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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 233 242
Rank change year-on-year -35 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing DHCP 439 306 320
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.96% 1.10% 0.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.20% 8.89% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 208 239
10th Percentile £214 £250 £284
25th Percentile £355 £397 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £485
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +5.16% +2.10%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £608
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 17 8
10th Percentile £26.00 £28.60 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £29.00 £22.33
Median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +111.60% -22.58% +15.67%
75th Percentile £74.00 £83.00 £66.56
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £73.28
UK median hourly rate £61.11 £30.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year +103.69% -22.58% +15.67%

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 4,305 3,442 4,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.41% 12.37% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,611 2,137 2,567
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £680 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 165 281
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.94 £44.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.50% -20.00% +7.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £86.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £46.88 £49.00
% change year-on-year -43.59% -4.34% -2.82%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -70 148 £450 -10.00% 70
South East -9 123 £518 -8.97% 57
North of England -46 60 £500 +6.95% 41
South West -10 50 £450 -21.74% 31
Midlands -45 44 £400 - 22
North West -38 33 £608 +36.02% 26
West Midlands -52 30 £406 +1.56% 15
Yorkshire -30 21 £500 -9.09% 11
East Midlands -1 14 £300 -47.83% 7
East of England -26 11 £475 -9.52% 24
North East -39 6 £213 -50.00% 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 50 (11.39%) SharePoint
2 43 (9.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.37%) IIS
3 6 (1.37%) nginx
4 5 (1.14%) Apache
4 5 (1.14%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.46%) Houdini
4 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.46%) NUKE
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 191 (43.51%) Azure
2 112 (25.51%) Microsoft 365
3 89 (20.27%) Entra ID
4 86 (19.59%) AWS
5 39 (8.88%) OneDrive
6 21 (4.78%) GCP
6 21 (4.78%) IaaS
7 19 (4.33%) PaaS
8 18 (4.10%) SaaS
9 13 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (2.96%) OpenShift
10 11 (2.51%) Azure Sentinel
11 10 (2.28%) GitHub
12 8 (1.82%) Route 53
13 7 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.59%) Datadog
14 6 (1.37%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.37%) Google Workspace
15 5 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 435 (99.09%) DNS
2 205 (46.70%) Firewall
3 164 (37.36%) TCP/IP
4 126 (28.70%) VPN
5 90 (20.50%) VLAN
6 88 (20.05%) LAN
7 85 (19.36%) WAN
8 61 (13.90%) Network Security
9 54 (12.30%) Wi-Fi
10 51 (11.62%) BGP
11 50 (11.39%) OSPF
11 50 (11.39%) Wireless
12 42 (9.57%) SAN
13 37 (8.43%) BIG-IP
14 31 (7.06%) VXLAN
15 26 (5.92%) Cisco ISE
15 26 (5.92%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (5.69%) Junos
16 25 (5.69%) NAS
17 23 (5.24%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.91%) Db2
5 3 (0.68%) Big Data
6 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (7.52%) JIRA
2 8 (1.82%) Git
3 7 (1.59%) Chocolatey
4 5 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (1.14%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.14%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (1.14%) GitLab
5 4 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.23%) MSI
7 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 134 (30.52%) Social Skills
2 56 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (10.02%) Finance
4 35 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.47%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (4.10%) Banking
7 10 (2.28%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.05%) Military
8 9 (2.05%) Police
9 8 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.82%) Local Government
10 7 (1.59%) Legal
11 6 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.91%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.91%) Automotive
12 4 (0.91%) Law
13 3 (0.68%) Front Office
13 3 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 109 (24.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (16.86%) Network Engineer
3 66 (15.03%) Senior
4 53 (12.07%) Support Engineer
5 44 (10.02%) IT Support
6 40 (9.11%) Architect
6 40 (9.11%) IT Engineer
7 30 (6.83%) IT Support Engineer
8 29 (6.61%) Senior Network Engineer
9 28 (6.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 26 (5.92%) Analyst
11 21 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (3.87%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (3.42%) Administrator
13 15 (3.42%) Network Specialist
14 14 (3.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 14 (3.19%) Azure Engineer
14 14 (3.19%) Firewall Specialist
14 14 (3.19%) Support Analyst
14 14 (3.19%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.11%) 802.1X
2 13 (2.96%) ARM Templates
3 10 (2.28%) LDAP
4 9 (2.05%) JSON
