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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 201 229
Rank change year-on-year -89 +28 +10
Contract jobs citing DHCP 335 312 398
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.88% 1.28% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.94% 9.64% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 229 292
10th Percentile £201 £223 £203
25th Percentile £356 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £465
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% +2.59% -3.88%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £649
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £465
% change year-on-year +1.63% +5.81% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 21
10th Percentile £12.43 £24.03 £17.00
25th Percentile £16.84 £24.69 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.80 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.38% -35.51% -4.48%
75th Percentile £73.00 £26.90 -
90th Percentile £78.60 £27.56 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £23.59 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.97% -41.03% -4.48%

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 3,746 3,236 5,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.88% 13.23% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,396 2,024 3,179
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £387 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +1.54% +2.63% -9.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 120 382
10th Percentile £15.62 £14.91 £13.54
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.31 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.54 £35.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% +10.00% +71.05%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.05 £69.86
UK median hourly rate £40.02 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +14.34% +7.69% +69.71%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -51 108 £475 -5.00% 38
South East -10 94 £520 -8.53% 53
North of England -86 54 £447 +13.76% 49
South West -39 33 £575 -2.13% 20
Midlands -50 31 £438 -3.58% 27
North West -60 31 £575 +43.75% 27
West Midlands -36 26 £438 +36.19% 16
East of England -19 21 £363 -30.95% 14
Yorkshire -60 20 £344 -12.70% 16
East Midlands -38 5 £275 -45.00% 11
North East -12 3 £200 +33.33% 8
DHCP
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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 49 (14.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (9.25%) SharePoint
3 19 (5.67%) Skype for Business
4 4 (1.19%) Apache
4 4 (1.19%) IIS
5 2 (0.60%) WordPress
6 1 (0.30%) Confluence
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) Traefik
Applications
1 19 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.49%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.30%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 148 (44.18%) Azure
2 88 (26.27%) Microsoft 365
3 84 (25.07%) Entra ID
4 48 (14.33%) AWS
5 25 (7.46%) IaaS
6 23 (6.87%) PaaS
7 17 (5.07%) SaaS
8 12 (3.58%) GCP
9 11 (3.28%) Nutanix
10 7 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (1.79%) Datadog
11 6 (1.79%) OneDrive
12 5 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 5 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (1.19%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.19%) Route 53
14 3 (0.90%) Google Workspace
14 3 (0.90%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 322 (96.12%) DNS
2 125 (37.31%) Firewall
3 86 (25.67%) TCP/IP
4 85 (25.37%) VPN
5 77 (22.99%) LAN
6 76 (22.69%) WAN
7 64 (19.10%) VLAN
8 48 (14.33%) Wi-Fi
9 45 (13.43%) BGP
10 39 (11.64%) OSPF
11 30 (8.96%) Kerberos
11 30 (8.96%) VXLAN
12 29 (8.66%) Network Security
13 28 (8.36%) BIG-IP
13 28 (8.36%) Cisco ISE
14 27 (8.06%) Wireless
15 21 (6.27%) Ethernet VPN
15 21 (6.27%) Junos
16 20 (5.97%) SAN
17 19 (5.67%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.07%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.30%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.30%) MySQL
3 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.30%) Power BI
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (2.99%) JIRA
2 6 (1.79%) Chocolatey
3 4 (1.19%) Git
4 2 (0.60%) Browser DevTools
4 2 (0.60%) GitLab
5 1 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 88 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 48 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (5.67%) Documentation Skills
3 19 (5.67%) Public Sector
4 16 (4.78%) Finance
5 15 (4.48%) Banking
6 8 (2.39%) Legal
6 8 (2.39%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.79%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.79%) Military
9 4 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.19%) Local Government
9 4 (1.19%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.90%) Aerospace
10 3 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.60%) Advertising
11 2 (0.60%) Law
11 2 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (14.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 45 (13.43%) Support Engineer
3 43 (12.84%) Network Engineer
4 38 (11.34%) Senior
5 34 (10.15%) IT Support
6 32 (9.55%) Architect
7 29 (8.66%) Analyst
7 29 (8.66%) IT Engineer
8 22 (6.57%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (4.18%) 2nd Line Support
10 14 (4.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 12 (3.58%) IT Analyst
11 12 (3.58%) Microsoft Engineer
11 12 (3.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (3.28%) Firewall Specialist
12 11 (3.28%) Network Architect
