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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 213 227
Rank change year-on-year -56 +14 +17
Contract jobs citing DHCP 315 352 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.05% 1.14% 1.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.19% 9.36% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 217 293
10th Percentile £201 £223 £191
25th Percentile £285 £300 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £600
90th Percentile £668 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 10
10th Percentile £23.98 £23.35 £23.46
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.19 £27.31
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +16.54% +51.14%
75th Percentile £76.94 £49.69 £45.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £57.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £36.02
% change year-on-year - -16.71% +63.73%

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 3,426 3,762 5,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.47% 12.18% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,200 2,192 3,563
10th Percentile £213 £235 £212
25th Percentile £362 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 131 327
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £18.30
25th Percentile £20.42 £26.25 £23.05
Median hourly rate £33.39 £49.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -31.87% -13.26% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.48 £75.00 £76.16
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.37% -13.64% +30.95%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +4 116 £475 +1.71% 177
South East -16 55 £475 +5.56% 265
Midlands -27 51 £383 +2.00% 56
West Midlands -9 50 £383 - 27
North of England -53 41 £500 +25.00% 42
South West -5 30 £575 +39.39% 61
East of England -5 24 £225 -43.75% 81
North West -41 20 £500 -6.98% 22
Yorkshire -26 17 £525 +82.61% 17
North East -14 4 £247 +64.33% 3
East Midlands -31 1 - - 29
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 61 (19.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (17.78%) SharePoint
3 34 (10.79%) Skype for Business
4 11 (3.49%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2007
5 10 (3.17%) Exchange Server 2013
5 10 (3.17%) Office Communications Server
5 10 (3.17%) SharePoint Server
6 8 (2.54%) OpenStack
7 7 (2.22%) Confluence
8 3 (0.95%) IIS
9 1 (0.32%) Apache
Applications
1 53 (16.83%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.22%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Eikon
1 1 (0.32%) Eze OMS
1 1 (0.32%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.32%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 94 (29.84%) Azure
2 91 (28.89%) Microsoft 365
3 61 (19.37%) AWS
4 35 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 14 (4.44%) IaaS
6 12 (3.81%) GCP
7 11 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 10 (3.17%) OneDrive
8 10 (3.17%) SaaS
9 9 (2.86%) AWS Direct Connect
9 9 (2.86%) PaaS
10 8 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 7 (2.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.90%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.90%) Serverless
13 5 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 312 (99.05%) DNS
2 115 (36.51%) TCP/IP
3 106 (33.65%) Firewall
4 95 (30.16%) VPN
5 69 (21.90%) VLAN
5 69 (21.90%) WAN
6 67 (21.27%) LAN
7 49 (15.56%) Wireless
8 30 (9.52%) BGP
9 27 (8.57%) SD-WAN
9 27 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (7.62%) SAN
10 24 (7.62%) Skype
11 22 (6.98%) Network Security
11 22 (6.98%) OSPF
12 21 (6.67%) WLAN
13 19 (6.03%) Cisco IOS
14 16 (5.08%) Cisco Wireless
15 14 (4.44%) Cisco ISE
16 13 (4.13%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.63%) MySQL
3 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.32%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.32%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 11 (3.49%) JIRA
2 3 (0.95%) Git
2 3 (0.95%) GitLab
3 1 (0.32%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.32%) Postman
3 1 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.32%) Subversion
General
1 107 (33.97%) Social Skills
2 55 (17.46%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 24 (7.62%) Finance
5 14 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 13 (4.13%) Banking
7 8 (2.54%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.90%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.59%) Local Government
11 4 (1.27%) Legal
12 3 (0.95%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.63%) Front Office
13 2 (0.63%) Military
14 1 (0.32%) Back Office
14 1 (0.32%) Games
Job Titles
1 81 (25.71%) Support Engineer
2 39 (12.38%) Analyst
2 39 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 38 (12.06%) Network Engineer
4 27 (8.57%) IT Support
5 25 (7.94%) Architect
6 23 (7.30%) Senior
7 21 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
7 21 (6.67%) IT Engineer
8 18 (5.71%) Support Analyst
9 16 (5.08%) Administrator
10 14 (4.44%) Consultant
10 14 (4.44%) Infrastructure Support
11 13 (4.13%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
11 13 (4.13%) IT Support Engineer
11 13 (4.13%) Microsoft Engineer
12 11 (3.49%) Desktop Engineer
13 10 (3.17%) Desktop Support
13 10 (3.17%) Network Analyst
13 10 (3.17%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.59%) YAML
