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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 259 245 247
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing DHCP 444 296 325
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.97% 1.06% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.32% 8.70% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 197 242
10th Percentile £212 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £510 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.36% +0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £608
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £470
% change year-on-year -2.00% +6.38% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 17 9
10th Percentile £26.00 £28.60 £20.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £29.00 £23.10
Median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +123.33% -36.84% +41.79%
75th Percentile £75.25 £83.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £72.60
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +123.33% -36.84% +41.79%

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 4,303 3,404 4,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 12.25% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,605 2,100 2,576
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £401 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £503
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.24% +0.65%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £486 £500
% change year-on-year +2.83% -2.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 170 279
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £43.75 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% -20.27% -0.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £49.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% -5.61% -10.91%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -55 147 £450 -10.00% 128
South East -14 112 £518 -8.97% 69
North of England -34 69 £500 +6.95% 52
South West -5 52 £500 -13.04% 33
Midlands -34 48 £400 - 35
North West -23 38 £575 +28.64% 32
West Midlands -52 32 £406 +1.56% 25
Yorkshire -19 23 £500 -9.09% 12
East Midlands -4 16 £300 -47.83% 10
East of England -28 12 £475 -9.52% 33
North East -37 8 £200 -20.00% 9
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 54 (12.16%) SharePoint
2 52 (11.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.35%) IIS
3 6 (1.35%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.13%) Apache
4 5 (1.13%) Confluence
4 5 (1.13%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.45%) Houdini
4 2 (0.45%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.45%) NUKE
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 199 (44.82%) Azure
2 119 (26.80%) Microsoft 365
3 93 (20.95%) Entra ID
4 89 (20.05%) AWS
5 39 (8.78%) OneDrive
6 22 (4.95%) GCP
6 22 (4.95%) IaaS
7 20 (4.50%) PaaS
8 19 (4.28%) SaaS
9 14 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.15%) OpenShift
10 13 (2.93%) Azure Monitor
11 11 (2.48%) Azure Sentinel
11 11 (2.48%) GitHub
12 8 (1.80%) Route 53
13 7 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (1.58%) Datadog
13 7 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.35%) Google Workspace
15 5 (1.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 440 (99.10%) DNS
2 200 (45.05%) Firewall
3 172 (38.74%) TCP/IP
4 136 (30.63%) VPN
5 96 (21.62%) VLAN
6 82 (18.47%) LAN
7 80 (18.02%) WAN
8 64 (14.41%) Network Security
9 60 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
10 52 (11.71%) Wireless
11 43 (9.68%) SAN
12 41 (9.23%) BGP
13 40 (9.01%) OSPF
14 26 (5.86%) BIG-IP
15 25 (5.63%) NAS
16 23 (5.18%) SSL
17 21 (4.73%) SD-WAN
18 20 (4.50%) Cisco IOS
18 20 (4.50%) VXLAN
19 17 (3.83%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.01%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.90%) Db2
5 3 (0.68%) Big Data
6 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (7.21%) JIRA
2 8 (1.80%) Git
3 7 (1.58%) Chocolatey
4 6 (1.35%) GitLab
5 5 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.13%) Browser DevTools
5 5 (1.13%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.23%) MSI
7 1 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 142 (31.98%) Social Skills
2 58 (13.06%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (10.36%) Finance
4 34 (7.66%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.08%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (4.05%) Banking
7 10 (2.25%) Police
8 9 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.80%) Legal
9 8 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.58%) Local Government
11 6 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.13%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.13%) Law
12 5 (1.13%) Military
12 5 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.90%) Automotive
13 4 (0.90%) Front Office
13 4 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 113 (25.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 69 (15.54%) Network Engineer
3 64 (14.41%) Senior
4 53 (11.94%) Support Engineer
5 45 (10.14%) IT Support
6 41 (9.23%) IT Engineer
7 40 (9.01%) Architect
8 31 (6.98%) IT Support Engineer
9 30 (6.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 27 (6.08%) Analyst
11 25 (5.63%) Senior Network Engineer
12 22 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (3.60%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (3.60%) Support Analyst
14 15 (3.38%) Administrator
15 14 (3.15%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (3.15%) Desktop Support
15 14 (3.15%) Systems Engineer
