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

 6 months to
27 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 273 208 237
Rank change year-on-year -65 +29 +3
Contract jobs citing DHCP 370 287 352
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.21% 0.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.32% 9.23% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 212 279
10th Percentile £210 £250 £223
25th Percentile £388 £385 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +10.53% -4.52%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £575
90th Percentile £620 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £478 £525 £465
% change year-on-year -9.05% +12.90% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 16
10th Percentile £12.43 - £18.00
25th Percentile £26.00 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -30.00% -10.97%
75th Percentile £72.00 - £42.19
90th Percentile £74.00 - £68.13
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% -30.00% -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 3,972 3,108 4,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.53% 13.07% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 1,947 2,893
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 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £486 £490
% change year-on-year +2.83% -0.77% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 114 386
10th Percentile £16.50 £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 £65.66 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.35 £70.33
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.60% - +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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -56 112 £450 -10.00% 35
South East -13 103 £520 -8.53% 65
North of England -68 60 £545 +22.47% 43
South West -28 38 £516 -16.14% 27
North West -44 37 £602 +41.53% 25
Midlands -56 37 £438 +2.94% 26
West Midlands -48 28 £438 +41.13% 17
Yorkshire -48 19 £447 -14.86% 14
East of England -19 17 £485 -9.77% 21
East Midlands -30 9 £275 -45.00% 9
North East -22 4 £200 -15.79% 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 33 (8.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (6.49%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.89%) IIS
4 4 (1.08%) 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 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 154 (41.62%) Azure
2 87 (23.51%) Entra ID
3 75 (20.27%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (13.51%) AWS
5 23 (6.22%) IaaS
6 21 (5.68%) PaaS
7 16 (4.32%) OneDrive
8 12 (3.24%) SaaS
9 8 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (2.16%) GCP
10 7 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (1.89%) Nutanix
11 6 (1.62%) Datadog
12 4 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.08%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.08%) Route 53
13 3 (0.81%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.81%) Azure Stack
13 3 (0.81%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 356 (96.22%) DNS
2 134 (36.22%) Firewall
3 82 (22.16%) VPN
4 79 (21.35%) TCP/IP
5 78 (21.08%) LAN
6 76 (20.54%) VLAN
6 76 (20.54%) WAN
7 43 (11.62%) Network Security
8 42 (11.35%) Wi-Fi
9 40 (10.81%) BGP
9 40 (10.81%) OSPF
9 40 (10.81%) Wireless
10 37 (10.00%) BIG-IP
10 37 (10.00%) SAN
11 31 (8.38%) Kerberos
12 28 (7.57%) VXLAN
13 27 (7.30%) Cisco ISE
14 25 (6.76%) Ethernet VPN
14 25 (6.76%) Junos
15 21 (5.68%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (7.30%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.08%) 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 20 (5.41%) JIRA
2 6 (1.62%) Chocolatey
3 4 (1.08%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.08%) Git
4 2 (0.54%) GitLab
5 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 88 (23.78%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (7.30%) Finance
4 20 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.14%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (4.05%) Banking
7 8 (2.16%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.89%) Legal
9 6 (1.62%) Military
9 6 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.35%) Law
10 5 (1.35%) Local Government
10 5 (1.35%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.35%) Police
11 2 (0.54%) Advertising
11 2 (0.54%) Publishing
12 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.27%) Electronics
12 1 (0.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 73 (19.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (13.78%) Network Engineer
3 37 (10.00%) Architect
4 34 (9.19%) IT Support
4 34 (9.19%) Senior
5 33 (8.92%) Support Engineer
6 31 (8.38%) Analyst
7 27 (7.30%) IT Engineer
8 17 (4.59%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (4.05%) IT Analyst
9 15 (4.05%) Network Specialist
10 14 (3.78%) Administrator
10 14 (3.78%) Firewall Specialist
11 13 (3.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (3.51%) Support Analyst
12 12 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (2.97%) 2nd Line Support
13 11 (2.97%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.97%) Senior Network Engineer
13 11 (2.97%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (10.00%) 802.1X
2 32 (8.65%) LDAP
3 21 (5.68%) SAML