2 4 (1.27%) Middleware
3 3 (0.95%) LDAP
4 2 (0.63%) .NET
4 2 (0.63%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.63%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.63%) Bootstrap
4 2 (0.63%) Express.js
4 2 (0.63%) JSON
4 2 (0.63%) React
4 2 (0.63%) REST
4 2 (0.63%) SAML
4 2 (0.63%) SOAP
4 2 (0.63%) WCF
4 2 (0.63%) Web Services
4 2 (0.63%) WPF
5 1 (0.32%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.32%) Jinja
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.06%) Data Centre
2 22 (6.98%) Replication
3 19 (6.03%) PKI
4 12 (3.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.54%) iPhone
6 8 (2.54%) Operational Technology
6 8 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (2.54%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
8 6 (1.90%) CMDB
9 5 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (1.59%) iPad
9 5 (1.59%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.59%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (1.27%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.27%) NHS
11 3 (0.95%) Hedge funds
12 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 195 (61.90%) Windows
2 76 (24.13%) Windows Server
3 50 (15.87%) Linux
4 46 (14.60%) Windows 10
5 17 (5.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (5.08%) Android
6 16 (5.08%) Mac OS
7 14 (4.44%) Windows Server 2003
8 13 (4.13%) Windows 7
9 10 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (2.86%) Apple iOS
10 9 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
11 8 (2.54%) CentOS
12 6 (1.90%) Ubuntu
12 6 (1.90%) Unix
13 3 (0.95%) VMS
13 3 (0.95%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.32%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (30.79%) ITIL
2 65 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (14.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 40 (12.70%) Service Management
5 36 (11.43%) High Availability
6 31 (9.84%) Computer Science
7 29 (9.21%) Disaster Recovery
8 27 (8.57%) ITSM
8 27 (8.57%) Migration
9 20 (6.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
9 20 (6.35%) Load Balancing
10 19 (6.03%) Change Management
10 19 (6.03%) Knowledge Transfer
10 19 (6.03%) Service Delivery
11 18 (5.71%) Customer Service
11 18 (5.71%) Zero Trust
12 17 (5.40%) DevOps
13 14 (4.44%) CI/CD
13 14 (4.44%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 89 (28.25%) PowerShell
2 23 (7.30%) Python
3 17 (5.40%) SQL
4 13 (4.13%) Bash
5 8 (2.54%) VBScript
6 7 (2.22%) Lisp
7 6 (1.90%) VB
8 5 (1.59%) Bicep
9 4 (1.27%) Perl
10 2 (0.63%) C#
10 2 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.32%) Go
11 1 (0.32%) Java
Qualifications
1 85 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 70 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 58 (18.41%) SC Cleared
4 50 (15.87%) CCNP
5 43 (13.65%) Degree
6 38 (12.06%) CCNA
7 36 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (10.48%) DV Cleared
9 20 (6.35%) Azure Certification
10 14 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (3.81%) CCIE
11 12 (3.81%) Network+ Certification
12 11 (3.49%) Server+ Certification
13 9 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (2.54%) MCP
15 7 (2.22%) CCSA
15 7 (2.22%) MCSE
16 6 (1.90%) A+ Certification
16 6 (1.90%) CISSP
16 6 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.76%) SLA
2 12 (3.81%) GDPR
3 8 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.22%) NIST
5 6 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.63%) NCSC
8 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.32%) QA
8 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 157 (49.84%) Active Directory
2 64 (20.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (10.79%) Hyper-V
4 12 (3.81%) vSphere
5 11 (3.49%) Docker
6 10 (3.17%) Brightmail
6 10 (3.17%) ISA Server
6 10 (3.17%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (2.86%) Firmware
7 9 (2.86%) VMware NSX
8 8 (2.54%) Microsoft App-V
8 8 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (1.59%) BitLocker
9 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 5 (1.59%) Terminal Services
9 5 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.95%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.95%) NFS
11 3 (0.95%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 55 (17.46%) SCCM
2 31 (9.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (8.25%) Terraform
4 23 (7.30%) Ansible
5 14 (4.44%) WSUS
6 12 (3.81%) FortiGate
6 12 (3.81%) Microsoft Clustering
7 9 (2.86%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.54%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.90%) OpenView
10 5 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 5 (1.59%) SCOM
11 4 (1.27%) CA Spectrum
11 4 (1.27%) Kubernetes
11 4 (1.27%) Packer
12 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.95%) Puppet
12 3 (0.95%) SELinux
12 3 (0.95%) Tivoli
13 2 (0.63%) AppManager
Vendors
1 163 (51.75%) Microsoft
2 81 (25.71%) VMware
3 80 (25.40%) Cisco
4 35 (11.11%) ServiceNow
5 29 (9.21%) Citrix
6 21 (6.67%) F5
6 21 (6.67%) SolarWinds
7 19 (6.03%) CheckPoint
7 19 (6.03%) Meraki
8 18 (5.71%) Fortinet
9 17 (5.40%) Dell
9 17 (5.40%) Palo Alto
10 15 (4.76%) Remedy
11 14 (4.44%) Veeam
12 10 (3.17%) Juniper
12 10 (3.17%) Red Hat
13 8 (2.54%) Infoblox
13 8 (2.54%) Zscaler
14 7 (2.22%) Ekahau
14 7 (2.22%) Peregrine
644 DHCP jobs in England