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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 209 223
Rank change year-on-year -55 +14 +19
Contract jobs citing DHCP 306 359 411
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.18% 1.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.09% 9.61% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 226 275
10th Percentile £200 £219 £190
25th Percentile £306 £265 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £424 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.09% -5.83% -
75th Percentile £588 £541 £600
90th Percentile £654 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 5 13
10th Percentile £23.59 £23.30 £17.00
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.59 £21.25
Median hourly rate £41.50 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.33% -7.69% +47.73%
75th Percentile £86.00 £48.75 £45.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £49.50 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £41.50 £24.20 £33.25
% change year-on-year +71.49% -27.22% +51.14%

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 3,368 3,735 5,446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.98% 12.31% 14.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,173 2,163 3,390
10th Percentile £205 £225 £210
25th Percentile £356 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £609
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 130 327
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.49 £18.34
25th Percentile £20.26 £23.03 £23.00
Median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.07% -25.45% +27.91%

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 2 December 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 2 December 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 2 December 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 +4 116 £475 +0.85% 112
South East -11 60 £488 +8.33% 261
Midlands -28 44 £383 +2.00% 53
West Midlands -14 43 £383 -0.65% 23
North of England -71 40 £474 +22.19% 52
South West -11 28 £600 +45.45% 48
East of England -5 23 £225 -8.16% 73
North West -43 20 £500 -6.98% 31
Yorkshire -31 16 £375 +53.06% 18
North East -13 4 £247 +64.33% 5
East Midlands -30 1 - - 30
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 63 (20.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 57 (18.63%) SharePoint
3 34 (11.11%) Skype for Business
4 11 (3.59%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (3.27%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (3.27%) Exchange Server 2007
5 10 (3.27%) Exchange Server 2013
5 10 (3.27%) Office Communications Server
5 10 (3.27%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (2.61%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.63%) IIS
8 4 (1.31%) Confluence
9 3 (0.98%) Apache
10 2 (0.65%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (15.69%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.29%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Eikon
1 1 (0.33%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.33%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.33%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 101 (33.01%) Azure
2 89 (29.08%) Microsoft 365
3 65 (21.24%) AWS
4 44 (14.38%) Entra ID
5 15 (4.90%) IaaS
6 12 (3.92%) GCP
7 11 (3.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.27%) PaaS
8 10 (3.27%) SaaS
9 9 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (2.94%) AWS Direct Connect
9 9 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (2.61%) OneDrive
11 7 (2.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.96%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.96%) Nutanix
12 6 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 302 (98.69%) DNS
2 114 (37.25%) TCP/IP
3 103 (33.66%) Firewall
4 91 (29.74%) VPN
5 63 (20.59%) VLAN
6 57 (18.63%) WAN
7 56 (18.30%) LAN
8 38 (12.42%) Wireless
9 28 (9.15%) BGP
10 24 (7.84%) SAN
10 24 (7.84%) Skype
11 23 (7.52%) Wi-Fi
12 21 (6.86%) SD-WAN
13 20 (6.54%) OSPF
14 17 (5.56%) Network Security
15 16 (5.23%) WLAN
16 14 (4.58%) Cisco ISE
16 14 (4.58%) Cisco Wireless
17 13 (4.25%) Cisco IOS
17 13 (4.25%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.65%) MySQL
3 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.61%) JIRA
2 3 (0.98%) GitLab
3 2 (0.65%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.33%) Postman
4 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 106 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (9.48%) Public Sector
4 23 (7.52%) Finance
5 15 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (4.25%) Banking
7 9 (2.94%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.61%) Investment Banking
8 8 (2.61%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.31%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.31%) Legal
13 3 (0.98%) Local Government
13 3 (0.98%) Military
14 2 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.65%) Front Office
14 2 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 76 (24.84%) Support Engineer
2 40 (13.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 39 (12.75%) Analyst
4 33 (10.78%) Network Engineer
5 27 (8.82%) IT Support
5 27 (8.82%) Senior
6 23 (7.52%) Architect
7 19 (6.21%) 2nd Line Support
7 19 (6.21%) IT Engineer
8 18 (5.88%) Support Analyst
9 16 (5.23%) Administrator
10 13 (4.25%) Infrastructure Support
10 13 (4.25%) Microsoft Engineer
11 12 (3.92%) Consultant
11 12 (3.92%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 12 (3.92%) IT Support Engineer
12 11 (3.59%) Desktop Engineer
12 11 (3.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.27%) Desktop Support
