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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 228 258
Rank change year-on-year -48 +30 -6
Contract jobs citing DHCP 421 316 319
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 1.15% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.91% 9.20% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 214 246
10th Percentile £218 £250 £283
25th Percentile £363 £381 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% -
75th Percentile £588 £597 £575
90th Percentile £673 £625 £608
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.38% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 17 10
10th Percentile £24.10 £28.60 £19.60
25th Percentile £31.25 £29.00 £20.78
Median hourly rate £51.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.67% -14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £74.00 £83.00 £60.94
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £71.93
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +73.33% -14.29% -12.50%

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 4,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.38% 12.47% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,576 2,141 2,650
10th Percentile £263 £235 £231
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.41% -2.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 163 305
10th Percentile £16.02 £14.99 £14.26
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £18.27
Median hourly rate £27.88 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.04% -10.89% +1.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.21 £87.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £50.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -46.68% +8.98% -8.24%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -54 144 £450 -10.00% 59
South East -11 115 £505 -9.70% 59
North of England -60 60 £500 +5.82% 45
South West -9 49 £475 -17.39% 32
Midlands -49 40 £431 +1.47% 29
North West -56 32 £608 +30.75% 29
West Midlands -66 26 £450 +17.65% 20
Yorkshire -41 24 £488 -11.36% 13
East Midlands -4 14 £300 -46.67% 9
East of England -27 10 £475 -9.52% 27
North East -40 4 £363 +45.00% 6
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 47 (11.16%) SharePoint
2 42 (9.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.43%) IIS
4 5 (1.19%) Confluence
4 5 (1.19%) nginx
5 4 (0.95%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.48%) Houdini
4 2 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.48%) NUKE
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 179 (42.52%) Azure
2 103 (24.47%) Microsoft 365
3 82 (19.48%) AWS
4 81 (19.24%) Entra ID
5 38 (9.03%) OneDrive
6 23 (5.46%) IaaS
7 21 (4.99%) PaaS
8 20 (4.75%) GCP
9 19 (4.51%) SaaS
10 12 (2.85%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (2.61%) Azure Sentinel
12 9 (2.14%) Datadog
12 9 (2.14%) GitHub
13 8 (1.90%) OpenShift
13 8 (1.90%) Route 53
14 7 (1.66%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
15 5 (1.19%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 416 (98.81%) DNS
2 195 (46.32%) Firewall
3 154 (36.58%) TCP/IP
4 120 (28.50%) VPN
5 91 (21.62%) VLAN
6 87 (20.67%) LAN
7 84 (19.95%) WAN
8 60 (14.25%) Network Security
9 54 (12.83%) Wi-Fi
10 51 (12.11%) BGP
11 50 (11.88%) OSPF
12 49 (11.64%) Wireless
13 44 (10.45%) SAN
14 38 (9.03%) BIG-IP
15 31 (7.36%) VXLAN
16 26 (6.18%) Cisco ISE
16 26 (6.18%) Ethernet VPN
17 25 (5.94%) Junos
17 25 (5.94%) NAS
18 22 (5.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (0.95%) Db2
4 3 (0.71%) Big Data
5 2 (0.48%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (8.31%) JIRA
2 9 (2.14%) Chocolatey
3 8 (1.90%) Git
4 5 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
5 4 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (0.95%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.95%) GitLab
6 3 (0.71%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.24%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.24%) MSI
8 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 124 (29.45%) Social Skills
2 55 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (9.74%) Finance
4 35 (8.31%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.46%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (4.51%) Banking
7 10 (2.38%) Telecoms
8 9 (2.14%) Military
8 9 (2.14%) Police
9 8 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.90%) Local Government
10 7 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.19%) Legal
12 4 (0.95%) Automotive
12 4 (0.95%) Law
12 4 (0.95%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.71%) Retail
14 2 (0.48%) Front Office
15 1 (0.24%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 107 (25.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 74 (17.58%) Network Engineer
3 65 (15.44%) Senior
4 50 (11.88%) Support Engineer
5 44 (10.45%) IT Support
6 41 (9.74%) IT Engineer
7 40 (9.50%) Architect
8 29 (6.89%) IT Support Engineer
8 29 (6.89%) Senior Network Engineer
9 26 (6.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (5.70%) Analyst
11 18 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
12 16 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
13 15 (3.56%) Administrator
13 15 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (3.56%) Network Specialist
14 14 (3.33%) Firewall Specialist
15 13 (3.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 12 (2.85%) Desktop Support
16 12 (2.85%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.74%) 802.1X
2 12 (2.85%) ARM Templates
3 11 (2.61%) JSON
