DHCP Contracts in Hampshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire requiring DHCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DHCP over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 82 71
Rank change year-on-year +28 -11 +17
Contract jobs citing DHCP 19 23 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.19% 1.30% 1.92%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.95% 4.90% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 8
10th Percentile £525 £475 £347
25th Percentile £563 £506 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% +10.26% -2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £538
90th Percentile - £639 £583
South East median daily rate £569 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +8.29% +2.44% +21.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% +18.75% +86.05%

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 191 469 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 22.03% 26.42% 22.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 187 153
10th Percentile £310 £366 £240
25th Percentile £490 £444 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -7.69%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £575
90th Percentile £650 £672 £650
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 78 33
10th Percentile £50.11 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £52.14 £51.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.91
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -2.64% +81.25%
75th Percentile £59.09 £62.20 £67.50
90th Percentile £62.26 £70.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -12.82% -0.26% +125.49%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in Hampshire

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in Hampshire.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in Hampshire

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in Hampshire

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 3 July 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 +31 15 £575 - 6
Fareham - 3 - - 1
DHCP
South East

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (31.58%) Exchange Server 2003
2 6 (31.58%) Exchange Server 2007
2 6 (31.58%) Exchange Server 2010
2 6 (31.58%) Exchange Server 2013
2 6 (31.58%) Office Communications Server
2 6 (31.58%) SharePoint
2 6 (31.58%) SharePoint Server
2 6 (31.58%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) AWS
1 8 (42.11%) GCP
1 8 (42.11%) IaaS
1 8 (42.11%) OpenShift
1 8 (42.11%) PaaS
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) DNS
2 14 (73.68%) VPN
3 8 (42.11%) Firewall
3 8 (42.11%) SMTP
4 7 (36.84%) SAN
5 6 (31.58%) DDNS
6 1 (5.26%) iSCSI
6 1 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (42.11%) Big Data
1 8 (42.11%) Elasticsearch
General
1 9 (47.37%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Support Engineer
2 12 (63.16%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 12 (63.16%) 3rd Line Support
2 12 (63.16%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Exchange Engineer
4 6 (31.58%) Exchange Support
5 3 (15.79%) Administrator
5 3 (15.79%) Server Administrator
6 1 (5.26%) Designer
6 1 (5.26%) Server Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Clustering
1 8 (42.11%) Data Centre
1 8 (42.11%) PKI
2 6 (31.58%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Windows
2 12 (63.16%) Windows Server
3 10 (52.63%) Linux
4 9 (47.37%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (15.79%) Unix
5 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) DevOps
1 8 (42.11%) Machine Learning
1 8 (42.11%) Software Deployment
2 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (31.58%) Architectural Design
3 6 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (31.58%) Content Management
3 6 (31.58%) Enterprise Content Management
3 6 (31.58%) Enterprise Search
3 6 (31.58%) High Availability
3 6 (31.58%) ITIL
4 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.79%) Server Management
5 1 (5.26%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (78.95%) Security Cleared
2 13 (68.42%) DV Cleared
3 8 (42.11%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 15 (78.95%) Active Directory
2 9 (47.37%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (42.11%) BitLocker
3 8 (42.11%) Docker
3 8 (42.11%) Hyper-V
3 8 (42.11%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (42.11%) Terminal Services
3 8 (42.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (31.58%) Brightmail
4 6 (31.58%) ISA Server
5 3 (15.79%) NFS
6 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Ansible
2 8 (42.11%) Kubernetes
2 8 (42.11%) Nagios
2 8 (42.11%) Puppet
2 8 (42.11%) vCenter Server
2 8 (42.11%) vMotion
3 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (15.79%) Terraform
4 3 (15.79%) WSUS
5 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
2 9 (47.37%) VMware
3 8 (42.11%) Citrix
3 8 (42.11%) Google
3 8 (42.11%) HP
3 8 (42.11%) Symantec