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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 204 220
Rank change year-on-year -65 +16 +17
Contract jobs citing DHCP 326 345 408
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.98% 1.31% 1.08%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.38% 10.14% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 225 289
10th Percentile £200 £215 £190
25th Percentile £313 £285 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.22% -2.11%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £708 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £474 £465
% change year-on-year +5.54% +1.89% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 19
10th Percentile £18.60 £26.23 £16.80
25th Percentile £24.18 £30.19 £22.80
Median hourly rate £26.33 £36.80 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.45% -8.01% +3.90%
75th Percentile £59.44 £43.40 -
90th Percentile £81.80 £47.36 £41.75
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £23.59 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.59% -41.03% +3.90%

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 3,476 3,403 5,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.41% 12.95% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,269 1,968 3,237
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £356 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.52% -4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 105 384
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.38
25th Percentile £18.97 £20.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -30.00% +143.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £75.47
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -8.57% -30.00% +150.00%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -41 104 £525 +5.00% 46
South East -11 74 £515 +17.71% 63
North of England -81 51 £330 -14.29% 41
South West -23 43 £575 -2.13% 36
Midlands -47 37 £400 +3.90% 32
West Midlands -28 35 £400 +8.11% 20
North West -55 26 £538 +26.47% 19
East of England -12 22 £363 +47.96% 39
Yorkshire -45 20 £319 +37.10% 17
North East -18 5 £200 +33.33% 8
East Midlands -27 2 £275 -38.89% 12
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 62 (19.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (16.26%) SharePoint
3 30 (9.20%) Skype for Business
4 6 (1.84%) IIS
5 4 (1.23%) Apache
6 3 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.61%) Confluence
7 2 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2013
7 2 (0.61%) Office Communications Server
7 2 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 36 (11.04%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.15%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 151 (46.32%) Azure
2 97 (29.75%) Microsoft 365
3 81 (24.85%) Entra ID
4 61 (18.71%) AWS
5 19 (5.83%) IaaS
6 14 (4.29%) GCP
6 14 (4.29%) PaaS
7 12 (3.68%) Nutanix
8 11 (3.37%) SaaS
9 9 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (2.45%) OneDrive
11 5 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (1.23%) Power Platform
12 4 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (0.92%) Akamai
13 3 (0.92%) Mimecast
13 3 (0.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 313 (96.01%) DNS
2 110 (33.74%) TCP/IP
3 88 (26.99%) VPN
4 87 (26.69%) Firewall
5 57 (17.48%) VLAN
6 53 (16.26%) LAN
7 51 (15.64%) WAN
8 31 (9.51%) Wi-Fi
9 29 (8.90%) Kerberos
10 28 (8.59%) Skype
11 22 (6.75%) BGP
11 22 (6.75%) Wireless
12 18 (5.52%) Network Security
13 14 (4.29%) OSPF
14 13 (3.99%) Cisco ISE
14 13 (3.99%) SAN
14 13 (3.99%) SD-WAN
15 12 (3.68%) FTP
16 11 (3.37%) VXLAN
17 9 (2.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (3.68%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.31%) MySQL
3 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.31%) Power BI
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (2.45%) JIRA
2 4 (1.23%) Git
3 3 (0.92%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) Chocolatey
4 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 107 (32.82%) Social Skills
2 65 (19.94%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (7.06%) Public Sector
4 20 (6.13%) Finance
5 18 (5.52%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.99%) Banking
7 8 (2.45%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.15%) Legal
9 6 (1.84%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.92%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.92%) Marketing
12 3 (0.92%) Military
12 3 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.61%) Back Office
13 2 (0.61%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 57 (17.48%) Support Engineer
2 49 (15.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 39 (11.96%) Analyst
4 35 (10.74%) IT Support
5 28 (8.59%) Architect
6 26 (7.98%) 2nd Line Support
7 25 (7.67%) Network Engineer
8 24 (7.36%) Senior
9 20 (6.13%) IT Engineer
10 16 (4.91%) IT Analyst
11 15 (4.60%) IT Support Engineer
11 15 (4.60%) Microsoft Engineer
11 15 (4.60%) Support Analyst
12 13 (3.99%) Infrastructure Support
12 13 (3.99%) IT Support Analyst
13 12 (3.68%) 1st/2nd Line Support
13 12 (3.68%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 12 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.37%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
14 11 (3.37%) Wintel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.51%) LDAP
2 15 (4.60%) OAuth
2 15 (4.60%) SAML
3 6 (1.84%) 802.1X
3 6 (1.84%) Middleware
4 3 (0.92%) .NET
4 3 (0.92%) AngularJS