13 10 (3.27%) Exchange Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.63%) Middleware
1 5 (1.63%) YAML
2 4 (1.31%) LDAP
3 3 (0.98%) .NET
3 3 (0.98%) AngularJS
3 3 (0.98%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (0.98%) Bootstrap
3 3 (0.98%) Express.js
3 3 (0.98%) React
3 3 (0.98%) SOAP
3 3 (0.98%) WCF
3 3 (0.98%) Web Services
3 3 (0.98%) WPF
4 2 (0.65%) REST
4 2 (0.65%) SAML
5 1 (0.33%) JSON
5 1 (0.33%) LAMP
5 1 (0.33%) libvirt
5 1 (0.33%) OpenID
5 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 36 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 22 (7.19%) PKI
2 22 (7.19%) Replication
3 12 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (2.94%) iPhone
4 9 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.61%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.61%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (1.63%) CMDB
6 5 (1.63%) iPad
6 5 (1.63%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 5 (1.63%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.31%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.31%) NHS
8 3 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.98%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 198 (64.71%) Windows
2 86 (28.10%) Windows Server
3 53 (17.32%) Linux
4 43 (14.05%) Windows 10
5 17 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (5.23%) Android
7 15 (4.90%) Mac OS
8 12 (3.92%) Windows 7
9 11 (3.59%) Windows Server 2003
10 10 (3.27%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 9 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (2.61%) Apple iOS
12 8 (2.61%) CentOS
13 7 (2.29%) Unix
14 6 (1.96%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.98%) VMS
16 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
17 1 (0.33%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (30.07%) ITIL
2 71 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (15.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 35 (11.44%) Service Management
5 31 (10.13%) High Availability
6 29 (9.48%) Disaster Recovery
7 28 (9.15%) ITSM
8 27 (8.82%) Computer Science
9 26 (8.50%) Migration
10 23 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
11 21 (6.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (6.54%) Change Management
12 20 (6.54%) Load Balancing
13 19 (6.21%) Customer Service
13 19 (6.21%) Service Delivery
13 19 (6.21%) Zero Trust
14 18 (5.88%) CI/CD
14 18 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
15 16 (5.23%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 97 (31.70%) PowerShell
2 27 (8.82%) Python
3 21 (6.86%) SQL
4 17 (5.56%) Bash
5 8 (2.61%) VBScript
6 7 (2.29%) Lisp
7 6 (1.96%) Bicep
7 6 (1.96%) VB
8 5 (1.63%) Perl
9 3 (0.98%) C#
9 3 (0.98%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 89 (29.08%) Security Cleared
2 61 (19.93%) SC Cleared
3 53 (17.32%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (12.75%) CCNP
4 39 (12.75%) Degree
5 36 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 33 (10.78%) DV Cleared
7 29 (9.48%) CCNA
8 21 (6.86%) Azure Certification
9 13 (4.25%) Network+ Certification
10 11 (3.59%) Server+ Certification
11 10 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (2.94%) AWS Certification
12 9 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 8 (2.61%) CCIE
14 7 (2.29%) CCSA
14 7 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (2.29%) MCP
14 7 (2.29%) MCSE
15 6 (1.96%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.58%) GDPR
2 13 (4.25%) SLA
3 11 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (2.29%) NIST
6 5 (1.63%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.65%) NCSC
8 1 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.33%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.33%) QA
8 1 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 166 (54.25%) Active Directory
2 71 (23.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 15 (4.90%) Docker
5 11 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (3.27%) Brightmail
6 10 (3.27%) ISA Server
6 10 (3.27%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (2.94%) Firmware
7 9 (2.94%) VMware NSX
7 9 (2.94%) vSphere
8 8 (2.61%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (1.96%) Terminal Services
10 5 (1.63%) BitLocker
10 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (1.63%) NFS
10 5 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.98%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.98%) KVM
11 3 (0.98%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 53 (17.32%) SCCM
2 39 (12.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 32 (10.46%) Terraform
4 28 (9.15%) Ansible
5 16 (5.23%) WSUS
6 12 (3.92%) Microsoft Clustering
7 11 (3.59%) FortiGate
8 9 (2.94%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.61%) Kubernetes
9 8 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.96%) SCOM
11 5 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (1.31%) CA Spectrum
12 4 (1.31%) Packer
12 4 (1.31%) SELinux
13 3 (0.98%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.98%) Puppet
14 2 (0.65%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.65%) OpenView
14 2 (0.65%) vMotion
Vendors
1 161 (52.61%) Microsoft
2 84 (27.45%) VMware
3 66 (21.57%) Cisco
4 36 (11.76%) ServiceNow
5 27 (8.82%) Citrix
6 19 (6.21%) Palo Alto
6 19 (6.21%) SolarWinds
7 17 (5.56%) Dell
7 17 (5.56%) F5
7 17 (5.56%) Meraki
8 16 (5.23%) CheckPoint
9 14 (4.58%) Fortinet
10 12 (3.92%) Remedy
11 11 (3.59%) Veeam
12 10 (3.27%) Juniper
12 10 (3.27%) Red Hat
13 8 (2.61%) Zscaler
14 7 (2.29%) Ekahau
14 7 (2.29%) Infoblox
15 6 (1.96%) Splunk