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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 222 248
Rank change year-on-year -50 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing DHCP 380 287 349
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.91% 1.20% 0.95%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.48% 9.20% 7.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 209 276
10th Percentile £210 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £385 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +10.53% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £588
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £495 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -5.71% +10.53% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 4 16
10th Percentile £12.43 £28.30 £18.00
25th Percentile £26.00 £28.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -10.97%
75th Percentile £72.00 £37.94 £42.19
90th Percentile £74.00 £50.43 £68.13
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -10.97%

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 4,009 3,119 4,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.59% 13.04% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,482 1,949 2,922
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 118 390
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.66 £16.44
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.41 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.39% -3.98% +134.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.35 £70.07
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £39.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.18% -0.85% +118.16%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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
London -63 113 £450 -10.00% 35
South East 0 106 £520 -8.53% 63
North of England -66 62 £526 +20.99% 44
Midlands -41 40 £444 +4.41% 26
South West -28 38 £516 -16.14% 30
North West -36 37 £602 +41.53% 28
West Midlands -44 31 £450 +45.16% 17
Yorkshire -46 21 £447 -10.60% 13
East of England -21 17 £485 -9.77% 24
East Midlands -25 9 £275 -45.00% 9
North East -25 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 32 (8.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (6.32%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.84%) IIS
4 4 (1.05%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.26%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) nginx
5 1 (0.26%) Traefik
Applications
1 11 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 158 (41.58%) Azure
2 89 (23.42%) Entra ID
3 75 (19.74%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (14.47%) AWS
5 23 (6.05%) IaaS
6 21 (5.53%) PaaS
7 16 (4.21%) OneDrive
8 12 (3.16%) SaaS
9 10 (2.63%) GCP
10 8 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
11 7 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (1.84%) Nutanix
12 6 (1.58%) Datadog
13 4 (1.05%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (1.05%) Route 53
14 3 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (0.79%) Azure Stack
14 3 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (0.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 366 (96.32%) DNS
2 137 (36.05%) Firewall
3 85 (22.37%) VPN
4 82 (21.58%) TCP/IP
5 81 (21.32%) LAN
6 79 (20.79%) WAN
7 77 (20.26%) VLAN
8 46 (12.11%) Network Security
9 43 (11.32%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (10.79%) BGP
10 41 (10.79%) OSPF
11 40 (10.53%) Wireless
12 39 (10.26%) BIG-IP
13 37 (9.74%) SAN
14 31 (8.16%) Kerberos
15 28 (7.37%) VXLAN
16 27 (7.11%) Cisco ISE
17 25 (6.58%) Ethernet VPN
17 25 (6.58%) Junos
18 21 (5.53%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.63%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.53%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.26%) Power BI
5 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (5.79%) JIRA
2 6 (1.58%) Chocolatey
3 4 (1.05%) Browser DevTools
3 4 (1.05%) Git
4 2 (0.53%) GitLab
5 1 (0.26%) Jenkins
General
1 91 (23.95%) Social Skills
2 46 (12.11%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (7.11%) Finance
4 21 (5.53%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.95%) Banking
7 8 (2.11%) Telecoms
8 7 (1.84%) Legal
9 6 (1.58%) Military
9 6 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.32%) Law
10 5 (1.32%) Local Government
10 5 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.32%) Police
11 2 (0.53%) Advertising
11 2 (0.53%) Publishing
12 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.26%) Electronics
12 1 (0.26%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 76 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (14.21%) Network Engineer
3 39 (10.26%) Architect
4 35 (9.21%) Senior
5 34 (8.95%) IT Support
5 34 (8.95%) Support Engineer
6 31 (8.16%) Analyst
7 27 (7.11%) IT Engineer
8 17 (4.47%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (3.95%) IT Analyst
9 15 (3.95%) Network Specialist
10 14 (3.68%) Administrator
10 14 (3.68%) Firewall Specialist
11 13 (3.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (3.42%) Senior Network Engineer
11 13 (3.42%) Support Analyst
12 12 (3.16%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (2.89%) 2nd Line Support
13 11 (2.89%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.89%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (10.00%) 802.1X
2 32 (8.42%) LDAP
3 21 (5.53%) SAML
4 16 (4.21%) OAuth
5 10 (2.63%) JSON
6 5 (1.32%) ARM Templates
7 4 (1.05%) OpenID
