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 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 236 243
Rank change year-on-year -23 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing DHCP 448 293 325
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.06% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.38% 8.68% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 194 242
10th Percentile £213 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £505 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.32% +0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £608
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £470
% change year-on-year - +6.38% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 17 9
10th Percentile £26.00 £28.60 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £29.00 £23.10
Median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +123.33% -36.84% +41.79%
75th Percentile £75.25 £83.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £72.60
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +123.33% -36.84% +41.79%

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 3,376 4,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.44% 12.23% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,610 2,076 2,573
10th Percentile £264 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £687 £684 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 170 279
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £43.75 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% -20.27% -0.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% -5.61% -10.91%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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 18 August 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 -53 148 £450 -10.00% 49
South East -24 111 £519 -8.75% 62
North of England -40 70 £500 +6.95% 36
South West -5 53 £500 -13.04% 24
Midlands -39 49 £400 - 26
North West -30 38 £575 +28.64% 20
West Midlands -45 33 £406 +1.56% 20
Yorkshire -27 24 £500 -9.09% 9
East Midlands -6 16 £300 -47.83% 6
East of England -30 13 £475 -9.52% 31
North East -34 8 £200 -20.00% 8
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 55 (12.28%) SharePoint
2 54 (12.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.34%) IIS
3 6 (1.34%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.12%) Apache
4 5 (1.12%) Confluence
4 5 (1.12%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.79%) 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
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 201 (44.87%) Azure
2 120 (26.79%) Microsoft 365
3 94 (20.98%) Entra ID
4 88 (19.64%) AWS
5 39 (8.71%) OneDrive
6 22 (4.91%) GCP
6 22 (4.91%) IaaS
7 20 (4.46%) PaaS
8 19 (4.24%) SaaS
9 14 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
9 14 (3.13%) OpenShift
10 11 (2.46%) Azure Sentinel
10 11 (2.46%) GitHub
11 8 (1.79%) Route 53
12 7 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (1.56%) Datadog
12 7 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.34%) Google Workspace
14 5 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 444 (99.11%) DNS
2 202 (45.09%) Firewall
3 172 (38.39%) TCP/IP
4 137 (30.58%) VPN
5 96 (21.43%) VLAN
6 81 (18.08%) LAN
7 79 (17.63%) WAN
8 64 (14.29%) Network Security
9 60 (13.39%) Wi-Fi
10 52 (11.61%) Wireless
11 43 (9.60%) SAN
12 40 (8.93%) BGP
13 39 (8.71%) OSPF
14 26 (5.80%) BIG-IP
15 25 (5.58%) NAS
16 23 (5.13%) SSL
17 21 (4.69%) SD-WAN
18 20 (4.46%) Cisco IOS
18 20 (4.46%) VXLAN
19 17 (3.79%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (9.15%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.89%) Db2
5 3 (0.67%) Big Data
6 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (7.14%) JIRA
2 8 (1.79%) Git
3 7 (1.56%) Chocolatey
4 6 (1.34%) GitLab
5 5 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (1.12%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
5 5 (1.12%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.22%) MSI
7 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 143 (31.92%) Social Skills
2 58 (12.95%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (10.49%) Finance
4 34 (7.59%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.03%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (4.02%) Banking
7 10 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.23%) Police
8 8 (1.79%) Legal
8 8 (1.79%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.56%) Aerospace
9 7 (1.56%) Local Government
10 6 (1.34%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.12%) Law
11 5 (1.12%) Military
11 5 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.89%) Automotive
12 4 (0.89%) Front Office
12 4 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 114 (25.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 68 (15.18%) Network Engineer
3 65 (14.51%) Senior
4 53 (11.83%) Support Engineer
5 45 (10.04%) IT Support
6 41 (9.15%) IT Engineer
7 40 (8.93%) Architect
8 31 (6.92%) IT Support Engineer
8 31 (6.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 27 (6.03%) Analyst
10 25 (5.58%) Senior Network Engineer
11 22 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
12 16 (3.57%) Support Analyst
13 15 (3.35%) Administrator
14 14 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (3.13%) Desktop Support
14 14 (3.13%) Server Engineer
14 14 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
