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

 6 months to
4 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 218 262
Rank change year-on-year -42 +44 -12
Contract jobs citing DHCP 408 323 343
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.93% 1.23% 0.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.75% 9.69% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 223 258
10th Percentile £210 £250 £237
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +6.36% -1.64%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £575
90th Percentile £630 £635 £608
UK median daily rate £475 £510 £475
% change year-on-year -6.86% +7.37% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 17
10th Percentile £12.43 £28.20 £18.40
25th Percentile £26.00 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -4.48%
75th Percentile £65.33 £41.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £55.65 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -4.48%

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 4,184 3,335 4,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.51% 12.66% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 2,064 2,876
10th Percentile £250 £235 £214
25th Percentile £400 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 143 390
10th Percentile £16.04 £14.75 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.63 £20.84 £17.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £40.00 £45.44
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% -11.97% +103.45%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.35 £74.10
UK median hourly rate £26.44 £44.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.58% -1.11% +100.00%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 -58 132 £450 -10.00% 41
South East -5 113 £520 -8.53% 55
North of England -63 63 £519 +11.61% 30
Midlands -45 42 £450 +12.50% 38
South West -20 39 £425 -29.17% 45
North West -41 35 £609 +36.55% 14
West Midlands -57 31 £444 +74.02% 20
Yorkshire -45 24 £460 -16.36% 12
East of England -33 15 £485 -7.62% 29
East Midlands -11 11 £450 -18.18% 18
North East -32 4 £350 +40.00% 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 37 (9.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (8.09%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.47%) IIS
4 4 (0.98%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.49%) Confluence
5 2 (0.49%) nginx
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.25%) Houdini
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 169 (41.42%) Azure
2 89 (21.81%) Entra ID
3 80 (19.61%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (16.42%) AWS
5 26 (6.37%) OneDrive
6 22 (5.39%) IaaS
7 19 (4.66%) PaaS
8 18 (4.41%) GCP
9 16 (3.92%) SaaS
10 11 (2.70%) Route 53
11 8 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.47%) Datadog
14 5 (1.23%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (1.23%) Nutanix
15 4 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (0.98%) GitHub
15 4 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.98%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 398 (97.55%) DNS
2 154 (37.75%) Firewall
3 109 (26.72%) TCP/IP
4 95 (23.28%) VPN
5 86 (21.08%) LAN
6 84 (20.59%) WAN
7 77 (18.87%) VLAN
8 52 (12.75%) Network Security
9 51 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
10 45 (11.03%) Wireless
11 43 (10.54%) BGP
12 42 (10.29%) OSPF
13 40 (9.80%) SAN
14 39 (9.56%) BIG-IP
15 31 (7.60%) Kerberos
16 28 (6.86%) Cisco ISE
16 28 (6.86%) VXLAN
17 25 (6.13%) Ethernet VPN
17 25 (6.13%) Junos
18 23 (5.64%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.11%) SQL Server
2 8 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.74%) Big Data
5 2 (0.49%) Db2
5 2 (0.49%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.25%) Power BI
6 1 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (6.62%) JIRA
2 6 (1.47%) Chocolatey
3 5 (1.23%) Browser DevTools
3 5 (1.23%) Git
4 3 (0.74%) GitLab
5 2 (0.49%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.25%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.25%) MSI
6 1 (0.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 43 (10.54%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (7.84%) Finance
4 26 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 25 (6.13%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.92%) Banking
7 8 (1.96%) Legal
7 8 (1.96%) Local Government
8 7 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.72%) Military
8 7 (1.72%) Police
9 6 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.47%) Telecoms
10 4 (0.98%) Law
10 4 (0.98%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.74%) Retail
12 2 (0.49%) Advertising
12 2 (0.49%) Publishing
13 1 (0.25%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 83 (20.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 59 (14.46%) Network Engineer
3 46 (11.27%) Architect
4 42 (10.29%) Support Engineer
5 38 (9.31%) IT Support
6 36 (8.82%) Senior
7 35 (8.58%) IT Engineer
8 26 (6.37%) Analyst
9 23 (5.64%) IT Support Engineer
10 15 (3.68%) Administrator
10 15 (3.68%) Network Specialist
10 15 (3.68%) Senior Network Engineer
11 14 (3.43%) Firewall Specialist
12 13 (3.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 12 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
14 11 (2.70%) Infrastructure Support
14 11 (2.70%) Server Engineer
14 11 (2.70%) Technical Architect
15 10 (2.45%) Active Directory Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.29%) 802.1X
2 32 (7.84%) LDAP
3 21 (5.15%) SAML
4 15 (3.68%) OAuth
5 10 (2.45%) JSON
6 6 (1.47%) ARM Templates
7 4 (0.98%) OpenID
8 3 (0.74%) .NET
8 3 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.74%) Redfish
