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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 237 249
Rank change year-on-year -9 +12 +15
Contract jobs citing DHCP 300 329 415
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.08% 1.00% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.14% 8.29% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 223 283
10th Percentile £219 £243 £194
25th Percentile £325 £363 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% +2.63% +7.95%
75th Percentile £588 £596 £613
90th Percentile £623 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 8
10th Percentile £27.15 £21.55 £20.58
25th Percentile £29.00 £24.83 £23.94
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +27.05% +38.64%
75th Percentile £76.94 £49.69 £45.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £57.50 £55.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% - +60.00%

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 3,282 3,967 5,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.81% 12.04% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,054 2,323 3,578
10th Percentile £227 £242 £225
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £618
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 217 280
10th Percentile £15.31 £14.44 £16.73
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.75 £24.03
Median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.78
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £76.12
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £50.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.85% -10.60% +34.50%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +51 128 £500 +5.26% 43
South East -8 65 £550 +6.02% 82
Midlands -30 39 £383 +0.66% 47
West Midlands -8 37 £365 -9.88% 19
North of England -26 26 £438 -16.67% 54
South West +16 19 £550 +12.82% 28
East of England +11 17 £310 -22.50% 21
North West -28 14 £438 -20.45% 27
Yorkshire -16 8 £550 +46.67% 21
North East 0 4 £248 +77.32% 9
East Midlands -19 2 £550 +46.67% 27
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 52 (17.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (12.33%) SharePoint
3 19 (6.33%) Skype for Business
4 14 (4.67%) Exchange Server 2010
5 13 (4.33%) Exchange Server 2003
5 13 (4.33%) Exchange Server 2007
5 13 (4.33%) Exchange Server 2013
5 13 (4.33%) Office Communications Server
5 13 (4.33%) SharePoint Server
6 12 (4.00%) Confluence
7 8 (2.67%) OpenStack
8 7 (2.33%) IIS
9 3 (1.00%) Apache
Applications
1 51 (17.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.33%) Eikon
2 1 (0.33%) Eze OMS
2 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 86 (28.67%) Azure
2 67 (22.33%) Microsoft 365
3 66 (22.00%) AWS
4 29 (9.67%) Entra ID
5 22 (7.33%) IaaS
6 21 (7.00%) GCP
7 16 (5.33%) PaaS
8 10 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (3.33%) OneDrive
9 9 (3.00%) OpenShift
10 7 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (2.00%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.00%) AWS Direct Connect
11 6 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.00%) Serverless
12 4 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.33%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (1.33%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 296 (98.67%) DNS
2 111 (37.00%) Firewall
3 101 (33.67%) TCP/IP
4 97 (32.33%) VPN
5 70 (23.33%) VLAN
6 59 (19.67%) LAN
7 58 (19.33%) WAN
8 50 (16.67%) Wireless
9 28 (9.33%) SAN
10 25 (8.33%) Network Security
11 22 (7.33%) BGP
11 22 (7.33%) OSPF
12 21 (7.00%) SD-WAN
13 18 (6.00%) Cisco IOS
13 18 (6.00%) WLAN
14 17 (5.67%) SSL
14 17 (5.67%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (4.67%) 4G
16 13 (4.33%) DDNS
16 13 (4.33%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.33%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (3.00%) Big Data
2 9 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (2.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.67%) MySQL
5 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (5.00%) JIRA
2 3 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.33%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.33%) Git
3 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 91 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 40 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 39 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.67%) Finance
5 16 (5.33%) Manufacturing
6 11 (3.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.33%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.00%) Local Government
9 5 (1.67%) Banking
10 4 (1.33%) French Language
11 3 (1.00%) Electronics
11 3 (1.00%) Marketing
11 3 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.67%) Front Office
12 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 79 (26.33%) Support Engineer
2 52 (17.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 41 (13.67%) Network Engineer
4 36 (12.00%) Analyst
5 24 (8.00%) IT Support
6 21 (7.00%) Senior
7 20 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
7 20 (6.67%) Support Analyst
8 19 (6.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 19 (6.33%) Desktop Engineer
8 19 (6.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 19 (6.33%) IT Engineer
9 17 (5.67%) 2nd Line Support
9 17 (5.67%) 3rd Line Support
