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

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 223 233
Rank change year-on-year -28 +10 +22
Contract jobs citing DHCP 313 349 426
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.06% 1.13% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.29% 9.32% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 216 292
10th Percentile £203 £221 £193
25th Percentile £306 £313 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £428 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £551 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £463 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +8.82% -10.53% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 10
10th Percentile £23.98 £23.35 £23.46
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.19 £27.31
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +16.54% +51.14%
75th Percentile £76.94 £49.69 £45.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £57.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +54.55%

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 3,369 3,743 5,723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.42% 12.13% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,175 3,566
10th Percentile £213 £233 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £687 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 129 330
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.00 £27.00 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.77 £50.00 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% -11.42% +27.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -28.42% -13.64% +30.72%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +17 114 £469 -1.32% 140
South East -13 56 £461 +2.44% 270
Midlands -22 51 £365 -2.67% 56
West Midlands -7 50 £365 -4.58% 24
North of England -48 40 £474 +18.38% 44
South West -4 31 £575 +39.39% 67
East of England -8 22 £225 -43.75% 82
North West -28 21 £474 -9.81% 21
Yorkshire -22 15 £525 +78.72% 20
North East -17 4 £247 +64.33% 3
East Midlands -27 1 - - 30
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 60 (19.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 55 (17.57%) SharePoint
3 34 (10.86%) Skype for Business
4 11 (3.51%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (3.19%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (3.19%) Exchange Server 2007
5 10 (3.19%) Exchange Server 2013
5 10 (3.19%) Office Communications Server
5 10 (3.19%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (2.56%) Confluence
6 8 (2.56%) OpenStack
7 4 (1.28%) IIS
8 1 (0.32%) Apache
Applications
1 53 (16.93%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 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 95 (30.35%) Azure
2 89 (28.43%) Microsoft 365
3 62 (19.81%) AWS
4 34 (10.86%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.15%) GCP
5 13 (4.15%) IaaS
6 11 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (3.19%) OneDrive
8 9 (2.88%) AWS Direct Connect
9 8 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (2.56%) PaaS
10 7 (2.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 7 (2.24%) SaaS
11 6 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.92%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.92%) Serverless
12 5 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 310 (99.04%) DNS
2 117 (37.38%) TCP/IP
3 106 (33.87%) Firewall
4 95 (30.35%) VPN
5 71 (22.68%) VLAN
5 71 (22.68%) WAN
6 69 (22.04%) LAN
7 51 (16.29%) Wireless
8 31 (9.90%) BGP
9 27 (8.63%) SD-WAN
10 26 (8.31%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (7.67%) SAN
11 24 (7.67%) Skype
12 23 (7.35%) OSPF
13 22 (7.03%) Network Security
14 21 (6.71%) WLAN
15 19 (6.07%) Cisco IOS
16 16 (5.11%) Cisco Wireless
17 15 (4.79%) SSL
18 14 (4.47%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.92%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.64%) MySQL
3 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (3.83%) JIRA
2 3 (0.96%) Git
2 3 (0.96%) 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
1 104 (33.23%) Social Skills
2 55 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (9.58%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.99%) Finance
5 14 (4.47%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.15%) Banking
7 11 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.56%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.92%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.60%) Local Government
13 4 (1.28%) Legal
14 2 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.64%) Front Office
14 2 (0.64%) Military
15 1 (0.32%) Back Office
15 1 (0.32%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 81 (25.88%) Support Engineer
2 40 (12.78%) Network Engineer
3 39 (12.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 38 (12.14%) Analyst
5 27 (8.63%) IT Support
6 26 (8.31%) Architect
7 21 (6.71%) 2nd Line Support
7 21 (6.71%) IT Engineer
8 20 (6.39%) Senior
9 18 (5.75%) Support Analyst
10 16 (5.11%) Administrator
11 14 (4.47%) Consultant
11 14 (4.47%) Infrastructure Support
12 13 (4.15%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
12 13 (4.15%) IT Support Engineer
12 13 (4.15%) Microsoft Engineer
13 11 (3.51%) Desktop Engineer
13 11 (3.51%) Network Architect
