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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 255 232
Rank change year-on-year -10 -23 +21
Contract jobs citing DHCP 442 295 336
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.05% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.29% 8.99% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 198 214
10th Percentile £225 £203 £225
25th Percentile £375 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -2.63%
75th Percentile £596 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 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 4,297 3,283 3,905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.29% 11.73% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,536 2,084 2,245
10th Percentile £259 £219 £240
25th Percentile £400 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £599 £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 391 172 161
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.81 £26.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £35.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.63% -39.13% +1.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £92.53 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £40.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -19.75% -19.00% -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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -64 146 £450 -5.26% 152
South East -27 95 £527 +17.95% 82
North of England -15 69 £500 +13.06% 68
South West -2 63 £600 +9.09% 53
Midlands -47 46 £425 +30.77% 44
North West -22 35 £512 +17.03% 42
West Midlands -53 33 £425 +30.77% 24
Yorkshire -17 24 £500 -9.09% 19
East of England -32 18 £475 +24.18% 26
East Midlands -1 13 £275 - 20
North East -33 10 £213 -14.40% 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 65 (14.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (13.80%) 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 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.04%) 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
1 221 (50.00%) Azure
2 134 (30.32%) Microsoft 365
3 101 (22.85%) Entra ID
4 99 (22.40%) AWS
5 37 (8.37%) OneDrive
6 26 (5.88%) GCP
7 21 (4.75%) Azure Monitor
8 16 (3.62%) GitHub
8 16 (3.62%) IaaS
8 16 (3.62%) OpenShift
9 15 (3.39%) SaaS
10 14 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (2.94%) PaaS
12 12 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (2.49%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (2.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 8 (1.81%) Route 53
16 7 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (1.58%) Google Workspace
17 6 (1.36%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 437 (98.87%) DNS
2 206 (46.61%) Firewall
3 195 (44.12%) TCP/IP
4 155 (35.07%) VPN
5 93 (21.04%) VLAN
6 70 (15.84%) Network Security
7 69 (15.61%) WAN
8 68 (15.38%) LAN
9 58 (13.12%) Wi-Fi
10 53 (11.99%) Wireless
11 36 (8.14%) BGP
12 35 (7.92%) SAN
13 32 (7.24%) OSPF
14 22 (4.98%) SSL
15 21 (4.75%) IPsec
16 19 (4.30%) NAS
16 19 (4.30%) SD-WAN
17 18 (4.07%) Cisco ASA
18 17 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
18 17 (3.85%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (8.14%) 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 (6.79%) JIRA
2 9 (2.04%) Git
2 9 (2.04%) 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 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (10.86%) Finance
4 31 (7.01%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.43%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.71%) Banking
7 10 (2.26%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.26%) Police
8 9 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.04%) Legal
9 7 (1.58%) Front Office
9 7 (1.58%) Law
9 7 (1.58%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.13%) Local Government
10 5 (1.13%) Military
11 4 (0.90%) Automotive
11 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 118 (26.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 71 (16.06%) Senior
3 64 (14.48%) Network Engineer
4 53 (11.99%) Support Engineer
5 44 (9.95%) IT Support
6 36 (8.14%) IT Engineer
6 36 (8.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 32 (7.24%) Architect
8 30 (6.79%) IT Support Engineer
9 28 (6.33%) Senior Network Engineer
10 27 (6.11%) Analyst
11 23 (5.20%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.52%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (3.85%) Support Analyst
14 14 (3.17%) Active Directory Engineer
14 14 (3.17%) Administrator
14 14 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
15 13 (2.94%) Desktop Support
16 12 (2.71%) 2nd Line Support
16 12 (2.71%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (20.59%) Terraform
