DHCP Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 75 73
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing DHCP 18 11 24
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.73% 0.94% 1.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.57% 4.66% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 8
10th Percentile £470 £460 -
25th Percentile £534 £475 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £519 £275
Median % change year-on-year +15.66% +88.64% -50.00%
75th Percentile - £561 £509
90th Percentile £626 £644 £538
South East median daily rate £447 £485 £538
% change year-on-year -7.83% -9.77% +19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £89.63 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +81.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 188 236 342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 18.08% 20.19% 25.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 122 122
10th Percentile £375 £372 £239
25th Percentile £500 £463 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £444
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +29.58% -10.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £613
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 33
10th Percentile £44.60 £33.88 £15.50
25th Percentile £50.00 £49.72 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +24.11% +21.29%
75th Percentile - £70.94 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.80 £75.00 £76.40
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £57.99
% change year-on-year -21.43% +20.71% +28.87%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DHCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

DHCP job vacancy trend in Hampshire

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing DHCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Hampshire over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Hampshire

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing DHCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Basingstoke - 10 £600 - 2
Fareham - 3 - - 3
Fleet - 2 £447 - 6
Eastleigh -7 1 £525 +23.53%
DHCP
South East

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 10 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2003
1 10 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2007
1 10 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2010
1 10 (55.56%) Exchange Server 2013
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (55.56%) Office Communications Server
1 10 (55.56%) SharePoint
1 10 (55.56%) SharePoint Server
1 10 (55.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) DNS
2 10 (55.56%) DDNS
2 10 (55.56%) SAN
2 10 (55.56%) VPN
3 2 (11.11%) Firewall
3 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.56%) Kerberos
General
1 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Exchange Engineer
1 10 (55.56%) Exchange Support
1 10 (55.56%) Support Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Administrator
2 3 (16.67%) Server Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Linux Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) LDAP
1 1 (5.56%) OAuth
1 1 (5.56%) OpenID
1 1 (5.56%) SailPoint
1 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (61.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (27.78%) Unix
4 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
5 3 (16.67%) Linux
5 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (11.11%) CentOS
6 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Architectural Design
1 10 (55.56%) Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) Content Management
1 10 (55.56%) Enterprise Content Management
1 10 (55.56%) Enterprise Search
1 10 (55.56%) High Availability
1 10 (55.56%) ITIL
2 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (16.67%) Server Management
3 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
3 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 2 (11.11%) Network Management
3 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (11.11%) Security Management
3 2 (11.11%) Task Automation
3 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (5.56%) Performance Management
4 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Bash
3 2 (11.11%) Perl
3 2 (11.11%) Python
4 1 (5.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) DV Cleared
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) RHCE
2 2 (11.11%) RHCSA
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Active Directory
2 10 (55.56%) Brightmail
2 10 (55.56%) ISA Server
3 3 (16.67%) NFS
4 2 (11.11%) Docker
4 2 (11.11%) KVM
4 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Clustering
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
3 4 (22.22%) Terraform
4 3 (16.67%) WSUS
5 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
5 2 (11.11%) Puppet
6 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (5.56%) Avamar
6 1 (5.56%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (5.56%) SCCM
6 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
6 1 (5.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.56%) Dell
4 1 (5.56%) Veeam