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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 253 235
Rank change year-on-year -28 -18 +17
Contract jobs citing DHCP 445 297 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.95% 1.06% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.24% 9.08% 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 197 210
10th Percentile £216 £202 £225
25th Percentile £370 £315 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £643 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 5
10th Percentile £26.00 £23.98 £25.86
25th Percentile £31.25 £29.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +106.67% -36.84% +55.74%
75th Percentile £72.72 £76.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £59.00
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £30.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +106.67% -21.05% +11.76%

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 4,344 3,271 3,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.28% 11.63% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,554 2,092 2,237
10th Percentile £261 £214 £240
25th Percentile £400 £357 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 397 170 147
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £17.87
25th Percentile £21.33 £20.32 £26.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £34.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.88% -40.87% +1.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £67.26
90th Percentile £95.40 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -4.41% -29.98% -14.04%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -76 147 £450 -2.70% 142
South East -25 96 £525 +17.45% 78
North of England -25 71 £500 +11.86% 63
South West -1 63 £600 +9.09% 58
Midlands -51 45 £425 +30.77% 47
North West -27 37 £505 +14.19% 39
West Midlands -56 33 £425 +30.77% 25
Yorkshire -16 24 £500 -9.09% 17
East of England -27 18 £475 +80.09% 28
East Midlands -7 12 £275 - 22
North East -35 10 £213 -13.79% 8
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 65 (14.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 62 (13.93%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.80%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.57%) Confluence
5 5 (1.12%) Apache
5 5 (1.12%) IIS
5 5 (1.12%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.67%) 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
Business Applications
1 10 (2.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
2 1 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 223 (50.11%) Azure
2 135 (30.34%) Microsoft 365
3 101 (22.70%) Entra ID
4 100 (22.47%) AWS
5 37 (8.31%) OneDrive
6 26 (5.84%) GCP
7 21 (4.72%) Azure Monitor
8 17 (3.82%) GitHub
9 16 (3.60%) IaaS
9 16 (3.60%) OpenShift
9 16 (3.60%) SaaS
10 14 (3.15%) Azure Sentinel
11 13 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.92%) PaaS
12 11 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (2.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (1.80%) Route 53
15 7 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (1.57%) Google Workspace
16 6 (1.35%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 440 (98.88%) DNS
2 209 (46.97%) Firewall
3 197 (44.27%) TCP/IP
4 157 (35.28%) VPN
5 95 (21.35%) VLAN
6 71 (15.96%) WAN
7 69 (15.51%) LAN
7 69 (15.51%) Network Security
8 58 (13.03%) Wi-Fi
9 54 (12.13%) Wireless
10 37 (8.31%) BGP
11 35 (7.87%) SAN
12 33 (7.42%) OSPF
13 23 (5.17%) SSL
14 22 (4.94%) IPsec
15 20 (4.49%) SD-WAN
16 19 (4.27%) NAS
17 18 (4.04%) Cisco ASA
18 17 (3.82%) Cisco IOS
18 17 (3.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.90%) Db2
4 3 (0.67%) Big Data
4 3 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (0.45%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (6.74%) JIRA
2 10 (2.25%) Git
3 9 (2.02%) GitLab
4 8 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (1.12%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.90%) Chocolatey
7 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
8 1 (0.22%) JMeter
8 1 (0.22%) Locust
8 1 (0.22%) MSI
8 1 (0.22%) Newman
8 1 (0.22%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.22%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 153 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 55 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (11.24%) Finance
4 31 (6.97%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.39%) Documentation Skills
6 14 (3.15%) Banking
7 10 (2.25%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.25%) Police
8 9 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.02%) Legal
9 7 (1.57%) Front Office
9 7 (1.57%) Law
9 7 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.12%) Local Government
10 5 (1.12%) Military
11 4 (0.90%) Automotive
11 4 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 118 (26.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 71 (15.96%) Senior
3 65 (14.61%) Network Engineer
4 53 (11.91%) Support Engineer
5 45 (10.11%) IT Support
6 36 (8.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 35 (7.87%) IT Engineer
8 32 (7.19%) Architect
9 30 (6.74%) IT Support Engineer
10 28 (6.29%) Analyst
10 28 (6.29%) Senior Network Engineer
11 23 (5.17%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
13 17 (3.82%) Support Analyst
14 14 (3.15%) Active Directory Engineer
14 14 (3.15%) Administrator
14 14 (3.15%) Systems Engineer
15 13 (2.92%) Desktop Support
16 12 (2.70%) 2nd Line Support
16 12 (2.70%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (20.67%) Terraform
2 20 (4.49%) 802.1X
3 19 (4.27%) ARM Templates
4 15 (3.37%) LDAP
5 7 (1.57%) JSON
6 6 (1.35%) SAML
