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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 234 236
Rank change year-on-year -31 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing DHCP 461 300 333
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.00% 1.09% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.63% 9.26% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 198 225
10th Percentile £220 £216 £225
25th Percentile £363 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £456 £484
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -5.73% +1.89%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £680 £623 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 18 6
10th Percentile £26.00 £27.15 £21.55
25th Percentile £31.25 £29.00 £24.83
Median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +111.60% -22.58% +27.05%
75th Percentile £74.00 £76.94 £49.69
90th Percentile £98.82 £89.63 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £30.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year +111.60% -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 4,335 3,241 3,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.36% 11.82% 12.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,562 2,029 2,285
10th Percentile £258 £225 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.45% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 379 165 202
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.28 £15.33
25th Percentile £21.33 £24.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £43.50 £41.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% -28.51% +1.52%
75th Percentile £69.13 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.42 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £33.64 £42.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -20.85% -17.48% -8.83%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 22 September 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 -56 154 £450 -10.00% 133
South East -32 94 £527 -4.14% 103
North of England -23 72 £500 +14.29% 50
South West +4 61 £555 +0.86% 45
Midlands -34 56 £425 +23.19% 59
West Midlands -48 39 £425 +23.19% 39
North West -29 36 £519 +18.65% 35
Yorkshire -25 27 £500 -9.09% 11
East of England -29 19 £475 +24.18% 21
East Midlands +2 17 £375 - 20
North East -30 9 £200 -19.44% 7
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 68 (14.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (13.23%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.74%) Skype for Business
4 7 (1.52%) Confluence
5 5 (1.08%) Apache
5 5 (1.08%) IIS
5 5 (1.08%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (0.43%) Houdini
4 2 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.43%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 10 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 218 (47.29%) Azure
2 132 (28.63%) Microsoft 365
3 100 (21.69%) Entra ID
4 97 (21.04%) AWS
5 39 (8.46%) OneDrive
6 24 (5.21%) GCP
7 18 (3.90%) IaaS
7 18 (3.90%) SaaS
8 16 (3.47%) OpenShift
9 15 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
9 15 (3.25%) PaaS
10 14 (3.04%) GitHub
11 13 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
12 10 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (1.74%) Route 53
14 7 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 7 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 7 (1.52%) Google Workspace
15 6 (1.30%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 455 (98.70%) DNS
2 203 (44.03%) Firewall
3 193 (41.87%) TCP/IP
4 150 (32.54%) VPN
5 98 (21.26%) VLAN
6 72 (15.62%) Network Security
7 71 (15.40%) WAN
8 70 (15.18%) LAN
9 56 (12.15%) Wi-Fi
10 53 (11.50%) Wireless
11 40 (8.68%) SAN
12 38 (8.24%) BGP
13 35 (7.59%) OSPF
14 26 (5.64%) SSL
15 22 (4.77%) NAS
16 20 (4.34%) Cisco IOS
16 20 (4.34%) IPsec
17 19 (4.12%) SD-WAN
18 18 (3.90%) BIG-IP
18 18 (3.90%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (9.11%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (0.87%) Db2
3 4 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (0.65%) Big Data
5 2 (0.43%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (7.59%) JIRA
2 9 (1.95%) Git
3 8 (1.74%) GitLab
4 7 (1.52%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (1.08%) Bitbucket
5 5 (1.08%) Chocolatey
6 3 (0.65%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
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
1 159 (34.49%) Social Skills
2 60 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (10.41%) Finance
4 29 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 27 (5.86%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.25%) Banking
7 10 (2.17%) Aerospace
7 10 (2.17%) Legal
7 10 (2.17%) Police
8 9 (1.95%) Telecoms
9 8 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.52%) Law
11 6 (1.30%) Front Office
12 5 (1.08%) Local Government
12 5 (1.08%) Military
13 4 (0.87%) Automotive
13 4 (0.87%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 116 (25.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 68 (14.75%) Network Engineer
3 65 (14.10%) Senior
4 50 (10.85%) Support Engineer
5 44 (9.54%) IT Support
6 37 (8.03%) Architect
6 37 (8.03%) IT Engineer
7 32 (6.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 30 (6.51%) Analyst
9 29 (6.29%) IT Support Engineer
10 27 (5.86%) Senior Network Engineer
11 23 (4.99%) Platform Engineer
12 20 (4.34%) Cloud Engineer
13 19 (4.12%) Support Analyst
14 16 (3.47%) Active Directory Engineer
14 16 (3.47%) Systems Engineer
15 15 (3.25%) Administrator
16 13 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
17 12 (2.60%) Desktop Support
18 11 (2.39%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (18.00%) Terraform
