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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 252 210 229
Rank change year-on-year -42 +19 +10
Contract jobs citing DHCP 315 366 414
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.02% 1.18% 1.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.21% 9.59% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 231 278
10th Percentile £200 £223 £192
25th Percentile £303 £270 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £609
90th Percentile £660 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £465 £425 £465
% change year-on-year +9.41% -8.60% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 13
10th Percentile £23.98 £23.30 £17.00
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.59 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.73 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.08% -7.69% +47.73%
75th Percentile £85.25 £48.75 £45.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £49.50 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £35.73 £24.20 £33.25
% change year-on-year +47.62% -27.22% +51.14%

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 3,422 3,815 5,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.13% 12.25% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,205 3,419
10th Percentile £206 £234 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £608
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 136 328
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.83 £18.82
25th Percentile £20.56 £23.47 £23.07
Median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +27.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year -20.00% -24.65% +35.90%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +4 118 £475 - 60
South East -14 60 £475 +5.56% 122
Midlands -24 46 £383 +2.00% 41
West Midlands -21 45 £383 - 25
North of England -60 41 £500 +29.03% 26
South West -10 29 £600 +45.45% 26
East of England -7 25 £225 -8.16% 31
North West -37 20 £500 -6.98% 15
Yorkshire -36 17 £525 +114.29% 10
North East -13 4 £247 +64.33% 1
East Midlands -27 1 - - 16
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 63 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (18.41%) SharePoint
3 34 (10.79%) Skype for Business
4 11 (3.49%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2007
5 10 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2013
5 10 (3.17%) Office Communications Server
5 10 (3.17%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (2.54%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.59%) Confluence
7 5 (1.59%) IIS
8 4 (1.27%) Apache
9 2 (0.63%) WordPress
Applications
1 52 (16.51%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Eikon
1 1 (0.32%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.32%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 101 (32.06%) Azure
2 89 (28.25%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (20.95%) AWS
4 44 (13.97%) Entra ID
5 14 (4.44%) IaaS
6 12 (3.81%) GCP
7 11 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.17%) SaaS
9 9 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (2.86%) AWS Direct Connect
9 9 (2.86%) OneDrive
9 9 (2.86%) PaaS
10 8 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.90%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.90%) Nutanix
12 6 (1.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 311 (98.73%) DNS
2 117 (37.14%) TCP/IP
3 107 (33.97%) Firewall
4 91 (28.89%) VPN
5 66 (20.95%) VLAN
6 62 (19.68%) WAN
7 61 (19.37%) LAN
8 43 (13.65%) Wireless
9 28 (8.89%) BGP
10 24 (7.62%) SAN
10 24 (7.62%) Skype
10 24 (7.62%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (6.98%) SD-WAN
12 20 (6.35%) OSPF
13 18 (5.71%) Network Security
13 18 (5.71%) WLAN
14 16 (5.08%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (4.76%) Cisco Wireless
16 14 (4.44%) Cisco ISE
17 13 (4.13%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.95%) MySQL
3 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (2.86%) JIRA
2 3 (0.95%) Git
2 3 (0.95%) GitLab
3 1 (0.32%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.32%) Postman
3 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 106 (33.65%) Social Skills
2 55 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (9.21%) Public Sector
4 24 (7.62%) Finance
5 15 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.13%) Banking
7 12 (3.81%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.54%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.54%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.27%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.27%) Legal
12 4 (1.27%) Local Government
13 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.63%) Front Office
13 2 (0.63%) Marketing
13 2 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 78 (24.76%) Support Engineer
2 42 (13.33%) Analyst
3 41 (13.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 36 (11.43%) Network Engineer
5 27 (8.57%) IT Support
5 27 (8.57%) Senior
6 24 (7.62%) Architect
7 20 (6.35%) 2nd Line Support
7 20 (6.35%) IT Engineer
8 19 (6.03%) Support Analyst
9 16 (5.08%) Administrator
10 13 (4.13%) Consultant
10 13 (4.13%) Infrastructure Support
10 13 (4.13%) Microsoft Engineer
11 12 (3.81%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 12 (3.81%) IT Support Engineer
12 11 (3.49%) Desktop Engineer
12 11 (3.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.17%) Exchange Engineer