2 20 (4.52%) 802.1X
3 19 (4.30%) ARM Templates
4 15 (3.39%) LDAP
5 6 (1.36%) JSON
5 6 (1.36%) 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 81 (18.33%) Data Centre
2 70 (15.84%) PKI
3 47 (10.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (9.28%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.07%) Clustering
6 16 (3.62%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.17%) Driving Licence
8 11 (2.49%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.49%) Replication
9 10 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.26%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.04%) ARM Cortex
11 7 (1.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.36%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.13%) Fat Client
13 5 (1.13%) Thin Client
14 4 (0.90%) Mainframe
14 4 (0.90%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 319 (72.17%) Windows
2 166 (37.56%) Windows Server
3 122 (27.60%) Linux
4 54 (12.22%) Windows 10
5 28 (6.33%) Mac OS
6 19 (4.30%) Apple iOS
7 17 (3.85%) Android
8 14 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (3.17%) Unix
9 12 (2.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (2.04%) 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%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.23%) Rocky
16 1 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (31.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 140 (31.67%) ITIL
3 115 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (15.61%) ITSM
6 64 (14.48%) Root Cause Analysis
7 63 (14.25%) Migration
8 56 (12.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 55 (12.44%) Technical Leadership
10 54 (12.22%) High Availability
11 53 (11.99%) Cybersecurity
12 51 (11.54%) Service Management
13 48 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (10.63%) Project Delivery
15 45 (10.18%) Stakeholder Management
16 44 (9.95%) DevOps
17 42 (9.50%) Customer Service
18 41 (9.28%) Platform Engineering
19 38 (8.60%) Change Management
19 38 (8.60%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 150 (33.94%) PowerShell
2 71 (16.06%) Python
3 66 (14.93%) Bash
4 20 (4.52%) Bicep
5 16 (3.62%) SQL
6 10 (2.26%) VBScript
7 7 (1.58%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.36%) 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
1 166 (37.56%) Security Cleared
2 91 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 75 (16.97%) DV Cleared
4 54 (12.22%) Cisco Certification
5 47 (10.63%) CCNP
6 44 (9.95%) Degree
7 34 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (5.66%) Azure Certification
8 25 (5.66%) CCNA
9 21 (4.75%) Network+ Certification
10 13 (2.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 12 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (2.71%) VCAP
12 11 (2.49%) A+ Certification
12 11 (2.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (2.26%) AWS Certification
14 9 (2.04%) CCIE
14 9 (2.04%) Server+ Certification
15 6 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (1.13%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.56%) SLA
2 10 (2.26%) NIST
2 10 (2.26%) QA
3 5 (1.13%) NCSC
4 4 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.68%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 284 (64.25%) Active Directory
2 161 (36.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (21.72%) Hyper-V
4 60 (13.57%) vSphere
5 38 (8.60%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (5.88%) Docker
7 25 (5.66%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (5.66%) VMware NSX
8 19 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (2.49%) BitLocker
10 10 (2.26%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (2.04%) NFS
12 7 (1.58%) Firmware
13 6 (1.36%) 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%) XenApp
17 2 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 100 (22.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 80 (18.10%) Ansible
3 71 (16.06%) SCCM
4 40 (9.05%) Kubernetes
5 24 (5.43%) vCenter Server
6 16 (3.62%) FortiGate
6 16 (3.62%) VxRail
7 14 (3.17%) Jamf Pro
7 14 (3.17%) WSUS
8 9 (2.04%) SCOM
8 9 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (2.04%) 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 (1.36%) Puppet
12 5 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.90%) systemd
Vendors
1 259 (58.60%) Microsoft
2 190 (42.99%) VMware
3 95 (21.49%) Cisco
4 68 (15.38%) ServiceNow
5 34 (7.69%) Citrix
6 32 (7.24%) F5
7 30 (6.79%) Palo Alto
8 29 (6.56%) Infoblox
9 26 (5.88%) SolarWinds
10 22 (4.98%) CheckPoint
11 21 (4.75%) Fortinet
12 18 (4.07%) Google
13 16 (3.62%) CyberArk
13 16 (3.62%) Juniper
14 14 (3.17%) Meraki
15 12 (2.71%) HP
15 12 (2.71%) Red Hat
16 11 (2.49%) Remedy
17 10 (2.26%) Aruba
17 10 (2.26%) Veeam