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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 198 228
Rank change year-on-year -78 +30 +4
Contract jobs citing DHCP 335 333 389
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 1.34% 1.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.28% 9.92% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 239 285
10th Percentile £200 £223 £200
25th Percentile £350 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% +5.56% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £601 £575
90th Percentile £638 £655 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 21
10th Percentile - - £17.00
25th Percentile £12.43 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.33 £23.59 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.59% -41.03% +1.91%
75th Percentile £57.43 - -
90th Percentile £79.20 - £67.50
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £23.59 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.59% -41.03% +1.91%

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 3,609 3,358 5,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.02% 13.48% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,327 2,051 3,220
10th Percentile £204 £210 £205
25th Percentile £366 £366 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 112 380
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.01 £14.27
25th Percentile £20.32 £21.46 £19.83
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +110.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £72.97
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +110.53%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -47 105 £488 -2.50% 41
South East -7 88 £525 -4.55% 72
North of England -81 54 £447 +11.63% 46
South West -36 41 £575 -2.13% 18
Midlands -44 36 £400 -11.11% 20
West Midlands -35 34 £400 +3.90% 11
North West -48 31 £575 +35.29% 24
East of England -23 19 £363 -32.56% 24
Yorkshire -55 19 £344 -1.08% 17
North East -16 4 £223 +48.83% 7
East Midlands -36 2 £275 -38.89% 9
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 53 (15.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (11.64%) SharePoint
3 25 (7.46%) Skype for Business
4 4 (1.19%) Apache
5 3 (0.90%) IIS
6 2 (0.60%) Confluence
6 2 (0.60%) WordPress
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) Traefik
Applications
1 24 (7.16%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.09%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.30%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 145 (43.28%) Azure
2 94 (28.06%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (23.58%) Entra ID
4 48 (14.33%) AWS
5 23 (6.87%) IaaS
6 21 (6.27%) PaaS
7 15 (4.48%) SaaS
8 14 (4.18%) GCP
9 12 (3.58%) Nutanix
10 7 (2.09%) OneDrive
11 6 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 5 (1.49%) Datadog
13 4 (1.19%) Power Platform
13 4 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 3 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
14 3 (0.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 322 (96.12%) DNS
2 113 (33.73%) Firewall
3 97 (28.96%) TCP/IP
4 90 (26.87%) VPN
5 68 (20.30%) LAN
6 64 (19.10%) WAN
7 61 (18.21%) VLAN
8 42 (12.54%) Wi-Fi
9 41 (12.24%) BGP
10 33 (9.85%) OSPF
11 29 (8.66%) Kerberos
11 29 (8.66%) VXLAN
12 28 (8.36%) Cisco ISE
13 25 (7.46%) BIG-IP
13 25 (7.46%) Skype
14 24 (7.16%) Wireless
15 22 (6.57%) Network Security
16 18 (5.37%) Ethernet VPN
16 18 (5.37%) Junos
16 18 (5.37%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.48%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.30%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.30%) MySQL
3 1 (0.30%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.30%) Power BI
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (2.99%) JIRA
2 5 (1.49%) Chocolatey
3 4 (1.19%) Git
4 3 (0.90%) GitLab
5 1 (0.30%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.30%) Subversion
General
1 99 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 60 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (5.97%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.67%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (4.78%) Finance
6 15 (4.48%) Banking
7 8 (2.39%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.39%) Legal
8 7 (2.09%) Military
8 7 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.09%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.90%) Aerospace
11 3 (0.90%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.60%) Advertising
12 2 (0.60%) Law
12 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.60%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 50 (14.93%) Support Engineer
2 44 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 38 (11.34%) IT Support
3 38 (11.34%) Network Engineer
4 35 (10.45%) Senior
5 34 (10.15%) Analyst
6 29 (8.66%) Architect
7 27 (8.06%) IT Engineer
8 21 (6.27%) IT Support Engineer
9 19 (5.67%) 2nd Line Support
10 17 (5.07%) IT Analyst
11 15 (4.48%) Microsoft Engineer
12 14 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
12 14 (4.18%) Support Analyst
13 13 (3.88%) IT Support Analyst
14 12 (3.58%) 1st/2nd Line Support
14 12 (3.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 11 (3.28%) Network Architect
15 11 (3.28%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (3.28%) Wintel Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (9.25%) LDAP
2 27 (8.06%) 802.1X
3 15 (4.48%) OAuth
3 15 (4.48%) SAML
4 4 (1.19%) Middleware
5 3 (0.90%) .NET