4 16 (4.32%) OAuth
5 8 (2.16%) JSON
6 5 (1.35%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.08%) OpenID
8 3 (0.81%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.81%) Redfish
8 3 (0.81%) REST
9 2 (0.54%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.54%) Qt
9 2 (0.54%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.54%) 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 67 (18.11%) Data Centre
2 41 (11.08%) PKI
3 35 (9.46%) Clustering
4 31 (8.38%) Replication
5 29 (7.84%) Onboarding
6 15 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.97%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.43%) IoT
9 8 (2.16%) Enterprise Storage
9 8 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.35%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.35%) Smartphone
11 5 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.08%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.08%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 235 (63.51%) Windows
2 135 (36.49%) Windows Server
3 41 (11.08%) Windows 10
4 39 (10.54%) Linux
5 29 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (4.32%) Mac OS
6 16 (4.32%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (3.78%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (3.24%) Apple iOS
9 11 (2.97%) Android
10 8 (2.16%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (1.62%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.81%) Unix
12 3 (0.81%) VMS
13 2 (0.54%) CentOS
13 2 (0.54%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.27%) Rocky
14 1 (0.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 75 (20.27%) High Availability
4 68 (18.38%) ITIL
5 58 (15.68%) ITSM
6 47 (12.70%) Identity Access Management
7 43 (11.62%) Migration
8 41 (11.08%) Disaster Recovery
9 40 (10.81%) Load Balancing
10 34 (9.19%) Observability
11 28 (7.57%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (7.30%) Task Automation
13 26 (7.03%) Root Cause Analysis
14 24 (6.49%) Network Segmentation
15 22 (5.95%) Incident Management
16 21 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (5.68%) DevOps
16 21 (5.68%) Service Management
17 20 (5.41%) Change Management
17 20 (5.41%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 90 (24.32%) PowerShell
2 29 (7.84%) Python
3 15 (4.05%) Bash
4 9 (2.43%) JavaScript
5 7 (1.89%) VBA
6 6 (1.62%) SQL
6 6 (1.62%) VBScript
7 5 (1.35%) Bicep
8 4 (1.08%) VB
9 3 (0.81%) 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
1 147 (39.73%) Security Cleared
2 91 (24.59%) SC Cleared
3 56 (15.14%) Cisco Certification
4 44 (11.89%) DV Cleared
5 34 (9.19%) CCNP
6 24 (6.49%) Degree
7 22 (5.95%) CCNA
7 22 (5.95%) Network+ Certification
8 15 (4.05%) Server+ Certification
9 10 (2.70%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.89%) JNCIA
10 7 (1.89%) JNCIP
10 7 (1.89%) JNCIS
10 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (1.08%) CCIE
14 3 (0.81%) CCIE Security
15 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 2 (0.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.49%) SLA
2 17 (4.59%) GDPR
3 14 (3.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 9 (2.43%) NIST
5 8 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.81%) NCSC
7 3 (0.81%) QA
8 2 (0.54%) 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
1 219 (59.19%) Active Directory
2 105 (28.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 59 (15.95%) Hyper-V
4 27 (7.30%) vSphere
5 24 (6.49%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (5.14%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (4.59%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.05%) BitLocker
9 14 (3.78%) Docker
10 10 (2.70%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (2.16%) VMware NSX
12 7 (1.89%) Firmware
13 6 (1.62%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (1.08%) NFS
15 3 (0.81%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.81%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.54%) UAG
16 2 (0.54%) XenApp
16 2 (0.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (14.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (11.08%) SCCM
3 36 (9.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 34 (9.19%) Ansible
5 31 (8.38%) FortiGate
6 28 (7.57%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (5.14%) Terraform
8 15 (4.05%) Kubernetes
8 15 (4.05%) WSUS
9 12 (3.24%) vCenter Server
10 9 (2.43%) vMotion
11 7 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (1.89%) Nagios
11 7 (1.89%) Puppet
12 5 (1.35%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (1.08%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.08%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.81%) SCOM
14 3 (0.81%) Stealthwatch
15 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 160 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 114 (30.81%) VMware
3 84 (22.70%) Cisco
4 64 (17.30%) ServiceNow
5 48 (12.97%) F5
6 38 (10.27%) SolarWinds
7 35 (9.46%) Citrix
7 35 (9.46%) Juniper
8 31 (8.38%) Infoblox
9 25 (6.76%) Splunk
10 22 (5.95%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (3.78%) NetApp
11 14 (3.78%) Okta
11 14 (3.78%) Palo Alto
12 13 (3.51%) Fortinet
13 12 (3.24%) Dell
13 12 (3.24%) Veeam
14 11 (2.97%) CheckPoint
15 10 (2.70%) HP
16 8 (2.16%) Aruba
191 DHCP jobs in England