4 10 (2.38%) LDAP
5 8 (1.90%) SAML
6 4 (0.95%) Middleware
6 4 (0.95%) OpenID
6 4 (0.95%) REST
6 4 (0.95%) Software Packaging
7 3 (0.71%) .NET
7 3 (0.71%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.71%) Redfish
8 2 (0.48%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.48%) eBPF
8 2 (0.48%) OAuth
8 2 (0.48%) ODBC
8 2 (0.48%) OpenGL
8 2 (0.48%) Qt
8 2 (0.48%) Unreal Engine
8 2 (0.48%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (23.04%) Data Centre
2 82 (19.48%) PKI
3 41 (9.74%) Clustering
4 37 (8.79%) Onboarding
5 30 (7.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 21 (4.99%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.61%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.38%) Driving Licence
9 9 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (2.14%) Public Cloud
10 8 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.66%) Replication
12 6 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
12 6 (1.43%) Video Conferencing
13 5 (1.19%) ARM Cortex
13 5 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (1.19%) Fat Client
13 5 (1.19%) iPhone
13 5 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 286 (67.93%) Windows
2 133 (31.59%) Windows Server
3 82 (19.48%) Linux
4 49 (11.64%) Windows 10
5 24 (5.70%) Mac OS
6 15 (3.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 12 (2.85%) Apple iOS
7 12 (2.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 10 (2.38%) Android
8 10 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (2.14%) Unix
10 6 (1.43%) Ubuntu
11 5 (1.19%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.71%) VMS
12 3 (0.71%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.48%) CentOS
14 1 (0.24%) Rocky
14 1 (0.24%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (29.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 124 (29.45%) Problem-Solving
3 111 (26.37%) ITIL
4 77 (18.29%) High Availability
5 73 (17.34%) ITSM
6 60 (14.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 52 (12.35%) Migration
8 44 (10.45%) Load Balancing
9 41 (9.74%) Observability
9 41 (9.74%) Root Cause Analysis
10 39 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (9.03%) Identity Access Management
12 36 (8.55%) Project Delivery
13 35 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
13 35 (8.31%) Service Management
13 35 (8.31%) Technical Leadership
14 33 (7.84%) Disaster Recovery
14 33 (7.84%) User Experience
15 32 (7.60%) DevOps
15 32 (7.60%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (24.23%) PowerShell
2 66 (15.68%) Python
3 51 (12.11%) Bash
4 11 (2.61%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.38%) Bicep
6 9 (2.14%) SQL
6 9 (2.14%) VBA
7 3 (0.71%) Lisp
8 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.48%) VBScript
9 1 (0.24%) C
9 1 (0.24%) C++
9 1 (0.24%) Go
9 1 (0.24%) Perl
9 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 167 (39.67%) Security Cleared
2 79 (18.76%) SC Cleared
3 73 (17.34%) Cisco Certification
3 73 (17.34%) DV Cleared
4 48 (11.40%) CCNP
5 38 (9.03%) Degree
6 30 (7.13%) CCNA
7 25 (5.94%) Network+ Certification
8 21 (4.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (4.28%) Azure Certification
10 15 (3.56%) Server+ Certification
11 11 (2.61%) JNCIP
11 11 (2.61%) JNCIS
12 10 (2.38%) VCAP
13 8 (1.90%) A+ Certification
13 8 (1.90%) AWS Certification
13 8 (1.90%) CCIE
13 8 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 7 (1.66%) JNCIA
15 6 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (7.36%) SLA
2 14 (3.33%) NIST
3 6 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.19%) QA
5 4 (0.95%) NCSC
6 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.71%) GDPR
6 3 (0.71%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.48%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 246 (58.43%) Active Directory
2 133 (31.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (19.95%) Hyper-V
4 44 (10.45%) vSphere
5 38 (9.03%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (5.94%) VMware NSX
7 24 (5.70%) Docker
7 24 (5.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 20 (4.75%) Virtual Machines
9 10 (2.38%) BitLocker
9 10 (2.38%) Microsoft App-V
10 9 (2.14%) Firmware
11 8 (1.90%) NFS
12 6 (1.43%) VMware Workstation
13 5 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.95%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.48%) UAG
15 2 (0.48%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.48%) XenApp
15 2 (0.48%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 75 (17.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (15.91%) Ansible
3 63 (14.96%) Terraform
4 48 (11.40%) SCCM
5 35 (8.31%) FortiGate
6 33 (7.84%) Kubernetes
7 22 (5.23%) vCenter Server
8 16 (3.80%) WSUS
9 15 (3.56%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (3.33%) VxRail
11 11 (2.61%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (2.61%) vMotion
12 10 (2.38%) Nagios
13 8 (1.90%) Puppet
14 7 (1.66%) Failover Clustering
15 6 (1.43%) Packer
16 5 (1.19%) CA Single Sign-On
16 5 (1.19%) Prometheus
16 5 (1.19%) SCOM
17 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 198 (47.03%) Microsoft
2 158 (37.53%) VMware
3 111 (26.37%) Cisco
4 76 (18.05%) ServiceNow
5 50 (11.88%) F5
6 47 (11.16%) SolarWinds
7 42 (9.98%) Infoblox
8 41 (9.74%) Citrix
9 39 (9.26%) Juniper
10 26 (6.18%) Palo Alto
10 26 (6.18%) Splunk
11 22 (5.23%) Extreme Networks
12 16 (3.80%) CheckPoint
12 16 (3.80%) Fortinet
12 16 (3.80%) Google
12 16 (3.80%) HP
13 14 (3.33%) Zscaler
14 12 (2.85%) Tenable
15 11 (2.61%) Dynatrace
16 10 (2.38%) Meraki