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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 252 247
Rank change year-on-year -18 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing DHCP 447 295 323
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.06% 0.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.41% 8.72% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 195 234
10th Percentile £213 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £366 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £608
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £470
% change year-on-year - +6.38% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 9
10th Percentile £26.13 £27.15 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £29.00 £23.10
Median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +123.33% -36.84% +39.71%
75th Percentile £75.25 £76.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £72.60
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +123.33% -36.84% +31.87%

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 4,293 3,382 4,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.40% 12.19% 12.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,585 2,097 2,490
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 168 266
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £28.52 £43.00 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.67% -22.86% -1.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% -7.50% -10.56%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -59 145 £450 -10.00% 57
South East -18 106 £519 -9.78% 66
North of England -21 74 £500 +9.65% 34
South West -6 54 £519 +36.07% 34
Midlands -34 50 £400 - 26
North West -25 38 £575 +28.64% 18
West Midlands -47 33 £406 +1.56% 19
Yorkshire -17 28 £500 -9.09% 10
East Midlands +1 17 £300 -47.83% 7
East of England -28 14 £475 -8.65% 28
North East -34 8 £200 -20.00% 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 55 (12.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 55 (12.30%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.34%) IIS
2 6 (1.34%) Skype for Business
3 5 (1.12%) Apache
3 5 (1.12%) Confluence
3 5 (1.12%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.45%) Houdini
4 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.45%) NUKE
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 202 (45.19%) Azure
2 122 (27.29%) Microsoft 365
3 92 (20.58%) Entra ID
4 88 (19.69%) AWS
5 39 (8.72%) OneDrive
6 22 (4.92%) GCP
7 20 (4.47%) IaaS
8 18 (4.03%) PaaS
8 18 (4.03%) SaaS
9 15 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (3.13%) OpenShift
11 11 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (2.46%) GitHub
12 8 (1.79%) Route 53
13 7 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 6 (1.34%) Datadog
14 6 (1.34%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 443 (99.11%) DNS
2 205 (45.86%) Firewall
3 175 (39.15%) TCP/IP
4 139 (31.10%) VPN
5 98 (21.92%) VLAN
6 80 (17.90%) LAN
6 80 (17.90%) WAN
7 70 (15.66%) Network Security
8 60 (13.42%) Wi-Fi
9 55 (12.30%) Wireless
10 43 (9.62%) BGP
10 43 (9.62%) SAN
11 41 (9.17%) OSPF
12 26 (5.82%) NAS
13 24 (5.37%) BIG-IP
14 21 (4.70%) Cisco IOS
14 21 (4.70%) SD-WAN
14 21 (4.70%) SSL
15 18 (4.03%) VXLAN
16 17 (3.80%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.95%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.89%) Db2
5 3 (0.67%) Big Data
6 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (7.16%) JIRA
2 8 (1.79%) Git
3 6 (1.34%) Chocolatey
3 6 (1.34%) GitLab
4 5 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (1.12%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (1.12%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.22%) MSI
6 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 143 (31.99%) Social Skills
2 58 (12.98%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (10.51%) Finance
4 33 (7.38%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.26%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (3.80%) Banking
7 10 (2.24%) Police
8 9 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.79%) Legal
9 8 (1.79%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.57%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.57%) Local Government
11 6 (1.34%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.12%) Law
12 5 (1.12%) Military
13 4 (0.89%) Automotive
13 4 (0.89%) Front Office
13 4 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (25.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 72 (16.11%) Network Engineer
3 67 (14.99%) Senior
4 51 (11.41%) Support Engineer
5 42 (9.40%) IT Support
6 40 (8.95%) Architect
7 38 (8.50%) IT Engineer
8 32 (7.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 29 (6.49%) IT Support Engineer
10 28 (6.26%) Senior Network Engineer
11 27 (6.04%) Analyst
12 23 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (3.58%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (3.58%) Support Analyst
14 15 (3.36%) Administrator
15 14 (3.13%) Desktop Support
15 14 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
16 13 (2.91%) Active Directory Engineer
16 13 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (2.91%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (17.45%) Terraform
2 27 (6.04%) 802.1X
3 14 (3.13%) ARM Templates
4 13 (2.91%) LDAP
5 11 (2.46%) SAML