12 11 (3.28%) Network Specialist
12 11 (3.28%) Wintel Analyst
13 10 (2.99%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (9.55%) LDAP
2 30 (8.96%) 802.1X
3 16 (4.78%) SAML
4 15 (4.48%) OAuth
5 4 (1.19%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.90%) JSON
6 3 (0.90%) Middleware
6 3 (0.90%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (0.90%) Redfish
6 3 (0.90%) REST
7 2 (0.60%) .NET
7 2 (0.60%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.60%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (0.60%) Bootstrap
7 2 (0.60%) Express.js
7 2 (0.60%) React
7 2 (0.60%) SOAP
7 2 (0.60%) WCF
7 2 (0.60%) Web Services
7 2 (0.60%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 49 (14.63%) Data Centre
2 42 (12.54%) PKI
3 34 (10.15%) Replication
4 30 (8.96%) Clustering
5 15 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 12 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
8 6 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.79%) IoT
8 6 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.49%) iPhone
9 5 (1.49%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.49%) Smartphone
10 4 (1.19%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.19%) NHS
11 3 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.90%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 217 (64.78%) Windows
2 125 (37.31%) Windows Server
3 40 (11.94%) Windows 10
4 33 (9.85%) Linux
5 24 (7.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (5.37%) Android
7 11 (3.28%) Apple iOS
7 11 (3.28%) Windows 7
7 11 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (2.09%) Mac OS
8 7 (2.09%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.90%) VMS
10 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.60%) CentOS
11 2 (0.60%) Unix
12 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.30%) Solaris
12 1 (0.30%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (19.70%) ITIL
3 62 (18.51%) High Availability
4 52 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 47 (14.03%) ITSM
5 47 (14.03%) Load Balancing
6 45 (13.43%) Identity Access Management
7 43 (12.84%) Disaster Recovery
8 37 (11.04%) Migration
9 32 (9.55%) Observability
10 31 (9.25%) Service Management
11 27 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (8.06%) Zero Trust
12 26 (7.76%) Task Automation
13 23 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 21 (6.27%) Customer Service
14 21 (6.27%) Root Cause Analysis
15 20 (5.97%) DevOps
15 20 (5.97%) RBAC
16 19 (5.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (39.10%) PowerShell
2 29 (8.66%) Python
3 16 (4.78%) Bash
4 13 (3.88%) VBScript
5 9 (2.69%) SQL
5 9 (2.69%) VB
6 5 (1.49%) Lisp
7 4 (1.19%) Bicep
8 3 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.90%) Perl
9 2 (0.60%) C#
9 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.60%) VBA
10 1 (0.30%) Go
10 1 (0.30%) Java
10 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 123 (36.72%) Security Cleared
2 80 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 44 (13.13%) Cisco Certification
4 42 (12.54%) DV Cleared
5 26 (7.76%) CCNP
6 20 (5.97%) Degree
7 13 (3.88%) Azure Certification
8 12 (3.58%) Network+ Certification
9 11 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.69%) CCNA
10 9 (2.69%) JNCIP
11 8 (2.39%) AWS Certification
12 7 (2.09%) JNCIA
12 7 (2.09%) JNCIS
13 6 (1.79%) CISSP
13 6 (1.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 5 (1.49%) CCIE
15 4 (1.19%) CCIE Security
15 4 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (1.19%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.46%) GDPR
2 16 (4.78%) SLA
3 15 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (2.69%) NIST
6 7 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.60%) NCSC
9 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.30%) QA
9 1 (0.30%) RMADS
System Software
1 205 (61.19%) Active Directory
2 80 (23.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 42 (12.54%) Hyper-V
4 19 (5.67%) vSphere
5 18 (5.37%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (5.07%) BitLocker
7 14 (4.18%) Docker
8 10 (2.99%) VMware NSX
9 9 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (2.39%) Firmware
10 8 (2.39%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (2.09%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (1.49%) Terminal Services
13 3 (0.90%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.90%) NFS
14 1 (0.30%) Ceph
14 1 (0.30%) iptables
14 1 (0.30%) KVM
14 1 (0.30%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 63 (18.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 56 (16.72%) SCCM
3 38 (11.34%) Ansible
4 34 (10.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 31 (9.25%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (8.96%) FortiGate
7 29 (8.66%) Terraform
8 16 (4.78%) Kubernetes
9 10 (2.99%) vCenter Server
10 8 (2.39%) SCOM
11 7 (2.09%) vMotion
11 7 (2.09%) WSUS
12 6 (1.79%) HAProxy
12 6 (1.79%) Puppet
13 5 (1.49%) Nagios
14 4 (1.19%) Prometheus
15 3 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
15 3 (0.90%) Stealthwatch
16 2 (0.60%) Dell DRAC
16 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 155 (46.27%) Microsoft
2 93 (27.76%) VMware
3 64 (19.10%) Cisco
4 45 (13.43%) ServiceNow
5 38 (11.34%) F5
6 36 (10.75%) SolarWinds
7 32 (9.55%) Juniper
8 27 (8.06%) Citrix
9 21 (6.27%) Splunk
10 20 (5.97%) Extreme Networks
11 17 (5.07%) Fortinet
11 17 (5.07%) Palo Alto
12 15 (4.48%) Infoblox
13 14 (4.18%) Okta
14 13 (3.88%) Dell
15 10 (2.99%) Veeam
16 9 (2.69%) Google
16 9 (2.69%) NetApp
17 7 (2.09%) Apple
17 7 (2.09%) HP
188 DHCP jobs in England