5 8 (1.82%) SAML
6 5 (1.14%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.91%) Middleware
7 4 (0.91%) OpenID
7 4 (0.91%) YAML
8 3 (0.68%) .NET
8 3 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.68%) Redfish
8 3 (0.68%) REST
9 2 (0.46%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.46%) Blazor
9 2 (0.46%) eBPF
9 2 (0.46%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.46%) OAuth
9 2 (0.46%) Qt
9 2 (0.46%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 98 (22.32%) Data Centre
2 83 (18.91%) PKI
3 40 (9.11%) Clustering
3 40 (9.11%) Onboarding
4 36 (8.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 19 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.51%) Driving Licence
8 10 (2.28%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.59%) Replication
10 6 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
10 6 (1.37%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.14%) Fat Client
11 5 (1.14%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 305 (69.48%) Windows
2 145 (33.03%) Windows Server
3 96 (21.87%) Linux
4 52 (11.85%) Windows 10
5 25 (5.69%) Mac OS
6 14 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (2.73%) Apple iOS
7 12 (2.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (2.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (2.28%) Android
9 10 (2.28%) Unix
9 10 (2.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (1.37%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.91%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.68%) VMS
12 3 (0.68%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.46%) CentOS
14 1 (0.23%) Rocky
14 1 (0.23%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (29.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 128 (29.16%) Problem-Solving
3 121 (27.56%) ITIL
4 79 (18.00%) High Availability
5 77 (17.54%) ITSM
6 68 (15.49%) Infrastructure as Code
7 55 (12.53%) Migration
8 48 (10.93%) Load Balancing
9 45 (10.25%) Root Cause Analysis
10 44 (10.02%) Observability
11 42 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (8.88%) Identity Access Management
13 38 (8.66%) Cybersecurity
13 38 (8.66%) DevOps
13 38 (8.66%) Disaster Recovery
13 38 (8.66%) Technical Leadership
14 37 (8.43%) Service Management
15 36 (8.20%) Project Delivery
16 35 (7.97%) User Experience
17 34 (7.74%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 113 (25.74%) PowerShell
2 73 (16.63%) Python
3 58 (13.21%) Bash
4 12 (2.73%) SQL
5 11 (2.51%) Bicep
5 11 (2.51%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.59%) VBA
7 3 (0.68%) Lisp
7 3 (0.68%) Perl
7 3 (0.68%) VBScript
8 2 (0.46%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.23%) C
9 1 (0.23%) C++
9 1 (0.23%) Go
Qualifications
1 174 (39.64%) Security Cleared
2 86 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 75 (17.08%) DV Cleared
4 74 (16.86%) Cisco Certification
5 49 (11.16%) CCNP
6 40 (9.11%) Degree
7 31 (7.06%) CCNA
8 26 (5.92%) Network+ Certification
9 23 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (4.56%) Azure Certification
11 15 (3.42%) Server+ Certification
12 11 (2.51%) JNCIP
12 11 (2.51%) JNCIS
12 11 (2.51%) VCAP
13 10 (2.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (2.05%) A+ Certification
14 9 (2.05%) AWS Certification
15 8 (1.82%) CCIE
15 8 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
16 7 (1.59%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.61%) SLA
2 14 (3.19%) NIST
3 6 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.37%) QA
4 4 (0.91%) NCSC
5 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.68%) GDPR
5 3 (0.68%) NIST 800
6 2 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
6 2 (0.46%) JSP 440
6 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 256 (58.31%) Active Directory
2 147 (33.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 94 (21.41%) Hyper-V
4 48 (10.93%) vSphere
5 39 (8.88%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (5.92%) VMware NSX
7 25 (5.69%) Docker
7 25 (5.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (4.56%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (2.05%) BitLocker
9 9 (2.05%) Firmware
9 9 (2.05%) Microsoft App-V
10 8 (1.82%) NFS
11 6 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (1.37%) VMware Workstation
12 4 (0.91%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.68%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.46%) UAG
14 2 (0.46%) XenApp
14 2 (0.46%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 79 (18.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 72 (16.40%) Terraform
3 70 (15.95%) Ansible
4 52 (11.85%) SCCM
5 38 (8.66%) Kubernetes
6 37 (8.43%) FortiGate
7 22 (5.01%) vCenter Server
8 16 (3.64%) WSUS
9 15 (3.42%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (3.42%) VxRail
10 12 (2.73%) Jamf Pro
11 10 (2.28%) Nagios
11 10 (2.28%) vMotion
12 7 (1.59%) Failover Clustering
12 7 (1.59%) Packer
12 7 (1.59%) Prometheus
12 7 (1.59%) Puppet
13 6 (1.37%) SCOM
14 5 (1.14%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.91%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 211 (48.06%) Microsoft
2 172 (39.18%) VMware
3 111 (25.28%) Cisco
4 77 (17.54%) ServiceNow
5 51 (11.62%) F5
6 48 (10.93%) SolarWinds
7 43 (9.79%) Citrix
8 41 (9.34%) Infoblox
9 39 (8.88%) Juniper
10 27 (6.15%) Splunk
11 26 (5.92%) Palo Alto
12 22 (5.01%) Extreme Networks
13 17 (3.87%) CheckPoint
13 17 (3.87%) Google
14 16 (3.64%) Fortinet
14 16 (3.64%) HP
15 14 (3.19%) Zscaler
16 10 (2.28%) Meraki
16 10 (2.28%) Red Hat
16 10 (2.28%) Tenable