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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 245 237
Rank change year-on-year -32 -8 +13
Contract jobs citing DHCP 443 296 331
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.07% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.31% 9.05% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 200 209
10th Percentile £225 £203 £225
25th Percentile £375 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £470
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.26% -1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £678 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 17 5
10th Percentile £26.00 £27.46 £25.86
25th Percentile £31.25 £29.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +106.67% -36.84% +55.74%
75th Percentile £74.00 £83.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £30.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +106.67% -21.05% +11.76%

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 4,296 3,270 3,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.27% 11.78% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,525 2,078 2,231
10th Percentile £250 £219 £243
25th Percentile £400 £361 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £598 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 172 167
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £15.87
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.81 £24.59
Median hourly rate £38.72 £35.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -38.97% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £92.53 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £41.48 £50.00
% change year-on-year -21.64% -17.05% -11.49%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -71 147 £450 -4.00% 164
South East -24 95 £518 +15.77% 115
North of England -29 68 £500 +13.06% 80
South West +1 63 £588 +6.82% 57
Midlands -37 47 £425 +30.77% 62
North West -27 34 £519 +18.63% 50
West Midlands -56 32 £438 +34.62% 34
Yorkshire -19 24 £500 -9.09% 21
East of England -23 18 £475 +24.18% 36
East Midlands +6 15 £300 - 26
North East -31 10 £213 -14.40% 12
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 65 (14.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 60 (13.54%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.81%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.58%) Confluence
5 5 (1.13%) Apache
5 5 (1.13%) IIS
5 5 (1.13%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.68%) 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
Business Applications
1 10 (2.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 218 (49.21%) Azure
2 132 (29.80%) Microsoft 365
3 100 (22.57%) Entra ID
4 99 (22.35%) AWS
5 37 (8.35%) OneDrive
6 26 (5.87%) GCP
7 16 (3.61%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (3.61%) GitHub
7 16 (3.61%) IaaS
7 16 (3.61%) OpenShift
8 15 (3.39%) SaaS
9 13 (2.93%) PaaS
10 12 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (1.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 8 (1.81%) Route 53
13 7 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.58%) Google Workspace
14 6 (1.35%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 438 (98.87%) DNS
2 198 (44.70%) Firewall
3 188 (42.44%) TCP/IP
4 149 (33.63%) VPN
5 92 (20.77%) VLAN
6 69 (15.58%) Network Security
7 67 (15.12%) LAN
7 67 (15.12%) WAN
8 58 (13.09%) Wi-Fi
9 52 (11.74%) Wireless
10 37 (8.35%) SAN
11 36 (8.13%) BGP
12 32 (7.22%) OSPF
13 24 (5.42%) SSL
14 20 (4.51%) IPsec
14 20 (4.51%) NAS
15 19 (4.29%) SD-WAN
16 18 (4.06%) Cisco ASA
16 18 (4.06%) VoIP
17 17 (3.84%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.58%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.90%) Db2
4 3 (0.68%) Big Data
4 3 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (6.77%) JIRA
2 9 (2.03%) Git
2 9 (2.03%) GitLab
3 8 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.90%) Chocolatey
6 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.23%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.23%) JMeter
7 1 (0.23%) Locust
7 1 (0.23%) MSI
7 1 (0.23%) Newman
7 1 (0.23%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.23%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 153 (34.54%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.19%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (10.61%) Finance
4 31 (7.00%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.64%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.71%) Banking
7 10 (2.26%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.26%) Police
8 9 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.03%) Legal
9 7 (1.58%) Front Office
9 7 (1.58%) Law
10 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.13%) Local Government
11 5 (1.13%) Military
12 4 (0.90%) Automotive
12 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 117 (26.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 69 (15.58%) Senior
3 65 (14.67%) Network Engineer
4 52 (11.74%) Support Engineer
5 43 (9.71%) IT Support
6 37 (8.35%) IT Engineer
7 34 (7.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 32 (7.22%) Architect
9 30 (6.77%) IT Support Engineer
10 28 (6.32%) Analyst
10 28 (6.32%) Senior Network Engineer
11 22 (4.97%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (3.84%) Support Analyst
14 15 (3.39%) Active Directory Engineer
15 14 (3.16%) Administrator
15 14 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
16 13 (2.93%) Desktop Support
17 12 (2.71%) 2nd Line Support
17 12 (2.71%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (19.41%) Terraform
