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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
26 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 212 250
Rank change year-on-year -62 +38 -6
Contract jobs citing DHCP 393 314 346
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.25% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.59% 9.77% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 219 265
10th Percentile £213 £250 £225
25th Percentile £406 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +9.47% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £601 £575
90th Percentile £626 £638 £608
UK median daily rate £475 £523 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 17
10th Percentile £12.43 £28.10 £18.40
25th Percentile £26.00 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -16.56%
75th Percentile £58.03 £33.61 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £43.07 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -16.56%

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 4,097 3,215 4,814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.44% 12.75% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,539 1,985 2,865
10th Percentile £250 £231 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 136 395
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.69 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £28.96 £39.66 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -13.56% +141.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £44.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.64% -2.22% +136.84%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -54 130 £450 -10.00% 33
South East -11 105 £515 -9.41% 58
North of England -56 61 £534 +14.75% 33
Midlands -54 40 £450 +12.50% 28
South West -24 37 £500 -18.37% 32
North West -44 35 £609 +36.55% 19
West Midlands -52 30 £444 +74.02% 19
Yorkshire -39 22 £447 -18.73% 10
East of England -31 15 £485 -7.62% 30
East Midlands -6 10 £450 -18.18% 9
North East -28 4 £350 +40.00% 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 35 (8.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (7.63%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.53%) IIS
4 4 (1.02%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) nginx
5 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 11 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.51%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 164 (41.73%) Azure
2 87 (22.14%) Entra ID
3 74 (18.83%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (16.54%) AWS
5 24 (6.11%) OneDrive
6 21 (5.34%) IaaS
7 18 (4.58%) GCP
7 18 (4.58%) PaaS
8 15 (3.82%) SaaS
9 11 (2.80%) Route 53
10 7 (1.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.53%) Datadog
12 5 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.27%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.27%) Nutanix
13 4 (1.02%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (1.02%) GitHub
13 4 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 383 (97.46%) DNS
2 144 (36.64%) Firewall
3 95 (24.17%) TCP/IP
4 85 (21.63%) VPN
5 83 (21.12%) LAN
6 81 (20.61%) WAN
7 71 (18.07%) VLAN
8 48 (12.21%) Network Security
8 48 (12.21%) Wi-Fi
9 41 (10.43%) BGP
9 41 (10.43%) Wireless
10 40 (10.18%) OSPF
11 39 (9.92%) BIG-IP
11 39 (9.92%) SAN
12 30 (7.63%) Kerberos
13 28 (7.12%) Cisco ISE
13 28 (7.12%) VXLAN
14 25 (6.36%) Ethernet VPN
14 25 (6.36%) Junos
15 22 (5.60%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.38%) SQL Server
2 8 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.76%) Big Data
5 2 (0.51%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.25%) Db2
6 1 (0.25%) Power BI
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (6.36%) JIRA
2 6 (1.53%) Chocolatey
3 5 (1.27%) Git
4 4 (1.02%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (0.76%) GitLab
6 2 (0.51%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.25%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.25%) MSI
7 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 104 (26.46%) Social Skills
2 42 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (7.38%) Finance
4 24 (6.11%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (5.85%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.07%) Banking
7 8 (2.04%) Local Government
8 7 (1.78%) Legal
8 7 (1.78%) Military
9 6 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.27%) Police
11 4 (1.02%) Law
11 4 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.51%) Advertising
12 2 (0.51%) Publishing
12 2 (0.51%) Retail
13 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (20.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 57 (14.50%) Network Engineer
3 44 (11.20%) Architect
4 41 (10.43%) Support Engineer
5 40 (10.18%) IT Support
6 34 (8.65%) Senior
7 33 (8.40%) IT Engineer
8 24 (6.11%) Analyst
9 22 (5.60%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (3.82%) Network Specialist
11 14 (3.56%) Firewall Specialist
12 13 (3.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 13 (3.31%) Administrator
12 13 (3.31%) Senior Network Engineer
13 12 (3.05%) IT Analyst
14 11 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (2.80%) Infrastructure Support
14 11 (2.80%) Technical Architect
15 10 (2.54%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.69%) 802.1X
2 31 (7.89%) LDAP
3 20 (5.09%) SAML
4 15 (3.82%) OAuth
5 10 (2.54%) JSON
6 6 (1.53%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.02%) OpenID
8 3 (0.76%) .NET
