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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 223 256
Rank change year-on-year -37 +33 0
Contract jobs citing DHCP 428 322 323
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.18% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.06% 9.36% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 217 243
10th Percentile £207 £250 £276
25th Percentile £363 £400 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £625 £608
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.38% -2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 17 14
10th Percentile £15.66 £28.60 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.66 £29.00 £32.50
Median hourly rate £35.22 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.40% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £74.00 £83.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £93.29 £89.63 £69.38
UK median hourly rate £36.36 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.20% -25.00% -

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 4,256 3,442 4,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.49% 12.61% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,611 2,138 2,748
10th Percentile £258 £235 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +2.25% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 159 345
10th Percentile £16.03 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.08 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.69 £44.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.34% -2.22% -1.10%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £87.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.78% +15.63% -16.67%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -61 136 £450 -10.00% 45
South East -3 122 £525 -7.65% 58
North of England -59 65 £500 +7.53% 35
South West -7 48 £450 -23.40% 33
Midlands -49 42 £413 +3.13% 20
North West -48 34 £608 +36.02% 18
West Midlands -57 29 £425 +16.44% 13
Yorkshire -36 26 £475 -13.64% 12
East Midlands -5 13 £300 -46.67% 7
East of England -27 11 £463 -11.90% 26
North East -32 5 £225 -10.00% 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 45 (10.51%) SharePoint
2 41 (9.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.40%) IIS
4 4 (0.93%) Confluence
4 4 (0.93%) nginx
5 3 (0.70%) Apache
6 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.47%) Houdini
4 2 (0.47%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.47%) NUKE
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 184 (42.99%) Azure
2 101 (23.60%) Microsoft 365
3 92 (21.50%) Entra ID
4 78 (18.22%) AWS
5 36 (8.41%) OneDrive
6 25 (5.84%) IaaS
7 22 (5.14%) PaaS
8 20 (4.67%) GCP
8 20 (4.67%) SaaS
9 12 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
10 11 (2.57%) Azure Sentinel
11 10 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.87%) Datadog
12 8 (1.87%) Route 53
13 7 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.64%) OpenShift
14 6 (1.40%) GitHub
15 5 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.17%) Google Workspace
15 5 (1.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 421 (98.36%) DNS
2 190 (44.39%) Firewall
3 150 (35.05%) TCP/IP
4 119 (27.80%) VPN
5 87 (20.33%) LAN
6 86 (20.09%) VLAN
7 83 (19.39%) WAN
8 61 (14.25%) Network Security
9 57 (13.32%) Wi-Fi
10 49 (11.45%) BGP
10 49 (11.45%) Wireless
11 48 (11.21%) OSPF
12 43 (10.05%) SAN
13 38 (8.88%) BIG-IP
14 31 (7.24%) VXLAN
15 26 (6.07%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (5.84%) Cisco ISE
16 25 (5.84%) Junos
16 25 (5.84%) NAS
16 25 (5.84%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.93%) Db2
4 3 (0.70%) Big Data
5 2 (0.47%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Power BI
6 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (8.18%) JIRA
2 9 (2.10%) Git
3 8 (1.87%) Chocolatey
4 5 (1.17%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.93%) GitLab
6 3 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.70%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.70%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.23%) MSI
7 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 124 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 54 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (9.35%) Finance
4 33 (7.71%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.84%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (4.21%) Banking
7 9 (2.10%) Military
7 9 (2.10%) Police
7 9 (2.10%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.87%) Local Government
9 7 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.17%) Legal
11 4 (0.93%) Law
11 4 (0.93%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.70%) Automotive
12 3 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.70%) Retail
13 2 (0.47%) Publishing
14 1 (0.23%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 103 (24.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 70 (16.36%) Network Engineer
3 59 (13.79%) Senior
4 50 (11.68%) Support Engineer
5 45 (10.51%) IT Support
6 42 (9.81%) IT Engineer
7 41 (9.58%) Architect
8 30 (7.01%) IT Support Engineer
9 27 (6.31%) Senior Network Engineer
10 25 (5.84%) Analyst
11 22 (5.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (3.50%) Administrator
12 15 (3.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (3.50%) Network Specialist
12 15 (3.50%) Platform Engineer
13 14 (3.27%) Azure Engineer
13 14 (3.27%) Firewall Specialist
14 13 (3.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 13 (3.04%) Desktop Support
15 11 (2.57%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (9.81%) 802.1X