5 3 (0.90%) AngularJS
5 3 (0.90%) ARM Templates
5 3 (0.90%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (0.90%) Bootstrap
5 3 (0.90%) Express.js
5 3 (0.90%) JSON
5 3 (0.90%) React
5 3 (0.90%) REST
5 3 (0.90%) SOAP
5 3 (0.90%) WCF
5 3 (0.90%) Web Services
5 3 (0.90%) WPF
6 2 (0.60%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (0.60%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.03%) Data Centre
2 40 (11.94%) PKI
3 33 (9.85%) Replication
4 25 (7.46%) Clustering
5 14 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (3.88%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.79%) IoT
9 5 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
9 5 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.49%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.49%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.49%) Smartphone
9 5 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 5 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.19%) iPhone
11 3 (0.90%) CCTV
11 3 (0.90%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 218 (65.07%) Windows
2 120 (35.82%) Windows Server
3 40 (11.94%) Windows 10
4 34 (10.15%) Linux
5 24 (7.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (5.07%) Android
7 12 (3.58%) Apple iOS
8 11 (3.28%) Windows 7
8 11 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (2.09%) Mac OS
10 6 (1.79%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (1.19%) Unix
12 3 (0.90%) CentOS
12 3 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.90%) VMS
12 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.30%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.06%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (22.69%) ITIL
3 53 (15.82%) High Availability
4 49 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 45 (13.43%) ITSM
6 44 (13.13%) Load Balancing
7 41 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 40 (11.94%) Identity Access Management
9 36 (10.75%) Migration
10 34 (10.15%) Service Management
11 28 (8.36%) Observability
12 27 (8.06%) Zero Trust
13 26 (7.76%) Customer Service
14 25 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (7.16%) Task Automation
16 23 (6.87%) Change Management
17 21 (6.27%) Root Cause Analysis
18 18 (5.37%) DevOps
18 18 (5.37%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 133 (39.70%) PowerShell
2 31 (9.25%) Python
3 17 (5.07%) Bash
4 13 (3.88%) VBScript
5 12 (3.58%) SQL
6 10 (2.99%) VB
7 7 (2.09%) Lisp
8 5 (1.49%) Perl
9 4 (1.19%) Bicep
10 3 (0.90%) C#
10 3 (0.90%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.60%) VBA
12 1 (0.30%) Go
12 1 (0.30%) Java
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 125 (37.31%) Security Cleared
2 84 (25.07%) SC Cleared
3 44 (13.13%) Cisco Certification
3 44 (13.13%) DV Cleared
4 29 (8.66%) CCNP
5 24 (7.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (6.27%) Degree
7 16 (4.78%) Azure Certification
8 15 (4.48%) Network+ Certification
9 11 (3.28%) CCNA
10 8 (2.39%) AWS Certification
10 8 (2.39%) JNCIP
10 8 (2.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (2.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 7 (2.09%) Server+ Certification
12 6 (1.79%) CISSP
12 6 (1.79%) JNCIA
12 6 (1.79%) JNCIS
13 5 (1.49%) CCIE
13 5 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.16%) GDPR
2 15 (4.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 15 (4.48%) SLA
3 11 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.09%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (1.79%) NIST
6 5 (1.49%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.60%) NCSC
8 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.30%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.30%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.30%) QA
8 1 (0.30%) RMADS
System Software
1 207 (61.79%) Active Directory
2 79 (23.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (11.34%) Hyper-V
4 20 (5.97%) vSphere
5 16 (4.78%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (4.48%) BitLocker
6 15 (4.48%) Docker
7 9 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (2.69%) VMware NSX
8 7 (2.09%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (1.79%) Firmware
9 6 (1.79%) Microsoft App-V
10 4 (1.19%) Terminal Services
11 3 (0.90%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.90%) KVM
11 3 (0.90%) NFS
12 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.30%) Lustre
13 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 64 (19.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 63 (18.81%) SCCM
3 41 (12.24%) Ansible
4 35 (10.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 30 (8.96%) Terraform
6 28 (8.36%) FortiGate
6 28 (8.36%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (5.07%) Kubernetes
8 9 (2.69%) vCenter Server
9 8 (2.39%) SCOM
10 7 (2.09%) Puppet
10 7 (2.09%) WSUS
11 6 (1.79%) HAProxy
12 5 (1.49%) Nagios
12 5 (1.49%) vMotion
13 3 (0.90%) Failover Clustering
13 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.90%) Stealthwatch
14 2 (0.60%) CA Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 165 (49.25%) Microsoft
2 94 (28.06%) VMware
3 63 (18.81%) Cisco
4 49 (14.63%) ServiceNow
5 36 (10.75%) F5
6 34 (10.15%) SolarWinds
7 28 (8.36%) Juniper
8 26 (7.76%) Citrix
9 20 (5.97%) Splunk
10 17 (5.07%) Extreme Networks
11 16 (4.78%) Fortinet
11 16 (4.78%) Okta
11 16 (4.78%) Palo Alto
12 13 (3.88%) Infoblox
12 13 (3.88%) Veeam
13 11 (3.28%) Dell
14 8 (2.39%) Remedy
15 7 (2.09%) Apple
15 7 (2.09%) Google
15 7 (2.09%) NetApp