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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
28 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 222 244
Rank change year-on-year -51 +22 -2
Contract jobs citing DHCP 375 285 351
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.90% 1.20% 0.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.40% 9.15% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 208 277
10th Percentile £210 £250 £221
25th Percentile £400 £385 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +10.53% -4.52%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £575
90th Percentile £617 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £470
% change year-on-year -5.71% +11.70% -4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 16
10th Percentile £12.43 £28.20 £18.00
25th Percentile £26.00 £28.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -10.97%
75th Percentile £72.00 £44.88 £42.19
90th Percentile £74.00 £53.20 £68.13
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -10.97%

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 3,991 3,115 4,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.56% 13.07% 13.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,474 1,948 2,910
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 116 387
10th Percentile £16.45 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +131.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.35 £70.26
UK median hourly rate £28.44 £40.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -29.78% +1.25% +116.22%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -58 112 £450 -10.00% 41
South East -7 104 £523 -8.09% 68
North of England -67 62 £526 +20.99% 45
South West -22 38 £516 -16.14% 28
Midlands -46 38 £438 +2.94% 29
North West -42 37 £602 +41.53% 28
West Midlands -46 29 £438 +41.13% 18
Yorkshire -50 21 £447 -10.60% 14
East of England -20 17 £485 -9.77% 24
East Midlands -25 9 £275 -45.00% 11
North East -26 4 £200 -15.79% 6
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 33 (8.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (6.40%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.87%) IIS
4 4 (1.07%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.27%) Apache
5 1 (0.27%) Confluence
5 1 (0.27%) nginx
5 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 11 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 155 (41.33%) Azure
2 87 (23.20%) Entra ID
3 75 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (13.87%) AWS
5 23 (6.13%) IaaS
6 21 (5.60%) PaaS
7 16 (4.27%) OneDrive
8 12 (3.20%) SaaS
9 9 (2.40%) GCP
10 8 (2.13%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (1.87%) Nutanix
12 6 (1.60%) Datadog
13 4 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.07%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.07%) Route 53
14 3 (0.80%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.80%) Azure Stack
14 3 (0.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 361 (96.27%) DNS
2 136 (36.27%) Firewall
3 84 (22.40%) VPN
4 81 (21.60%) TCP/IP
5 79 (21.07%) LAN
6 78 (20.80%) WAN
7 77 (20.53%) VLAN
8 45 (12.00%) Network Security
9 42 (11.20%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (10.93%) BGP
10 41 (10.93%) OSPF
11 40 (10.67%) Wireless
12 39 (10.40%) BIG-IP
13 37 (9.87%) SAN
14 31 (8.27%) Kerberos
15 28 (7.47%) VXLAN
16 27 (7.20%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (6.67%) Ethernet VPN
17 25 (6.67%) Junos
18 21 (5.60%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.20%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.27%) Power BI
4 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (5.87%) JIRA
2 6 (1.60%) Chocolatey
3 4 (1.07%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.07%) Git
4 2 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 90 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (7.20%) Finance
4 20 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.07%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.00%) Banking
7 8 (2.13%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.87%) Legal
9 6 (1.60%) Military
9 6 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.33%) Law
10 5 (1.33%) Local Government
10 5 (1.33%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.33%) Police
11 2 (0.53%) Advertising
11 2 (0.53%) Publishing
12 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.27%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (19.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (14.13%) Network Engineer
3 38 (10.13%) Architect
4 35 (9.33%) Senior
5 34 (9.07%) IT Support
6 33 (8.80%) Support Engineer
7 31 (8.27%) Analyst
8 27 (7.20%) IT Engineer
9 17 (4.53%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (4.00%) IT Analyst
10 15 (4.00%) Network Specialist
11 14 (3.73%) Administrator
11 14 (3.73%) Firewall Specialist
12 13 (3.47%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 13 (3.47%) Support Analyst
13 12 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (3.20%) Senior Network Engineer
14 11 (2.93%) 2nd Line Support
14 11 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.93%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.13%) 802.1X
2 32 (8.53%) LDAP
3 21 (5.60%) SAML
4 16 (4.27%) OAuth
5 10 (2.67%) JSON
6 5 (1.33%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.07%) OpenID
8 3 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.80%) Redfish
