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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 199 229
Rank change year-on-year -70 +30 -1
Contract jobs citing DHCP 345 343 382
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.34% 1.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.41% 10.09% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 241 276
10th Percentile £200 £223 £195
25th Percentile £350 £330 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +6.05% +8.57% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 19
10th Percentile - - £16.80
25th Percentile £12.43 - £22.80
Median hourly rate £26.33 £23.59 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.59% -41.03% +1.91%
75th Percentile £57.43 - -
90th Percentile £79.20 - £52.50
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £23.59 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.59% -41.03% +1.91%

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 3,665 3,398 5,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.07% 13.30% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,357 2,044 3,190
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £366 £366 £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 £676 £700
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 103 367
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.27
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.11 £19.99
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -12.50% +108.88%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £74.40
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -1.43% -12.50% +108.88%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -40 110 £488 -2.50% 44
South East -13 88 £523 +1.95% 68
North of England -91 55 £447 +8.24% 44
South West -34 43 £575 -2.13% 18
Midlands -43 35 £400 -4.19% 17
West Midlands -34 33 £400 +8.11% 10
North West -51 31 £575 +26.37% 24
Yorkshire -55 20 £344 +40.31% 16
East of England -17 19 £363 -30.95% 19
North East -18 4 £223 +48.83% 6
East Midlands -26 2 £275 -38.89% 7
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 55 (15.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 43 (12.46%) SharePoint
3 27 (7.83%) Skype for Business
4 4 (1.16%) Apache
5 3 (0.87%) IIS
5 3 (0.87%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.58%) Confluence
6 2 (0.58%) WordPress
7 1 (0.29%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) Traefik
Applications
1 28 (8.12%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.29%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 149 (43.19%) Azure
2 96 (27.83%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (22.90%) Entra ID
4 56 (16.23%) AWS
5 23 (6.67%) IaaS
6 21 (6.09%) PaaS
7 15 (4.35%) SaaS
8 14 (4.06%) GCP
9 12 (3.48%) Nutanix
10 7 (2.03%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 5 (1.45%) Datadog
13 4 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (1.16%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 332 (96.23%) DNS
2 116 (33.62%) Firewall
3 101 (29.28%) TCP/IP
4 91 (26.38%) VPN
5 68 (19.71%) LAN
6 67 (19.42%) VLAN
7 64 (18.55%) WAN
8 42 (12.17%) BGP
9 40 (11.59%) Wi-Fi
10 34 (9.86%) OSPF
11 29 (8.41%) Kerberos
12 28 (8.12%) VXLAN
13 27 (7.83%) Cisco ISE
13 27 (7.83%) Skype
14 25 (7.25%) Wireless
15 24 (6.96%) BIG-IP
16 21 (6.09%) Network Security
17 18 (5.22%) SAN
18 17 (4.93%) Ethernet VPN
18 17 (4.93%) Junos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.35%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.29%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.29%) MySQL
3 1 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.29%) Power BI
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (2.61%) JIRA
2 5 (1.45%) Chocolatey
3 4 (1.16%) Git
4 3 (0.87%) GitLab
5 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 104 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 62 (17.97%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (6.38%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.51%) Documentation Skills
5 17 (4.93%) Finance
6 15 (4.35%) Banking
7 8 (2.32%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.32%) Legal
8 7 (2.03%) Military
8 7 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.03%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.87%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.87%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.58%) Advertising
12 2 (0.58%) Law
12 2 (0.58%) Local Government
12 2 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 53 (15.36%) Support Engineer
2 46 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 40 (11.59%) IT Support
4 37 (10.72%) Network Engineer
5 36 (10.43%) Analyst
6 35 (10.14%) Senior
7 32 (9.28%) Architect
8 28 (8.12%) IT Engineer
9 21 (6.09%) 2nd Line Support
9 21 (6.09%) IT Support Engineer
10 17 (4.93%) IT Analyst
11 15 (4.35%) Microsoft Engineer
12 14 (4.06%) Support Analyst
13 13 (3.77%) IT Support Analyst
13 13 (3.77%) Platform Engineer
14 12 (3.48%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 12 (3.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 11 (3.19%) Network Architect
15 11 (3.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (3.19%) Wintel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.99%) LDAP
2 25 (7.25%) 802.1X
3 15 (4.35%) OAuth
3 15 (4.35%) SAML
4 4 (1.16%) Middleware
5 3 (0.87%) .NET
5 3 (0.87%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.87%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.87%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (0.87%) Bootstrap