2 20 (4.34%) 802.1X
3 17 (3.69%) LDAP
4 14 (3.04%) ARM Templates
5 11 (2.39%) SAML
6 9 (1.95%) JSON
7 6 (1.30%) OAuth
8 5 (1.08%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.87%) Middleware
9 4 (0.87%) OpenID
9 4 (0.87%) REST
9 4 (0.87%) YAML
10 3 (0.65%) .NET
11 2 (0.43%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.43%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.43%) eBPF
11 2 (0.43%) ODBC
11 2 (0.43%) OpenGL
11 2 (0.43%) Qt
11 2 (0.43%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 84 (18.22%) Data Centre
2 73 (15.84%) PKI
3 43 (9.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 41 (8.89%) Onboarding
5 21 (4.56%) Clustering
6 16 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
7 15 (3.25%) Management Information System
8 13 (2.82%) Replication
9 12 (2.60%) Driving Licence
10 11 (2.39%) Public Cloud
10 11 (2.39%) Video Conferencing
11 9 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 6 (1.30%) Cloud Native
13 6 (1.30%) Virtual Team
14 5 (1.08%) ARM Cortex
14 5 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.08%) Fat Client
14 5 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 325 (70.50%) Windows
2 168 (36.44%) Windows Server
3 117 (25.38%) Linux
4 59 (12.80%) Windows 10
5 30 (6.51%) Mac OS
6 18 (3.90%) Apple iOS
7 16 (3.47%) Android
7 16 (3.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (2.82%) Unix
9 12 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
10 10 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 9 (1.95%) Ubuntu
12 8 (1.74%) Windows 7
13 6 (1.30%) CentOS
14 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2003
15 3 (0.65%) VMS
16 2 (0.43%) SUSE
16 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.22%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (30.59%) ITIL
2 140 (30.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 125 (27.11%) Problem-Solving
4 80 (17.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 76 (16.49%) ITSM
6 64 (13.88%) Root Cause Analysis
7 63 (13.67%) High Availability
8 62 (13.45%) Migration
9 53 (11.50%) Technical Leadership
10 51 (11.06%) Disaster Recovery
11 49 (10.63%) Service Management
12 46 (9.98%) Continuous Improvement
13 45 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 44 (9.54%) Cybersecurity
15 42 (9.11%) Project Delivery
16 41 (8.89%) Customer Service
17 40 (8.68%) Change Management
17 40 (8.68%) DevOps
18 38 (8.24%) Load Balancing
18 38 (8.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 141 (30.59%) PowerShell
2 77 (16.70%) Python
3 60 (13.02%) Bash
4 15 (3.25%) SQL
5 13 (2.82%) Bicep
6 10 (2.17%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.17%) VBScript
7 7 (1.52%) VBA
8 6 (1.30%) VB
9 3 (0.65%) C++
9 3 (0.65%) Lisp
9 3 (0.65%) Perl
10 2 (0.43%) C
10 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.22%) Go
11 1 (0.22%) Java
11 1 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 172 (37.31%) Security Cleared
2 94 (20.39%) SC Cleared
3 74 (16.05%) DV Cleared
4 60 (13.02%) Cisco Certification
5 51 (11.06%) CCNP
6 45 (9.76%) Degree
7 34 (7.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 27 (5.86%) CCNA
9 26 (5.64%) Azure Certification
10 22 (4.77%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (2.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 12 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (2.60%) VCAP
13 11 (2.39%) A+ Certification
13 11 (2.39%) Server+ Certification
13 11 (2.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 10 (2.17%) AWS Certification
15 9 (1.95%) CCIE
16 7 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
17 5 (1.08%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.72%) SLA
2 13 (2.82%) NIST
3 9 (1.95%) QA
4 5 (1.08%) NCSC
5 4 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.65%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.43%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.43%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 282 (61.17%) Active Directory
2 166 (36.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 97 (21.04%) Hyper-V
4 57 (12.36%) vSphere
5 41 (8.89%) VMware ESXi
6 26 (5.64%) VMware NSX
7 25 (5.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 24 (5.21%) Docker
9 20 (4.34%) Virtual Machines
10 12 (2.60%) BitLocker
11 9 (1.95%) Firmware
11 9 (1.95%) NFS
12 7 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (1.30%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (1.30%) VMware Workstation
14 3 (0.65%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.65%) VirtualBox
15 2 (0.43%) UAG
15 2 (0.43%) XenApp
15 2 (0.43%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 94 (20.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 79 (17.14%) Ansible
3 66 (14.32%) SCCM
4 40 (8.68%) Kubernetes
5 25 (5.42%) vCenter Server
6 20 (4.34%) FortiGate
7 19 (4.12%) WSUS
8 16 (3.47%) VxRail
9 15 (3.25%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (3.04%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (2.17%) vMotion
12 9 (1.95%) SCOM
13 8 (1.74%) Nagios
14 7 (1.52%) Failover Clustering
14 7 (1.52%) Packer
14 7 (1.52%) Prometheus
14 7 (1.52%) Puppet
15 6 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 6 (1.30%) Grafana
16 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 256 (55.53%) Microsoft
2 195 (42.30%) VMware
3 102 (22.13%) Cisco
4 76 (16.49%) ServiceNow
5 40 (8.68%) Citrix
6 38 (8.24%) Infoblox
7 37 (8.03%) F5
8 31 (6.72%) Palo Alto
9 27 (5.86%) SolarWinds
10 21 (4.56%) CheckPoint
11 19 (4.12%) Juniper
12 18 (3.90%) Fortinet
12 18 (3.90%) Google
13 16 (3.47%) CyberArk
14 13 (2.82%) Meraki
14 13 (2.82%) Red Hat
15 12 (2.60%) HP
15 12 (2.60%) Zscaler
16 11 (2.39%) Remedy
17 9 (1.95%) Aruba