8 3 (0.80%) REST
9 2 (0.53%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.53%) Qt
9 2 (0.53%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.53%) XMPP
10 1 (0.27%) .NET
10 1 (0.27%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.27%) CSS
10 1 (0.27%) HTML
10 1 (0.27%) Middleware
10 1 (0.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (18.13%) Data Centre
2 42 (11.20%) PKI
3 35 (9.33%) Clustering
4 31 (8.27%) Replication
5 29 (7.73%) Onboarding
6 15 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.93%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
9 9 (2.40%) IoT
10 8 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.33%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.33%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.33%) Smartphone
12 5 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (1.07%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.07%) Management Information System
14 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
14 3 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 236 (62.93%) Windows
2 136 (36.27%) Windows Server
3 41 (10.93%) Windows 10
4 40 (10.67%) Linux
5 29 (7.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (4.27%) Mac OS
6 16 (4.27%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (3.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (3.20%) Apple iOS
9 11 (2.93%) Android
10 8 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (1.60%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.80%) Unix
12 3 (0.80%) VMS
13 2 (0.53%) CentOS
13 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.27%) Rocky
14 1 (0.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (21.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 76 (20.27%) High Availability
4 69 (18.40%) ITIL
5 58 (15.47%) ITSM
6 47 (12.53%) Identity Access Management
7 44 (11.73%) Migration
8 42 (11.20%) Disaster Recovery
9 41 (10.93%) Load Balancing
10 34 (9.07%) Observability
11 30 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (7.20%) Root Cause Analysis
12 27 (7.20%) Task Automation
13 24 (6.40%) Network Segmentation
14 23 (6.13%) Incident Management
15 22 (5.87%) DevOps
16 21 (5.60%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (5.60%) Service Management
17 20 (5.33%) Agile
17 20 (5.33%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (24.00%) PowerShell
2 31 (8.27%) Python
3 15 (4.00%) Bash
4 11 (2.93%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.40%) VBA
6 6 (1.60%) SQL
6 6 (1.60%) VBScript
7 5 (1.33%) Bicep
8 4 (1.07%) VB
9 3 (0.80%) Lisp
10 1 (0.27%) C
10 1 (0.27%) Go
10 1 (0.27%) Java
10 1 (0.27%) Perl
10 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 148 (39.47%) Security Cleared
2 91 (24.27%) SC Cleared
3 56 (14.93%) Cisco Certification
4 45 (12.00%) DV Cleared
5 34 (9.07%) CCNP
6 24 (6.40%) Degree
7 22 (5.87%) CCNA
7 22 (5.87%) Network+ Certification
8 15 (4.00%) Server+ Certification
9 10 (2.67%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.87%) JNCIA
10 7 (1.87%) JNCIP
10 7 (1.87%) JNCIS
10 7 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.07%) CCIE
14 3 (0.80%) CCIE Security
15 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.40%) SLA
2 17 (4.53%) GDPR
3 14 (3.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (2.67%) NIST
5 8 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.80%) NCSC
7 3 (0.80%) QA
8 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.27%) RMADS
System Software
1 221 (58.93%) Active Directory
2 107 (28.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (16.00%) Hyper-V
4 28 (7.47%) vSphere
5 25 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (5.07%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (4.53%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.00%) BitLocker
9 14 (3.73%) Docker
10 10 (2.67%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (2.40%) VMware NSX
12 7 (1.87%) Firmware
13 6 (1.60%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (1.07%) NFS
15 3 (0.80%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.80%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.53%) UAG
16 2 (0.53%) XenApp
16 2 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (14.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (10.93%) SCCM
3 36 (9.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 36 (9.60%) Ansible
4 31 (8.27%) FortiGate
5 28 (7.47%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (5.07%) Terraform
7 15 (4.00%) Kubernetes
7 15 (4.00%) WSUS
8 12 (3.20%) vCenter Server
9 9 (2.40%) vMotion
10 7 (1.87%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (1.87%) Nagios
10 7 (1.87%) Puppet
11 5 (1.33%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (1.07%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.07%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.80%) SCOM
13 3 (0.80%) Stealthwatch
14 2 (0.53%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 161 (42.93%) Microsoft
2 116 (30.93%) VMware
3 86 (22.93%) Cisco
4 65 (17.33%) ServiceNow
5 50 (13.33%) F5
6 39 (10.40%) SolarWinds
7 35 (9.33%) Citrix
7 35 (9.33%) Juniper
8 33 (8.80%) Infoblox
9 25 (6.67%) Splunk
10 22 (5.87%) Extreme Networks
11 16 (4.27%) Palo Alto
12 14 (3.73%) Fortinet
12 14 (3.73%) NetApp
12 14 (3.73%) Okta
13 12 (3.20%) Dell
13 12 (3.20%) Veeam
14 11 (2.93%) CheckPoint
15 10 (2.67%) HP
16 8 (2.13%) Dynatrace
209 DHCP jobs in England