2 20 (4.67%) LDAP
3 13 (3.04%) ARM Templates
4 11 (2.57%) JSON
5 8 (1.87%) SAML
6 4 (0.93%) Middleware
6 4 (0.93%) OpenID
6 4 (0.93%) REST
7 3 (0.70%) .NET
7 3 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.70%) Redfish
7 3 (0.70%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.47%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.47%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.47%) Blazor
8 2 (0.47%) eBPF
8 2 (0.47%) ModSecurity
8 2 (0.47%) OpenGL
8 2 (0.47%) Qt
8 2 (0.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (21.73%) Data Centre
2 75 (17.52%) PKI
3 40 (9.35%) Clustering
4 39 (9.11%) Onboarding
5 25 (5.84%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (3.97%) Replication
8 10 (2.34%) Management Information System
9 9 (2.10%) Driving Licence
9 9 (2.10%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
10 8 (1.87%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.40%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.40%) IoT
11 6 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
12 5 (1.17%) Fat Client
12 5 (1.17%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 277 (64.72%) Windows
2 131 (30.61%) Windows Server
3 73 (17.06%) Linux
4 44 (10.28%) Windows 10
5 26 (6.07%) Mac OS
6 17 (3.97%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (3.04%) Apple iOS
8 12 (2.80%) Android
8 12 (2.80%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (2.57%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (2.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (2.10%) Unix
12 5 (1.17%) Ubuntu
12 5 (1.17%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.70%) VMS
13 3 (0.70%) Windows 7
14 2 (0.47%) CentOS
14 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.23%) Rocky
15 1 (0.23%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (28.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 119 (27.80%) Problem-Solving
3 104 (24.30%) ITIL
4 74 (17.29%) High Availability
4 74 (17.29%) ITSM
5 56 (13.08%) Migration
6 53 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (10.51%) Load Balancing
8 42 (9.81%) Observability
9 40 (9.35%) Root Cause Analysis
10 38 (8.88%) Identity Access Management
11 36 (8.41%) Project Delivery
12 35 (8.18%) Service Management
13 34 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (7.48%) User Experience
15 30 (7.01%) Cybersecurity
15 30 (7.01%) DevOps
15 30 (7.01%) Disaster Recovery
16 28 (6.54%) Technical Leadership
17 27 (6.31%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 103 (24.07%) PowerShell
2 56 (13.08%) Python
3 43 (10.05%) Bash
4 11 (2.57%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.10%) Bicep
5 9 (2.10%) VBA
6 7 (1.64%) SQL
7 3 (0.70%) Lisp
8 1 (0.23%) C
8 1 (0.23%) C++
8 1 (0.23%) Go
8 1 (0.23%) Perl
8 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 169 (39.49%) Security Cleared
2 83 (19.39%) SC Cleared
3 70 (16.36%) Cisco Certification
4 69 (16.12%) DV Cleared
5 48 (11.21%) CCNP
6 37 (8.64%) Degree
7 27 (6.31%) CCNA
8 24 (5.61%) Network+ Certification
9 18 (4.21%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (3.50%) Azure Certification
10 15 (3.50%) Server+ Certification
11 10 (2.34%) JNCIP
11 10 (2.34%) JNCIS
12 9 (2.10%) CCIE
13 7 (1.64%) A+ Certification
13 7 (1.64%) JNCIA
14 5 (1.17%) AWS Certification
14 5 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (1.17%) VCAP
14 5 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.24%) SLA
2 14 (3.27%) NIST
3 6 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.17%) NCSC
4 5 (1.17%) QA
5 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.70%) GDPR
5 3 (0.70%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.47%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.47%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.23%) RMADS
System Software
1 250 (58.41%) Active Directory
2 125 (29.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 75 (17.52%) Hyper-V
4 38 (8.88%) vSphere
5 37 (8.64%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (6.07%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (5.14%) Docker
8 20 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
9 19 (4.44%) VMware NSX
10 11 (2.57%) BitLocker
11 10 (2.34%) Microsoft App-V
12 9 (2.10%) Firmware
13 8 (1.87%) NFS
14 6 (1.40%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.93%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
17 2 (0.47%) UAG
17 2 (0.47%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.47%) XenApp
17 2 (0.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 71 (16.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 59 (13.79%) Ansible
3 53 (12.38%) Terraform
4 43 (10.05%) SCCM
5 35 (8.18%) FortiGate
6 28 (6.54%) Kubernetes
7 21 (4.91%) vCenter Server
8 17 (3.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 17 (3.97%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (3.74%) WSUS
10 12 (2.80%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (2.57%) vMotion
12 8 (1.87%) Puppet
12 8 (1.87%) VxRail
13 7 (1.64%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (1.64%) Nagios
14 6 (1.40%) CA Single Sign-On
15 5 (1.17%) Packer
15 5 (1.17%) Prometheus
15 5 (1.17%) SCOM
Vendors
1 200 (46.73%) Microsoft
2 144 (33.64%) VMware
3 107 (25.00%) Cisco
4 77 (17.99%) ServiceNow
5 52 (12.15%) F5
6 45 (10.51%) SolarWinds
7 42 (9.81%) Infoblox
8 41 (9.58%) Citrix
9 39 (9.11%) Juniper
10 27 (6.31%) Palo Alto
11 26 (6.07%) Splunk
12 22 (5.14%) Extreme Networks
13 18 (4.21%) Google
14 17 (3.97%) CheckPoint
14 17 (3.97%) Fortinet
15 15 (3.50%) HP
16 13 (3.04%) Zscaler
17 11 (2.57%) Tenable
17 11 (2.57%) Veeam
18 10 (2.34%) Remedy