DHCP Contracts in England

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring DHCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DHCP over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 252 254
Rank change year-on-year +44 +2 +16
Contract jobs citing DHCP 328 343 487
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.24% 0.92% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.74% 7.11% 8.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 259 344
10th Percentile £250 £238 £190
25th Percentile £391 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £628
90th Percentile £631 £608 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +7.37% -4.04% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 7
10th Percentile £28.20 £18.40 £19.85
25th Percentile £29.00 - £28.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +81.82%
75th Percentile £41.45 £48.75 £48.57
90th Percentile £55.65 £67.50 £63.28
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +77.78%

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 3,368 4,826 6,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.70% 12.95% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,079 2,874 3,961
10th Percentile £235 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £502
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.30% +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 392 378
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +108.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.26
% change year-on-year -5.56% +102.16% -23.40%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in England.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in England

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in England

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in England.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in England

DHCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DHCP in England over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 July 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 +62 128 £500 +11.11% 332
South East -14 56 £569 +8.29% 150
North of England +32 53 £465 +22.37% 184
North West +24 37 £447 +15.35% 90
Midlands -10 35 £383 -4.38% 107
West Midlands -5 28 £325 -18.75% 64
South West +27 27 £600 +11.63% 108
East of England +42 19 £525 +23.53% 70
Yorkshire +11 15 £550 +44.74% 79
East Midlands -2 7 £550 +46.67% 43
North East -1 1 £250 -60.00% 18
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 55 (16.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (9.15%) SharePoint
3 19 (5.79%) Confluence
4 17 (5.18%) Skype for Business
5 8 (2.44%) IIS
6 7 (2.13%) Exchange Server 2003
6 7 (2.13%) Exchange Server 2007
6 7 (2.13%) Exchange Server 2010
6 7 (2.13%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (2.13%) Office Communications Server
6 7 (2.13%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (1.52%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.91%) Apache
Applications
1 43 (13.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 100 (30.49%) Azure
2 77 (23.48%) AWS
3 61 (18.60%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (12.20%) Entra ID
5 23 (7.01%) GCP
5 23 (7.01%) IaaS
6 19 (5.79%) PaaS
7 17 (5.18%) OpenShift
8 10 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (2.74%) GitHub
9 9 (2.74%) Serverless
10 8 (2.44%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.44%) OneDrive
11 7 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
13 5 (1.52%) Mimecast
13 5 (1.52%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 316 (96.34%) DNS
2 133 (40.55%) Firewall
3 97 (29.57%) TCP/IP
4 89 (27.13%) VPN
5 64 (19.51%) VLAN
6 63 (19.21%) WAN
7 60 (18.29%) LAN
8 52 (15.85%) Wireless
9 35 (10.67%) Network Security
10 28 (8.54%) BGP
10 28 (8.54%) OSPF
11 27 (8.23%) SAN
12 26 (7.93%) SD-WAN
12 26 (7.93%) SSL
13 23 (7.01%) Wi-Fi
14 21 (6.40%) WLAN
15 18 (5.49%) Cisco IOS
16 17 (5.18%) EIGRP
16 17 (5.18%) SMTP
17 16 (4.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (2.74%) Big Data
2 9 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.22%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.91%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.61%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.61%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.61%) MySQL
6 2 (0.61%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.30%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 18 (5.49%) JIRA
2 8 (2.44%) Git
3 5 (1.52%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.22%) GitLab
5 2 (0.61%) Maven
5 2 (0.61%) Subversion
6 1 (0.30%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.30%) Postman
6 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 79 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 45 (13.72%) Finance
3 34 (10.37%) Public Sector
4 25 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (4.88%) Manufacturing
6 13 (3.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.74%) Banking
8 8 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.52%) French Language
11 5 (1.52%) Local Government
11 5 (1.52%) Military
12 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.61%) Electronics
13 2 (0.61%) International Banking
13 2 (0.61%) Marketing
13 2 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.61%) Retail
14 1 (0.30%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (19.51%) Network Engineer
2 62 (18.90%) Support Engineer
3 57 (17.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 26 (7.93%) Analyst
5 21 (6.40%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 21 (6.40%) Senior
6 19 (5.79%) 3rd Line Support
6 19 (5.79%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 18 (5.49%) Administrator