15 13 (2.90%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.25%) 802.1X
2 13 (2.90%) ARM Templates
2 13 (2.90%) LDAP
3 11 (2.46%) SAML
4 9 (2.01%) JSON
5 6 (1.34%) Software Packaging
6 5 (1.12%) OAuth
7 4 (0.89%) Middleware
7 4 (0.89%) OpenID
7 4 (0.89%) YAML
8 3 (0.67%) .NET
8 3 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.67%) Redfish
8 3 (0.67%) REST
9 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.45%) Blazor
9 2 (0.45%) eBPF
9 2 (0.45%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.45%) Qt
9 2 (0.45%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 90 (20.09%) Data Centre
2 76 (16.96%) PKI
3 41 (9.15%) Onboarding
4 37 (8.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (6.70%) Clustering
6 19 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.90%) Driving Licence
9 11 (2.46%) Public Cloud
10 10 (2.23%) Replication
11 8 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.34%) Enterprise Storage
13 6 (1.34%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.12%) Fat Client
14 5 (1.12%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 316 (70.54%) Windows
2 156 (34.82%) Windows Server
3 104 (23.21%) Linux
4 59 (13.17%) Windows 10
5 27 (6.03%) Mac OS
6 15 (3.35%) Apple iOS
7 13 (2.90%) Android
7 13 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (2.46%) Unix
9 11 (2.46%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (2.01%) Windows 7
11 7 (1.56%) Ubuntu
12 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.67%) CentOS
13 3 (0.67%) VMS
13 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.22%) Rocky
14 1 (0.22%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (30.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 128 (28.57%) ITIL
3 125 (27.90%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (18.75%) ITSM
5 72 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 71 (15.85%) High Availability
7 56 (12.50%) Migration
8 51 (11.38%) Root Cause Analysis
9 46 (10.27%) Technical Leadership
10 44 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
12 41 (9.15%) Service Management
13 40 (8.93%) Cybersecurity
14 38 (8.48%) Incident Management
14 38 (8.48%) Load Balancing
14 38 (8.48%) Project Delivery
15 37 (8.26%) Customer Service
15 37 (8.26%) DevOps
15 37 (8.26%) User Experience
16 35 (7.81%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 128 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 76 (16.96%) Python
3 59 (13.17%) Bash
4 13 (2.90%) SQL
5 11 (2.46%) Bicep
6 10 (2.23%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.01%) VBScript
8 7 (1.56%) VBA
9 6 (1.34%) VB
10 3 (0.67%) Lisp
10 3 (0.67%) Perl
11 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 175 (39.06%) Security Cleared
2 91 (20.31%) SC Cleared
3 73 (16.29%) DV Cleared
4 65 (14.51%) Cisco Certification
5 48 (10.71%) CCNP
6 42 (9.38%) Degree
7 29 (6.47%) CCNA
8 28 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (5.58%) Network+ Certification
10 24 (5.36%) Azure Certification
11 14 (3.13%) Server+ Certification
12 12 (2.68%) VCAP
13 10 (2.23%) A+ Certification
13 10 (2.23%) AWS Certification
13 10 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (2.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 10 (2.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (2.01%) CCIE
15 7 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (1.56%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.14%) SLA
2 14 (3.13%) NIST
3 7 (1.56%) QA
4 6 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.12%) NCSC
6 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.67%) GDPR
6 3 (0.67%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 272 (60.71%) Active Directory
2 159 (35.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 98 (21.88%) Hyper-V
4 52 (11.61%) vSphere
5 41 (9.15%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (6.03%) VMware NSX
7 26 (5.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (5.58%) Docker
9 20 (4.46%) Virtual Machines
10 15 (3.35%) BitLocker
11 10 (2.23%) Firmware
12 9 (2.01%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (1.79%) NFS
14 7 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (1.34%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.89%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.67%) VirtualBox
18 2 (0.45%) UAG
18 2 (0.45%) XenApp
18 2 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 89 (19.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (16.96%) Terraform
3 75 (16.74%) Ansible
4 64 (14.29%) SCCM
5 39 (8.71%) Kubernetes
6 26 (5.80%) FortiGate
7 23 (5.13%) vCenter Server
8 16 (3.57%) VxRail
8 16 (3.57%) WSUS
9 15 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.68%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (2.46%) vMotion
12 9 (2.01%) Nagios
13 7 (1.56%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (1.56%) Packer
13 7 (1.56%) Prometheus
13 7 (1.56%) Puppet
13 7 (1.56%) SCOM
14 5 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 235 (52.46%) Microsoft
2 188 (41.96%) VMware
3 100 (22.32%) Cisco
4 80 (17.86%) ServiceNow
5 45 (10.04%) Citrix
6 40 (8.93%) F5
6 40 (8.93%) Infoblox
7 36 (8.04%) SolarWinds
8 27 (6.03%) Palo Alto
9 26 (5.80%) Juniper
10 19 (4.24%) CheckPoint
11 18 (4.02%) Fortinet
12 17 (3.79%) Google
13 16 (3.57%) CyberArk
13 16 (3.57%) HP
14 15 (3.35%) Splunk
15 13 (2.90%) Zscaler
16 12 (2.68%) Extreme Networks
17 11 (2.46%) Remedy
18 10 (2.23%) Red Hat