16 13 (2.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 13 (2.93%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (6.31%) 802.1X
2 13 (2.93%) ARM Templates
3 12 (2.70%) LDAP
4 10 (2.25%) SAML
5 9 (2.03%) JSON
6 6 (1.35%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.90%) Middleware
7 4 (0.90%) OAuth
7 4 (0.90%) OpenID
7 4 (0.90%) YAML
8 3 (0.68%) .NET
8 3 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.68%) Redfish
8 3 (0.68%) REST
9 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.45%) eBPF
9 2 (0.45%) ODBC
9 2 (0.45%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.45%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 90 (20.27%) Data Centre
2 75 (16.89%) PKI
3 41 (9.23%) Onboarding
4 37 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 30 (6.76%) Clustering
6 19 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (3.15%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.70%) Driving Licence
9 11 (2.48%) Public Cloud
10 9 (2.03%) Replication
11 8 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Storage
14 5 (1.13%) iPhone
14 5 (1.13%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 312 (70.27%) Windows
2 152 (34.23%) Windows Server
3 102 (22.97%) Linux
4 59 (13.29%) Windows 10
5 27 (6.08%) Mac OS
6 15 (3.38%) Apple iOS
7 13 (2.93%) Android
7 13 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (2.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (2.48%) Unix
10 10 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (2.03%) Windows 7
12 6 (1.35%) Ubuntu
13 4 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.68%) VMS
14 3 (0.68%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.45%) CentOS
16 1 (0.23%) Rocky
16 1 (0.23%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (30.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 126 (28.38%) ITIL
3 124 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
4 84 (18.92%) ITSM
5 72 (16.22%) High Availability
6 71 (15.99%) Infrastructure as Code
7 56 (12.61%) Migration
8 50 (11.26%) Root Cause Analysis
9 44 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (9.91%) Technical Leadership
10 42 (9.46%) Disaster Recovery
11 40 (9.01%) Service Management
12 39 (8.78%) Cybersecurity
13 38 (8.56%) Load Balancing
14 37 (8.33%) Customer Service
14 37 (8.33%) DevOps
14 37 (8.33%) Incident Management
14 37 (8.33%) Project Delivery
14 37 (8.33%) User Experience
15 35 (7.88%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 125 (28.15%) PowerShell
2 76 (17.12%) Python
3 59 (13.29%) Bash
4 13 (2.93%) SQL
5 11 (2.48%) Bicep
6 10 (2.25%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.03%) VBScript
8 7 (1.58%) VBA
9 6 (1.35%) VB
10 3 (0.68%) Lisp
10 3 (0.68%) Perl
11 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.23%) C
12 1 (0.23%) C++
Qualifications
1 172 (38.74%) Security Cleared
2 91 (20.50%) SC Cleared
3 70 (15.77%) DV Cleared
4 66 (14.86%) Cisco Certification
5 49 (11.04%) CCNP
6 42 (9.46%) Degree
7 29 (6.53%) CCNA
8 28 (6.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (5.86%) Network+ Certification
10 23 (5.18%) Azure Certification
11 14 (3.15%) Server+ Certification
12 12 (2.70%) VCAP
13 10 (2.25%) A+ Certification
13 10 (2.25%) AWS Certification
13 10 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (2.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 10 (2.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 9 (2.03%) CCIE
15 7 (1.58%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (1.58%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (7.21%) SLA
2 14 (3.15%) NIST
3 7 (1.58%) QA
4 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.13%) NCSC
6 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.68%) GDPR
6 3 (0.68%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 267 (60.14%) Active Directory
2 156 (35.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (21.62%) Hyper-V
4 50 (11.26%) vSphere
5 40 (9.01%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (6.08%) VMware NSX
7 26 (5.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (5.63%) Docker
9 20 (4.50%) Virtual Machines
10 15 (3.38%) BitLocker
11 10 (2.25%) Firmware
12 9 (2.03%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (1.80%) NFS
14 6 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (1.35%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.90%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.68%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.45%) UAG
17 2 (0.45%) XenApp
17 2 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 87 (19.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (17.12%) Terraform
3 75 (16.89%) Ansible
4 62 (13.96%) SCCM
5 39 (8.78%) Kubernetes
6 26 (5.86%) FortiGate
7 23 (5.18%) vCenter Server
8 16 (3.60%) VxRail
8 16 (3.60%) WSUS
9 15 (3.38%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.70%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (2.48%) vMotion
12 10 (2.25%) Nagios
13 7 (1.58%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (1.58%) Packer
13 7 (1.58%) Prometheus
13 7 (1.58%) Puppet
14 6 (1.35%) SCOM
15 4 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.90%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 230 (51.80%) Microsoft
2 185 (41.67%) VMware
3 100 (22.52%) Cisco
4 80 (18.02%) ServiceNow
5 45 (10.14%) Citrix
6 40 (9.01%) F5
6 40 (9.01%) Infoblox
7 37 (8.33%) SolarWinds
8 27 (6.08%) Juniper
9 26 (5.86%) Palo Alto
10 18 (4.05%) CheckPoint
11 17 (3.83%) Fortinet
11 17 (3.83%) Google
12 16 (3.60%) CyberArk
12 16 (3.60%) HP
13 15 (3.38%) Splunk
14 13 (2.93%) Zscaler
15 12 (2.70%) Extreme Networks
16 11 (2.48%) Remedy
17 10 (2.25%) Red Hat