7 18 (5.49%) Windows Engineer
8 16 (4.88%) IT Engineer
8 16 (4.88%) IT Support
8 16 (4.88%) Support Analyst
9 14 (4.27%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (4.27%) Consultant
9 14 (4.27%) Infrastructure Support
9 14 (4.27%) Lead
10 13 (3.96%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (3.96%) Desktop Engineer
10 13 (3.96%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.52%) LDAP
2 3 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (0.91%) Node.js
2 3 (0.91%) YAML
3 2 (0.61%) .NET
3 2 (0.61%) .NET Framework
3 2 (0.61%) ASP.NET
3 2 (0.61%) JSON
3 2 (0.61%) React
3 2 (0.61%) XML
4 1 (0.30%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.30%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.30%) HTML
4 1 (0.30%) Jinja
4 1 (0.30%) LAMP
4 1 (0.30%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.30%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.30%) SAML
4 1 (0.30%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.30%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.67%) Data Centre
1 35 (10.67%) PKI
2 14 (4.27%) Clustering
2 14 (4.27%) Replication
3 9 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.44%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Storage
7 5 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.52%) iPad
7 5 (1.52%) iPhone
7 5 (1.52%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
7 5 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.22%) CMDB
9 3 (0.91%) IVR
9 3 (0.91%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 206 (62.80%) Windows
2 88 (26.83%) Windows Server
3 73 (22.26%) Linux
4 38 (11.59%) Windows 10
5 29 (8.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (5.49%) Windows Server 2003
7 15 (4.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (4.27%) Windows Server 2019
9 12 (3.66%) Windows 7
10 10 (3.05%) CentOS
10 10 (3.05%) Mac OS
10 10 (3.05%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (2.74%) VMS
12 8 (2.44%) Ubuntu
12 8 (2.44%) Unix
13 6 (1.83%) Android
13 6 (1.83%) Rocky
14 5 (1.52%) Apple iOS
15 3 (0.91%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (24.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 72 (21.95%) ITIL
3 47 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (13.72%) DevOps
5 39 (11.89%) High Availability
6 29 (8.84%) Agile
7 27 (8.23%) Migration
8 26 (7.93%) Cybersecurity
9 25 (7.62%) ITSM
10 24 (7.32%) Service Management
11 23 (7.01%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (6.40%) Computer Science
13 20 (6.10%) Customer Service
13 20 (6.10%) Project Management
14 19 (5.79%) Incident Management
14 19 (5.79%) Load Balancing
15 18 (5.49%) Containerisation
15 18 (5.49%) Network Monitoring
15 18 (5.49%) Patch Management
16 16 (4.88%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (21.95%) PowerShell
2 40 (12.20%) Python
3 20 (6.10%) SQL
4 18 (5.49%) Bash
5 12 (3.66%) VBScript
6 9 (2.74%) Java
6 9 (2.74%) Perl
7 7 (2.13%) C#
7 7 (2.13%) VB
8 6 (1.83%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.52%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.30%) Bicep
10 1 (0.30%) Go
Qualifications
1 76 (23.17%) Cisco Certification
1 76 (23.17%) Security Cleared
2 53 (16.16%) CCNP
3 45 (13.72%) CCNA
4 43 (13.11%) SC Cleared
5 41 (12.50%) Degree
6 32 (9.76%) DV Cleared
7 17 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
8 11 (3.35%) CCSA
9 8 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.83%) CCIE
11 5 (1.52%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.52%) CISSP
11 5 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.91%) CCIE Routing and Switching
12 3 (0.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.91%) MCSA
12 3 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 2 (0.61%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.79%) SLA
2 5 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (1.52%) NCSC
3 3 (0.91%) GDPR
3 3 (0.91%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.91%) QA
4 2 (0.61%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.61%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 155 (47.26%) Active Directory
2 67 (20.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (14.02%) Hyper-V
4 33 (10.06%) Docker
5 24 (7.32%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (7.32%) vSphere
6 19 (5.79%) Microsoft App-V
7 14 (4.27%) BitLocker
8 10 (3.05%) Terminal Services
8 10 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (2.74%) DFS Replication
9 9 (2.74%) Firmware
10 7 (2.13%) Brightmail
10 7 (2.13%) ISA Server
10 7 (2.13%) NFS
10 7 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (1.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 5 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
13 4 (1.22%) VMware NSX
14 3 (0.91%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 38 (11.59%) Ansible
2 34 (10.37%) SCCM
3 29 (8.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (8.84%) Terraform
4 26 (7.93%) Kubernetes
5 22 (6.71%) Puppet
6 21 (6.40%) WSUS
7 15 (4.57%) vCenter Server
8 14 (4.27%) Nagios
9 12 (3.66%) vMotion
10 10 (3.05%) Microsoft Clustering
11 9 (2.74%) FortiGate
12 7 (2.13%) CA Spectrum
13 6 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 6 (1.83%) OpenView
13 6 (1.83%) Tivoli
14 4 (1.22%) AppManager
14 4 (1.22%) Dell DRAC
14 4 (1.22%) NetBackup
14 4 (1.22%) SELinux
Vendors
1 136 (41.46%) Microsoft
2 101 (30.79%) VMware
3 98 (29.88%) Cisco
4 35 (10.67%) CheckPoint
5 34 (10.37%) Citrix
6 31 (9.45%) F5
7 25 (7.62%) SolarWinds
8 24 (7.32%) Red Hat
9 23 (7.01%) ServiceNow
10 22 (6.71%) HP
11 20 (6.10%) Dell
11 20 (6.10%) Google
11 20 (6.10%) Infoblox
12 18 (5.49%) Juniper
13 17 (5.18%) Meraki
14 13 (3.96%) Symantec
14 13 (3.96%) Veeam
15 11 (3.35%) Palo Alto
16 9 (2.74%) Remedy
16 9 (2.74%) Zscaler