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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 277 214 231
Rank change year-on-year -63 +17 +3
Contract jobs citing DHCP 357 300 378
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.23% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.28% 9.41% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 227 284
10th Percentile £213 £243 £213
25th Percentile £363 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £589
90th Percentile £614 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £480 £505 £475
% change year-on-year -4.95% +6.32% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 19
10th Percentile £12.43 £24.03 £16.80
25th Percentile £25.98 £24.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.71 £25.80 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.21% -35.51% -2.74%
75th Percentile £74.00 £26.90 -
90th Percentile £76.85 £27.56 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £48.72 £23.59 £40.00
% change year-on-year +106.53% -41.03% -2.74%

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 3,846 3,188 5,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.54% 13.10% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,425 1,977 3,035
10th Percentile £238 £220 £206
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £495
% change year-on-year +1.54% -1.52% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 125 399
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.31 £16.30 £17.35
Median hourly rate £42.38 £36.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% -8.75% +112.54%
75th Percentile £67.81 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £37.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -2.60% +102.63%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -51 112 £475 -5.00% 24
South East 0 109 £518 -10.00% 45
North of England -82 56 £488 +24.20% 35
Midlands -47 35 £413 -8.33% 16
North West -48 32 £575 +35.29% 11
South West -43 27 £525 -14.46% 19
West Midlands -38 26 £425 +129.73% 14
Yorkshire -55 20 £447 +13.52% 18
East of England -30 17 £363 -20.11% 17
East Midlands -27 9 £275 -45.00% 2
North East -16 4 £200 -11.11% 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 42 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (6.44%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.52%) Skype for Business
4 8 (2.24%) IIS
5 4 (1.12%) Apache
6 2 (0.56%) WordPress
7 1 (0.28%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 17 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 146 (40.90%) Azure
2 87 (24.37%) Entra ID
3 75 (21.01%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (11.48%) AWS
5 25 (7.00%) IaaS
6 23 (6.44%) PaaS
7 17 (4.76%) SaaS
8 9 (2.52%) Nutanix
8 9 (2.52%) OneDrive
9 8 (2.24%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.68%) Datadog
12 5 (1.40%) GCP
13 4 (1.12%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.12%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.12%) Route 53
14 3 (0.84%) Mimecast
14 3 (0.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 341 (95.52%) DNS
2 132 (36.97%) Firewall
3 80 (22.41%) VPN
4 79 (22.13%) LAN
5 76 (21.29%) WAN
6 74 (20.73%) TCP/IP
7 67 (18.77%) VLAN
8 48 (13.45%) Wi-Fi
9 41 (11.48%) BGP
10 40 (11.20%) OSPF
11 37 (10.36%) Network Security
12 35 (9.80%) BIG-IP
13 31 (8.68%) Kerberos
14 27 (7.56%) Wireless
15 26 (7.28%) Cisco ISE
15 26 (7.28%) VXLAN
16 24 (6.72%) Ethernet VPN
16 24 (6.72%) Junos
17 22 (6.16%) SAN
18 17 (4.76%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.28%) MySQL
3 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.28%) Power BI
3 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (4.20%) JIRA
2 6 (1.68%) Chocolatey
3 4 (1.12%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.84%) Git
5 1 (0.28%) GitLab
5 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 81 (22.69%) Social Skills
2 45 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (5.88%) Finance
3 21 (5.88%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.32%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (4.20%) Banking
6 10 (2.80%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.96%) Legal
7 7 (1.96%) Military
8 6 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.40%) Law
10 4 (1.12%) Local Government
10 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.84%) Police
12 2 (0.56%) Advertising
12 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 60 (16.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (14.01%) Network Engineer
3 36 (10.08%) Senior
4 33 (9.24%) Analyst
5 32 (8.96%) IT Support
6 30 (8.40%) Architect
6 30 (8.40%) Support Engineer
7 29 (8.12%) IT Engineer
8 18 (5.04%) IT Support Engineer
9 16 (4.48%) IT Analyst
10 15 (4.20%) Network Specialist
11 14 (3.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 14 (3.92%) Firewall Specialist
11 14 (3.92%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (3.64%) Administrator
13 12 (3.36%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (3.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (3.08%) Support Analyst
15 10 (2.80%) 2nd Line Support
15 10 (2.80%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.24%) 802.1X
1 33 (9.24%) LDAP
2 21 (5.88%) SAML
3 16 (4.48%) OAuth
4 7 (1.96%) JSON
5 4 (1.12%) OpenID
