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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 256 245 239
Rank change year-on-year -11 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing DHCP 456 298 337
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.07% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.49% 8.94% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 196 228
10th Percentile £216 £213 £248
25th Percentile £363 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -1.98% +0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £624 £640
UK median daily rate £500 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +8.11% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 18 6
10th Percentile £26.33 £27.15 £21.55
25th Percentile £31.25 £29.00 £24.83
Median hourly rate £65.24 £30.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +117.47% -22.58% +13.97%
75th Percentile £74.00 £76.94 £49.69
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.24 £30.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +117.47% -11.76% -5.61%

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 4,345 3,335 3,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.37% 11.99% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,603 2,076 2,345
10th Percentile £250 £235 £244
25th Percentile £400 £368 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £508
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -3.05% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 168 231
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.75 £21.69
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.23 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -21.16% -28.12% +1.52%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £42.50 £51.00
% change year-on-year -37.27% -16.67% -9.72%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -50 153 £450 -5.26% 89
South East -24 99 £523 -8.09% 85
North of England -26 72 £500 +11.86% 33
South West -8 58 £538 -2.27% 37
Midlands -35 54 £400 - 37
North West -21 36 £519 +17.38% 19
West Midlands -49 36 £400 +9.59% 24
Yorkshire -20 27 £500 -9.09% 8
East Midlands +2 18 £300 -47.83% 13
East of England -33 16 £475 +53.23% 27
North East -40 9 £200 -20.00% 8
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 68 (14.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (13.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.75%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.54%) Confluence
5 5 (1.10%) Apache
5 5 (1.10%) IIS
5 5 (1.10%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.66%) 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 (2.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 213 (46.71%) Azure
2 130 (28.51%) Microsoft 365
3 98 (21.49%) Entra ID
4 94 (20.61%) AWS
5 40 (8.77%) OneDrive
6 23 (5.04%) GCP
7 19 (4.17%) IaaS
8 17 (3.73%) SaaS
9 16 (3.51%) OpenShift
9 16 (3.51%) PaaS
10 15 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (3.07%) GitHub
12 13 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (2.85%) Azure Sentinel
13 10 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.97%) Route 53
15 7 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 6 (1.32%) Google Workspace
16 6 (1.32%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 451 (98.90%) DNS
2 203 (44.52%) Firewall
3 185 (40.57%) TCP/IP
4 146 (32.02%) VPN
5 96 (21.05%) VLAN
6 72 (15.79%) WAN
7 71 (15.57%) LAN
8 70 (15.35%) Network Security
9 57 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
10 55 (12.06%) Wireless
11 41 (8.99%) SAN
12 38 (8.33%) BGP
13 36 (7.89%) OSPF
14 24 (5.26%) NAS
14 24 (5.26%) SSL
15 20 (4.39%) SD-WAN
16 19 (4.17%) BIG-IP
16 19 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
17 18 (3.95%) IPsec
18 17 (3.73%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.21%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.88%) Db2
5 3 (0.66%) Big Data
6 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (7.68%) JIRA
2 8 (1.75%) Git
2 8 (1.75%) GitLab
3 7 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (1.10%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.10%) Chocolatey
5 3 (0.66%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.22%) JMeter
7 1 (0.22%) Locust
7 1 (0.22%) MSI
7 1 (0.22%) Newman
7 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.22%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 155 (33.99%) Social Skills
2 60 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (10.53%) Finance
4 32 (7.02%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.92%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.29%) Banking
7 10 (2.19%) Police
8 9 (1.97%) Aerospace
8 9 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.97%) Legal
8 9 (1.97%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.32%) Front Office
9 6 (1.32%) Law
9 6 (1.32%) Local Government
10 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.10%) Military
11 4 (0.88%) Automotive
11 4 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (25.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 69 (15.13%) Network Engineer
3 66 (14.47%) Senior
4 50 (10.96%) Support Engineer
5 45 (9.87%) IT Support
6 39 (8.55%) Architect
6 39 (8.55%) IT Engineer
7 32 (7.02%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 30 (6.58%) IT Support Engineer
9 29 (6.36%) Analyst
10 27 (5.92%) Senior Network Engineer
11 22 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (3.95%) Support Analyst
14 17 (3.73%) Systems Engineer
15 15 (3.29%) Active Directory Engineer
15 15 (3.29%) Administrator
16 13 (2.85%) Azure Engineer
