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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 241 217 244
Rank change year-on-year -24 +27 +12
Contract jobs citing DHCP 309 335 415
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.08% 1.07% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.30% 8.85% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 207 284
10th Percentile £201 £223 £191
25th Percentile £300 £323 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +6.29%
75th Percentile £588 £569 £595
90th Percentile £660 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £465
% change year-on-year - -3.23% +6.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 5 9
10th Percentile £23.98 £25.86 £22.57
25th Percentile £29.00 £30.00 £26.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +46.15% +47.73%
75th Percentile £76.94 £50.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £59.00 £52.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.00 £33.25
% change year-on-year -21.05% +14.29% +56.47%

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 3,323 3,786 5,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.64% 12.15% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,138 2,186 3,549
10th Percentile £213 £234 £213
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 132 318
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £17.29
25th Percentile £20.42 £29.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.13 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -39.42% -0.65% +36.12%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £48.03 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.13% -12.67% +35.55%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 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 27 October 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 +18 122 £450 -8.86% 124
South East -15 53 £447 -0.67% 260
Midlands -23 51 £383 +2.00% 42
West Midlands -3 50 £383 +7.75% 20
South West +11 32 £600 +45.45% 49
North of England -55 29 £442 -4.38% 63
East of England -6 21 £225 -43.75% 66
North West -42 15 £442 -19.59% 34
Yorkshire -28 10 £550 +83.33% 25
North East -13 4 £247 +70.00% 9
East Midlands -26 1 - - 22
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 57 (18.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 54 (17.48%) SharePoint
3 30 (9.71%) Skype for Business
4 11 (3.56%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (3.24%) Confluence
5 10 (3.24%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (3.24%) Exchange Server 2007
5 10 (3.24%) Exchange Server 2013
5 10 (3.24%) Office Communications Server
5 10 (3.24%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (2.59%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.62%) IIS
8 2 (0.65%) Apache
Applications
1 48 (15.53%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.62%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.32%) Eikon
2 1 (0.32%) Eze OMS
2 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.32%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 98 (31.72%) Azure
2 89 (28.80%) Microsoft 365
3 60 (19.42%) AWS
4 32 (10.36%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.21%) GCP
6 11 (3.56%) IaaS
6 11 (3.56%) OneDrive
6 11 (3.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 9 (2.91%) AWS Direct Connect
8 7 (2.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (2.27%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (1.94%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.94%) PaaS
9 6 (1.94%) Serverless
10 5 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (1.62%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.29%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 307 (99.35%) DNS
2 120 (38.83%) TCP/IP
3 106 (34.30%) Firewall
4 92 (29.77%) VPN
5 72 (23.30%) VLAN
6 66 (21.36%) WAN
7 65 (21.04%) LAN
8 55 (17.80%) Wireless
9 29 (9.39%) BGP
10 27 (8.74%) SD-WAN
11 24 (7.77%) SAN
12 23 (7.44%) Network Security
12 23 (7.44%) OSPF
13 21 (6.80%) WLAN
14 20 (6.47%) Skype
15 19 (6.15%) Cisco IOS
16 18 (5.83%) Wi-Fi
17 17 (5.50%) SSL
18 15 (4.85%) Cisco ASA
18 15 (4.85%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.62%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.65%) MySQL
3 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (4.53%) JIRA
2 3 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.65%) Git
3 2 (0.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.32%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.32%) Postman
General
1 105 (33.98%) Social Skills
2 52 (16.83%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (10.03%) Finance
3 31 (10.03%) Public Sector
4 16 (5.18%) Manufacturing
5 10 (3.24%) Banking
5 10 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (2.59%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (1.94%) Investment Banking
8 6 (1.94%) Local Government
9 5 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.29%) Legal
11 3 (0.97%) Electronics
11 3 (0.97%) Marketing
12 2 (0.65%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.65%) Front Office
12 2 (0.65%) Military
Job Titles
1 83 (26.86%) Support Engineer
2 44 (14.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 41 (13.27%) Network Engineer
4 39 (12.62%) Analyst
5 27 (8.74%) IT Support
6 22 (7.12%) 2nd Line Support
7 21 (6.80%) Architect
8 20 (6.47%) IT Engineer
8 20 (6.47%) Senior
8 20 (6.47%) Support Analyst
9 15 (4.85%) Desktop Engineer
10 13 (4.21%) Administrator
10 13 (4.21%) Consultant
10 13 (4.21%) Desktop Support
10 13 (4.21%) Infrastructure Support
10 13 (4.21%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
10 13 (4.21%) Microsoft Engineer
