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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 215 246
Rank change year-on-year -61 +31 -4
Contract jobs citing DHCP 364 296 350
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.89% 1.21% 0.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.39% 9.31% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 225 269
10th Percentile £209 £243 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £575
90th Percentile £613 £638 £633
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £468
% change year-on-year -9.52% +12.30% -4.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 18
10th Percentile £12.43 - £16.70
25th Percentile £26.56 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.36 £28.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.86% -30.00% +3.90%
75th Percentile £74.00 - -
90th Percentile £75.75 - £55.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.80 £40.00
% change year-on-year +45.38% -35.51% +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 3,875 3,181 4,784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.43% 13.00% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,420 1,978 2,876
10th Percentile £250 £220 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 118 389
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £41.24 £29.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.04% -25.85% +122.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.11 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% +116.22%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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
South East -8 111 £505 -11.17% 51
London -61 111 £450 -10.00% 37
North of England -72 54 £500 +17.65% 45
Midlands -48 35 £413 -8.33% 26
South West -33 34 £519 -15.61% 25
North West -46 32 £593 +39.41% 28
West Midlands -43 26 £425 +93.18% 20
Yorkshire -56 18 £447 -3.35% 14
East of England -21 15 £419 -7.71% 19
East Midlands -23 9 £275 -45.00% 6
North East -18 4 £200 -15.79% 6
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 35 (9.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.20%) IIS
4 4 (1.10%) Apache
4 4 (1.10%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.55%) WordPress
6 1 (0.27%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) nginx
6 1 (0.27%) Traefik
Applications
1 12 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 153 (42.03%) Azure
2 92 (25.27%) Entra ID
3 74 (20.33%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (13.74%) AWS
5 23 (6.32%) IaaS
6 21 (5.77%) PaaS
7 15 (4.12%) OneDrive
8 12 (3.30%) SaaS
9 9 (2.47%) Nutanix
10 8 (2.20%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (1.92%) GCP
12 6 (1.65%) Datadog
13 4 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.10%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.10%) Route 53
14 3 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 349 (95.88%) DNS
2 135 (37.09%) Firewall
3 83 (22.80%) TCP/IP
4 80 (21.98%) VPN
5 76 (20.88%) LAN
6 74 (20.33%) VLAN
7 73 (20.05%) WAN
8 43 (11.81%) Wi-Fi
9 39 (10.71%) BGP
9 39 (10.71%) OSPF
10 38 (10.44%) Network Security
11 37 (10.16%) BIG-IP
12 33 (9.07%) Wireless
13 32 (8.79%) Kerberos
13 32 (8.79%) SAN
14 25 (6.87%) Cisco ISE
14 25 (6.87%) VXLAN
15 24 (6.59%) Ethernet VPN
15 24 (6.59%) Junos
16 17 (4.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.32%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.27%) MySQL
4 1 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.27%) Power BI
4 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (5.22%) JIRA
2 6 (1.65%) Chocolatey
3 4 (1.10%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (0.82%) Git
5 2 (0.55%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 85 (23.35%) Social Skills
2 44 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (6.87%) Finance
4 20 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
4 20 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 14 (3.85%) Banking
6 10 (2.75%) Telecoms
7 7 (1.92%) Legal
8 6 (1.65%) Law
8 6 (1.65%) Military
8 6 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.10%) Local Government
10 4 (1.10%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.10%) Police
11 2 (0.55%) Advertising
11 2 (0.55%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.55%) Marketing
12 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (18.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (14.01%) Network Engineer
3 35 (9.62%) Senior
4 34 (9.34%) Analyst
4 34 (9.34%) Architect
4 34 (9.34%) IT Support
5 32 (8.79%) Support Engineer
6 28 (7.69%) IT Engineer
7 17 (4.67%) IT Support Engineer
8 16 (4.40%) IT Analyst
9 15 (4.12%) Network Specialist
10 14 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 14 (3.85%) Firewall Specialist
11 13 (3.57%) Support Analyst
12 12 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (3.02%) 2nd Line Support
13 11 (3.02%) Administrator
13 11 (3.02%) Platform Engineer
14 10 (2.75%) Desktop Support
14 10 (2.75%) Wintel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.07%) 802.1X
1 33 (9.07%) LDAP
2 21 (5.77%) SAML
3 16 (4.40%) OAuth
4 8 (2.20%) JSON
5 5 (1.37%) ARM Templates
6 4 (1.10%) OpenID
7 3 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.82%) Redfish
7 3 (0.82%) REST