8 3 (0.79%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (0.79%) Redfish
8 3 (0.79%) REST
8 3 (0.79%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.53%) .NET
9 2 (0.53%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.53%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.53%) Blazor
9 2 (0.53%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.53%) Qt
9 2 (0.53%) XMPP
10 1 (0.26%) CSS
10 1 (0.26%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (17.89%) Data Centre
2 45 (11.84%) PKI
3 35 (9.21%) Clustering
4 31 (8.16%) Replication
5 30 (7.89%) Onboarding
6 15 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (2.89%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.37%) IoT
9 8 (2.11%) Enterprise Storage
10 6 (1.58%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.32%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.32%) Smartphone
11 5 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.05%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.05%) Management Information System
13 3 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 242 (63.68%) Windows
2 139 (36.58%) Windows Server
3 42 (11.05%) Linux
4 41 (10.79%) Windows 10
5 29 (7.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 16 (4.21%) Mac OS
6 16 (4.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (3.68%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (3.16%) Apple iOS
9 11 (2.89%) Android
10 8 (2.11%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (1.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (1.58%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.79%) Unix
12 3 (0.79%) VMS
13 2 (0.53%) CentOS
13 2 (0.53%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.26%) Rocky
14 1 (0.26%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (21.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 78 (20.53%) High Availability
4 71 (18.68%) ITIL
5 59 (15.53%) ITSM
6 47 (12.37%) Identity Access Management
7 46 (12.11%) Migration
8 43 (11.32%) Disaster Recovery
9 41 (10.79%) Load Balancing
10 34 (8.95%) Observability
11 31 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (7.37%) Root Cause Analysis
13 27 (7.11%) Task Automation
14 24 (6.32%) Incident Management
14 24 (6.32%) Network Segmentation
15 22 (5.79%) DevOps
15 22 (5.79%) Service Management
16 21 (5.53%) Agile
16 21 (5.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 21 (5.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 89 (23.42%) PowerShell
2 31 (8.16%) Python
3 15 (3.95%) Bash
4 11 (2.89%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.37%) VBA
6 6 (1.58%) SQL
6 6 (1.58%) VBScript
7 5 (1.32%) Bicep
8 4 (1.05%) VB
9 3 (0.79%) Lisp
10 1 (0.26%) C
10 1 (0.26%) Go
10 1 (0.26%) Java
10 1 (0.26%) Perl
10 1 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 151 (39.74%) Security Cleared
2 92 (24.21%) SC Cleared
3 56 (14.74%) Cisco Certification
4 47 (12.37%) DV Cleared
5 34 (8.95%) CCNP
6 25 (6.58%) Degree
7 22 (5.79%) CCNA
8 21 (5.53%) Network+ Certification
9 15 (3.95%) Server+ Certification
10 10 (2.63%) Azure Certification
11 7 (1.84%) JNCIA
11 7 (1.84%) JNCIP
11 7 (1.84%) JNCIS
12 6 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.05%) CCIE
15 3 (0.79%) CCIE Security
16 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 2 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.32%) SLA
2 17 (4.47%) GDPR
3 14 (3.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (2.89%) NIST
5 7 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.05%) QA
7 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.79%) NCSC
8 2 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.53%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.26%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.26%) RMADS
System Software
1 226 (59.47%) Active Directory
2 110 (28.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 61 (16.05%) Hyper-V
4 29 (7.63%) vSphere
5 26 (6.84%) VMware ESXi
6 20 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (4.47%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (3.95%) BitLocker
9 14 (3.68%) Docker
10 10 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
10 10 (2.63%) VMware NSX
11 7 (1.84%) Firmware
12 6 (1.58%) VMware Workstation
13 4 (1.05%) NFS
14 3 (0.79%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.79%) Terminal Services
14 3 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.53%) UAG
15 2 (0.53%) XenApp
15 2 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (13.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (10.79%) SCCM
3 36 (9.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 36 (9.47%) Ansible
4 31 (8.16%) FortiGate
5 29 (7.63%) Single Sign-On
6 19 (5.00%) Terraform
7 15 (3.95%) Kubernetes
7 15 (3.95%) WSUS
8 12 (3.16%) vCenter Server
9 9 (2.37%) vMotion
10 7 (1.84%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (1.84%) Nagios
10 7 (1.84%) Puppet
11 5 (1.32%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (1.05%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.05%) Prometheus
13 3 (0.79%) Cisco CUCM
13 3 (0.79%) SCOM
13 3 (0.79%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 165 (43.42%) Microsoft
2 119 (31.32%) VMware
3 88 (23.16%) Cisco
4 67 (17.63%) ServiceNow
5 50 (13.16%) F5
6 40 (10.53%) SolarWinds
7 35 (9.21%) Citrix
7 35 (9.21%) Juniper
8 33 (8.68%) Infoblox
9 25 (6.58%) Splunk
10 22 (5.79%) Extreme Networks
11 17 (4.47%) Palo Alto
12 14 (3.68%) Fortinet
12 14 (3.68%) NetApp
12 14 (3.68%) Okta
13 12 (3.16%) Dell
13 12 (3.16%) Veeam
14 11 (2.89%) CheckPoint
15 10 (2.63%) HP
16 8 (2.11%) Aruba