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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 247 239
Rank change year-on-year -32 -8 -1
Contract jobs citing DHCP 446 302 328
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.08% 1.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.33% 9.18% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 204 216
10th Percentile £225 £204 £233
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 £675 £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 4,317 3,289 3,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.28% 11.74% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,545 2,079 2,260
10th Percentile £253 £225 £242
25th Percentile £400 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £594 £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 388 173 169
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £15.09
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.83 £24.18
Median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +24.29% -38.97% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £93.27 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £41.72 £50.00
% change year-on-year -20.90% -16.56% -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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -58 147 £450 -5.26% 183
South East -29 94 £519 +6.74% 116
North of England -31 68 £500 +13.06% 74
South West -1 64 £575 +4.55% 56
Midlands -40 51 £413 +26.92% 67
West Midlands -45 36 £425 +30.77% 36
North West -30 34 £519 +18.63% 47
Yorkshire -20 24 £500 -9.09% 18
East of England -23 17 £494 +29.08% 33
East Midlands -3 15 £300 - 30
North East -39 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 (14.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (13.68%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.79%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.57%) Confluence
5 5 (1.12%) Apache
5 5 (1.12%) IIS
5 5 (1.12%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.67%) 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 (2.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 220 (49.33%) Azure
2 134 (30.04%) Microsoft 365
3 102 (22.87%) Entra ID
4 99 (22.20%) AWS
5 38 (8.52%) OneDrive
6 26 (5.83%) GCP
7 16 (3.59%) IaaS
7 16 (3.59%) OpenShift
8 15 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (3.36%) GitHub
8 15 (3.36%) SaaS
9 13 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.91%) PaaS
10 12 (2.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (1.79%) Route 53
13 7 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 7 (1.57%) Google Workspace
14 6 (1.35%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 441 (98.88%) DNS
2 199 (44.62%) Firewall
3 191 (42.83%) TCP/IP
4 151 (33.86%) VPN
5 91 (20.40%) VLAN
6 70 (15.70%) Network Security
7 68 (15.25%) LAN
7 68 (15.25%) WAN
8 56 (12.56%) Wi-Fi
9 52 (11.66%) Wireless
10 37 (8.30%) SAN
11 36 (8.07%) BGP
12 32 (7.17%) OSPF
13 26 (5.83%) SSL
14 20 (4.48%) IPsec
14 20 (4.48%) NAS
15 19 (4.26%) SD-WAN
16 18 (4.04%) Cisco ASA
16 18 (4.04%) VoIP
17 17 (3.81%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.52%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.90%) Db2
4 3 (0.67%) Big Data
4 3 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (7.17%) JIRA
2 9 (2.02%) Git
2 9 (2.02%) GitLab
3 8 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (1.12%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.90%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.67%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.22%) JMeter
8 1 (0.22%) Locust
8 1 (0.22%) MSI
8 1 (0.22%) Newman
8 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.22%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 153 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 56 (12.56%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (10.54%) Finance
4 30 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.69%) Banking
7 10 (2.24%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.24%) Police
8 9 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.02%) Legal
9 7 (1.57%) Front Office
9 7 (1.57%) Law
10 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.12%) Local Government
11 5 (1.12%) Military
12 4 (0.90%) Automotive
12 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (26.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 68 (15.25%) Senior
3 66 (14.80%) Network Engineer
4 51 (11.43%) Support Engineer
5 43 (9.64%) IT Support
6 36 (8.07%) IT Engineer
7 34 (7.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 31 (6.95%) Architect
9 29 (6.50%) Analyst
9 29 (6.50%) IT Support Engineer
10 28 (6.28%) Senior Network Engineer
11 22 (4.93%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (4.04%) Support Analyst
14 15 (3.36%) Active Directory Engineer
15 14 (3.14%) Administrator
15 14 (3.14%) Systems Engineer
16 13 (2.91%) Desktop Support
17 12 (2.69%) Server Engineer
18 11 (2.47%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (19.06%) Terraform
2 19 (4.26%) 802.1X
3 15 (3.36%) LDAP
4 14 (3.14%) ARM Templates
5 8 (1.79%) SAML
6 6 (1.35%) JSON
7 5 (1.12%) OAuth
7 5 (1.12%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.90%) Middleware
8 4 (0.90%) YAML
9 3 (0.67%) .NET
9 3 (0.67%) REST
10 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.45%) Blazor
