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

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 240 238
Rank change year-on-year -14 -2 +17
Contract jobs citing DHCP 456 296 324
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.99% 1.07% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.53% 8.70% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 197 241
10th Percentile £211 £250 £275
25th Percentile £363 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £510 £484
Median % change year-on-year -6.37% +5.37% +1.89%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £625 £608
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 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 £74.00 £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 4,332 3,402 4,177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.45% 12.24% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 2,098 2,577
10th Percentile £263 £250 £248
25th Percentile £401 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £676 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 170 285
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.35
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £43.75 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -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 £48.56
% change year-on-year -43.48% -4.76% -11.71%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -52 151 £450 -10.00% 69
South East -12 122 £518 -8.97% 65
North of England -39 69 £500 +6.95% 42
South West -12 52 £500 -13.04% 24
Midlands -35 47 £400 - 24
North West -25 38 £575 +28.64% 24
West Midlands -52 31 £406 +1.56% 18
Yorkshire -28 23 £500 -9.09% 11
East Midlands -5 16 £300 -47.83% 6
East of England -31 11 £475 -9.52% 27
North East -35 8 £200 -20.00% 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 54 (11.84%) SharePoint
2 51 (11.18%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.32%) IIS
3 6 (1.32%) nginx
3 6 (1.32%) Skype for Business
4 5 (1.10%) Apache
4 5 (1.10%) Confluence
5 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 18 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.44%) Houdini
4 2 (0.44%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.44%) NUKE
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 200 (43.86%) Azure
2 120 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
3 92 (20.18%) Entra ID
4 90 (19.74%) AWS
5 38 (8.33%) OneDrive
6 23 (5.04%) IaaS
7 22 (4.82%) GCP
8 21 (4.61%) PaaS
9 20 (4.39%) SaaS
10 14 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (2.85%) OpenShift
12 11 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
12 11 (2.41%) GitHub
13 8 (1.75%) Datadog
13 8 (1.75%) Route 53
14 7 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
15 6 (1.32%) Google Workspace
16 5 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 452 (99.12%) DNS
2 210 (46.05%) Firewall
3 172 (37.72%) TCP/IP
4 137 (30.04%) VPN
5 97 (21.27%) VLAN
6 93 (20.39%) LAN
7 91 (19.96%) WAN
8 63 (13.82%) Network Security
9 61 (13.38%) Wi-Fi
10 52 (11.40%) Wireless
11 51 (11.18%) BGP
12 50 (10.96%) OSPF
13 44 (9.65%) SAN
14 36 (7.89%) BIG-IP
15 30 (6.58%) VXLAN
16 25 (5.48%) NAS
17 24 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
17 24 (5.26%) Ethernet VPN
18 23 (5.04%) Junos
18 23 (5.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (8.99%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (0.88%) Db2
5 3 (0.66%) Big Data
6 2 (0.44%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (7.02%) JIRA
2 8 (1.75%) Chocolatey
2 8 (1.75%) Git
3 6 (1.32%) GitLab
4 5 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (1.10%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.10%) Browser DevTools
4 5 (1.10%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.44%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.22%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.22%) MSI
6 1 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 141 (30.92%) Social Skills
2 59 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (10.09%) Finance
4 34 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.92%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (4.17%) Banking
7 10 (2.19%) Police
8 9 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.97%) Legal
8 9 (1.97%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.54%) Local Government
9 7 (1.54%) Military
10 6 (1.32%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.10%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.10%) Law
11 5 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.88%) Automotive
12 4 (0.88%) Front Office
12 4 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.66%) Retail
Job Titles
1 113 (24.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 73 (16.01%) Network Engineer
3 69 (15.13%) Senior
4 53 (11.62%) Support Engineer
5 45 (9.87%) IT Support
6 42 (9.21%) IT Engineer
7 41 (8.99%) Architect
8 31 (6.80%) IT Support Engineer
9 30 (6.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 29 (6.36%) Senior Network Engineer
11 27 (5.92%) Analyst
12 23 (5.04%) Platform Engineer
13 17 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
14 15 (3.29%) Administrator
14 15 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
14 15 (3.29%) Support Analyst
15 14 (3.07%) Desktop Support
15 14 (3.07%) Network Specialist
15 14 (3.07%) Systems Engineer
16 13 (2.85%) Firewall Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.33%) 802.1X
2 13 (2.85%) ARM Templates
3 12 (2.63%) LDAP
4 10 (2.19%) SAML