6 3 (0.84%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.84%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (0.84%) Redfish
6 3 (0.84%) REST
7 2 (0.56%) Middleware
7 2 (0.56%) Software Packaging
7 2 (0.56%) XMPP
8 1 (0.28%) .NET
8 1 (0.28%) CSS
8 1 (0.28%) HTML
8 1 (0.28%) LAMP
8 1 (0.28%) SOAP
8 1 (0.28%) WCF
8 1 (0.28%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (13.45%) Data Centre
2 47 (13.17%) PKI
3 36 (10.08%) Clustering
4 34 (9.52%) Replication
5 23 (6.44%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.08%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (2.52%) IoT
10 8 (2.24%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.40%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.40%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.40%) Smartphone
13 4 (1.12%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.12%) iPhone
14 3 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.84%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 237 (66.39%) Windows
2 137 (38.38%) Windows Server
3 46 (12.89%) Windows 10
4 35 (9.80%) Linux
5 29 (8.12%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 15 (4.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (3.92%) Android
9 11 (3.08%) Windows 7
10 9 (2.52%) Apple iOS
11 8 (2.24%) Mac OS
11 8 (2.24%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (1.12%) Unix
13 3 (0.84%) VMS
14 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.28%) CentOS
15 1 (0.28%) Solaris
15 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (19.89%) High Availability
3 67 (18.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 67 (18.77%) ITIL
4 52 (14.57%) ITSM
5 44 (12.32%) Identity Access Management
6 42 (11.76%) Load Balancing
7 41 (11.48%) Disaster Recovery
8 38 (10.64%) Migration
9 35 (9.80%) Observability
10 29 (8.12%) Service Management
11 27 (7.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (7.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 24 (6.72%) Task Automation
14 22 (6.16%) Change Management
14 22 (6.16%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (5.88%) DevOps
16 19 (5.32%) Patch Management
17 18 (5.04%) Agile
17 18 (5.04%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 107 (29.97%) PowerShell
2 27 (7.56%) Python
3 14 (3.92%) Bash
4 12 (3.36%) VBScript
5 9 (2.52%) SQL
5 9 (2.52%) VB
6 7 (1.96%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.68%) VBA
8 3 (0.84%) Bicep
9 2 (0.56%) Lisp
9 2 (0.56%) Perl
10 1 (0.28%) C
10 1 (0.28%) C#
10 1 (0.28%) Go
10 1 (0.28%) Java
10 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (39.50%) Security Cleared
2 89 (24.93%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.32%) Cisco Certification
4 41 (11.48%) DV Cleared
5 22 (6.16%) CCNP
6 17 (4.76%) Degree
7 13 (3.64%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (3.08%) CCNA
9 10 (2.80%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.96%) JNCIA
11 7 (1.96%) JNCIP
11 7 (1.96%) JNCIS
12 6 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
12 6 (1.68%) Server+ Certification
13 5 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 4 (1.12%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.88%) GDPR
1 21 (5.88%) SLA
2 14 (3.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 11 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (2.24%) NIST
5 7 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.84%) NCSC
7 2 (0.56%) QA
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.28%) RMADS
System Software
1 216 (60.50%) Active Directory
2 95 (26.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (14.57%) Hyper-V
4 24 (6.72%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (5.88%) vSphere
6 20 (5.60%) BitLocker
7 15 (4.20%) Docker
8 13 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (2.24%) Microsoft App-V
11 7 (1.96%) Firmware
11 7 (1.96%) VMware NSX
12 5 (1.40%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.84%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.84%) NFS
13 3 (0.84%) XenApp
14 2 (0.56%) UAG
14 2 (0.56%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.28%) KVM
15 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 58 (16.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 54 (15.13%) SCCM
3 36 (10.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 35 (9.80%) Ansible
5 31 (8.68%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (8.40%) FortiGate
7 21 (5.88%) Terraform
8 17 (4.76%) Kubernetes
9 16 (4.48%) WSUS
10 13 (3.64%) vCenter Server
11 9 (2.52%) vMotion
12 7 (1.96%) Puppet
12 7 (1.96%) SCOM
13 6 (1.68%) Nagios
14 5 (1.40%) Failover Clustering
14 5 (1.40%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
15 3 (0.84%) Stealthwatch
16 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Clustering
16 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 153 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 105 (29.41%) VMware
3 68 (19.05%) Cisco
4 54 (15.13%) ServiceNow
5 43 (12.04%) F5
6 37 (10.36%) SolarWinds
7 36 (10.08%) Citrix
8 34 (9.52%) Juniper
9 28 (7.84%) Infoblox
10 24 (6.72%) Splunk
11 22 (6.16%) Extreme Networks
12 15 (4.20%) Palo Alto
13 14 (3.92%) Okta
14 13 (3.64%) Fortinet
15 12 (3.36%) Dell
16 11 (3.08%) NetApp
16 11 (3.08%) Veeam
17 8 (2.24%) HP
18 7 (1.96%) Apple
18 7 (1.96%) CheckPoint