8 2 (0.55%) Middleware
8 2 (0.55%) OpenGL
8 2 (0.55%) Qt
8 2 (0.55%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.55%) XMPP
9 1 (0.27%) .NET
9 1 (0.27%) CSS
9 1 (0.27%) HTML
9 1 (0.27%) SOAP
9 1 (0.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 58 (15.93%) Data Centre
2 43 (11.81%) PKI
3 35 (9.62%) Clustering
4 31 (8.52%) Replication
5 26 (7.14%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.67%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (3.02%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.47%) IoT
9 8 (2.20%) Enterprise Storage
10 7 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.37%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.37%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.37%) Smartphone
12 5 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (1.10%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.82%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 232 (63.74%) Windows
2 133 (36.54%) Windows Server
3 40 (10.99%) Linux
3 40 (10.99%) Windows 10
4 28 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (3.85%) Mac OS
7 13 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (3.02%) Android
8 11 (3.02%) Apple iOS
9 8 (2.20%) Windows Server 2003
10 6 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (1.65%) Windows 7
11 4 (1.10%) Unix
12 3 (0.82%) VMS
13 2 (0.55%) CentOS
13 2 (0.55%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.27%) Rocky
14 1 (0.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (24.45%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (20.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 73 (20.05%) High Availability
4 68 (18.68%) ITIL
5 54 (14.84%) ITSM
6 47 (12.91%) Identity Access Management
7 40 (10.99%) Migration
8 39 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
8 39 (10.71%) Load Balancing
9 35 (9.62%) Observability
10 31 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (7.42%) Task Automation
12 25 (6.87%) Root Cause Analysis
13 23 (6.32%) Change Management
14 21 (5.77%) Customer Service
14 21 (5.77%) DevOps
14 21 (5.77%) Service Management
15 20 (5.49%) Agile
15 20 (5.49%) Network Segmentation
15 20 (5.49%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 95 (26.10%) PowerShell
2 33 (9.07%) Python
3 19 (5.22%) Bash
4 9 (2.47%) JavaScript
4 9 (2.47%) SQL
5 7 (1.92%) VBA
6 6 (1.65%) VBScript
7 5 (1.37%) Bicep
8 4 (1.10%) VB
9 2 (0.55%) Perl
10 1 (0.27%) C
10 1 (0.27%) C#
10 1 (0.27%) Go
10 1 (0.27%) Java
10 1 (0.27%) Lisp
10 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 145 (39.84%) Security Cleared
2 92 (25.27%) SC Cleared
3 49 (13.46%) Cisco Certification
4 40 (10.99%) DV Cleared
5 27 (7.42%) CCNP
6 19 (5.22%) Degree
7 18 (4.95%) Network+ Certification
8 17 (4.67%) CCNA
9 11 (3.02%) Server+ Certification
10 10 (2.75%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.92%) JNCIA
11 7 (1.92%) JNCIP
11 7 (1.92%) JNCIS
11 7 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.65%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (1.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 2 (0.55%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.32%) SLA
2 19 (5.22%) GDPR
3 14 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.20%) NIST
6 6 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.82%) NCSC
8 2 (0.55%) QA
9 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.27%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.27%) RMADS
9 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 214 (58.79%) Active Directory
2 103 (28.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 58 (15.93%) Hyper-V
4 23 (6.32%) vSphere
5 22 (6.04%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (4.95%) Docker
7 17 (4.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (4.67%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.12%) BitLocker
9 10 (2.75%) Microsoft App-V
10 7 (1.92%) VMware NSX
11 6 (1.65%) Firmware
11 6 (1.65%) NFS
12 4 (1.10%) Terminal Services
12 4 (1.10%) VMware Workstation
13 3 (0.82%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.55%) KVM
14 2 (0.55%) UAG
14 2 (0.55%) XenApp
14 2 (0.55%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (15.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (12.09%) SCCM
3 39 (10.71%) Ansible
4 36 (9.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 30 (8.24%) FortiGate
6 28 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (6.32%) Terraform
8 19 (5.22%) Kubernetes
9 16 (4.40%) WSUS
10 12 (3.30%) vCenter Server
11 9 (2.47%) vMotion
12 7 (1.92%) Nagios
12 7 (1.92%) Puppet
13 6 (1.65%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (1.37%) Failover Clustering
14 5 (1.37%) HAProxy
15 4 (1.10%) Prometheus
16 3 (0.82%) SCOM
16 3 (0.82%) Stealthwatch
17 2 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 154 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 113 (31.04%) VMware
3 76 (20.88%) Cisco
4 60 (16.48%) ServiceNow
5 45 (12.36%) F5
6 39 (10.71%) SolarWinds
7 38 (10.44%) Citrix
8 34 (9.34%) Juniper
9 30 (8.24%) Infoblox
10 25 (6.87%) Splunk
11 22 (6.04%) Extreme Networks
12 14 (3.85%) NetApp
12 14 (3.85%) Okta
12 14 (3.85%) Palo Alto
13 12 (3.30%) Fortinet
13 12 (3.30%) Veeam
14 11 (3.02%) Dell
15 10 (2.75%) CheckPoint
16 9 (2.47%) HP
17 8 (2.20%) Dynatrace