5 9 (1.97%) JSON
6 6 (1.32%) Software Packaging
7 4 (0.88%) Middleware
7 4 (0.88%) OAuth
7 4 (0.88%) OpenID
7 4 (0.88%) YAML
8 3 (0.66%) .NET
8 3 (0.66%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.66%) Redfish
8 3 (0.66%) REST
9 2 (0.44%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.44%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.44%) Blazor
9 2 (0.44%) eBPF
9 2 (0.44%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.44%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 98 (21.49%) Data Centre
2 84 (18.42%) PKI
3 41 (8.99%) Onboarding
4 40 (8.77%) Clustering
5 37 (8.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (3.07%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.63%) Driving Licence
9 11 (2.41%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.97%) Replication
11 8 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
11 8 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
12 7 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.32%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
14 5 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
14 5 (1.10%) Fat Client
14 5 (1.10%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 323 (70.83%) Windows
2 152 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 101 (22.15%) Linux
4 59 (12.94%) Windows 10
5 27 (5.92%) Mac OS
6 15 (3.29%) Apple iOS
7 14 (3.07%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (2.85%) Android
9 12 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (2.41%) Unix
11 10 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (1.97%) Windows 7
13 6 (1.32%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.66%) VMS
15 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.44%) CentOS
17 1 (0.22%) Rocky
17 1 (0.22%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (29.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 131 (28.73%) ITIL
3 130 (28.51%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (19.30%) ITSM
5 82 (17.98%) High Availability
6 72 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 57 (12.50%) Migration
8 49 (10.75%) Root Cause Analysis
9 47 (10.31%) Load Balancing
10 45 (9.87%) Service Management
11 44 (9.65%) Technical Leadership
12 43 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (9.43%) Disaster Recovery
13 42 (9.21%) Observability
14 40 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
15 38 (8.33%) DevOps
15 38 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
16 37 (8.11%) Incident Management
16 37 (8.11%) Project Delivery
16 37 (8.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 125 (27.41%) PowerShell
2 76 (16.67%) Python
3 59 (12.94%) Bash
4 13 (2.85%) SQL
5 11 (2.41%) Bicep
6 10 (2.19%) JavaScript
7 9 (1.97%) VBScript
8 7 (1.54%) VBA
9 6 (1.32%) VB
10 3 (0.66%) Lisp
10 3 (0.66%) Perl
11 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.22%) C
12 1 (0.22%) C++
12 1 (0.22%) Go
Qualifications
1 182 (39.91%) Security Cleared
2 91 (19.96%) SC Cleared
3 77 (16.89%) DV Cleared
4 74 (16.23%) Cisco Certification
5 49 (10.75%) CCNP
6 42 (9.21%) Degree
7 29 (6.36%) CCNA
8 27 (5.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (5.48%) Network+ Certification
10 23 (5.04%) Azure Certification
11 14 (3.07%) Server+ Certification
12 12 (2.63%) VCAP
13 11 (2.41%) JNCIP
13 11 (2.41%) JNCIS
14 10 (2.19%) AWS Certification
14 10 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
14 10 (2.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 10 (2.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 9 (1.97%) A+ Certification
15 9 (1.97%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.24%) SLA
2 14 (3.07%) NIST
3 7 (1.54%) QA
4 6 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.10%) NCSC
6 3 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.66%) GDPR
6 3 (0.66%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 268 (58.77%) Active Directory
2 156 (34.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (20.83%) Hyper-V
4 50 (10.96%) vSphere
5 40 (8.77%) VMware ESXi
6 27 (5.92%) VMware NSX
7 26 (5.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 25 (5.48%) Docker
9 20 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
10 15 (3.29%) BitLocker
11 10 (2.19%) Firmware
12 9 (1.97%) Microsoft App-V
13 8 (1.75%) NFS
14 6 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (1.32%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.88%) Terminal Services
16 3 (0.66%) VirtualBox
17 2 (0.44%) UAG
17 2 (0.44%) XenApp
17 2 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 87 (19.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 77 (16.89%) Terraform
3 75 (16.45%) Ansible
4 62 (13.60%) SCCM
5 40 (8.77%) Kubernetes
6 36 (7.89%) FortiGate
7 23 (5.04%) vCenter Server
8 16 (3.51%) VxRail
8 16 (3.51%) WSUS
9 15 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (2.41%) vMotion
12 10 (2.19%) Nagios
13 7 (1.54%) Failover Clustering
13 7 (1.54%) Packer
13 7 (1.54%) Prometheus
13 7 (1.54%) Puppet
14 6 (1.32%) SCOM
15 4 (0.88%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 231 (50.66%) Microsoft
2 186 (40.79%) VMware
3 110 (24.12%) Cisco
4 81 (17.76%) ServiceNow
5 50 (10.96%) F5
6 47 (10.31%) SolarWinds
7 45 (9.87%) Citrix
8 40 (8.77%) Infoblox
9 37 (8.11%) Juniper
10 26 (5.70%) Palo Alto
11 25 (5.48%) Splunk
12 20 (4.39%) Extreme Networks
13 18 (3.95%) CheckPoint
14 17 (3.73%) Fortinet
14 17 (3.73%) Google
15 16 (3.51%) CyberArk
15 16 (3.51%) HP
16 13 (2.85%) Zscaler
17 11 (2.41%) Remedy
17 11 (2.41%) Tenable