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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 203 206
Rank change year-on-year -86 +3 +30
Contract jobs citing DHCP 274 336 409
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.26% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.37% 9.83% 8.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 216 286
10th Percentile £200 £213 £203
25th Percentile £300 £265 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £425 £465
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% -8.60% -0.54%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £648 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 10
10th Percentile £24.76 £23.20 £16.90
25th Percentile £25.43 £23.35 £18.06
Median hourly rate £61.86 £24.20 £26.06
Median % change year-on-year +155.62% -7.13% +18.44%
75th Percentile £88.72 £37.65 £33.75
90th Percentile £89.63 £45.06 £39.15
UK median hourly rate £61.86 £23.59 £32.50
% change year-on-year +162.23% -27.42% +47.73%

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 3,272 3,417 5,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.55% 12.79% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,108 1,989 3,169
10th Percentile £204 £220 £206
25th Percentile £356 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £600
90th Percentile £681 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 99 315
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.50 £20.30 £24.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year - -38.04% +125.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £74.41 £71.75 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +7.69% -42.47% +125.96%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -37 87 £525 +10.06% 38
South East -10 66 £475 +11.76% 67
North of England -74 39 £321 -8.21% 40
Midlands -38 37 £425 +16.44% 22
West Midlands -22 35 £438 +13.64% 13
South West -30 35 £575 +36.90% 20
North West -56 20 £330 -25.63% 19
East of England -17 16 £225 -8.16% 23
Yorkshire -33 14 £225 -7.22% 20
North East -14 5 £247 +64.33% 3
East Midlands -26 2 £275 -14.06% 9
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 61 (22.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (21.17%) SharePoint
3 30 (10.95%) Skype for Business
4 7 (2.55%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (2.19%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (2.19%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (2.19%) Exchange Server 2013
5 6 (2.19%) IIS
5 6 (2.19%) Office Communications Server
5 6 (2.19%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (1.46%) Apache
7 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.73%) WordPress
9 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 35 (12.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 113 (41.24%) Azure
2 89 (32.48%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (21.17%) AWS
4 50 (18.25%) Entra ID
5 16 (5.84%) IaaS
6 14 (5.11%) GCP
7 11 (4.01%) PaaS
8 10 (3.65%) Nutanix
9 9 (3.28%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (3.28%) OneDrive
10 8 (2.92%) SaaS
11 6 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.82%) AWS Direct Connect
12 5 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (1.09%) Akamai
14 3 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (1.09%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 266 (97.08%) DNS
2 107 (39.05%) TCP/IP
3 84 (30.66%) VPN
4 81 (29.56%) Firewall
5 50 (18.25%) VLAN
6 46 (16.79%) LAN
6 46 (16.79%) WAN
7 24 (8.76%) Skype
8 22 (8.03%) Wireless
9 21 (7.66%) BGP
9 21 (7.66%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (5.84%) SAN
11 14 (5.11%) SD-WAN
12 13 (4.74%) OSPF
13 12 (4.38%) Network Security
14 11 (4.01%) VXLAN
15 10 (3.65%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (3.28%) VoIP
17 8 (2.92%) IPv4
17 8 (2.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.01%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.36%) MySQL
3 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (2.19%) JIRA
2 3 (1.09%) GitLab
3 2 (0.73%) Git
4 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 97 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (9.49%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.20%) Finance
5 15 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.38%) Banking
7 8 (2.92%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.82%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.46%) Legal
11 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.09%) Marketing
11 3 (1.09%) Military
11 3 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.73%) Electronics
12 2 (0.73%) Law
12 2 (0.73%) Local Government
12 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 63 (22.99%) Support Engineer
2 44 (16.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (12.04%) Analyst
4 31 (11.31%) IT Support
5 26 (9.49%) 2nd Line Support
6 25 (9.12%) Network Engineer
7 24 (8.76%) Senior
8 19 (6.93%) Architect
9 17 (6.20%) IT Engineer
10 15 (5.47%) IT Analyst
10 15 (5.47%) Support Analyst
11 13 (4.74%) IT Support Analyst
11 13 (4.74%) Microsoft Engineer
12 12 (4.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support
12 12 (4.38%) Infrastructure Support
12 12 (4.38%) IT Support Engineer
13 11 (4.01%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
