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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
15 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 217 246
Rank change year-on-year -44 +29 +10
Contract jobs citing DHCP 421 327 342
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.94% 1.21% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.91% 9.53% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 221 255
10th Percentile £207 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £581 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £608
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 14 17
10th Percentile £14.85 £28.30 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.66 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £35.22 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.40% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £74.00 £42.80 £48.75
90th Percentile £94.67 £75.73 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.40% -25.00% -

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 4,250 3,433 4,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.50% 12.65% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,623 2,122 2,833
10th Percentile £250 £235 £215
25th Percentile £400 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 158 385
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.41 £25.04 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £43.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +1.74% +39.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £84.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £47.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.34% +10.47% +39.84%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -61 134 £450 -10.00% 40
South East -11 113 £525 -7.65% 68
North of England -60 64 £508 +9.14% 42
South West -7 49 £475 -19.15% 42
Midlands -47 43 £438 +14.38% 23
North West -45 35 £608 +36.02% 19
West Midlands -62 30 £438 +34.62% 17
Yorkshire -43 25 £468 -15.00% 16
East of England -26 14 £475 -9.52% 31
East Midlands -6 13 £300 -45.45% 6
North East -36 4 £350 +40.00% 10
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 39 (9.26%) SharePoint
2 37 (8.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.43%) IIS
4 3 (0.71%) Confluence
4 3 (0.71%) nginx
5 2 (0.48%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 11 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.24%) Houdini
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.24%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 171 (40.62%) Azure
2 90 (21.38%) Microsoft 365
3 89 (21.14%) Entra ID
4 72 (17.10%) AWS
5 29 (6.89%) OneDrive
6 23 (5.46%) IaaS
7 20 (4.75%) PaaS
8 18 (4.28%) GCP
8 18 (4.28%) SaaS
9 9 (2.14%) Route 53
10 8 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (1.66%) Datadog
12 5 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.19%) Nutanix
12 5 (1.19%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.95%) GitHub
13 4 (0.95%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 411 (97.62%) DNS
2 172 (40.86%) Firewall
3 129 (30.64%) TCP/IP
4 100 (23.75%) VPN
5 84 (19.95%) LAN
6 81 (19.24%) WAN
7 80 (19.00%) VLAN
8 55 (13.06%) Network Security
9 52 (12.35%) Wi-Fi
10 48 (11.40%) Wireless
11 44 (10.45%) BGP
12 43 (10.21%) OSPF
13 42 (9.98%) SAN
14 39 (9.26%) BIG-IP
15 28 (6.65%) Kerberos
15 28 (6.65%) VXLAN
16 26 (6.18%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (5.94%) Ethernet VPN
17 25 (5.94%) Junos
18 24 (5.70%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.36%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.71%) Big Data
3 3 (0.71%) Db2
4 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.24%) Power BI
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 32 (7.60%) JIRA
2 7 (1.66%) Chocolatey
3 6 (1.43%) Git
4 5 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (0.71%) GitLab
6 2 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.48%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.24%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.24%) MSI
7 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 117 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 45 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (8.31%) Finance
4 31 (7.36%) Public Sector
5 25 (5.94%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (4.04%) Banking
7 8 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.90%) Local Government
7 8 (1.90%) Police
8 7 (1.66%) Military
9 6 (1.43%) Legal
9 6 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.95%) Law
10 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.71%) Retail
12 2 (0.48%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.48%) Publishing
13 1 (0.24%) Advertising
13 1 (0.24%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (21.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 62 (14.73%) Network Engineer
3 49 (11.64%) Support Engineer
4 44 (10.45%) Architect
4 44 (10.45%) IT Support
5 43 (10.21%) Senior
6 41 (9.74%) IT Engineer
7 29 (6.89%) IT Support Engineer
8 24 (5.70%) Analyst
9 19 (4.51%) Senior Network Engineer
10 15 (3.56%) Administrator
10 15 (3.56%) Network Specialist
11 14 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (3.33%) Firewall Specialist
12 12 (2.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 12 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (2.85%) Desktop Support
12 12 (2.85%) Infrastructure Support
12 12 (2.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (2.61%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (10.21%) 802.1X
2 30 (7.13%) LDAP
3 18 (4.28%) SAML
