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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 219 238
Rank change year-on-year -59 +19 +1
Contract jobs citing DHCP 363 288 352
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 1.21% 0.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.20% 9.26% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 213 279
10th Percentile £210 £250 £223
25th Percentile £375 £385 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £575
90th Percentile £618 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £478 £535 £465
% change year-on-year -10.75% +15.05% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 16
10th Percentile £12.43 - £18.00
25th Percentile £26.00 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -30.00% -10.97%
75th Percentile £72.00 - £42.19
90th Percentile £74.00 - £68.13
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -30.00% -10.97%

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 3,944 3,109 4,801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 13.06% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,448 1,942 2,891
10th Percentile £263 £219 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £490
% change year-on-year +3.09% -1.02% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 117 386
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -6.25% +128.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.35 £70.33
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £38.41 £40.00
% change year-on-year -24.81% -3.98% +116.22%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -58 108 £450 -10.00% 34
South East -17 102 £518 -8.97% 59
North of England -71 60 £545 +25.29% 43
South West -28 38 £516 -16.14% 28
North West -40 37 £602 +41.53% 26
Midlands -48 37 £438 +2.94% 30
West Midlands -48 28 £438 +41.13% 18
Yorkshire -52 19 £447 -10.60% 13
East of England -28 15 £485 -9.77% 22
East Midlands -28 9 £275 -45.00% 12
North East -20 4 £200 -15.79% 7
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 33 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (6.61%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.93%) IIS
4 4 (1.10%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.28%) Apache
5 1 (0.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) nginx
5 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 11 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 151 (41.60%) Azure
2 86 (23.69%) Entra ID
3 73 (20.11%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (13.22%) AWS
5 23 (6.34%) IaaS
6 21 (5.79%) PaaS
7 16 (4.41%) OneDrive
8 12 (3.31%) SaaS
9 8 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (2.20%) GCP
10 7 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (1.93%) Nutanix
11 6 (1.65%) Datadog
12 4 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.10%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.10%) Route 53
13 3 (0.83%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (0.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 349 (96.14%) DNS
2 133 (36.64%) Firewall
3 80 (22.04%) VPN
4 76 (20.94%) LAN
4 76 (20.94%) TCP/IP
4 76 (20.94%) VLAN
5 74 (20.39%) WAN
6 42 (11.57%) Network Security
6 42 (11.57%) Wi-Fi
7 40 (11.02%) BGP
7 40 (11.02%) OSPF
8 38 (10.47%) Wireless
9 37 (10.19%) BIG-IP
9 37 (10.19%) SAN
10 31 (8.54%) Kerberos
11 27 (7.44%) VXLAN
12 26 (7.16%) Cisco ISE
13 25 (6.89%) Ethernet VPN
13 25 (6.89%) Junos
14 21 (5.79%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.28%) Power BI
4 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (5.23%) JIRA
2 6 (1.65%) Chocolatey
3 4 (1.10%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.10%) Git
4 2 (0.55%) GitLab
5 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
General
1 86 (23.69%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.67%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (6.89%) Finance
4 19 (5.23%) Documentation Skills
4 19 (5.23%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.86%) Banking
6 8 (2.20%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.93%) Legal
8 6 (1.65%) Military
8 6 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.38%) Law
9 5 (1.38%) Local Government
9 5 (1.38%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.38%) Police
10 2 (0.55%) Advertising
10 2 (0.55%) Publishing
11 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.28%) Electronics
11 1 (0.28%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 71 (19.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (13.77%) Network Engineer
3 36 (9.92%) Architect
4 34 (9.37%) IT Support
5 33 (9.09%) Support Engineer
6 32 (8.82%) Senior
7 29 (7.99%) Analyst
8 27 (7.44%) IT Engineer
9 17 (4.68%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (4.13%) IT Analyst
10 15 (4.13%) Network Specialist
11 14 (3.86%) Administrator
11 14 (3.86%) Firewall Specialist
12 13 (3.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 12 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (3.31%) Support Analyst
14 11 (3.03%) 2nd Line Support
14 11 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.03%) Technical Architect
15 10 (2.75%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.64%) 802.1X
2 32 (8.82%) LDAP
3 21 (5.79%) SAML
4 16 (4.41%) OAuth
5 8 (2.20%) JSON
6 5 (1.38%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.10%) OpenID
8 3 (0.83%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.83%) Redfish