6 9 (2.01%) JSON
7 6 (1.34%) Software Packaging
8 5 (1.12%) OAuth
9 4 (0.89%) Middleware
9 4 (0.89%) OpenID
9 4 (0.89%) YAML
10 3 (0.67%) .NET
10 3 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.67%) Redfish
10 3 (0.67%) REST
11 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.45%) Blazor
11 2 (0.45%) eBPF
11 2 (0.45%) ModSecurity
11 2 (0.45%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 92 (20.58%) Data Centre
2 76 (17.00%) PKI
3 43 (9.62%) Onboarding
4 38 (8.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (6.26%) Clustering
6 18 (4.03%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.91%) Driving Licence
9 11 (2.46%) Public Cloud
10 10 (2.24%) Replication
11 8 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
13 6 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.12%) Fat Client
14 5 (1.12%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 312 (69.80%) Windows
2 156 (34.90%) Windows Server
3 107 (23.94%) Linux
4 59 (13.20%) Windows 10
5 27 (6.04%) Mac OS
6 15 (3.36%) Apple iOS
7 13 (2.91%) Android
8 12 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (2.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (2.46%) Unix
9 11 (2.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (1.79%) Windows 7
11 7 (1.57%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.67%) CentOS
13 3 (0.67%) VMS
14 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.22%) Rocky
15 1 (0.22%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (30.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 129 (28.86%) ITIL
3 121 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
4 82 (18.34%) ITSM
5 74 (16.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 67 (14.99%) High Availability
7 56 (12.53%) Migration
8 51 (11.41%) Root Cause Analysis
9 47 (10.51%) Technical Leadership
10 44 (9.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (9.40%) Cybersecurity
12 41 (9.17%) Disaster Recovery
12 41 (9.17%) Service Management
13 38 (8.50%) DevOps
13 38 (8.50%) Incident Management
13 38 (8.50%) Project Delivery
14 37 (8.28%) Customer Service
15 36 (8.05%) Load Balancing
15 36 (8.05%) Platform Engineering
15 36 (8.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 131 (29.31%) PowerShell
2 77 (17.23%) Python
3 60 (13.42%) Bash
4 15 (3.36%) SQL
5 12 (2.68%) Bicep
6 10 (2.24%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.01%) VBScript
8 7 (1.57%) VBA
9 6 (1.34%) VB
10 3 (0.67%) Lisp
10 3 (0.67%) Perl
11 2 (0.45%) C++
11 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) Go
12 1 (0.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 175 (39.15%) Security Cleared
2 92 (20.58%) SC Cleared
3 73 (16.33%) DV Cleared
4 66 (14.77%) Cisco Certification
5 51 (11.41%) CCNP
6 44 (9.84%) Degree
7 29 (6.49%) CCNA
8 27 (6.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (5.37%) Azure Certification
9 24 (5.37%) Network+ Certification
10 14 (3.13%) Server+ Certification
11 12 (2.68%) VCAP
12 11 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (2.24%) A+ Certification
13 10 (2.24%) AWS Certification
13 10 (2.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 10 (2.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (2.01%) CCIE
15 7 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (1.34%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.94%) SLA
2 14 (3.13%) NIST
3 7 (1.57%) QA
4 6 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.12%) NCSC
6 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.67%) GDPR
6 3 (0.67%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 268 (59.96%) Active Directory
2 159 (35.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (21.25%) Hyper-V
4 52 (11.63%) vSphere
5 40 (8.95%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (5.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 26 (5.82%) VMware NSX
7 25 (5.59%) Docker
8 18 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
9 15 (3.36%) BitLocker
10 11 (2.46%) Firmware
11 9 (2.01%) Microsoft App-V
12 8 (1.79%) NFS
13 7 (1.57%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (1.34%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.89%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.67%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.45%) UAG
17 2 (0.45%) XenApp
17 2 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 88 (19.69%) Microsoft Intune
2 77 (17.23%) Ansible
3 63 (14.09%) SCCM
4 39 (8.72%) Kubernetes
5 25 (5.59%) FortiGate
6 24 (5.37%) vCenter Server
7 17 (3.80%) WSUS
8 16 (3.58%) VxRail
9 15 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.68%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (2.68%) vMotion
11 8 (1.79%) Nagios
11 8 (1.79%) Puppet
12 7 (1.57%) Failover Clustering
12 7 (1.57%) Packer
12 7 (1.57%) Prometheus
13 6 (1.34%) SCOM
14 5 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.89%) Grafana
15 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 234 (52.35%) Microsoft
2 185 (41.39%) VMware
3 104 (23.27%) Cisco
4 80 (17.90%) ServiceNow
5 44 (9.84%) Citrix
6 40 (8.95%) Infoblox
7 39 (8.72%) F5
8 33 (7.38%) SolarWinds
9 27 (6.04%) Palo Alto
10 24 (5.37%) Juniper
11 22 (4.92%) CheckPoint
12 19 (4.25%) Fortinet
13 17 (3.80%) Google
14 16 (3.58%) CyberArk
14 16 (3.58%) HP
15 13 (2.91%) Splunk
15 13 (2.91%) Zscaler
16 11 (2.46%) Aruba
16 11 (2.46%) Remedy
17 10 (2.24%) Red Hat