4 12 (2.85%) OAuth
5 10 (2.38%) JSON
6 6 (1.43%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.95%) OpenID
8 3 (0.71%) .NET
8 3 (0.71%) Middleware
8 3 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.71%) Redfish
8 3 (0.71%) REST
8 3 (0.71%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.48%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.48%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.48%) Blazor
9 2 (0.48%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.48%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.48%) Qt
10 1 (0.24%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 87 (20.67%) Data Centre
2 67 (15.91%) PKI
3 39 (9.26%) Clustering
4 32 (7.60%) Onboarding
5 26 (6.18%) Replication
6 18 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.56%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.14%) IoT
8 9 (2.14%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.66%) Driving Licence
10 6 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
11 5 (1.19%) Fat Client
11 5 (1.19%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.19%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 270 (64.13%) Windows
2 132 (31.35%) Windows Server
3 58 (13.78%) Linux
4 44 (10.45%) Windows 10
5 25 (5.94%) Mac OS
6 19 (4.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (3.09%) Apple iOS
7 13 (3.09%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (2.85%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (2.61%) Android
10 10 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (1.66%) Unix
12 5 (1.19%) Windows 7
12 5 (1.19%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.71%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.71%) VMS
14 2 (0.48%) CentOS
14 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.24%) Rocky
15 1 (0.24%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (25.89%) Problem-Solving
2 105 (24.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 88 (20.90%) ITIL
4 84 (19.95%) High Availability
5 71 (16.86%) ITSM
6 51 (12.11%) Migration
7 47 (11.16%) Identity Access Management
7 47 (11.16%) Load Balancing
8 42 (9.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (9.03%) Disaster Recovery
10 36 (8.55%) Observability
10 36 (8.55%) Root Cause Analysis
11 32 (7.60%) User Experience
12 31 (7.36%) Project Delivery
13 29 (6.89%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (6.41%) Network Segmentation
15 25 (5.94%) Service Management
15 25 (5.94%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (5.70%) Incident Management
16 24 (5.70%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 106 (25.18%) PowerShell
2 50 (11.88%) Python
3 31 (7.36%) Bash
4 11 (2.61%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.14%) VBA
6 6 (1.43%) SQL
7 4 (0.95%) VBScript
8 3 (0.71%) Lisp
9 2 (0.48%) Bicep
9 2 (0.48%) VB
10 1 (0.24%) C
10 1 (0.24%) C++
10 1 (0.24%) Go
10 1 (0.24%) Perl
10 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 167 (39.67%) Security Cleared
2 90 (21.38%) SC Cleared
3 64 (15.20%) Cisco Certification
4 60 (14.25%) DV Cleared
5 42 (9.98%) CCNP
6 34 (8.08%) Degree
7 27 (6.41%) CCNA
8 22 (5.23%) Network+ Certification
9 15 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (3.56%) Server+ Certification
10 13 (3.09%) Azure Certification
11 8 (1.90%) JNCIP
11 8 (1.90%) JNCIS
12 7 (1.66%) CCIE
12 7 (1.66%) JNCIA
13 6 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (1.19%) A+ Certification
14 5 (1.19%) CCIE Security
14 5 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.94%) SLA
2 14 (3.33%) NIST
3 13 (3.09%) GDPR
4 10 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.19%) NCSC
6 5 (1.19%) QA
7 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.71%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.48%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.24%) RMADS
System Software
1 242 (57.48%) Active Directory
2 119 (28.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (17.10%) Hyper-V
4 36 (8.55%) VMware ESXi
5 35 (8.31%) vSphere
6 25 (5.94%) Virtual Desktop
7 20 (4.75%) Docker
7 20 (4.75%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (3.80%) VMware NSX
9 13 (3.09%) BitLocker
10 10 (2.38%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (2.14%) Firmware
12 7 (1.66%) NFS
13 6 (1.43%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.95%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.48%) UAG
16 2 (0.48%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.48%) XenApp
16 2 (0.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 57 (13.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 48 (11.40%) Ansible
3 40 (9.50%) SCCM
4 37 (8.79%) Terraform
5 35 (8.31%) FortiGate
6 28 (6.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 28 (6.65%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (5.46%) Kubernetes
8 20 (4.75%) vCenter Server
9 16 (3.80%) WSUS
10 12 (2.85%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (2.61%) vMotion
12 7 (1.66%) Nagios
12 7 (1.66%) Puppet
13 6 (1.43%) Failover Clustering
13 6 (1.43%) VxRail
14 5 (1.19%) CA Single Sign-On
14 5 (1.19%) Prometheus
14 5 (1.19%) SCOM
15 4 (0.95%) Packer
Vendors
1 190 (45.13%) Microsoft
2 134 (31.83%) VMware
3 97 (23.04%) Cisco
4 75 (17.81%) ServiceNow
5 50 (11.88%) F5
6 43 (10.21%) Infoblox
6 43 (10.21%) SolarWinds
7 41 (9.74%) Citrix
8 37 (8.79%) Juniper
9 26 (6.18%) Splunk
10 23 (5.46%) Palo Alto
11 22 (5.23%) Extreme Networks
12 17 (4.04%) Google
13 16 (3.80%) Fortinet
14 15 (3.56%) CheckPoint
15 13 (3.09%) HP
16 10 (2.38%) Dell
16 10 (2.38%) Tenable
16 10 (2.38%) Veeam
16 10 (2.38%) Zscaler
222 DHCP jobs in England