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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 72 70
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 +18
Contract jobs citing DHCP 28 18 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.91% 1.31% 1.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.43% 6.00% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 8
10th Percentile £508 £475 -
25th Percentile £563 £503 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +20.00% -20.45%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £509
90th Percentile - £658 £538
South East median daily rate £550 £519 £525
% change year-on-year +6.02% -1.19% +16.67%
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 194 300 338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 20.15% 21.88% 26.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 145 149
10th Percentile £289 £413 £240
25th Percentile £500 £468 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -8.16%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £550
90th Percentile £650 £688 £613
South East median daily rate £491 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -1.80% +8.70% -0.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 54 39
10th Percentile £48.20 £39.82 £15.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.40 £46.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -4.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £72.63 £75.60
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £61.00
% change year-on-year -4.10% -5.98% +35.56%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 - 21 £600 - 5
Fareham - 3 - - 3
Fleet - 2 £447 - 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 21 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (46.43%) Exchange Server 2003
2 13 (46.43%) Exchange Server 2007
2 13 (46.43%) Exchange Server 2010
2 13 (46.43%) Exchange Server 2013
2 13 (46.43%) Office Communications Server
2 13 (46.43%) SharePoint
2 13 (46.43%) SharePoint Server
2 13 (46.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) AWS
1 10 (35.71%) GCP
2 8 (28.57%) IaaS
2 8 (28.57%) OpenShift
2 8 (28.57%) PaaS
3 6 (21.43%) Azure
4 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 28 (100.00%) DNS
2 21 (75.00%) VPN
3 13 (46.43%) DDNS
3 13 (46.43%) SAN
4 10 (35.71%) Firewall
5 8 (28.57%) SMTP
6 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (28.57%) Big Data
1 8 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
General
1 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.57%) Finance
3 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 13 (46.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 13 (46.43%) 3rd Line Support
2 13 (46.43%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 13 (46.43%) Exchange Engineer
2 13 (46.43%) Exchange Support
3 7 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Server Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Linux Specialist
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Server Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) LDAP
1 1 (3.57%) OAuth
1 1 (3.57%) OpenID
1 1 (3.57%) SailPoint
1 1 (3.57%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (50.00%) Replication
2 8 (28.57%) Clustering
2 8 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 8 (28.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 25 (89.29%) Windows
2 16 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (42.86%) Windows Server
4 11 (39.29%) Linux
5 5 (17.86%) Unix
6 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (7.14%) CentOS
7 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) Architectural Design
1 13 (46.43%) Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) Content Management
1 13 (46.43%) Enterprise Content Management
1 13 (46.43%) Enterprise Search
1 13 (46.43%) High Availability
1 13 (46.43%) ITIL
2 8 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (28.57%) DevOps
2 8 (28.57%) Machine Learning
2 8 (28.57%) Software Deployment
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.71%) Server Management
5 2 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 2 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (7.14%) Network Management
5 2 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (7.14%) Task Automation
5 2 (7.14%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
3 2 (7.14%) Bash
3 2 (7.14%) Perl
3 2 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (71.43%) DV Cleared
3 8 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) RHCE
4 2 (7.14%) RHCSA
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (82.14%) Active Directory
2 13 (46.43%) Brightmail
2 13 (46.43%) ISA Server
3 10 (35.71%) Docker
3 10 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (32.14%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (28.57%) BitLocker
5 8 (28.57%) Hyper-V
5 8 (28.57%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (28.57%) Terminal Services
6 3 (10.71%) NFS
7 2 (7.14%) KVM
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Ansible
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft Clustering
2 10 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (35.71%) Puppet
3 8 (28.57%) Nagios
3 8 (28.57%) vCenter Server
3 8 (28.57%) vMotion
4 3 (10.71%) Terraform
4 3 (10.71%) WSUS
5 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (39.29%) VMware
3 8 (28.57%) Citrix
3 8 (28.57%) Google
3 8 (28.57%) HP
3 8 (28.57%) Symantec
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.57%) CyberArk