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 23 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 189 230
Rank change year-on-year -75 +41 -1
Contract jobs citing DHCP 341 348 389
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.36% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.69% 10.21% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 235 280
10th Percentile £200 £223 £190
25th Percentile £315 £325 £287
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £438
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% +6.74% -8.85%
75th Percentile £576 £603 £576
90th Percentile £636 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £450
% change year-on-year +3.09% +7.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 19
10th Percentile - - £16.80
25th Percentile £12.43 - £22.80
Median hourly rate £26.33 £23.59 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.59% -41.03% +3.90%
75th Percentile £57.43 - -
90th Percentile £79.20 - £41.75
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £23.59 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.59% -41.03% +3.90%

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 3,520 3,407 5,289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.15% 13.28% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,269 2,023 3,168
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £356 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 101 368
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.38 £35.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.91% -26.32% +138.93%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.38 £32.50 £46.95
% change year-on-year -12.68% -30.77% +136.14%

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 23 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 -32 110 £500 - 48
South East -2 86 £500 +11.11% 60
North of England -86 51 £413 - 43
South West -27 45 £575 -2.13% 28
Midlands -39 35 £400 -4.19% 23
West Midlands -39 33 £400 +8.11% 18
North West -62 28 £538 +18.13% 18
East of England -20 20 £363 -5.84% 26
Yorkshire -53 19 £413 +68.37% 23
North East -22 4 £223 +48.83% 5
East Midlands -29 2 £275 -38.89% 5
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 58 (17.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 47 (13.78%) SharePoint
3 28 (8.21%) Skype for Business
4 4 (1.17%) Apache
5 3 (0.88%) IIS
5 3 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.59%) Confluence
6 2 (0.59%) WordPress
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Applications
1 33 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.05%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.29%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 153 (44.87%) Azure
2 95 (27.86%) Microsoft 365
3 80 (23.46%) Entra ID
4 62 (18.18%) AWS
5 20 (5.87%) IaaS
6 18 (5.28%) PaaS
7 14 (4.11%) GCP
8 13 (3.81%) SaaS
9 11 (3.23%) Nutanix
10 8 (2.35%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.76%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.17%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (0.88%) AWS Direct Connect
14 3 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
14 3 (0.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 328 (96.19%) DNS
2 109 (31.96%) TCP/IP
3 104 (30.50%) Firewall
4 91 (26.69%) VPN
5 67 (19.65%) LAN
6 64 (18.77%) VLAN
7 62 (18.18%) WAN
8 38 (11.14%) Wi-Fi
9 36 (10.56%) BGP
10 29 (8.50%) Kerberos
11 28 (8.21%) OSPF
11 28 (8.21%) Skype
12 24 (7.04%) Cisco ISE
12 24 (7.04%) VXLAN
13 22 (6.45%) Wireless
14 21 (6.16%) Network Security
15 19 (5.57%) BIG-IP
16 14 (4.11%) FTP
17 13 (3.81%) Junos
17 13 (3.81%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.29%) MySQL
3 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.29%) Power BI
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.64%) JIRA
2 4 (1.17%) Git
3 3 (0.88%) Chocolatey
3 3 (0.88%) GitLab
4 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 106 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 68 (19.94%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (6.74%) Public Sector
4 18 (5.28%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (4.99%) Finance
6 14 (4.11%) Banking
7 8 (2.35%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.35%) Legal
8 7 (2.05%) Military
8 7 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.05%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.88%) Local Government
11 3 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.59%) Law
12 2 (0.59%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 57 (16.72%) Support Engineer
2 48 (14.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 41 (12.02%) IT Support
4 38 (11.14%) Analyst
5 33 (9.68%) Network Engineer
6 32 (9.38%) Senior
7 29 (8.50%) Architect
8 25 (7.33%) IT Engineer
9 24 (7.04%) 2nd Line Support
10 19 (5.57%) IT Support Engineer
11 17 (4.99%) IT Analyst
12 15 (4.40%) Microsoft Engineer
13 14 (4.11%) Support Analyst
14 13 (3.81%) Infrastructure Support
14 13 (3.81%) IT Support Analyst
15 12 (3.52%) 1st/2nd Line Support
15 12 (3.52%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 12 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
16 11 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (3.23%) Wintel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.09%) LDAP
2 20 (5.87%) 802.1X
3 15 (4.40%) OAuth
3 15 (4.40%) SAML