10 2 (0.45%) eBPF
10 2 (0.45%) ODBC
10 2 (0.45%) OpenGL
10 2 (0.45%) Qt
10 2 (0.45%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 83 (18.61%) Data Centre
2 70 (15.70%) PKI
3 43 (9.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 39 (8.74%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.04%) Clustering
6 15 (3.36%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.91%) Driving Licence
7 13 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.47%) Replication
9 10 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (2.24%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.35%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.12%) ARM Cortex
12 5 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.12%) Fat Client
12 5 (1.12%) Thin Client
13 4 (0.90%) Mainframe
13 4 (0.90%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 322 (72.20%) Windows
2 167 (37.44%) Windows Server
3 119 (26.68%) Linux
4 55 (12.33%) Windows 10
5 30 (6.73%) Mac OS
6 18 (4.04%) Apple iOS
7 16 (3.59%) Android
8 15 (3.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (3.14%) Unix
10 12 (2.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (2.24%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (1.79%) Ubuntu
12 8 (1.79%) Windows 7
13 5 (1.12%) CentOS
14 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.45%) SUSE
15 2 (0.45%) VMS
15 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (31.61%) ITIL
2 140 (31.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 122 (27.35%) Problem-Solving
4 85 (19.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 71 (15.92%) ITSM
6 64 (14.35%) Migration
6 64 (14.35%) Root Cause Analysis
7 59 (13.23%) High Availability
8 54 (12.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 54 (12.11%) Technical Leadership
9 48 (10.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
9 48 (10.76%) Service Management
10 46 (10.31%) Project Delivery
11 43 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 41 (9.19%) Change Management
12 41 (9.19%) Customer Service
12 41 (9.19%) DevOps
13 39 (8.74%) User Experience
14 37 (8.30%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (31.84%) PowerShell
2 71 (15.92%) Python
3 60 (13.45%) Bash
4 16 (3.59%) SQL
5 14 (3.14%) Bicep
6 10 (2.24%) VBScript
7 7 (1.57%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.35%) VB
9 4 (0.90%) VBA
10 3 (0.67%) C++
10 3 (0.67%) Lisp
10 3 (0.67%) Perl
11 2 (0.45%) C
11 2 (0.45%) Java
11 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Go
12 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 166 (37.22%) Security Cleared
2 92 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 73 (16.37%) DV Cleared
4 54 (12.11%) Cisco Certification
5 47 (10.54%) CCNP
6 43 (9.64%) Degree
7 34 (7.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (5.83%) Azure Certification
9 25 (5.61%) CCNA
10 20 (4.48%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (2.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 12 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (2.69%) VCAP
13 11 (2.47%) A+ Certification
13 11 (2.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 10 (2.24%) AWS Certification
15 9 (2.02%) CCIE
15 9 (2.02%) Server+ Certification
16 7 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
17 5 (1.12%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.73%) SLA
2 11 (2.47%) NIST
3 10 (2.24%) QA
4 5 (1.12%) NCSC
5 4 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.67%) 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
1 285 (63.90%) Active Directory
2 166 (37.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 100 (22.42%) Hyper-V
4 58 (13.00%) vSphere
5 40 (8.97%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (5.61%) Docker
6 25 (5.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 25 (5.61%) VMware NSX
7 21 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (2.47%) BitLocker
9 10 (2.24%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (2.02%) NFS
11 7 (1.57%) Firmware
12 6 (1.35%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
14 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.90%) VirtualBox
15 3 (0.67%) Terminal Services
16 2 (0.45%) XenApp
16 2 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 94 (21.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 75 (16.82%) Ansible
3 66 (14.80%) SCCM
4 40 (8.97%) Kubernetes
5 24 (5.38%) vCenter Server
6 16 (3.59%) FortiGate
6 16 (3.59%) VxRail
6 16 (3.59%) WSUS
7 14 (3.14%) Jamf Pro
8 11 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.02%) SCOM
9 9 (2.02%) vMotion
10 8 (1.79%) Nagios
11 7 (1.57%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (1.57%) Grafana
11 7 (1.57%) Packer
11 7 (1.57%) Prometheus
12 6 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 6 (1.35%) Puppet
13 4 (0.90%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 256 (57.40%) Microsoft
2 195 (43.72%) VMware
3 96 (21.52%) Cisco
4 71 (15.92%) ServiceNow
5 37 (8.30%) Citrix
6 32 (7.17%) F5
6 32 (7.17%) Infoblox
7 30 (6.73%) Palo Alto
8 26 (5.83%) SolarWinds
9 22 (4.93%) CheckPoint
10 19 (4.26%) Fortinet
11 18 (4.04%) Google
12 16 (3.59%) CyberArk
13 15 (3.36%) Juniper
14 14 (3.14%) Meraki
15 13 (2.91%) Red Hat
16 12 (2.69%) HP
16 12 (2.69%) Zscaler
17 11 (2.47%) Remedy
18 10 (2.24%) Veeam