13 11 (4.01%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 11 (4.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 10 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.92%) LDAP
2 6 (2.19%) Middleware
3 4 (1.46%) YAML
4 3 (1.09%) .NET
4 3 (1.09%) AngularJS
4 3 (1.09%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (1.09%) Bootstrap
4 3 (1.09%) Express.js
4 3 (1.09%) OAuth
4 3 (1.09%) React
4 3 (1.09%) SAML
4 3 (1.09%) SOAP
4 3 (1.09%) WCF
4 3 (1.09%) Web Services
4 3 (1.09%) WPF
5 2 (0.73%) REST
5 2 (0.73%) XMPP
6 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.36%) OpenID
6 1 (0.36%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.22%) Data Centre
2 23 (8.39%) PKI
3 16 (5.84%) Replication
4 11 (4.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (3.65%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.19%) Smartphone
8 5 (1.82%) Clustering
8 5 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (1.46%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (1.46%) iPhone
9 4 (1.46%) NHS
10 3 (1.09%) CMDB
10 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.09%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
11 2 (0.73%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 192 (70.07%) Windows
2 103 (37.59%) Windows Server
3 43 (15.69%) Linux
4 42 (15.33%) Windows 10
5 24 (8.76%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (5.47%) Android
6 15 (5.47%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (4.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (4.01%) Windows Server 2003
9 10 (3.65%) Apple iOS
10 8 (2.92%) Mac OS
11 7 (2.55%) Windows 7
12 5 (1.82%) CentOS
12 5 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (1.46%) Unix
14 3 (1.09%) Ubuntu
14 3 (1.09%) VMS
14 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.36%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (31.75%) ITIL
2 79 (28.83%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (17.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 34 (12.41%) Service Management
5 33 (12.04%) Disaster Recovery
6 23 (8.39%) Customer Service
6 23 (8.39%) High Availability
6 23 (8.39%) ITSM
7 22 (8.03%) Zero Trust
8 21 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (7.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (7.30%) Migration
10 19 (6.93%) Change Management
10 19 (6.93%) Service Delivery
11 18 (6.57%) Knowledge Transfer
12 17 (6.20%) Computer Science
13 16 (5.84%) CI/CD
13 16 (5.84%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (5.84%) DevOps
13 16 (5.84%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 100 (36.50%) PowerShell
2 26 (9.49%) Python
3 14 (5.11%) Bash
3 14 (5.11%) SQL
4 8 (2.92%) Bicep
5 7 (2.55%) Lisp
5 7 (2.55%) VBScript
6 6 (2.19%) VB
7 5 (1.82%) Perl
8 3 (1.09%) C#
8 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.73%) Java
Qualifications
1 94 (34.31%) Security Cleared
2 68 (24.82%) SC Cleared
3 36 (13.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 34 (12.41%) DV Cleared
5 31 (11.31%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (10.58%) Degree
7 28 (10.22%) CCNP
8 22 (8.03%) Azure Certification
9 16 (5.84%) Network+ Certification
10 12 (4.38%) CCNA
11 11 (4.01%) Server+ Certification
12 8 (2.92%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (2.55%) MCP
13 7 (2.55%) MCSE
14 6 (2.19%) CCIE
14 6 (2.19%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (1.82%) A+ Certification
15 5 (1.82%) CISSP
15 5 (1.82%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.47%) GDPR
2 11 (4.01%) SLA
3 10 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.19%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.19%) NIST
5 5 (1.82%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.36%) NCSC
8 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 169 (61.68%) Active Directory
2 77 (28.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (14.23%) Hyper-V
4 14 (5.11%) Docker
5 13 (4.74%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (4.38%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (3.65%) vSphere
8 8 (2.92%) BitLocker
8 8 (2.92%) Terminal Services
9 7 (2.55%) VMware NSX
10 6 (2.19%) Brightmail
10 6 (2.19%) ISA Server
11 5 (1.82%) Firmware
11 5 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
11 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 5 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (1.09%) DFS Replication
13 3 (1.09%) KVM
14 2 (0.73%) NFS
Systems Management
1 57 (20.80%) SCCM
2 52 (18.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (10.22%) Ansible
4 27 (9.85%) Terraform
5 15 (5.47%) WSUS
6 12 (4.38%) Kubernetes
7 11 (4.01%) FortiGate
7 11 (4.01%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (3.65%) vCenter Server
9 9 (3.28%) Microsoft Clustering
10 7 (2.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (2.55%) SCOM
11 5 (1.82%) Puppet
11 5 (1.82%) vMotion
12 4 (1.46%) Packer
13 3 (1.09%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (1.09%) Nagios
14 2 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 2 (0.73%) NetApp OnCommand
Vendors
1 152 (55.47%) Microsoft
2 87 (31.75%) VMware
3 47 (17.15%) Cisco
4 36 (13.14%) ServiceNow
5 23 (8.39%) Citrix
6 19 (6.93%) SolarWinds
7 17 (6.20%) Palo Alto
8 14 (5.11%) Fortinet
9 12 (4.38%) Dell
9 12 (4.38%) F5
9 12 (4.38%) Veeam
10 9 (3.28%) Remedy
11 8 (2.92%) CheckPoint
11 8 (2.92%) Meraki
12 7 (2.55%) Apple
12 7 (2.55%) Ekahau
12 7 (2.55%) Juniper
13 6 (2.19%) Infoblox
13 6 (2.19%) Sophos
13 6 (2.19%) Zscaler