4 4 (1.17%) Middleware
5 3 (0.88%) .NET
5 3 (0.88%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.88%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.88%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (0.88%) Bootstrap
5 3 (0.88%) Express.js
5 3 (0.88%) JSON
5 3 (0.88%) React
5 3 (0.88%) REST
5 3 (0.88%) SOAP
5 3 (0.88%) WCF
5 3 (0.88%) Web Services
5 3 (0.88%) WPF
6 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.59%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.44%) Data Centre
2 37 (10.85%) PKI
3 33 (9.68%) Replication
4 19 (5.57%) Clustering
5 13 (3.81%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (3.23%) Onboarding
8 9 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.76%) IoT
9 6 (1.76%) Smartphone
10 5 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.47%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.47%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
11 4 (1.17%) iPhone
12 3 (0.88%) CCTV
12 3 (0.88%) CMDB
12 3 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 223 (65.40%) Windows
2 120 (35.19%) Windows Server
3 46 (13.49%) Windows 10
4 42 (12.32%) Linux
5 28 (8.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (4.99%) Android
7 14 (4.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (3.52%) Apple iOS
9 11 (3.23%) Windows 7
9 11 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 7 (2.05%) Mac OS
11 5 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (1.17%) Unix
12 4 (1.17%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.88%) CentOS
13 3 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.88%) VMS
14 2 (0.59%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (25.51%) ITIL
3 53 (15.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 49 (14.37%) Disaster Recovery
5 46 (13.49%) High Availability
6 45 (13.20%) Service Management
7 38 (11.14%) Load Balancing
8 37 (10.85%) ITSM
9 36 (10.56%) Identity Access Management
10 35 (10.26%) Migration
11 27 (7.92%) Zero Trust
12 26 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (7.62%) Customer Service
13 25 (7.33%) Change Management
14 24 (7.04%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (7.04%) Task Automation
15 21 (6.16%) Observability
16 20 (5.87%) Root Cause Analysis
17 18 (5.28%) Knowledge Transfer
17 18 (5.28%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 136 (39.88%) PowerShell
2 29 (8.50%) Python
3 15 (4.40%) Bash
4 13 (3.81%) SQL
4 13 (3.81%) VBScript
5 10 (2.93%) VB
6 7 (2.05%) Lisp
7 5 (1.47%) Perl
8 4 (1.17%) Bicep
9 3 (0.88%) C#
9 3 (0.88%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.59%) VBA
11 1 (0.29%) Go
11 1 (0.29%) Java
11 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 122 (35.78%) Security Cleared
2 87 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 41 (12.02%) DV Cleared
4 40 (11.73%) Cisco Certification
5 35 (10.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 30 (8.80%) CCNP
7 29 (8.50%) Degree
8 24 (7.04%) Azure Certification
9 19 (5.57%) Network+ Certification
10 13 (3.81%) CCNA
11 12 (3.52%) Server+ Certification
12 8 (2.35%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (2.05%) JNCIP
13 7 (2.05%) MCSE
13 7 (2.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (1.76%) CISSP
15 5 (1.47%) CCIE
15 5 (1.47%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.04%) GDPR
2 15 (4.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 15 (4.40%) SLA
3 11 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.76%) NIST
6 5 (1.47%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.59%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.29%) QA
8 1 (0.29%) RMADS
System Software
1 206 (60.41%) Active Directory
2 88 (25.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (12.90%) Hyper-V
4 18 (5.28%) vSphere
5 17 (4.99%) Docker
6 14 (4.11%) BitLocker
6 14 (4.11%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.05%) VMware NSX
9 6 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.47%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.17%) Firmware
11 4 (1.17%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.88%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.88%) KVM
12 3 (0.88%) NFS
13 1 (0.29%) Lustre
13 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 64 (18.77%) SCCM
2 63 (18.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (11.14%) Ansible
4 35 (10.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 28 (8.21%) Terraform
6 27 (7.92%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (6.74%) FortiGate
8 16 (4.69%) Kubernetes
9 11 (3.23%) WSUS
10 8 (2.35%) SCOM
10 8 (2.35%) vCenter Server
11 6 (1.76%) HAProxy
11 6 (1.76%) Puppet
12 4 (1.17%) Nagios
12 4 (1.17%) vMotion
13 3 (0.88%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.88%) Stealthwatch
14 2 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
14 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 2 (0.59%) SELinux
Vendors
1 175 (51.32%) Microsoft
2 100 (29.33%) VMware
3 59 (17.30%) Cisco
4 44 (12.90%) ServiceNow
5 32 (9.38%) SolarWinds
6 30 (8.80%) F5
7 27 (7.92%) Citrix
8 22 (6.45%) Juniper
9 18 (5.28%) Splunk
10 16 (4.69%) Okta
11 15 (4.40%) Dell
11 15 (4.40%) Palo Alto
11 15 (4.40%) Veeam
12 14 (4.11%) Fortinet
13 13 (3.81%) Infoblox
14 12 (3.52%) Extreme Networks
15 8 (2.35%) Remedy
16 7 (2.05%) Apple
16 7 (2.05%) Ekahau
16 7 (2.05%) Google