8 3 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.76%) Redfish
8 3 (0.76%) REST
8 3 (0.76%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.51%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.51%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.51%) Blazor
9 2 (0.51%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.51%) Qt
10 1 (0.25%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.25%) OAuth2
10 1 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 77 (19.59%) Data Centre
2 53 (13.49%) PKI
3 38 (9.67%) Clustering
4 29 (7.38%) Onboarding
4 29 (7.38%) Replication
5 14 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.80%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.29%) IoT
8 6 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.27%) Fat Client
9 5 (1.27%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.27%) Thin Client
10 4 (1.02%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.02%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 252 (64.12%) Windows
2 138 (35.11%) Windows Server
3 44 (11.20%) Linux
4 40 (10.18%) Windows 10
5 22 (5.60%) Mac OS
5 22 (5.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (3.56%) Apple iOS
7 13 (3.31%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (2.04%) Android
11 6 (1.53%) Windows 7
11 6 (1.53%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (1.27%) Unix
13 3 (0.76%) VMS
14 2 (0.51%) CentOS
14 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.25%) Rocky
15 1 (0.25%) SUSE
15 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (25.19%) Problem-Solving
2 93 (23.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 86 (21.88%) High Availability
4 72 (18.32%) ITIL
5 65 (16.54%) ITSM
6 49 (12.47%) Migration
7 48 (12.21%) Identity Access Management
7 48 (12.21%) Load Balancing
8 37 (9.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 37 (9.41%) Observability
8 37 (9.41%) Root Cause Analysis
9 34 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (7.12%) Project Delivery
10 28 (7.12%) User Experience
11 27 (6.87%) Network Segmentation
11 27 (6.87%) Task Automation
12 26 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (6.11%) Incident Management
13 24 (6.11%) Patch Management
14 22 (5.60%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 98 (24.94%) PowerShell
2 40 (10.18%) Python
3 20 (5.09%) Bash
4 11 (2.80%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.29%) VBA
6 6 (1.53%) VBScript
7 5 (1.27%) SQL
8 4 (1.02%) VB
9 3 (0.76%) Lisp
10 2 (0.51%) Bicep
11 1 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.25%) C++
11 1 (0.25%) Go
11 1 (0.25%) Perl
11 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 153 (38.93%) Security Cleared
2 89 (22.65%) SC Cleared
3 60 (15.27%) Cisco Certification
4 48 (12.21%) DV Cleared
5 38 (9.67%) CCNP
6 34 (8.65%) Degree
7 27 (6.87%) CCNA
8 19 (4.83%) Network+ Certification
9 15 (3.82%) Server+ Certification
10 11 (2.80%) Azure Certification
11 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.78%) CCIE
12 7 (1.78%) JNCIA
12 7 (1.78%) JNCIP
12 7 (1.78%) JNCIS
13 6 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (1.27%) CCIE Security
14 5 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (0.76%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.60%) SLA
2 16 (4.07%) GDPR
3 13 (3.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (2.80%) NIST
5 7 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.27%) QA
7 4 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.76%) NCSC
9 2 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.51%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.25%) RMADS
System Software
1 223 (56.74%) Active Directory
2 108 (27.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (15.52%) Hyper-V
4 34 (8.65%) VMware ESXi
5 29 (7.38%) vSphere
6 24 (6.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (4.83%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (4.07%) BitLocker
9 13 (3.31%) Docker
10 11 (2.80%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (2.29%) VMware NSX
12 8 (2.04%) Firmware
13 6 (1.53%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (1.27%) NFS
15 4 (1.02%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
17 2 (0.51%) UAG
17 2 (0.51%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.51%) XenApp
17 2 (0.51%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (13.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (10.18%) Ansible
3 38 (9.67%) SCCM
4 35 (8.91%) FortiGate
5 32 (8.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 30 (7.63%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (6.36%) Terraform
8 18 (4.58%) vCenter Server
9 16 (4.07%) Kubernetes
9 16 (4.07%) WSUS
10 12 (3.05%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (3.05%) vMotion
11 8 (2.04%) Puppet
12 7 (1.78%) Nagios
13 5 (1.27%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (1.27%) Prometheus
14 4 (1.02%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.76%) CA Single Sign-On
15 3 (0.76%) SCOM
15 3 (0.76%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 180 (45.80%) Microsoft
2 118 (30.03%) VMware
3 93 (23.66%) Cisco
4 72 (18.32%) ServiceNow
5 50 (12.72%) F5
6 44 (11.20%) Infoblox
7 41 (10.43%) Citrix
8 40 (10.18%) SolarWinds
9 36 (9.16%) Juniper
10 25 (6.36%) Splunk
11 22 (5.60%) Extreme Networks
12 21 (5.34%) Palo Alto
13 16 (4.07%) Fortinet
13 16 (4.07%) Google
14 13 (3.31%) HP
14 13 (3.31%) Okta
15 12 (3.05%) CheckPoint
15 12 (3.05%) Dell
16 10 (2.54%) NetApp
17 9 (2.29%) Veeam
185 DHCP jobs in England