7 5 (1.12%) OAuth
7 5 (1.12%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.90%) Middleware
8 4 (0.90%) YAML
9 3 (0.67%) .NET
9 3 (0.67%) REST
10 2 (0.45%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.45%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.45%) eBPF
10 2 (0.45%) ModSecurity
10 2 (0.45%) ODBC
10 2 (0.45%) OpenGL
10 2 (0.45%) Qt
10 2 (0.45%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 82 (18.43%) Data Centre
2 70 (15.73%) PKI
3 48 (10.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 40 (8.99%) Onboarding
5 18 (4.04%) Clustering
6 16 (3.60%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.15%) Driving Licence
8 11 (2.47%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.47%) Replication
9 10 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
9 10 (2.25%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (2.02%) ARM Cortex
10 9 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
11 7 (1.57%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 6 (1.35%) Cloud Native
13 5 (1.12%) CMDB
13 5 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.12%) Fat Client
13 5 (1.12%) Thin Client
14 4 (0.90%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 319 (71.69%) Windows
2 166 (37.30%) Windows Server
3 122 (27.42%) Linux
4 53 (11.91%) Windows 10
5 28 (6.29%) macOS
6 20 (4.49%) Apple iOS
7 18 (4.04%) Android
8 14 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (3.15%) Unix
9 12 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
11 9 (2.02%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (1.80%) Ubuntu
12 8 (1.80%) Windows 7
13 5 (1.12%) CentOS
14 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.45%) SUSE
15 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.22%) Rocky
16 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (31.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 141 (31.69%) ITIL
2 114 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
3 92 (20.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (16.18%) ITSM
5 65 (14.61%) Root Cause Analysis
6 64 (14.38%) Migration
7 56 (12.58%) Disaster Recovery
8 55 (12.36%) Service Management
8 55 (12.36%) Technical Leadership
9 54 (12.13%) Cybersecurity
9 54 (12.13%) High Availability
10 49 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
11 47 (10.56%) Project Delivery
12 46 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 45 (10.11%) DevOps
14 43 (9.66%) Customer Service
15 41 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
16 40 (8.99%) Change Management
17 38 (8.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 151 (33.93%) PowerShell
2 72 (16.18%) Python
3 66 (14.83%) Bash
4 20 (4.49%) Bicep
5 16 (3.60%) SQL
6 10 (2.25%) VBScript
7 7 (1.57%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.35%) VB
9 4 (0.90%) VBA
10 3 (0.67%) C++
10 3 (0.67%) Lisp
10 3 (0.67%) Perl
11 2 (0.45%) Java
11 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) Go
12 1 (0.22%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 166 (37.30%) Security Cleared
2 91 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 75 (16.85%) DV Cleared
4 54 (12.13%) Cisco Certification
5 47 (10.56%) CCNP
6 44 (9.89%) Degree
7 34 (7.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (5.62%) Azure Certification
8 25 (5.62%) CCNA
9 21 (4.72%) Network+ Certification
10 13 (2.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 12 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (2.70%) VCAP
12 11 (2.47%) A+ Certification
12 11 (2.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (2.25%) AWS Certification
14 9 (2.02%) CCIE
14 9 (2.02%) Server+ Certification
15 6 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (1.12%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.52%) SLA
2 11 (2.47%) QA
3 10 (2.25%) NIST
4 5 (1.12%) NCSC
5 4 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.67%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 286 (64.27%) Active Directory
2 162 (36.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (21.57%) Hyper-V
4 61 (13.71%) vSphere
5 38 (8.54%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (6.07%) Docker
7 25 (5.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 25 (5.62%) VMware NSX
8 19 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (2.47%) BitLocker
10 10 (2.25%) Virtual Servers
11 9 (2.02%) NFS
12 7 (1.57%) Firmware
13 6 (1.35%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.90%) VirtualBox
16 3 (0.67%) Terminal Services
17 2 (0.45%) XenApp
17 2 (0.45%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 101 (22.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 82 (18.43%) Ansible
3 72 (16.18%) SCCM
4 41 (9.21%) Kubernetes
5 24 (5.39%) vCenter Server
6 16 (3.60%) FortiGate
6 16 (3.60%) VxRail
7 14 (3.15%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (2.92%) WSUS
9 9 (2.02%) SCOM
9 9 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (2.02%) vMotion
10 8 (1.80%) Grafana
11 7 (1.57%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (1.57%) Nagios
11 7 (1.57%) Packer
11 7 (1.57%) Prometheus
12 6 (1.35%) Puppet
13 5 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.90%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 261 (58.65%) Microsoft
2 191 (42.92%) VMware
3 96 (21.57%) Cisco
4 69 (15.51%) ServiceNow
5 33 (7.42%) Citrix
5 33 (7.42%) F5
6 31 (6.97%) Palo Alto
7 29 (6.52%) Infoblox
8 26 (5.84%) SolarWinds
9 22 (4.94%) CheckPoint
9 22 (4.94%) Fortinet
10 18 (4.04%) Google
11 17 (3.82%) Juniper
12 16 (3.60%) CyberArk
13 14 (3.15%) Meraki
14 12 (2.70%) HP
14 12 (2.70%) Red Hat
15 11 (2.47%) Remedy
16 10 (2.25%) Aruba
16 10 (2.25%) Veeam