPhone
13 5 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 291 (68.47%) Windows
2 136 (32.00%) Windows Server
3 87 (20.47%) Linux
4 50 (11.76%) Windows 10
5 24 (5.65%) Mac OS
6 14 (3.29%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (2.82%) Apple iOS
7 12 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (2.35%) Android
8 10 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (2.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (2.12%) Unix
10 6 (1.41%) Ubuntu
11 5 (1.18%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.71%) VMS
12 3 (0.71%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.47%) CentOS
14 1 (0.24%) Rocky
14 1 (0.24%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (30.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 126 (29.65%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (27.06%) ITIL
4 78 (18.35%) High Availability
5 72 (16.94%) ITSM
6 63 (14.82%) Infrastructure as Code
7 54 (12.71%) Migration
8 47 (11.06%) Load Balancing
9 44 (10.35%) Root Cause Analysis
10 43 (10.12%) Observability
11 40 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (9.18%) Identity Access Management
13 36 (8.47%) Cybersecurity
13 36 (8.47%) Disaster Recovery
13 36 (8.47%) Project Delivery
13 36 (8.47%) Service Management
13 36 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
14 35 (8.24%) DevOps
15 33 (7.76%) Incident Management
15 33 (7.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 106 (24.94%) PowerShell
2 66 (15.53%) Python
3 54 (12.71%) Bash
4 11 (2.59%) Bicep
5 9 (2.12%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.12%) SQL
6 7 (1.65%) VBA
7 3 (0.71%) Lisp
8 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.47%) VBScript
9 1 (0.24%) C
9 1 (0.24%) C++
9 1 (0.24%) Go
9 1 (0.24%) Perl
Qualifications
1 170 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 83 (19.53%) SC Cleared
3 74 (17.41%) Cisco Certification
4 73 (17.18%) DV Cleared
5 49 (11.53%) CCNP
6 39 (9.18%) Degree
7 31 (7.29%) CCNA
8 25 (5.88%) Network+ Certification
9 22 (5.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (4.71%) Azure Certification
11 15 (3.53%) Server+ Certification
12 11 (2.59%) JNCIP
12 11 (2.59%) JNCIS
13 10 (2.35%) VCAP
14 9 (2.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (1.88%) A+ Certification
15 8 (1.88%) AWS Certification
15 8 (1.88%) CCIE
16 7 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (1.65%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (7.06%) SLA
2 14 (3.29%) NIST
3 6 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.18%) QA
5 4 (0.94%) NCSC
6 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.71%) GDPR
6 3 (0.71%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.47%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 249 (58.59%) Active Directory
2 137 (32.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 87 (20.47%) Hyper-V
4 45 (10.59%) vSphere
5 40 (9.41%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (5.88%) Docker
6 25 (5.88%) VMware NSX
7 24 (5.65%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (2.35%) BitLocker
9 10 (2.35%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (2.12%) Firmware
11 8 (1.88%) NFS
12 6 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
12 6 (1.41%) VMware Workstation
13 4 (0.94%) Terminal Services
14 2 (0.47%) UAG
14 2 (0.47%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.47%) XenApp
14 2 (0.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 75 (17.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (15.76%) Terraform
3 66 (15.53%) Ansible
4 49 (11.53%) SCCM
5 37 (8.71%) FortiGate
6 35 (8.24%) Kubernetes
7 23 (5.41%) vCenter Server
8 16 (3.76%) WSUS
9 15 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (3.29%) VxRail
11 11 (2.59%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (2.59%) vMotion
12 10 (2.35%) Nagios
13 8 (1.88%) Puppet
14 7 (1.65%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (1.65%) Packer
15 6 (1.41%) Prometheus
15 6 (1.41%) SCOM
16 5 (1.18%) CA Single Sign-On
17 4 (0.94%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 202 (47.53%) Microsoft
2 163 (38.35%) VMware
3 111 (26.12%) Cisco
4 77 (18.12%) ServiceNow
5 49 (11.53%) F5
6 48 (11.29%) SolarWinds
7 42 (9.88%) Citrix
8 39 (9.18%) Infoblox
8 39 (9.18%) Juniper
9 27 (6.35%) Splunk
10 26 (6.12%) Palo Alto
11 22 (5.18%) Extreme Networks
12 17 (4.00%) CheckPoint
13 16 (3.76%) Fortinet
13 16 (3.76%) Google
13 16 (3.76%) HP
14 14 (3.29%) Zscaler
15 11 (2.59%) Tenable
16 10 (2.35%) Dynatrace
16 10 (2.35%) Meraki