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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 252 240
Rank change year-on-year -7 -12 +16
Contract jobs citing DHCP 451 293 323
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.06% 0.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.48% 8.70% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 192 234
10th Percentile £213 £250 £260
25th Percentile £363 £357 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £608
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -4.00% +6.38% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 9
10th Percentile £26.13 £27.15 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £29.00 £23.10
Median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +123.33% -36.84% +39.71%
75th Percentile £75.25 £76.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £72.60
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +123.33% -36.84% +31.87%

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 4,304 3,367 4,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 12.22% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,091 2,476
10th Percentile £263 £245 £243
25th Percentile £400 £374 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 168 266
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £26.72 £43.00 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.86% -22.86% -1.32%
75th Percentile £65.38 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.78% -7.50% -11.49%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -58 149 £450 -10.00% 57
South East -18 107 £520 -9.57% 42
North of England -29 72 £500 +9.65% 22
South West -6 54 £519 +48.21% 36
Midlands -38 52 £406 +1.56% 19
North West -31 36 £520 +16.23% 13
West Midlands -57 35 £413 +3.13% 11
Yorkshire -18 28 £500 -9.09% 6
East Midlands -2 17 £300 -47.83% 8
East of England -28 14 £475 -8.65% 22
North East -36 8 £200 -20.00% 4
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 59 (13.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (12.42%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.33%) IIS
3 6 (1.33%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.11%) Apache
4 5 (1.11%) Confluence
4 5 (1.11%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.67%) 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 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 206 (45.68%) Azure
2 126 (27.94%) Microsoft 365
3 96 (21.29%) Entra ID
4 89 (19.73%) AWS
5 40 (8.87%) OneDrive
6 22 (4.88%) GCP
7 20 (4.43%) IaaS
8 18 (3.99%) PaaS
8 18 (3.99%) SaaS
9 15 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
10 14 (3.10%) OpenShift
11 12 (2.66%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (2.44%) GitHub
13 8 (1.77%) Route 53
14 7 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.55%) Nutanix
15 6 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 6 (1.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 447 (99.11%) DNS
2 203 (45.01%) Firewall
3 178 (39.47%) TCP/IP
4 142 (31.49%) VPN
5 95 (21.06%) VLAN
6 80 (17.74%) LAN
6 80 (17.74%) WAN
7 70 (15.52%) Network Security
8 60 (13.30%) Wi-Fi
9 52 (11.53%) Wireless
10 43 (9.53%) BGP
11 41 (9.09%) OSPF
12 40 (8.87%) SAN
13 25 (5.54%) BIG-IP
14 23 (5.10%) NAS
15 21 (4.66%) SD-WAN
15 21 (4.66%) SSL
16 18 (3.99%) Cisco IOS
16 18 (3.99%) VXLAN
17 17 (3.77%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (8.87%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.89%) Db2
5 3 (0.67%) Big Data
6 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (7.32%) JIRA
2 8 (1.77%) Git
3 6 (1.33%) Chocolatey
3 6 (1.33%) GitLab
4 5 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (1.11%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.11%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (1.11%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.22%) MSI
6 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 143 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 58 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (10.64%) Finance
4 33 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.99%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (3.77%) Banking
7 10 (2.22%) Police
8 9 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.77%) Legal
9 8 (1.77%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.55%) Aerospace
10 7 (1.55%) Local Government
11 6 (1.33%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.11%) Front Office
12 5 (1.11%) Law
12 5 (1.11%) Military
13 4 (0.89%) Automotive
13 4 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 114 (25.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 70 (15.52%) Network Engineer
3 66 (14.63%) Senior
4 53 (11.75%) Support Engineer
5 44 (9.76%) IT Support
6 40 (8.87%) IT Engineer
7 39 (8.65%) Architect
8 32 (7.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 31 (6.87%) IT Support Engineer
10 28 (6.21%) Analyst
11 27 (5.99%) Senior Network Engineer
12 24 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (3.77%) Support Analyst
14 16 (3.55%) Cloud Engineer
15 15 (3.33%) Administrator
16 14 (3.10%) Active Directory Engineer
16 14 (3.10%) Desktop Support
16 14 (3.10%) Systems Engineer
17 13 (2.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 13 (2.88%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (17.52%) Terraform
2 27 (5.99%) 802.1X
3 14 (3.10%) ARM Templates
