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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 232 260
Rank change year-on-year -28 +28 -3
Contract jobs citing DHCP 419 316 315
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 1.15% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.84% 9.23% 7.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 214 242
10th Percentile £213 £250 £285
25th Percentile £361 £381 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +6.32% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £654 £624 £608
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £468
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.95% -1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 9
10th Percentile £17.27 £28.60 £19.20
25th Percentile £26.66 £29.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £74.00 £83.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £72.60
UK median hourly rate £40.10 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +33.68% -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 3,423 4,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 12.45% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,585 2,130 2,651
10th Percentile £263 £235 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -0.45% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
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 321 163 306
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.26
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £18.09
Median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.62% -10.89% +1.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.29 £48.75 £45.44
% change year-on-year -46.07% +7.28% -9.12%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -56 143 £450 -10.00% 58
South East -14 113 £505 -8.18% 60
North of England -57 61 £500 +5.82% 42
South West -5 48 £450 -21.74% 32
Midlands -54 41 £413 -2.94% 30
North West -52 33 £608 +30.75% 26
West Midlands -68 27 £431 +12.75% 19
Yorkshire -36 24 £488 -11.36% 14
East Midlands -3 14 £300 -46.67% 11
East of England -23 10 £475 -9.52% 28
North East -42 4 £363 +45.00% 5
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 (11.22%) SharePoint
2 42 (10.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.43%) IIS
4 5 (1.19%) Confluence
4 5 (1.19%) nginx
5 4 (0.95%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.48%) Houdini
4 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.48%) NUKE
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 179 (42.72%) Azure
2 105 (25.06%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (19.33%) AWS
3 81 (19.33%) Entra ID
4 38 (9.07%) OneDrive
5 23 (5.49%) IaaS
6 21 (5.01%) PaaS
7 20 (4.77%) GCP
8 19 (4.53%) SaaS
9 12 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (2.15%) Datadog
11 9 (2.15%) GitHub
12 8 (1.91%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.91%) Route 53
13 7 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (1.19%) Google Workspace
14 5 (1.19%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 414 (98.81%) DNS
2 193 (46.06%) Firewall
3 152 (36.28%) TCP/IP
4 120 (28.64%) VPN
5 89 (21.24%) VLAN
6 88 (21.00%) LAN
7 84 (20.05%) WAN
8 59 (14.08%) Network Security
9 56 (13.37%) Wi-Fi
10 49 (11.69%) BGP
10 49 (11.69%) Wireless
11 48 (11.46%) OSPF
12 44 (10.50%) SAN
13 38 (9.07%) BIG-IP
14 31 (7.40%) VXLAN
15 26 (6.21%) Cisco ISE
15 26 (6.21%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (5.97%) Junos
16 25 (5.97%) NAS
17 22 (5.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.55%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.95%) Db2
4 3 (0.72%) Big Data
5 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (8.35%) JIRA
2 9 (2.15%) Chocolatey
3 7 (1.67%) Git
4 5 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.95%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.95%) GitLab
6 3 (0.72%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.24%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.24%) MSI
8 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 126 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 55 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (10.02%) Finance
4 34 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (4.53%) Banking
7 10 (2.39%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.15%) Military
8 9 (2.15%) Police
9 8 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.91%) Local Government
9 8 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.19%) Legal
11 4 (0.95%) Law
12 3 (0.72%) Automotive
12 3 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.72%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.72%) Retail
13 2 (0.48%) Front Office
14 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 107 (25.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 71 (16.95%) Network Engineer
3 64 (15.27%) Senior
4 51 (12.17%) Support Engineer
5 46 (10.98%) IT Support
6 42 (10.02%) IT Engineer
7 40 (9.55%) Architect
8 30 (7.16%) IT Support Engineer
9 28 (6.68%) Senior Network Engineer
10 25 (5.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 24 (5.73%) Analyst
12 17 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (3.58%) Administrator
14 15 (3.58%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (3.58%) Network Specialist
15 14 (3.34%) Firewall Specialist
16 13 (3.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 12 (2.86%) Desktop Support
17 12 (2.86%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.55%) 802.1X
2 12 (2.86%) ARM Templates
3 11 (2.63%) JSON
4 10 (2.39%) LDAP
