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

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 69 74
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing DHCP 19 12 22
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.50% 1.22% 1.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.33% 6.19% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 7
10th Percentile £470 £465 -
25th Percentile £572 £475 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £275
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +127.27% -54.17%
75th Percentile - £638 £288
90th Percentile £646 £700 -
South East median daily rate £461 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -14.29% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £40.00
75th Percentile £52.58 - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £84.00 - £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 184 194 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.52% 19.78% 26.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 115 108
10th Percentile £410 £363 £206
25th Percentile £500 £450 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £457
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +15.01% -11.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £570
90th Percentile £650 £673 £636
South East median daily rate £486 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.75% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 24 33
10th Percentile £47.47 £35.00 £16.95
25th Percentile £51.40 £52.22 £35.00
Median hourly rate £60.36 £62.50 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.42% +5.93% +22.92%
75th Percentile £67.90 £70.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.96 £75.00 £76.40
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.26% +4.17% +33.33%

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 10 December 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 10 December 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 +5 10 £600 -4.00% 1
Fareham - 3 - - 1
Fleet - 2 £447 -
Eastleigh -5 1 £525 +23.53%
Hayling Island - 1 £650 -
Portsmouth - 1 - - 5
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 11 (57.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (52.63%) Exchange Server 2003
2 10 (52.63%) Exchange Server 2007
2 10 (52.63%) Exchange Server 2010
2 10 (52.63%) Exchange Server 2013
2 10 (52.63%) Office Communications Server
2 10 (52.63%) SharePoint
2 10 (52.63%) SharePoint Server
2 10 (52.63%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) DNS
2 10 (52.63%) DDNS
2 10 (52.63%) SAN
2 10 (52.63%) VPN
3 3 (15.79%) Firewall
4 2 (10.53%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
5 1 (5.26%) LAN
5 1 (5.26%) SNMP
5 1 (5.26%) VoIP
5 1 (5.26%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Military
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Exchange Engineer
1 10 (52.63%) Exchange Support
1 10 (52.63%) Support Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Administrator
2 3 (15.79%) Server Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (5.26%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) LDAP
1 1 (5.26%) OAuth
1 1 (5.26%) OpenID
1 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
1 1 (5.26%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Replication
2 1 (5.26%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (78.95%) Windows
2 10 (52.63%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (26.32%) Unix
3 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
4 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (10.53%) CentOS
5 2 (10.53%) Linux
5 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) ITIL
2 10 (52.63%) Architectural Design
2 10 (52.63%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (52.63%) Content Management
2 10 (52.63%) Enterprise Content Management
2 10 (52.63%) Enterprise Search
2 10 (52.63%) High Availability
3 4 (21.05%) Server Management
4 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) Configuration Management
5 2 (10.53%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.53%) Network Management
5 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (10.53%) Security Management
5 2 (10.53%) Task Automation
5 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 1 (5.26%) Regression Testing
6 1 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) PowerShell
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Bash
2 2 (10.53%) Perl
2 2 (10.53%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 10 (52.63%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (10.53%) RHCE
3 2 (10.53%) RHCSA
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) MCSA
4 1 (5.26%) MCSE
4 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) JSP 440
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (73.68%) Active Directory
2 10 (52.63%) Brightmail
2 10 (52.63%) ISA Server
3 4 (21.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (15.79%) NFS
5 2 (10.53%) Docker
5 2 (10.53%) KVM
6 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft Clustering
2 6 (31.58%) Ansible
3 4 (21.05%) Terraform
3 4 (21.05%) WSUS
4 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
4 2 (10.53%) Progress Chef
4 2 (10.53%) Puppet
5 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (5.26%) Avamar
5 1 (5.26%) Backup Exec
5 1 (5.26%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (5.26%) Norton AntiVirus
5 1 (5.26%) SCOM
5 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
5 1 (5.26%) VxRail
5 1 (5.26%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 14 (73.68%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
3 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.26%) Acronis
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.26%) Dell
4 1 (5.26%) F5
4 1 (5.26%) McAfee
4 1 (5.26%) Symantec
4 1 (5.26%) Veeam