5 3 (0.87%) Express.js
5 3 (0.87%) JSON
5 3 (0.87%) React
5 3 (0.87%) REST
5 3 (0.87%) SOAP
5 3 (0.87%) WCF
5 3 (0.87%) Web Services
5 3 (0.87%) WPF
6 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.58%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 46 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 41 (11.88%) PKI
3 33 (9.57%) Replication
4 24 (6.96%) Clustering
5 14 (4.06%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (3.77%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.74%) IoT
9 5 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.45%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.45%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.45%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.45%) Smartphone
9 5 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 5 (1.45%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.16%) iPhone
11 3 (0.87%) CCTV
11 3 (0.87%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 223 (64.64%) Windows
2 123 (35.65%) Windows Server
3 43 (12.46%) Windows 10
4 36 (10.43%) Linux
5 26 (7.54%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (4.93%) Android
7 13 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (3.48%) Apple iOS
8 12 (3.48%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (3.19%) Windows 7
10 7 (2.03%) Mac OS
11 6 (1.74%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (1.16%) Unix
13 3 (0.87%) CentOS
13 3 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.87%) VMS
13 3 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.58%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.29%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.29%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (27.83%) Problem-Solving
2 81 (23.48%) ITIL
3 52 (15.07%) High Availability
4 51 (14.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 45 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
6 44 (12.75%) ITSM
7 43 (12.46%) Load Balancing
8 39 (11.30%) Identity Access Management
9 38 (11.01%) Service Management
10 36 (10.43%) Migration
11 27 (7.83%) Zero Trust
12 26 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
12 26 (7.54%) Customer Service
12 26 (7.54%) Observability
13 25 (7.25%) Change Management
14 24 (6.96%) Infrastructure as Code
14 24 (6.96%) Task Automation
15 21 (6.09%) Root Cause Analysis
16 18 (5.22%) Agile
16 18 (5.22%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 135 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 30 (8.70%) Python
3 16 (4.64%) Bash
4 13 (3.77%) VBScript
5 12 (3.48%) SQL
6 10 (2.90%) VB
7 7 (2.03%) Lisp
8 5 (1.45%) Perl
9 4 (1.16%) Bicep
10 3 (0.87%) C#
10 3 (0.87%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.58%) VBA
12 1 (0.29%) Go
12 1 (0.29%) Java
12 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 127 (36.81%) Security Cleared
2 87 (25.22%) SC Cleared
3 46 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
4 44 (12.75%) DV Cleared
5 32 (9.28%) CCNP
6 28 (8.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 25 (7.25%) Degree
8 18 (5.22%) Azure Certification
9 17 (4.93%) Network+ Certification
10 14 (4.06%) CCNA
11 9 (2.61%) Server+ Certification
12 8 (2.32%) AWS Certification
12 8 (2.32%) JNCIP
12 8 (2.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 6 (1.74%) CISSP
14 6 (1.74%) JNCIA
14 6 (1.74%) JNCIS
14 6 (1.74%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.96%) GDPR
2 17 (4.93%) SLA
3 15 (4.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (1.74%) NIST
7 5 (1.45%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.58%) NCSC
9 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.29%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.29%) QA
9 1 (0.29%) RMADS
System Software
1 210 (60.87%) Active Directory
2 85 (24.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (11.59%) Hyper-V
4 20 (5.80%) vSphere
5 18 (5.22%) Docker
6 16 (4.64%) VMware ESXi
7 15 (4.35%) BitLocker
8 10 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
9 9 (2.61%) VMware NSX
10 7 (2.03%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (1.74%) Microsoft App-V
12 5 (1.45%) Firmware
13 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 4 (1.16%) Terminal Services
13 4 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.87%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.87%) KVM
14 3 (0.87%) NFS
15 1 (0.29%) iptables
15 1 (0.29%) Samba
Systems Management
1 66 (19.13%) SCCM
2 65 (18.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (11.59%) Ansible
4 35 (10.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 29 (8.41%) Terraform
6 28 (8.12%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (7.83%) FortiGate
8 17 (4.93%) Kubernetes
9 10 (2.90%) WSUS
10 9 (2.61%) vCenter Server
11 8 (2.32%) SCOM
12 7 (2.03%) Puppet
13 6 (1.74%) HAProxy
14 5 (1.45%) Nagios
14 5 (1.45%) vMotion
15 3 (0.87%) Failover Clustering
15 3 (0.87%) Stealthwatch
16 2 (0.58%) CA Single Sign-On
16 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
16 2 (0.58%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 171 (49.57%) Microsoft
2 100 (28.99%) VMware
3 66 (19.13%) Cisco
4 48 (13.91%) ServiceNow
5 35 (10.14%) F5
5 35 (10.14%) SolarWinds
6 28 (8.12%) Citrix
7 27 (7.83%) Juniper
8 21 (6.09%) Splunk
9 16 (4.64%) Extreme Networks
9 16 (4.64%) Okta
9 16 (4.64%) Palo Alto
10 15 (4.35%) Dell
10 15 (4.35%) Fortinet
10 15 (4.35%) Veeam
11 13 (3.77%) Infoblox
12 8 (2.32%) Remedy
13 7 (2.03%) Apple
13 7 (2.03%) Google
13 7 (2.03%) NetApp