5 8 (1.91%) SAML
6 4 (0.95%) Middleware
6 4 (0.95%) OpenID
6 4 (0.95%) REST
6 4 (0.95%) Software Packaging
7 3 (0.72%) .NET
7 3 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.72%) Redfish
8 2 (0.48%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.48%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.48%) Blazor
8 2 (0.48%) eBPF
8 2 (0.48%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.48%) ODBC
8 2 (0.48%) OpenGL
8 2 (0.48%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 95 (22.67%) Data Centre
2 79 (18.85%) PKI
3 41 (9.79%) Clustering
4 38 (9.07%) Onboarding
5 29 (6.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (5.01%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.39%) Driving Licence
9 9 (2.15%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.91%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.91%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.67%) Replication
12 6 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.19%) ARM Cortex
13 5 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.19%) Fat Client
13 5 (1.19%) iPhone
13 5 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 286 (68.26%) Windows
2 135 (32.22%) Windows Server
3 79 (18.85%) Linux
4 49 (11.69%) Windows 10
5 24 (5.73%) Mac OS
6 16 (3.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (2.86%) Apple iOS
7 12 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (2.39%) Android
9 10 (2.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (2.15%) Unix
11 5 (1.19%) Ubuntu
11 5 (1.19%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.72%) VMS
12 3 (0.72%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.48%) CentOS
14 1 (0.24%) Rocky
14 1 (0.24%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (30.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 125 (29.83%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (26.01%) ITIL
4 77 (18.38%) High Availability
5 73 (17.42%) ITSM
6 57 (13.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 51 (12.17%) Migration
8 45 (10.74%) Load Balancing
9 42 (10.02%) Root Cause Analysis
10 41 (9.79%) Observability
11 40 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (9.07%) Identity Access Management
13 37 (8.83%) Project Delivery
14 35 (8.35%) Service Management
15 34 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
16 33 (7.88%) Disaster Recovery
16 33 (7.88%) Technical Leadership
16 33 (7.88%) User Experience
17 32 (7.64%) DevOps
18 30 (7.16%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (24.11%) PowerShell
2 63 (15.04%) Python
3 48 (11.46%) Bash
4 11 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.39%) Bicep
6 9 (2.15%) SQL
6 9 (2.15%) VBA
7 3 (0.72%) Lisp
8 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.48%) VBScript
9 1 (0.24%) C
9 1 (0.24%) C++
9 1 (0.24%) Go
9 1 (0.24%) Perl
9 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 165 (39.38%) Security Cleared
2 78 (18.62%) SC Cleared
3 71 (16.95%) DV Cleared
4 70 (16.71%) Cisco Certification
5 47 (11.22%) CCNP
6 38 (9.07%) Degree
7 28 (6.68%) CCNA
8 25 (5.97%) Network+ Certification
9 21 (5.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 18 (4.30%) Azure Certification
11 15 (3.58%) Server+ Certification
12 10 (2.39%) JNCIP
12 10 (2.39%) JNCIS
13 8 (1.91%) A+ Certification
13 8 (1.91%) CCIE
13 8 (1.91%) VCAP
13 8 (1.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (1.67%) AWS Certification
14 7 (1.67%) JNCIA
15 6 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.40%) SLA
2 14 (3.34%) NIST
3 6 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.19%) QA
5 4 (0.95%) NCSC
6 3 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.72%) GDPR
6 3 (0.72%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.48%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 246 (58.71%) Active Directory
2 131 (31.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 83 (19.81%) Hyper-V
4 43 (10.26%) vSphere
5 38 (9.07%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (5.97%) Virtual Desktop
7 24 (5.73%) Docker
8 23 (5.49%) VMware NSX
9 20 (4.77%) Virtual Machines
10 10 (2.39%) BitLocker
10 10 (2.39%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (2.15%) Firmware
12 8 (1.91%) NFS
13 6 (1.43%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.95%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.48%) UAG
16 2 (0.48%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.48%) XenApp
16 2 (0.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 76 (18.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 64 (15.27%) Ansible
3 60 (14.32%) Terraform
4 49 (11.69%) SCCM
5 35 (8.35%) FortiGate
6 32 (7.64%) Kubernetes
7 22 (5.25%) vCenter Server
8 16 (3.82%) WSUS
9 15 (3.58%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.86%) VxRail
11 11 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (2.63%) vMotion
12 8 (1.91%) Nagios
12 8 (1.91%) Puppet
13 7 (1.67%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (1.43%) Packer
15 5 (1.19%) CA Single Sign-On
15 5 (1.19%) Prometheus
15 5 (1.19%) SCOM
16 4 (0.95%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 198 (47.26%) Microsoft
2 155 (36.99%) VMware
3 108 (25.78%) Cisco
4 74 (17.66%) ServiceNow
5 51 (12.17%) F5
6 45 (10.74%) SolarWinds
7 42 (10.02%) Infoblox
8 41 (9.79%) Citrix
9 38 (9.07%) Juniper
10 26 (6.21%) Palo Alto
10 26 (6.21%) Splunk
11 22 (5.25%) Extreme Networks
12 16 (3.82%) CheckPoint
12 16 (3.82%) Fortinet
12 16 (3.82%) Google
12 16 (3.82%) HP
13 14 (3.34%) Zscaler
14 12 (2.86%) Tenable
15 11 (2.63%) Dynatrace
16 10 (2.39%) Remedy