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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 248 231
Rank change year-on-year -12 -17 +17
Contract jobs citing DHCP 455 297 336
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.07% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.49% 8.91% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 193 227
10th Percentile £215 £219 £247
25th Percentile £363 £331 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £641
UK median daily rate £500 £465 £450
% change year-on-year +7.53% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 18 6
10th Percentile £26.26 £27.15 £21.55
25th Percentile £31.25 £29.00 £24.83
Median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +123.33% -22.58% +13.97%
75th Percentile £74.00 £76.94 £49.69
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +123.33% -21.05% +5.50%

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 4,339 3,334 3,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.37% 12.00% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,600 2,074 2,329
10th Percentile £250 £238 £243
25th Percentile £400 £367 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -2.77% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 168 231
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.75 £21.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.23 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -28.12% +1.52%
75th Percentile £67.48 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £76.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £42.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -38.49% -17.48% -8.83%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -51 153 £450 -5.26% 86
South East -30 99 £525 -7.65% 78
North of England -26 73 £500 +11.86% 36
South West -4 58 £538 -2.27% 35
Midlands -38 54 £400 - 36
North West -34 37 £519 +17.38% 22
West Midlands -42 36 £400 - 24
Yorkshire -26 27 £500 -9.09% 6
East Midlands -2 18 £300 -47.83% 12
East of England -31 14 £475 +53.23% 28
North East -40 9 £200 -20.00% 10
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 66 (14.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 60 (13.19%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.76%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.54%) Confluence
5 6 (1.32%) IIS
6 5 (1.10%) Apache
6 5 (1.10%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.44%) Houdini
4 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.44%) NUKE
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 213 (46.81%) Azure
2 130 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 98 (21.54%) Entra ID
4 94 (20.66%) AWS
5 40 (8.79%) OneDrive
6 23 (5.05%) GCP
7 19 (4.18%) IaaS
8 17 (3.74%) SaaS
9 16 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (3.52%) OpenShift
9 16 (3.52%) PaaS
10 14 (3.08%) GitHub
11 13 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.98%) Route 53
14 7 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 6 (1.32%) Google Workspace
15 6 (1.32%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 451 (99.12%) DNS
2 203 (44.62%) Firewall
3 183 (40.22%) TCP/IP
4 144 (31.65%) VPN
5 95 (20.88%) VLAN
6 73 (16.04%) WAN
7 72 (15.82%) LAN
8 70 (15.38%) Network Security
9 58 (12.75%) Wi-Fi
10 54 (11.87%) Wireless
11 41 (9.01%) SAN
12 38 (8.35%) BGP
13 36 (7.91%) OSPF
14 24 (5.27%) NAS
15 23 (5.05%) SSL
16 20 (4.40%) SD-WAN
17 19 (4.18%) BIG-IP
17 19 (4.18%) Cisco IOS
18 18 (3.96%) IPsec
19 17 (3.74%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.23%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.88%) Db2
5 3 (0.66%) Big Data
6 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (7.47%) JIRA
2 8 (1.76%) Git
2 8 (1.76%) GitLab
3 7 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (1.10%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.10%) Chocolatey
5 3 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.22%) JMeter
7 1 (0.22%) Locust
7 1 (0.22%) MSI
7 1 (0.22%) Newman
7 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.22%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 155 (34.07%) Social Skills
2 60 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (10.55%) Finance
4 33 (7.25%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.93%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.52%) Banking
7 10 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.20%) Police
8 9 (1.98%) Aerospace
8 9 (1.98%) Legal
8 9 (1.98%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.54%) Local Government
10 6 (1.32%) Law
10 6 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.10%) Front Office
11 5 (1.10%) Military
12 4 (0.88%) Automotive
12 4 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (25.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 69 (15.16%) Network Engineer
3 67 (14.73%) Senior
4 52 (11.43%) Support Engineer
5 44 (9.67%) IT Support
6 39 (8.57%) Architect
6 39 (8.57%) IT Engineer
7 33 (7.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 30 (6.59%) IT Support Engineer
9 28 (6.15%) Analyst
10 27 (5.93%) Senior Network Engineer
11 22 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
12 18 (3.96%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (3.74%) Support Analyst
13 17 (3.74%) Systems Engineer
14 15 (3.30%) Active Directory Engineer
14 15 (3.30%) Administrator
15 14 (3.08%) Desktop Support
16 13 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (2.86%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (18.02%) Terraform
2 20 (4.40%) 802.1X
3 15 (3.30%) ARM Templates
3 15 (3.30%) LDAP
4 10 (2.20%) SAML
5 9 (1.98%) JSON
6 6 (1.32%) Software Packaging
7 5 (1.10%) OAuth