4 3 (0.92%) ARM Templates
4 3 (0.92%) ASP.NET Web API
4 3 (0.92%) Bootstrap
4 3 (0.92%) Express.js
4 3 (0.92%) JSON
4 3 (0.92%) React
4 3 (0.92%) REST
4 3 (0.92%) SOAP
4 3 (0.92%) WCF
4 3 (0.92%) Web Services
4 3 (0.92%) WPF
4 3 (0.92%) YAML
5 2 (0.61%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (10.74%) Replication
2 30 (9.20%) Data Centre
3 23 (7.06%) PKI
4 11 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 10 (3.07%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.84%) IoT
6 6 (1.84%) Smartphone
7 5 (1.53%) Clustering
7 5 (1.53%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 5 (1.53%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.23%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.23%) iPhone
8 4 (1.23%) NHS
9 3 (0.92%) CCTV
9 3 (0.92%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 219 (67.18%) Windows
2 127 (38.96%) Windows Server
3 47 (14.42%) Windows 10
4 44 (13.50%) Linux
5 31 (9.51%) Windows Server 2019
6 18 (5.52%) Android
7 17 (5.21%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (4.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 12 (3.68%) Apple iOS
10 10 (3.07%) Windows 7
11 7 (2.15%) Mac OS
11 7 (2.15%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (1.23%) CentOS
12 4 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (1.23%) Unix
13 3 (0.92%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.92%) VMS
13 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.31%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.31%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (26.69%) Problem-Solving
2 86 (26.38%) ITIL
3 52 (15.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 47 (14.42%) Disaster Recovery
5 39 (11.96%) Service Management
6 34 (10.43%) High Availability
6 34 (10.43%) Migration
7 30 (9.20%) ITSM
8 28 (8.59%) Zero Trust
9 26 (7.98%) Customer Service
10 25 (7.67%) Load Balancing
11 24 (7.36%) Change Management
11 24 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (7.36%) Task Automation
12 23 (7.06%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (6.44%) Identity Access Management
13 21 (6.44%) Root Cause Analysis
14 19 (5.83%) DevOps
15 18 (5.52%) Agile
15 18 (5.52%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 136 (41.72%) PowerShell
2 30 (9.20%) Python
3 14 (4.29%) SQL
4 13 (3.99%) Bash
5 12 (3.68%) VBScript
6 10 (3.07%) VB
7 7 (2.15%) Bicep
7 7 (2.15%) Lisp
8 5 (1.53%) Perl
9 3 (0.92%) C#
9 3 (0.92%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.61%) Java
10 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.61%) VBA
11 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 113 (34.66%) Security Cleared
2 89 (27.30%) SC Cleared
3 34 (10.43%) DV Cleared
3 34 (10.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 30 (9.20%) Degree
5 28 (8.59%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (8.28%) CCNP
7 23 (7.06%) Azure Certification
8 17 (5.21%) Network+ Certification
9 11 (3.37%) CCNA
9 11 (3.37%) Server+ Certification
10 8 (2.45%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (2.15%) MCSE
11 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 6 (1.84%) CISSP
13 5 (1.53%) CCIE
13 5 (1.53%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.53%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.36%) GDPR
2 15 (4.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 15 (4.60%) SLA
3 11 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.84%) NIST
6 5 (1.53%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.61%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.61%) NCSC
8 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.31%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.31%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.31%) QA
8 1 (0.31%) RMADS
System Software
1 208 (63.80%) Active Directory
2 88 (26.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (12.58%) Hyper-V
4 17 (5.21%) vSphere
5 16 (4.91%) Docker
6 13 (3.99%) BitLocker
6 13 (3.99%) VMware ESXi
7 11 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (2.45%) VMware NSX
9 7 (2.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.53%) Firmware
10 5 (1.53%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (1.53%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.23%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.92%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.92%) KVM
12 3 (0.92%) NFS
13 2 (0.61%) Brightmail
13 2 (0.61%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 64 (19.63%) SCCM
2 62 (19.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (11.35%) Ansible
4 34 (10.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 27 (8.28%) Terraform
6 26 (7.98%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (4.29%) Kubernetes
7 14 (4.29%) WSUS
8 10 (3.07%) FortiGate
9 9 (2.76%) vCenter Server
10 7 (2.15%) SCOM
11 5 (1.53%) HAProxy
11 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Clustering
11 5 (1.53%) Puppet
11 5 (1.53%) vMotion
12 3 (0.92%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (0.92%) Nagios
12 3 (0.92%) Packer
12 3 (0.92%) Stealthwatch
13 2 (0.61%) SELinux
Vendors
1 180 (55.21%) Microsoft
2 99 (30.37%) VMware
3 44 (13.50%) Cisco
3 44 (13.50%) ServiceNow
4 27 (8.28%) Citrix
5 19 (5.83%) SolarWinds
6 17 (5.21%) F5
7 16 (4.91%) Dell
7 16 (4.91%) Okta
8 15 (4.60%) Fortinet
8 15 (4.60%) Veeam
9 14 (4.29%) Palo Alto
10 12 (3.68%) Infoblox
11 9 (2.76%) Remedy
12 8 (2.45%) Juniper
12 8 (2.45%) Meraki
13 7 (2.15%) Apple
13 7 (2.15%) Ekahau
13 7 (2.15%) Google
14 6 (1.84%) Zscaler