8 3 (0.74%) REST
8 3 (0.74%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.49%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.49%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.49%) Blazor
9 2 (0.49%) Middleware
9 2 (0.49%) ModSecurity
9 2 (0.49%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.49%) Qt
10 1 (0.25%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 80 (19.61%) Data Centre
2 56 (13.73%) PKI
3 38 (9.31%) Clustering
4 30 (7.35%) Replication
5 29 (7.11%) Onboarding
6 17 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
7 14 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.70%) Virtual Team
9 9 (2.21%) IoT
10 6 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
11 5 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.23%) Driving Licence
11 5 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.23%) Fat Client
11 5 (1.23%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.23%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.23%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 258 (63.24%) Windows
2 138 (33.82%) Windows Server
3 46 (11.27%) Linux
4 40 (9.80%) Windows 10
5 24 (5.88%) Mac OS
6 20 (4.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (3.19%) Apple iOS
7 13 (3.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 11 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
9 9 (2.21%) Android
9 9 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (1.47%) Unix
10 6 (1.47%) Windows 7
10 6 (1.47%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.74%) VMS
12 2 (0.49%) CentOS
12 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.25%) Rocky
13 1 (0.25%) SUSE
13 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (24.75%) Problem-Solving
2 95 (23.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 86 (21.08%) High Availability
4 79 (19.36%) ITIL
5 68 (16.67%) ITSM
6 50 (12.25%) Load Balancing
7 49 (12.01%) Migration
8 48 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
9 38 (9.31%) Disaster Recovery
10 36 (8.82%) Observability
10 36 (8.82%) Root Cause Analysis
11 33 (8.09%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (7.35%) Project Delivery
13 29 (7.11%) User Experience
14 27 (6.62%) Continuous Improvement
14 27 (6.62%) Network Segmentation
15 26 (6.37%) Task Automation
16 25 (6.13%) Incident Management
17 24 (5.88%) Patch Management
17 24 (5.88%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (24.75%) PowerShell
2 41 (10.05%) Python
3 20 (4.90%) Bash
4 11 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.21%) VBA
6 6 (1.47%) VBScript
7 5 (1.23%) SQL
8 4 (0.98%) VB
9 3 (0.74%) Lisp
10 2 (0.49%) Bicep
11 1 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.25%) C++
11 1 (0.25%) Go
11 1 (0.25%) Perl
11 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 162 (39.71%) Security Cleared
2 95 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 62 (15.20%) Cisco Certification
4 50 (12.25%) DV Cleared
5 40 (9.80%) CCNP
6 33 (8.09%) Degree
7 27 (6.62%) CCNA
8 20 (4.90%) Network+ Certification
9 15 (3.68%) Server+ Certification
10 13 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (2.94%) Azure Certification
12 7 (1.72%) CCIE
12 7 (1.72%) JNCIA
12 7 (1.72%) JNCIP
12 7 (1.72%) JNCIS
13 6 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (1.23%) CCIE Security
14 5 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.98%) MCSA
15 4 (0.98%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.39%) SLA
2 16 (3.92%) GDPR
3 13 (3.19%) NIST
3 13 (3.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 7 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.23%) NCSC
5 5 (1.23%) QA
6 4 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.74%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.49%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.25%) RMADS
System Software
1 231 (56.62%) Active Directory
2 111 (27.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (14.95%) Hyper-V
4 35 (8.58%) VMware ESXi
5 31 (7.60%) vSphere
6 24 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (4.66%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (3.92%) BitLocker
9 13 (3.19%) Docker
10 11 (2.70%) Microsoft App-V
11 9 (2.21%) Firmware
11 9 (2.21%) VMware NSX
12 7 (1.72%) NFS
13 6 (1.47%) VMware Workstation
14 4 (0.98%) Terminal Services
15 3 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.49%) UAG
16 2 (0.49%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.49%) XenApp
16 2 (0.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (13.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (9.80%) Ansible
3 39 (9.56%) SCCM
4 35 (8.58%) FortiGate
5 32 (7.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 31 (7.60%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (6.37%) Terraform
8 19 (4.66%) vCenter Server
9 16 (3.92%) Kubernetes
9 16 (3.92%) WSUS
10 12 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (2.94%) vMotion
11 8 (1.96%) Puppet
12 7 (1.72%) Nagios
13 5 (1.23%) Failover Clustering
13 5 (1.23%) Prometheus
14 4 (0.98%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.98%) HAProxy
14 4 (0.98%) SCOM
15 3 (0.74%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 186 (45.59%) Microsoft
2 124 (30.39%) VMware
3 95 (23.28%) Cisco
4 74 (18.14%) ServiceNow
5 50 (12.25%) F5
6 44 (10.78%) Citrix
6 44 (10.78%) Infoblox
7 41 (10.05%) SolarWinds
8 36 (8.82%) Juniper
9 26 (6.37%) Splunk
10 22 (5.39%) Extreme Networks
11 21 (5.15%) Palo Alto
12 17 (4.17%) Google
13 16 (3.92%) Fortinet
14 14 (3.43%) CheckPoint
15 13 (3.19%) HP
15 13 (3.19%) Okta
16 12 (2.94%) Dell
17 10 (2.45%) NetApp
17 10 (2.45%) Veeam
220 DHCP jobs in England