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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 205 223
Rank change year-on-year -66 +18 +9
Contract jobs citing DHCP 354 304 388
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.24% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.34% 9.45% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 232 292
10th Percentile £210 £243 £213
25th Percentile £375 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +6.39% -6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £601 £575
90th Percentile £616 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 21
10th Percentile £12.43 £24.03 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.98 £24.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.71 £25.80 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.21% -35.51% +3.90%
75th Percentile £74.00 £26.90 -
90th Percentile £76.85 £27.56 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £45.71 £23.59 £40.00
% change year-on-year +93.78% -41.03% +3.90%

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 3,790 3,217 5,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.51% 13.08% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,381 2,001 3,073
10th Percentile £238 £220 £205
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £490
% change year-on-year +2.04% - -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 124 403
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.20 £13.57
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £42.60 £36.57 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% -8.57% +111.30%
75th Percentile £68.07 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.67% -6.25% +110.53%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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
South East -10 110 £515 -10.43% 40
London -67 108 £475 -5.00% 18
North of England -73 60 £475 +23.38% 39
Midlands -38 34 £438 -3.58% 18
North West -50 32 £575 +39.39% 12
South West -55 26 £540 -12.10% 25
West Midlands -38 25 £438 +36.19% 13
Yorkshire -53 24 £447 +13.46% 20
East of England -30 17 £363 -30.95% 12
East Midlands -32 9 £275 -45.00% 5
North East -17 4 £200 -11.11% 8
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 40 (11.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.54%) Skype for Business
4 8 (2.26%) IIS
5 4 (1.13%) Apache
6 2 (0.56%) WordPress
7 1 (0.28%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 19 (5.37%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 144 (40.68%) Azure
2 88 (24.86%) Entra ID
3 74 (20.90%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (11.86%) AWS
5 26 (7.34%) IaaS
6 24 (6.78%) PaaS
7 18 (5.08%) SaaS
8 9 (2.54%) Nutanix
9 8 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (1.69%) Datadog
10 6 (1.69%) GCP
10 6 (1.69%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (1.13%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.13%) Route 53
12 3 (0.85%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.85%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 339 (95.76%) DNS
2 132 (37.29%) Firewall
3 80 (22.60%) LAN
4 78 (22.03%) VPN
5 77 (21.75%) WAN
6 76 (21.47%) TCP/IP
7 67 (18.93%) VLAN
8 48 (13.56%) Wi-Fi
9 42 (11.86%) BGP
10 40 (11.30%) OSPF
11 37 (10.45%) Network Security
12 35 (9.89%) BIG-IP
13 31 (8.76%) Kerberos
14 28 (7.91%) Cisco ISE
14 28 (7.91%) Wireless
15 27 (7.63%) VXLAN
16 24 (6.78%) Ethernet VPN
16 24 (6.78%) Junos
17 22 (6.21%) SAN
18 17 (4.80%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.93%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.28%) MySQL
3 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.28%) Power BI
3 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (4.52%) JIRA
2 6 (1.69%) Chocolatey
3 4 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.85%) Git
5 2 (0.56%) GitLab
6 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 83 (23.45%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (5.65%) Finance
3 20 (5.65%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.37%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (4.24%) Banking
6 10 (2.82%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.98%) Military
8 6 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.69%) Legal
8 6 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.13%) Law
9 4 (1.13%) Local Government
9 4 (1.13%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.85%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.56%) Advertising
11 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.56%) Marketing
11 2 (0.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 60 (16.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (14.12%) Network Engineer
3 36 (10.17%) Senior
4 32 (9.04%) Analyst
5 31 (8.76%) Architect
5 31 (8.76%) IT Support
6 28 (7.91%) IT Engineer
6 28 (7.91%) Support Engineer
7 17 (4.80%) IT Support Engineer
8 15 (4.24%) Network Specialist
9 14 (3.95%) Firewall Specialist
9 14 (3.95%) IT Analyst
9 14 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (3.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 13 (3.67%) Administrator
11 12 (3.39%) 2nd Line Support
11 12 (3.39%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (3.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.11%) Support Analyst