8 4 (0.88%) Middleware
8 4 (0.88%) OpenID
8 4 (0.88%) YAML
9 3 (0.66%) .NET
9 3 (0.66%) REST
10 2 (0.44%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.44%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.44%) ModSecurity
10 2 (0.44%) ODBC
10 2 (0.44%) OpenGL
10 2 (0.44%) Qt
10 2 (0.44%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 86 (18.90%) Data Centre
2 74 (16.26%) PKI
3 43 (9.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 42 (9.23%) Onboarding
5 23 (5.05%) Clustering
6 16 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.30%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.86%) Driving Licence
9 12 (2.64%) Replication
10 11 (2.42%) Public Cloud
11 10 (2.20%) Video Conferencing
12 9 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.32%) Cloud Native
13 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (1.10%) Fat Client
14 5 (1.10%) iPhone
14 5 (1.10%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 322 (70.77%) Windows
2 167 (36.70%) Windows Server
3 114 (25.05%) Linux
4 63 (13.85%) Windows 10
5 28 (6.15%) Mac OS
6 18 (3.96%) Apple iOS
7 16 (3.52%) Android
8 14 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (2.64%) Unix
9 12 (2.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (2.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (2.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (1.98%) Ubuntu
13 8 (1.76%) Windows 7
14 6 (1.32%) CentOS
15 5 (1.10%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.66%) VMS
17 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
18 1 (0.22%) SUSE
18 1 (0.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 136 (29.89%) ITIL
3 124 (27.25%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (17.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 77 (16.92%) ITSM
6 64 (14.07%) High Availability
7 60 (13.19%) Migration
8 53 (11.65%) Root Cause Analysis
9 51 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
10 47 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 46 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
12 45 (9.89%) Service Management
13 42 (9.23%) Cybersecurity
14 41 (9.01%) Customer Service
14 41 (9.01%) Project Delivery
15 40 (8.79%) DevOps
16 39 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
17 37 (8.13%) Change Management
17 37 (8.13%) User Experience
18 36 (7.91%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 141 (30.99%) PowerShell
2 78 (17.14%) Python
3 60 (13.19%) Bash
4 16 (3.52%) SQL
5 13 (2.86%) Bicep
6 10 (2.20%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.20%) VBScript
7 7 (1.54%) VBA
8 6 (1.32%) VB
9 3 (0.66%) Lisp
9 3 (0.66%) Perl
10 2 (0.44%) C++
10 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) Go
11 1 (0.22%) Java
11 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 172 (37.80%) Security Cleared
2 93 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 74 (16.26%) DV Cleared
4 60 (13.19%) Cisco Certification
5 50 (10.99%) CCNP
6 46 (10.11%) Degree
7 32 (7.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (5.93%) CCNA
9 25 (5.49%) Azure Certification
10 22 (4.84%) Network+ Certification
11 12 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (2.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 12 (2.64%) VCAP
12 11 (2.42%) A+ Certification
12 11 (2.42%) Server+ Certification
12 11 (2.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (2.20%) AWS Certification
14 9 (1.98%) CCIE
15 8 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (1.10%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.03%) SLA
2 15 (3.30%) NIST
3 9 (1.98%) QA
4 7 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.10%) NCSC
6 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.66%) GDPR
7 3 (0.66%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 280 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 164 (36.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 99 (21.76%) Hyper-V
4 53 (11.65%) vSphere
5 41 (9.01%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (5.71%) VMware NSX
7 25 (5.49%) Docker
7 25 (5.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 19 (4.18%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (3.08%) BitLocker
10 10 (2.20%) Firmware
11 8 (1.76%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (1.76%) NFS
12 7 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (1.32%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.88%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.66%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.44%) UAG
16 2 (0.44%) XenApp
16 2 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 94 (20.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (17.14%) Ansible
3 65 (14.29%) SCCM
4 41 (9.01%) Kubernetes
5 25 (5.49%) vCenter Server
6 20 (4.40%) FortiGate
7 19 (4.18%) WSUS
8 16 (3.52%) VxRail
9 14 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.64%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (2.64%) vMotion
11 8 (1.76%) Nagios
12 7 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
12 7 (1.54%) Packer
12 7 (1.54%) Puppet
12 7 (1.54%) SCOM
13 6 (1.32%) Prometheus
14 5 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (1.10%) Grafana
15 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 251 (55.16%) Microsoft
2 190 (41.76%) VMware
3 100 (21.98%) Cisco
4 76 (16.70%) ServiceNow
5 42 (9.23%) Citrix
6 40 (8.79%) Infoblox
7 35 (7.69%) F5
8 29 (6.37%) Palo Alto
9 28 (6.15%) SolarWinds
10 22 (4.84%) CheckPoint
11 20 (4.40%) Juniper
12 19 (4.18%) Fortinet
13 17 (3.74%) Google
14 16 (3.52%) CyberArk
15 14 (3.08%) HP
16 12 (2.64%) Red Hat
16 12 (2.64%) Zscaler
17 11 (2.42%) Aruba
17 11 (2.42%) Meraki
17 11 (2.42%) Remedy