4 13 (2.88%) LDAP
5 11 (2.44%) SAML
6 9 (2.00%) JSON
7 6 (1.33%) Software Packaging
8 5 (1.11%) OAuth
9 4 (0.89%) Middleware
9 4 (0.89%) OpenID
9 4 (0.89%) YAML
10 3 (0.67%) .NET
10 3 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (0.67%) Redfish
10 3 (0.67%) REST
11 2 (0.44%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.44%) Blazor
11 2 (0.44%) eBPF
11 2 (0.44%) ModSecurity
11 2 (0.44%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 90 (19.96%) Data Centre
2 77 (17.07%) PKI
3 42 (9.31%) Onboarding
4 39 (8.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 28 (6.21%) Clustering
6 18 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (3.10%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.88%) Driving Licence
9 11 (2.44%) Public Cloud
10 10 (2.22%) Replication
11 9 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Storage
13 6 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.11%) Fat Client
14 5 (1.11%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 319 (70.73%) Windows
2 158 (35.03%) Windows Server
3 108 (23.95%) Linux
4 62 (13.75%) Windows 10
5 28 (6.21%) Mac OS
6 17 (3.77%) Apple iOS
7 15 (3.33%) Android
8 13 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (2.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (2.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (2.44%) Unix
10 11 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (1.77%) Windows 7
12 7 (1.55%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.67%) CentOS
14 3 (0.67%) VMS
15 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.22%) Rocky
16 1 (0.22%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (30.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 132 (29.27%) ITIL
3 123 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (17.74%) ITSM
5 75 (16.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 69 (15.30%) High Availability
7 58 (12.86%) Migration
8 52 (11.53%) Root Cause Analysis
9 48 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
10 44 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
11 42 (9.31%) Disaster Recovery
11 42 (9.31%) Service Management
12 39 (8.65%) Customer Service
12 39 (8.65%) DevOps
12 39 (8.65%) Incident Management
13 38 (8.43%) Project Delivery
14 37 (8.20%) Load Balancing
14 37 (8.20%) Platform Engineering
14 37 (8.20%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 132 (29.27%) PowerShell
2 77 (17.07%) Python
3 60 (13.30%) Bash
4 15 (3.33%) SQL
5 12 (2.66%) Bicep
6 10 (2.22%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.00%) VBScript
8 7 (1.55%) VBA
9 6 (1.33%) VB
10 3 (0.67%) Lisp
10 3 (0.67%) Perl
11 2 (0.44%) C++
11 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) Go
12 1 (0.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 172 (38.14%) Security Cleared
2 89 (19.73%) SC Cleared
3 73 (16.19%) DV Cleared
4 63 (13.97%) Cisco Certification
5 48 (10.64%) CCNP
6 44 (9.76%) Degree
7 29 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (5.76%) CCNA
9 24 (5.32%) Azure Certification
10 22 (4.88%) Network+ Certification
11 12 (2.66%) VCAP
12 11 (2.44%) A+ Certification
12 11 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (2.44%) Server+ Certification
13 10 (2.22%) AWS Certification
13 10 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 10 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (2.00%) CCIE
15 7 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (1.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.10%) SLA
2 14 (3.10%) NIST
3 7 (1.55%) QA
4 6 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.11%) NCSC
6 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.67%) GDPR
6 3 (0.67%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 275 (60.98%) Active Directory
2 161 (35.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (21.06%) Hyper-V
4 53 (11.75%) vSphere
5 42 (9.31%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (5.99%) VMware NSX
7 26 (5.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (5.54%) Docker
9 18 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
10 15 (3.33%) BitLocker
11 11 (2.44%) Firmware
12 9 (2.00%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (1.77%) NFS
14 7 (1.55%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (1.33%) VMware Workstation
16 4 (0.89%) Terminal Services
17 3 (0.67%) VirtualBox
18 2 (0.44%) UAG
18 2 (0.44%) XenApp
18 2 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 92 (20.40%) Microsoft Intune
2 77 (17.07%) Ansible
3 66 (14.63%) SCCM
4 39 (8.65%) Kubernetes
5 25 (5.54%) FortiGate
5 25 (5.54%) vCenter Server
6 17 (3.77%) WSUS
7 16 (3.55%) Single Sign-On
7 16 (3.55%) VxRail
8 12 (2.66%) Jamf Pro
8 12 (2.66%) vMotion
9 8 (1.77%) Nagios
9 8 (1.77%) Puppet
10 7 (1.55%) Failover Clustering
10 7 (1.55%) Packer
10 7 (1.55%) Prometheus
11 6 (1.33%) SCOM
12 5 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.89%) Grafana
13 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 241 (53.44%) Microsoft
2 187 (41.46%) VMware
3 101 (22.39%) Cisco
4 78 (17.29%) ServiceNow
5 44 (9.76%) Citrix
6 40 (8.87%) F5
6 40 (8.87%) Infoblox
7 33 (7.32%) SolarWinds
8 27 (5.99%) Palo Alto
9 24 (5.32%) Juniper
10 22 (4.88%) CheckPoint
11 20 (4.43%) Fortinet
12 17 (3.77%) Google
13 16 (3.55%) CyberArk
13 16 (3.55%) HP
14 13 (2.88%) Splunk
14 13 (2.88%) Zscaler
15 11 (2.44%) Aruba
15 11 (2.44%) Red Hat
15 11 (2.44%) Remedy