13 10 (2.82%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.32%) 802.1X
1 33 (9.32%) LDAP
2 21 (5.93%) SAML
3 16 (4.52%) OAuth
4 7 (1.98%) JSON
5 4 (1.13%) OpenID
5 4 (1.13%) REST
6 3 (0.85%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (0.85%) Redfish
7 2 (0.56%) Middleware
7 2 (0.56%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.56%) XMPP
8 1 (0.28%) .NET
8 1 (0.28%) CSS
8 1 (0.28%) HTML
8 1 (0.28%) LAMP
8 1 (0.28%) LAPP Stack
8 1 (0.28%) SOAP
8 1 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.56%) Data Centre
2 47 (13.28%) PKI
3 36 (10.17%) Clustering
4 34 (9.60%) Replication
5 20 (5.65%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
7 10 (2.82%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.54%) IoT
9 8 (2.26%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (1.41%) iPhone
11 5 (1.41%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.41%) Smartphone
12 4 (1.13%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.56%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 234 (66.10%) Windows
2 135 (38.14%) Windows Server
3 44 (12.43%) Windows 10
4 37 (10.45%) Linux
5 27 (7.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (4.24%) Android
6 15 (4.24%) Windows Server 2012
6 15 (4.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (3.11%) Windows 7
8 9 (2.54%) Apple iOS
9 8 (2.26%) Mac OS
9 8 (2.26%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.13%) Unix
10 4 (1.13%) VMS
11 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.28%) CentOS
12 1 (0.28%) Solaris
12 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (19.77%) High Availability
3 68 (19.21%) ITIL
4 66 (18.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 50 (14.12%) ITSM
6 45 (12.71%) Identity Access Management
7 42 (11.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 42 (11.86%) Load Balancing
8 40 (11.30%) Migration
9 35 (9.89%) Observability
10 29 (8.19%) Service Management
11 27 (7.63%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (7.06%) Task Automation
13 24 (6.78%) Root Cause Analysis
14 23 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (6.21%) Change Management
15 22 (6.21%) DevOps
16 19 (5.37%) Customer Service
16 19 (5.37%) Zero Trust
17 18 (5.08%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 108 (30.51%) PowerShell
2 28 (7.91%) Python
3 14 (3.95%) Bash
4 12 (3.39%) VBScript
5 9 (2.54%) SQL
5 9 (2.54%) VB
6 7 (1.98%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.69%) VBA
8 3 (0.85%) Bicep
8 3 (0.85%) Lisp
9 2 (0.56%) Perl
10 1 (0.28%) C
10 1 (0.28%) C#
10 1 (0.28%) Go
10 1 (0.28%) Java
10 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 139 (39.27%) Security Cleared
2 87 (24.58%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.43%) Cisco Certification
4 41 (11.58%) DV Cleared
5 22 (6.21%) CCNP
6 18 (5.08%) Degree
7 13 (3.67%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (3.11%) CCNA
9 10 (2.82%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.98%) JNCIA
11 7 (1.98%) JNCIP
11 7 (1.98%) JNCIS
12 6 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (1.69%) Server+ Certification
13 5 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (1.13%) AWS Certification
14 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
15 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.93%) GDPR
2 19 (5.37%) SLA
3 14 (3.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.26%) NIST
6 7 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.85%) NCSC
8 2 (0.56%) QA
9 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 214 (60.45%) Active Directory
2 94 (26.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (14.12%) Hyper-V
4 24 (6.78%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (6.21%) vSphere
6 18 (5.08%) BitLocker
7 15 (4.24%) Docker
8 13 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (2.26%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (2.26%) VMware NSX
11 7 (1.98%) Firmware
12 5 (1.41%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.85%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.85%) NFS
13 3 (0.85%) XenApp
14 2 (0.56%) UAG
14 2 (0.56%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.28%) Ceph
15 1 (0.28%) Samba
Systems Management
1 56 (15.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (14.41%) SCCM
3 36 (10.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 36 (10.17%) Ansible
4 32 (9.04%) Single Sign-On
5 30 (8.47%) FortiGate
6 22 (6.21%) Terraform
7 18 (5.08%) Kubernetes
8 15 (4.24%) WSUS
9 14 (3.95%) vCenter Server
10 9 (2.54%) vMotion
11 7 (1.98%) Puppet
11 7 (1.98%) SCOM
12 6 (1.69%) Nagios
13 5 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (1.41%) HAProxy
14 3 (0.85%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.85%) Stealthwatch
15 2 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
15 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 151 (42.66%) Microsoft
2 104 (29.38%) VMware
3 69 (19.49%) Cisco
4 54 (15.25%) ServiceNow
5 43 (12.15%) F5
6 37 (10.45%) SolarWinds
7 34 (9.60%) Citrix
7 34 (9.60%) Juniper
8 27 (7.63%) Infoblox
9 24 (6.78%) Splunk
10 22 (6.21%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (3.95%) Okta
11 14 (3.95%) Palo Alto
12 12 (3.39%) Dell
12 12 (3.39%) Fortinet
13 11 (3.11%) NetApp
13 11 (3.11%) Veeam
14 8 (2.26%) Google
14 8 (2.26%) HP
15 7 (1.98%) Apple