9 17 (5.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 15 (5.00%) Administrator
10 15 (5.00%) Architect
10 15 (5.00%) Desktop Support
11 14 (4.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 13 (4.33%) Exchange Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.67%) YAML
2 3 (1.00%) .NET
2 3 (1.00%) Middleware
2 3 (1.00%) React
3 2 (0.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (0.67%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.67%) JSON
3 2 (0.67%) SAML
4 1 (0.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.33%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.33%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.33%) Express.js
4 1 (0.33%) Jinja
4 1 (0.33%) OAuth
4 1 (0.33%) OpenID
4 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.33%) SOAP
4 1 (0.33%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.33%) WCF
4 1 (0.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.00%) PKI
2 26 (8.67%) Data Centre
3 21 (7.00%) Replication
4 13 (4.33%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (3.33%) Clustering
6 8 (2.67%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.67%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.67%) iPad
9 5 (1.67%) iPhone
10 4 (1.33%) CMDB
11 3 (1.00%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.00%) IVR
11 3 (1.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 204 (68.00%) Windows
2 72 (24.00%) Windows Server
3 51 (17.00%) Linux
4 43 (14.33%) Windows 10
5 24 (8.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 18 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 15 (5.00%) Mac OS
8 14 (4.67%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (2.67%) Windows 7
11 7 (2.33%) Android
11 7 (2.33%) CentOS
11 7 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (2.00%) Ubuntu
13 5 (1.67%) Apple iOS
13 5 (1.67%) Unix
14 3 (1.00%) Windows 8
15 2 (0.67%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.00%) ITIL
2 59 (19.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 52 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (15.00%) High Availability
5 29 (9.67%) Service Management
6 26 (8.67%) Computer Science
6 26 (8.67%) Migration
7 25 (8.33%) DevOps
8 22 (7.33%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (7.33%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (6.67%) Customer Service
10 17 (5.67%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (5.67%) ITSM
10 17 (5.67%) Network Monitoring
10 17 (5.67%) Service Delivery
11 16 (5.33%) Change Management
12 15 (5.00%) Business Continuity
13 14 (4.67%) Mentoring
14 13 (4.33%) Content Management
14 13 (4.33%) Enterprise Content Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (18.33%) PowerShell
2 20 (6.67%) SQL
3 17 (5.67%) Python
4 9 (3.00%) Bash
5 7 (2.33%) VBScript
6 5 (1.67%) Bicep
7 4 (1.33%) C#
7 4 (1.33%) Perl
8 3 (1.00%) VB
9 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.33%) Go
10 1 (0.33%) Java
10 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 68 (22.67%) Cisco Certification
3 51 (17.00%) SC Cleared
4 47 (15.67%) Degree
5 46 (15.33%) CCNP
6 41 (13.67%) CCNA
7 30 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (9.00%) DV Cleared
9 15 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (3.33%) Azure Certification
10 10 (3.33%) CCSA
11 9 (3.00%) A+ Certification
11 9 (3.00%) Network+ Certification
11 9 (3.00%) Server+ Certification
12 8 (2.67%) CCIE
12 8 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (2.00%) MCSE
14 4 (1.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 4 (1.33%) MCP
14 4 (1.33%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.00%) SLA
2 5 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.67%) GDPR
3 4 (1.33%) NCSC
4 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.67%) NIST
6 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 152 (50.67%) Active Directory
2 66 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (15.33%) Hyper-V
4 21 (7.00%) VMware ESXi
5 20 (6.67%) Docker
6 18 (6.00%) Microsoft App-V
7 16 (5.33%) vSphere
8 14 (4.67%) Terminal Services
8 14 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
9 13 (4.33%) Brightmail
9 13 (4.33%) ISA Server
10 10 (3.33%) BitLocker
11 7 (2.33%) Firmware
12 5 (1.67%) DFS Replication
12 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (1.33%) NFS
13 4 (1.33%) VMware NSX
13 4 (1.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 45 (15.00%) SCCM
2 21 (7.00%) Ansible
3 18 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (5.67%) Microsoft Clustering
4 17 (5.67%) vCenter Server
4 17 (5.67%) WSUS
5 14 (4.67%) vMotion
6 13 (4.33%) Kubernetes
7 12 (4.00%) Nagios
7 12 (4.00%) Puppet
7 12 (4.00%) Terraform
8 7 (2.33%) FortiGate
9 6 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (2.00%) OpenView
10 5 (1.67%) CA Spectrum
10 5 (1.67%) Tivoli
11 4 (1.33%) AppManager
11 4 (1.33%) NetApp OnCommand
11 4 (1.33%) Packer
12 3 (1.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 148 (49.33%) Microsoft
2 87 (29.00%) Cisco
2 87 (29.00%) VMware
3 37 (12.33%) Citrix
4 25 (8.33%) SolarWinds
5 22 (7.33%) CheckPoint
5 22 (7.33%) ServiceNow
6 19 (6.33%) F5
7 18 (6.00%) Google
8 17 (5.67%) Dell
9 16 (5.33%) HP
9 16 (5.33%) Meraki
10 13 (4.33%) Veeam
11 12 (4.00%) Juniper
12 11 (3.67%) Palo Alto
12 11 (3.67%) Symantec
13 10 (3.33%) Infoblox
14 9 (3.00%) Fortinet
14 9 (3.00%) Remedy
15 8 (2.67%) Red Hat