11 12 (3.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 11 (3.56%) IT Support Engineer
12 11 (3.56%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.62%) YAML
2 4 (1.29%) Middleware
3 2 (0.65%) .NET
3 2 (0.65%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.65%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (0.65%) Bootstrap
3 2 (0.65%) Express.js
3 2 (0.65%) JSON
3 2 (0.65%) LDAP
3 2 (0.65%) React
3 2 (0.65%) SAML
3 2 (0.65%) SOAP
3 2 (0.65%) WCF
3 2 (0.65%) Web Services
3 2 (0.65%) WPF
4 1 (0.32%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.32%) Jinja
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.32%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.68%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.15%) Replication
3 15 (4.85%) PKI
4 12 (3.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (3.24%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.59%) Operational Technology
7 8 (2.59%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.27%) iPhone
8 7 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
9 5 (1.62%) CMDB
9 5 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.62%) iPad
9 5 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.62%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.62%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (1.29%) NHS
10 4 (1.29%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (0.97%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.97%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 187 (60.52%) Windows
2 68 (22.01%) Windows Server
3 45 (14.56%) Linux
4 42 (13.59%) Windows 10
5 17 (5.50%) Mac OS
5 17 (5.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (5.18%) Windows Server 2003
7 13 (4.21%) Android
8 11 (3.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (2.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (2.59%) CentOS
10 8 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (2.59%) Windows 7
11 7 (2.27%) Apple iOS
12 6 (1.94%) Ubuntu
13 5 (1.62%) Unix
14 3 (0.97%) Windows 8
14 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.65%) VMS
15 2 (0.65%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (31.72%) ITIL
2 68 (22.01%) Problem-Solving
3 51 (16.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 38 (12.30%) High Availability
5 31 (10.03%) Service Management
6 28 (9.06%) Computer Science
7 23 (7.44%) Disaster Recovery
7 23 (7.44%) Migration
8 21 (6.80%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (6.47%) Change Management
9 20 (6.47%) ITSM
9 20 (6.47%) Knowledge Transfer
9 20 (6.47%) Load Balancing
10 18 (5.83%) Customer Service
11 17 (5.50%) Service Delivery
12 16 (5.18%) DevOps
12 16 (5.18%) Zero Trust
13 15 (4.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (4.85%) Network Monitoring
14 14 (4.53%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 73 (23.62%) PowerShell
2 21 (6.80%) Python
3 19 (6.15%) SQL
4 12 (3.88%) Bash
5 5 (1.62%) Bicep
5 5 (1.62%) Lisp
6 4 (1.29%) VBScript
7 3 (0.97%) Perl
8 2 (0.65%) C#
8 2 (0.65%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.32%) Go
9 1 (0.32%) Java
9 1 (0.32%) VB
Qualifications
1 82 (26.54%) Security Cleared
2 73 (23.62%) Cisco Certification
3 58 (18.77%) SC Cleared
4 52 (16.83%) CCNP
5 40 (12.94%) CCNA
6 39 (12.62%) Degree
7 34 (11.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (9.06%) DV Cleared
9 18 (5.83%) Azure Certification
10 14 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (3.88%) CCIE
11 12 (3.88%) Network+ Certification
12 11 (3.56%) Server+ Certification
13 8 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
13 8 (2.59%) MCP
14 7 (2.27%) CCSA
14 7 (2.27%) CISSP
14 7 (2.27%) MCSE
15 6 (1.94%) A+ Certification
16 5 (1.62%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.85%) SLA
2 10 (3.24%) GDPR
3 7 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.27%) NIST
4 5 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.62%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.65%) NCSC
6 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 145 (46.93%) Active Directory
2 58 (18.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (11.97%) Hyper-V
4 14 (4.53%) vSphere
5 11 (3.56%) Docker
6 10 (3.24%) Brightmail
6 10 (3.24%) ISA Server
6 10 (3.24%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.59%) Firmware
8 8 (2.59%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (2.59%) VMware NSX
9 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (1.62%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.29%) Terminal Services
10 4 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.29%) XenApp
11 3 (0.97%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.97%) NFS
12 2 (0.65%) KVM
Systems Management
1 48 (15.53%) SCCM
2 26 (8.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (7.44%) Ansible
4 20 (6.47%) Terraform
5 15 (4.85%) WSUS
6 13 (4.21%) Microsoft Clustering
7 12 (3.88%) FortiGate
8 8 (2.59%) vCenter Server
9 6 (1.94%) OpenView
10 5 (1.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.62%) Tivoli
11 4 (1.29%) CA Spectrum
11 4 (1.29%) Packer
11 4 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.97%) Kubernetes
12 3 (0.97%) Nagios
12 3 (0.97%) NetApp OnCommand
12 3 (0.97%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.97%) Puppet
12 3 (0.97%) vMotion
Vendors
1 156 (50.49%) Microsoft
2 86 (27.83%) Cisco
3 82 (26.54%) VMware
4 32 (10.36%) Citrix
5 31 (10.03%) ServiceNow
6 27 (8.74%) SolarWinds
7 22 (7.12%) CheckPoint
7 22 (7.12%) F5
8 19 (6.15%) Dell
8 19 (6.15%) Meraki
9 18 (5.83%) Fortinet
9 18 (5.83%) Palo Alto
10 14 (4.53%) Remedy
11 13 (4.21%) Veeam
12 12 (3.88%) Juniper
13 8 (2.59%) Infoblox
13 8 (2.59%) Red Hat
13 8 (2.59%) Zscaler
14 7 (2.27%) HP
14 7 (2.27%) Peregrine