14 10 (3.19%) Desktop Support
14 10 (3.19%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.60%) YAML
2 4 (1.28%) Middleware
3 3 (0.96%) LDAP
4 2 (0.64%) .NET
4 2 (0.64%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.64%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.64%) Bootstrap
4 2 (0.64%) Express.js
4 2 (0.64%) JSON
4 2 (0.64%) React
4 2 (0.64%) REST
4 2 (0.64%) SAML
4 2 (0.64%) SOAP
4 2 (0.64%) WCF
4 2 (0.64%) Web Services
4 2 (0.64%) WPF
5 1 (0.32%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.32%) Jinja
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.50%) Data Centre
2 20 (6.39%) Replication
3 18 (5.75%) PKI
4 12 (3.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.56%) iPhone
6 8 (2.56%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.56%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.24%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (1.92%) CMDB
9 5 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.60%) iPad
9 5 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (1.28%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.28%) NHS
11 3 (0.96%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.96%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 190 (60.70%) Windows
2 72 (23.00%) Windows Server
3 49 (15.65%) Linux
4 45 (14.38%) Windows 10
5 17 (5.43%) Mac OS
5 17 (5.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 15 (4.79%) Android
6 15 (4.79%) Windows Server 2003
7 13 (4.15%) Windows 7
8 10 (3.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (2.56%) Apple iOS
10 8 (2.56%) CentOS
11 6 (1.92%) Ubuntu
11 6 (1.92%) Unix
12 3 (0.96%) VMS
12 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.32%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (30.67%) ITIL
2 65 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (15.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 38 (12.14%) Service Management
5 37 (11.82%) High Availability
6 29 (9.27%) Computer Science
7 27 (8.63%) Disaster Recovery
8 25 (7.99%) ITSM
9 24 (7.67%) Migration
10 20 (6.39%) Change Management
10 20 (6.39%) Cybersecurity
10 20 (6.39%) Knowledge Transfer
10 20 (6.39%) Load Balancing
11 19 (6.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (6.07%) Service Delivery
12 17 (5.43%) Customer Service
12 17 (5.43%) DevOps
12 17 (5.43%) Zero Trust
13 14 (4.47%) CI/CD
14 13 (4.15%) Disk Encryption
Programming Languages
1 82 (26.20%) PowerShell
2 23 (7.35%) Python
3 17 (5.43%) SQL
4 13 (4.15%) Bash
5 7 (2.24%) Lisp
5 7 (2.24%) VBScript
6 6 (1.92%) VB
7 5 (1.60%) Bicep
8 4 (1.28%) Perl
9 2 (0.64%) C#
9 2 (0.64%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.32%) Go
10 1 (0.32%) Java
Qualifications
1 86 (27.48%) Security Cleared
2 71 (22.68%) Cisco Certification
3 59 (18.85%) SC Cleared
4 51 (16.29%) CCNP
5 41 (13.10%) Degree
6 39 (12.46%) CCNA
7 35 (11.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (10.54%) DV Cleared
9 20 (6.39%) Azure Certification
10 14 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (3.83%) CCIE
11 12 (3.83%) Network+ Certification
12 11 (3.51%) Server+ Certification
13 9 (2.88%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (2.56%) MCP
15 7 (2.24%) CCSA
15 7 (2.24%) MCSE
16 6 (1.92%) A+ Certification
16 6 (1.92%) CISSP
16 6 (1.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.11%) SLA
2 12 (3.83%) GDPR
3 8 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.24%) NIST
5 6 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.60%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.64%) 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
1 149 (47.60%) Active Directory
2 63 (20.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (11.18%) Hyper-V
4 14 (4.47%) vSphere
5 11 (3.51%) Docker
5 11 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.19%) Brightmail
6 10 (3.19%) ISA Server
7 9 (2.88%) Firmware
7 9 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (2.88%) VMware NSX
8 8 (2.56%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (1.60%) BitLocker
9 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.28%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.96%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.96%) NFS
12 2 (0.64%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 50 (15.97%) SCCM
2 29 (9.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (7.99%) Terraform
4 23 (7.35%) Ansible
5 15 (4.79%) WSUS
6 13 (4.15%) Microsoft Clustering
7 12 (3.83%) FortiGate
8 10 (3.19%) vCenter Server
9 7 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.92%) OpenView
11 5 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.28%) CA Spectrum
12 4 (1.28%) Kubernetes
12 4 (1.28%) Packer
12 4 (1.28%) Tivoli
13 3 (0.96%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.96%) Puppet
13 3 (0.96%) SCOM
13 3 (0.96%) SELinux
13 3 (0.96%) vMotion
Vendors
1 163 (52.08%) Microsoft
2 82 (26.20%) Cisco
2 82 (26.20%) VMware
3 35 (11.18%) ServiceNow
4 29 (9.27%) Citrix
5 23 (7.35%) SolarWinds
6 21 (6.71%) F5
7 20 (6.39%) CheckPoint
8 19 (6.07%) Fortinet
8 19 (6.07%) Meraki
9 18 (5.75%) Palo Alto
10 17 (5.43%) Dell
11 15 (4.79%) Remedy
12 14 (4.47%) Veeam
13 11 (3.51%) Juniper
14 10 (3.19%) Red Hat
15 8 (2.56%) Infoblox
15 8 (2.56%) Zscaler
16 7 (2.24%) Ekahau
16 7 (2.24%) Peregrine