16 13 (2.85%) Desktop Support
17 12 (2.63%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (17.76%) Terraform
2 20 (4.39%) 802.1X
3 16 (3.51%) LDAP
4 14 (3.07%) ARM Templates
5 10 (2.19%) SAML
6 9 (1.97%) JSON
7 5 (1.10%) OAuth
7 5 (1.10%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.88%) Middleware
8 4 (0.88%) OpenID
8 4 (0.88%) YAML
9 3 (0.66%) .NET
9 3 (0.66%) REST
10 2 (0.44%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.44%) Blazor
10 2 (0.44%) eBPF
10 2 (0.44%) ODBC
10 2 (0.44%) OpenGL
10 2 (0.44%) Qt
10 2 (0.44%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 86 (18.86%) Data Centre
2 74 (16.23%) PKI
3 42 (9.21%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (8.99%) Onboarding
5 23 (5.04%) Clustering
6 16 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.29%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.85%) Driving Licence
9 12 (2.63%) Replication
10 11 (2.41%) Public Cloud
11 10 (2.19%) Video Conferencing
12 9 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.32%) Cloud Native
13 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
14 5 (1.10%) Fat Client
14 5 (1.10%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 321 (70.39%) Windows
2 165 (36.18%) Windows Server
3 115 (25.22%) Linux
4 61 (13.38%) Windows 10
5 28 (6.14%) Mac OS
6 18 (3.95%) Apple iOS
7 16 (3.51%) Android
8 15 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (2.63%) Unix
9 12 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (1.97%) Ubuntu
12 8 (1.75%) Windows 7
13 6 (1.32%) CentOS
14 5 (1.10%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.66%) VMS
16 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.22%) SUSE
17 1 (0.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (30.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 136 (29.82%) ITIL
3 126 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (17.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 76 (16.67%) ITSM
6 64 (14.04%) High Availability
7 62 (13.60%) Migration
8 56 (12.28%) Root Cause Analysis
9 51 (11.18%) Technical Leadership
10 48 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (10.31%) Disaster Recovery
12 46 (10.09%) Service Management
13 43 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
14 41 (8.99%) Customer Service
14 41 (8.99%) DevOps
14 41 (8.99%) Project Delivery
14 41 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
15 38 (8.33%) User Experience
16 37 (8.11%) Change Management
17 36 (7.89%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 141 (30.92%) PowerShell
2 77 (16.89%) Python
3 60 (13.16%) Bash
4 15 (3.29%) SQL
5 13 (2.85%) Bicep
6 10 (2.19%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.19%) VBScript
7 7 (1.54%) VBA
8 6 (1.32%) VB
9 3 (0.66%) Lisp
9 3 (0.66%) Perl
10 2 (0.44%) C++
10 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.22%) C
11 1 (0.22%) Go
11 1 (0.22%) Java
11 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 172 (37.72%) Security Cleared
2 93 (20.39%) SC Cleared
3 74 (16.23%) DV Cleared
4 59 (12.94%) Cisco Certification
5 49 (10.75%) CCNP
6 47 (10.31%) Degree
7 33 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (5.70%) CCNA
9 25 (5.48%) Azure Certification
10 22 (4.82%) Network+ Certification
11 12 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 12 (2.63%) VCAP
12 11 (2.41%) A+ Certification
12 11 (2.41%) Server+ Certification
12 11 (2.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (2.19%) AWS Certification
14 9 (1.97%) CCIE
15 7 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (1.10%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.80%) SLA
2 15 (3.29%) NIST
3 9 (1.97%) QA
4 6 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.10%) NCSC
6 4 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.66%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.44%) GDPR
8 2 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 278 (60.96%) Active Directory
2 165 (36.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 99 (21.71%) Hyper-V
4 54 (11.84%) vSphere
5 42 (9.21%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (5.70%) VMware NSX
7 25 (5.48%) Docker
7 25 (5.48%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
9 14 (3.07%) BitLocker
10 10 (2.19%) Firmware
11 9 (1.97%) NFS
12 8 (1.75%) Microsoft App-V
13 7 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (1.32%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.88%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.66%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.44%) UAG
17 2 (0.44%) XenApp
17 2 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 95 (20.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 79 (17.32%) Ansible
3 65 (14.25%) SCCM
4 41 (8.99%) Kubernetes
5 26 (5.70%) vCenter Server
6 19 (4.17%) FortiGate
6 19 (4.17%) WSUS
7 16 (3.51%) VxRail
8 14 (3.07%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (2.63%) vMotion
10 8 (1.75%) Nagios
10 8 (1.75%) Puppet
11 7 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (1.54%) Packer
11 7 (1.54%) SCOM
12 6 (1.32%) Prometheus
13 5 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (1.10%) Grafana
14 4 (0.88%) systemd
Vendors
1 250 (54.82%) Microsoft
2 192 (42.11%) VMware
3 100 (21.93%) Cisco
4 77 (16.89%) ServiceNow
5 42 (9.21%) Citrix
6 40 (8.77%) Infoblox
7 36 (7.89%) F5
8 29 (6.36%) Palo Alto
9 27 (5.92%) SolarWinds
10 22 (4.82%) CheckPoint
11 20 (4.39%) Juniper
12 19 (4.17%) Fortinet
13 17 (3.73%) Google
14 16 (3.51%) CyberArk
15 13 (2.85%) HP
15 13 (2.85%) Red Hat
16 12 (2.63%) Zscaler
17 11 (2.41%) Aruba
17 11 (2.41%) Meraki
17 11 (2.41%) Remedy