13 10 (3.17%) Exchange Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.59%) Middleware
1 5 (1.59%) YAML
2 4 (1.27%) LDAP
3 3 (0.95%) .NET
3 3 (0.95%) AngularJS
3 3 (0.95%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (0.95%) Bootstrap
3 3 (0.95%) Express.js
3 3 (0.95%) React
3 3 (0.95%) SOAP
3 3 (0.95%) WCF
3 3 (0.95%) Web Services
3 3 (0.95%) WPF
4 2 (0.63%) JSON
4 2 (0.63%) LAMP
4 2 (0.63%) REST
4 2 (0.63%) SAML
5 1 (0.32%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.32%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (11.75%) Data Centre
2 22 (6.98%) PKI
2 22 (6.98%) Replication
3 12 (3.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (2.86%) iPhone
4 9 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.54%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.54%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (2.22%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.59%) CMDB
7 5 (1.59%) iPad
7 5 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (1.27%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.27%) NHS
9 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.95%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 199 (63.17%) Windows
2 84 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 55 (17.46%) Linux
4 44 (13.97%) Windows 10
5 17 (5.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (5.08%) Android
7 15 (4.76%) Mac OS
8 12 (3.81%) Windows 7
8 12 (3.81%) Windows Server 2003
9 10 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (2.54%) Apple iOS
11 8 (2.54%) CentOS
12 7 (2.22%) Unix
13 6 (1.90%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.95%) VMS
15 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.32%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (29.21%) ITIL
2 69 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 36 (11.43%) Service Management
5 32 (10.16%) High Availability
6 30 (9.52%) Computer Science
7 28 (8.89%) Disaster Recovery
7 28 (8.89%) ITSM
8 26 (8.25%) Migration
9 23 (7.30%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (6.35%) Change Management
10 20 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (6.35%) Customer Service
10 20 (6.35%) Load Balancing
11 19 (6.03%) Knowledge Transfer
11 19 (6.03%) Service Delivery
12 18 (5.71%) CI/CD
12 18 (5.71%) Zero Trust
13 17 (5.40%) DevOps
13 17 (5.40%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 95 (30.16%) PowerShell
2 28 (8.89%) Python
3 20 (6.35%) SQL
4 18 (5.71%) Bash
5 8 (2.54%) VBScript
6 7 (2.22%) Lisp
7 6 (1.90%) VB
8 5 (1.59%) Bicep
8 5 (1.59%) Perl
9 3 (0.95%) C#
9 3 (0.95%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.32%) Go
10 1 (0.32%) Java
Qualifications
1 91 (28.89%) Security Cleared
2 63 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 61 (19.37%) Cisco Certification
4 45 (14.29%) CCNP
5 42 (13.33%) Degree
6 35 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (10.79%) DV Cleared
8 33 (10.48%) CCNA
9 20 (6.35%) Azure Certification
10 13 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (3.81%) Network+ Certification
12 11 (3.49%) Server+ Certification
13 9 (2.86%) AWS Certification
13 9 (2.86%) CCIE
13 9 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (2.22%) CCSA
14 7 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (2.22%) MCP
14 7 (2.22%) MCSE
15 6 (1.90%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.44%) GDPR
2 13 (4.13%) SLA
3 10 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.22%) NIST
6 5 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.63%) NCSC
8 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.32%) QA
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 165 (52.38%) Active Directory
2 70 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (11.43%) Hyper-V
4 15 (4.76%) Docker
5 11 (3.49%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (3.17%) Brightmail
6 10 (3.17%) ISA Server
6 10 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.17%) vSphere
7 9 (2.86%) Firmware
7 9 (2.86%) VMware NSX
8 8 (2.54%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.90%) Terminal Services
10 5 (1.59%) BitLocker
10 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (1.59%) NFS
10 5 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.95%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.95%) KVM
11 3 (0.95%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 54 (17.14%) SCCM
2 38 (12.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (9.84%) Terraform
4 30 (9.52%) Ansible
5 15 (4.76%) WSUS
6 12 (3.81%) Microsoft Clustering
7 11 (3.49%) FortiGate
8 9 (2.86%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.54%) Kubernetes
9 8 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.59%) SCOM
11 4 (1.27%) CA Spectrum
11 4 (1.27%) Packer
11 4 (1.27%) SELinux
12 3 (0.95%) OpenView
12 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.95%) Puppet
13 2 (0.63%) Cisco Prime
13 2 (0.63%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 162 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 84 (26.67%) VMware
3 73 (23.17%) Cisco
4 38 (12.06%) ServiceNow
5 28 (8.89%) Citrix
6 20 (6.35%) SolarWinds
7 19 (6.03%) Palo Alto
8 18 (5.71%) CheckPoint
8 18 (5.71%) F5
9 17 (5.40%) Dell
9 17 (5.40%) Meraki
10 15 (4.76%) Fortinet
11 14 (4.44%) Remedy
12 12 (3.81%) Veeam
13 10 (3.17%) Juniper
13 10 (3.17%) Red Hat
14 8 (2.54%) Infoblox
14 8 (2.54%) Zscaler
15 7 (2.22%) Ekahau
16 6 (1.90%) Splunk