2 20 (4.51%) 802.1X
3 15 (3.39%) LDAP
4 14 (3.16%) ARM Templates
5 6 (1.35%) JSON
5 6 (1.35%) SAML
6 5 (1.13%) OAuth
6 5 (1.13%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.90%) Middleware
7 4 (0.90%) YAML
8 3 (0.68%) .NET
8 3 (0.68%) REST
9 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.45%) eBPF
9 2 (0.45%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.45%) ODBC
9 2 (0.45%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.45%) Qt
9 2 (0.45%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 83 (18.74%) Data Centre
2 70 (15.80%) PKI
3 44 (9.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 38 (8.58%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.06%) Clustering
6 16 (3.61%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.93%) Driving Licence
8 11 (2.48%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.48%) Replication
8 11 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.35%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.13%) ARM Cortex
12 5 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.13%) Fat Client
12 5 (1.13%) Thin Client
13 4 (0.90%) Mainframe
13 4 (0.90%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 319 (72.01%) Windows
2 166 (37.47%) Windows Server
3 118 (26.64%) Linux
4 55 (12.42%) Windows 10
5 28 (6.32%) Mac OS
6 18 (4.06%) Apple iOS
7 16 (3.61%) Android
8 15 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (3.16%) Unix
10 12 (2.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (1.81%) Ubuntu
12 8 (1.81%) Windows 7
13 5 (1.13%) CentOS
14 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.45%) SUSE
15 2 (0.45%) VMS
15 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.23%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (31.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 137 (30.93%) ITIL
3 120 (27.09%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (19.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 68 (15.35%) ITSM
6 65 (14.67%) Migration
7 64 (14.45%) Root Cause Analysis
8 58 (13.09%) High Availability
9 55 (12.42%) Disaster Recovery
9 55 (12.42%) Technical Leadership
10 49 (11.06%) Cybersecurity
11 48 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (10.61%) Service Management
13 46 (10.38%) Project Delivery
14 44 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 41 (9.26%) Customer Service
16 40 (9.03%) DevOps
17 39 (8.80%) Change Management
18 38 (8.58%) User Experience
19 36 (8.13%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 142 (32.05%) PowerShell
2 71 (16.03%) Python
3 60 (13.54%) Bash
4 16 (3.61%) SQL
5 15 (3.39%) Bicep
6 10 (2.26%) VBScript
7 7 (1.58%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.35%) VB
9 4 (0.90%) VBA
10 3 (0.68%) C++
10 3 (0.68%) Lisp
10 3 (0.68%) Perl
11 2 (0.45%) Java
11 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.23%) C
12 1 (0.23%) Go
12 1 (0.23%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 164 (37.02%) Security Cleared
2 91 (20.54%) SC Cleared
3 73 (16.48%) DV Cleared
4 53 (11.96%) Cisco Certification
5 47 (10.61%) CCNP
6 43 (9.71%) Degree
7 34 (7.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (5.64%) Azure Certification
9 24 (5.42%) CCNA
10 20 (4.51%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (2.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 12 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (2.71%) VCAP
13 11 (2.48%) A+ Certification
13 11 (2.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 10 (2.26%) AWS Certification
15 9 (2.03%) CCIE
15 9 (2.03%) Server+ Certification
16 6 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
17 5 (1.13%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.55%) SLA
2 11 (2.48%) NIST
3 10 (2.26%) QA
4 5 (1.13%) NCSC
5 4 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.68%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 282 (63.66%) Active Directory
2 167 (37.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 100 (22.57%) Hyper-V
4 59 (13.32%) vSphere
5 40 (9.03%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (5.87%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (5.64%) Docker
7 25 (5.64%) VMware NSX
8 22 (4.97%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (2.48%) BitLocker
10 10 (2.26%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (2.03%) NFS
12 7 (1.58%) Firmware
13 6 (1.35%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.90%) VirtualBox
16 3 (0.68%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.45%) UAG
17 2 (0.45%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 95 (21.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 75 (16.93%) Ansible
3 66 (14.90%) SCCM
4 40 (9.03%) Kubernetes
5 24 (5.42%) vCenter Server
6 16 (3.61%) FortiGate
6 16 (3.61%) VxRail
6 16 (3.61%) WSUS
7 14 (3.16%) Jamf Pro
8 9 (2.03%) SCOM
8 9 (2.03%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.03%) vMotion
9 8 (1.81%) Grafana
10 7 (1.58%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (1.58%) Nagios
10 7 (1.58%) Packer
10 7 (1.58%) Prometheus
11 6 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.35%) Puppet
12 4 (0.90%) systemd
Vendors
1 256 (57.79%) Microsoft
2 196 (44.24%) VMware
3 97 (21.90%) Cisco
4 69 (15.58%) ServiceNow
5 35 (7.90%) Citrix
6 32 (7.22%) F5
7 30 (6.77%) Infoblox
7 30 (6.77%) Palo Alto
8 27 (6.09%) SolarWinds
9 23 (5.19%) CheckPoint
10 20 (4.51%) Fortinet
11 18 (4.06%) Google
12 16 (3.61%) CyberArk
12 16 (3.61%) Juniper
13 15 (3.39%) Meraki
14 13 (2.93%) Red Hat
15 12 (2.71%) HP
16 11 (2.48%) Remedy
16 11 (2.48%) Veeam
17 10 (2.26%) Aruba