8 3 (0.83%) REST
9 2 (0.55%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.55%) Qt
9 2 (0.55%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.55%) XMPP
10 1 (0.28%) CSS
10 1 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.28%) HTML
10 1 (0.28%) Middleware
10 1 (0.28%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 39 (10.74%) PKI
3 35 (9.64%) Clustering
4 31 (8.54%) Replication
5 28 (7.71%) Onboarding
6 15 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.03%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.48%) IoT
9 8 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
9 8 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.38%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.38%) Smartphone
12 4 (1.10%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.10%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 229 (63.09%) Windows
2 132 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 41 (11.29%) Windows 10
4 36 (9.92%) Linux
5 29 (7.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (4.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (4.13%) Mac OS
8 14 (3.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (3.31%) Apple iOS
10 11 (3.03%) Android
11 8 (2.20%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (1.65%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.83%) Unix
13 3 (0.83%) VMS
14 2 (0.55%) CentOS
14 2 (0.55%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.28%) Rocky
15 1 (0.28%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (21.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 74 (20.39%) High Availability
4 66 (18.18%) ITIL
5 58 (15.98%) ITSM
6 47 (12.95%) Identity Access Management
7 42 (11.57%) Migration
8 41 (11.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 40 (11.02%) Load Balancing
10 34 (9.37%) Observability
11 28 (7.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (7.44%) Task Automation
13 26 (7.16%) Root Cause Analysis
14 24 (6.61%) Network Segmentation
15 21 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (5.79%) DevOps
15 21 (5.79%) Incident Management
15 21 (5.79%) Service Management
16 20 (5.51%) Change Management
16 20 (5.51%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 89 (24.52%) PowerShell
2 29 (7.99%) Python
3 14 (3.86%) Bash
4 9 (2.48%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.93%) VBA
6 6 (1.65%) SQL
6 6 (1.65%) VBScript
7 5 (1.38%) Bicep
8 4 (1.10%) VB
9 2 (0.55%) Lisp
10 1 (0.28%) C
10 1 (0.28%) Go
10 1 (0.28%) Java
10 1 (0.28%) Perl
10 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 144 (39.67%) Security Cleared
2 91 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 55 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
4 41 (11.29%) DV Cleared
5 33 (9.09%) CCNP
6 24 (6.61%) Degree
7 22 (6.06%) CCNA
7 22 (6.06%) Network+ Certification
8 15 (4.13%) Server+ Certification
9 10 (2.75%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.93%) JNCIA
10 7 (1.93%) JNCIP
10 7 (1.93%) JNCIS
10 7 (1.93%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.83%) CCIE
14 2 (0.55%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.61%) SLA
2 17 (4.68%) GDPR
3 14 (3.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 8 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.20%) NIST
5 4 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.83%) NCSC
7 2 (0.55%) QA
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.28%) RMADS
8 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 212 (58.40%) Active Directory
2 102 (28.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (16.25%) Hyper-V
4 27 (7.44%) vSphere
5 24 (6.61%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (4.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (4.68%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.13%) BitLocker
9 14 (3.86%) Docker
10 10 (2.75%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (1.93%) Firmware
11 7 (1.93%) VMware NSX
12 6 (1.65%) VMware Workstation
13 4 (1.10%) NFS
14 3 (0.83%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.83%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.55%) UAG
15 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.55%) XenApp
15 2 (0.55%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (14.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (11.29%) SCCM
3 36 (9.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 34 (9.37%) Ansible
5 31 (8.54%) FortiGate
6 28 (7.71%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (5.23%) Terraform
8 15 (4.13%) Kubernetes
8 15 (4.13%) WSUS
9 12 (3.31%) vCenter Server
10 9 (2.48%) vMotion
11 7 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (1.93%) Nagios
11 7 (1.93%) Puppet
12 5 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (1.10%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.10%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.83%) SCOM
14 3 (0.83%) Stealthwatch
15 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 157 (43.25%) Microsoft
2 111 (30.58%) VMware
3 80 (22.04%) Cisco
4 63 (17.36%) ServiceNow
5 47 (12.95%) F5
6 37 (10.19%) SolarWinds
7 35 (9.64%) Juniper
8 34 (9.37%) Citrix
9 31 (8.54%) Infoblox
10 25 (6.89%) Splunk
11 22 (6.06%) Extreme Networks
12 14 (3.86%) NetApp
12 14 (3.86%) Okta
13 13 (3.58%) Fortinet
13 13 (3.58%) Palo Alto
14 12 (3.31%) Dell
14 12 (3.31%) Veeam
15 11 (3.03%) CheckPoint
16 10 (2.75%) HP
17 8 (2.20%) Dynatrace
193 DHCP jobs in England