DHCP Contract Job Trends in London

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 240 285
Rank change year-on-year -65 +45 +15
Contract jobs citing DHCP 110 111 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.90% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.90% 8.48% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 85 80
10th Percentile £188 £250 £248
25th Percentile £359 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £515
90th Percentile £614 £606 £601
England median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £26.26 - -
25th Percentile £27.93 - £16.00
Median hourly rate £31.33 - £18.50
75th Percentile £35.35 - £20.00
90th Percentile £37.39 - -
England median hourly rate £36.36 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +29.86% -30.00% +3.90%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,392 1,309 1,667
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.79% 10.56% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 926 835 1,115
10th Percentile £300 £263 £213
25th Percentile £409 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -11.31%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £619
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 51
10th Percentile £19.34 £24.21 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.21 £24.66 £16.56
Median hourly rate £26.11 £38.75 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.62% +64.89% -45.35%
75th Percentile £37.25 £50.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £62.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £41.94 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +44.62% -27.50% +116.22%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in London

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DHCP

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in London over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in London

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DHCP

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Central London -19 9 £425 -15.00% 10
East London -5 5 £200 -65.81%
West London -30 5 £188 -53.13% 1
South London - 3 £425 -
North London - 1 £225 - 1
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 15 (13.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.91%) Apache
3 1 (0.91%) nginx
3 1 (0.91%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 61 (55.45%) Azure
2 38 (34.55%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (30.00%) Entra ID
4 14 (12.73%) AWS
4 14 (12.73%) IaaS
4 14 (12.73%) PaaS
5 9 (8.18%) SaaS
6 6 (5.45%) Datadog
7 2 (1.82%) GCP
7 2 (1.82%) Google Drive
7 2 (1.82%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.82%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.82%) Slack
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.91%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 106 (96.36%) DNS
2 36 (32.73%) VPN
3 34 (30.91%) Firewall
4 22 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 18 (16.36%) Kerberos
6 14 (12.73%) VLAN
7 12 (10.91%) LAN
7 12 (10.91%) WAN
8 10 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (8.18%) Network Security
10 8 (7.27%) SMTP
11 7 (6.36%) Internet
11 7 (6.36%) SAN
12 6 (5.45%) Wireless
13 3 (2.73%) Softphone
14 2 (1.82%) Cisco Wireless
14 2 (1.82%) InfiniBand
14 2 (1.82%) SSL
14 2 (1.82%) VoIP
14 2 (1.82%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.18%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.36%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.91%) MySQL
3 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Chocolatey
2 2 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 18 (16.36%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.45%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (8.18%) Banking
3 9 (8.18%) Finance
4 7 (6.36%) Telecoms
5 5 (4.55%) Legal
6 4 (3.64%) Local Government
7 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.73%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Law
8 1 (0.91%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (19.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (13.64%) Senior
3 14 (12.73%) Support Engineer
4 13 (11.82%) IT Engineer
4 13 (11.82%) IT Support
5 11 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 11 (10.00%) Analyst
6 8 (7.27%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Desktop Support
6 8 (7.27%) IT Support Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Network Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Support Analyst
7 7 (6.36%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) IT Analyst
7 7 (6.36%) NetApp Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Storage Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (5.45%) Desktop Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.36%) LDAP
2 17 (15.45%) SAML
3 15 (13.64%) OAuth
4 3 (2.73%) OpenID
5 1 (0.91%) .NET
5 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.91%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.91%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.91%) CSS
5 1 (0.91%) Express.js
5 1 (0.91%) HTML
5 1 (0.91%) LAMP
5 1 (0.91%) LAPP Stack
5 1 (0.91%) libvirt
5 1 (0.91%) Middleware
5 1 (0.91%) REST
5 1 (0.91%) SOAP
5 1 (0.91%) WCF
5 1 (0.91%) Web Services
5 1 (0.91%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.36%) Replication
2 9 (8.18%) Onboarding
2 9 (8.18%) PKI
3 8 (7.27%) Clustering
3 8 (7.27%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (5.45%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (5.45%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.64%) Smartphone
7 3 (2.73%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.82%) BYOD
8 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.82%) IoT
9 1 (0.91%) CCTV
9 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.91%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.91%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 74 (67.27%) Windows
2 46 (41.82%) Windows Server
3 16 (14.55%) Linux
4 11 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 8 (7.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (6.36%) Android
6 7 (6.36%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (5.45%) Apple iOS
7 6 (5.45%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.91%) CentOS
9 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.91%) Unix
9 1 (0.91%) VMS
9 1 (0.91%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (20.91%) Disaster Recovery
1 23 (20.91%) High Availability
1 23 (20.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (17.27%) Task Automation
3 17 (15.45%) RBAC
4 15 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
5 13 (11.82%) ITSM
5 13 (11.82%) Migration
6 12 (10.91%) Incident Management
6 12 (10.91%) ITIL
7 10 (9.09%) Change Management
7 10 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (8.18%) Root Cause Analysis
8 9 (8.18%) Service Delivery
9 8 (7.27%) Security Operations
10 7 (6.36%) Change Control
10 7 (6.36%) Security Patching
11 6 (5.45%) Analytical Thinking
11 6 (5.45%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (42.73%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.45%) Bash
3 5 (4.55%) Python
4 1 (0.91%) C#
4 1 (0.91%) Go
4 1 (0.91%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.91%) Perl
4 1 (0.91%) SQL
4 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.91%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.45%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.27%) CCNP
4 8 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (4.55%) Degree
6 4 (3.64%) CCNA
7 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.91%) ACSP
9 1 (0.91%) ACTC
9 1 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.36%) GDPR
2 14 (12.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 8 (7.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.45%) SLA
5 4 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (2.73%) NIST
7 1 (0.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (71.82%) Active Directory
2 22 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (16.36%) Hyper-V
4 10 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (7.27%) BitLocker
5 8 (7.27%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (7.27%) vSphere
6 7 (6.36%) Docker
7 6 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (3.64%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (1.82%) Firmware
9 2 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.91%) Ceph
10 1 (0.91%) iptables
10 1 (0.91%) KVM
10 1 (0.91%) Lustre
10 1 (0.91%) NFS
10 1 (0.91%) Samba
10 1 (0.91%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.91%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 22 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (17.27%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (16.36%) SCCM
4 14 (12.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 9 (8.18%) Ansible
6 8 (7.27%) Kubernetes
6 8 (7.27%) vCenter Server
6 8 (7.27%) vMotion
7 7 (6.36%) Puppet
8 5 (4.55%) FortiGate
8 5 (4.55%) Terraform
9 4 (3.64%) WSUS
10 2 (1.82%) HAProxy
10 2 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.82%) SCOM
11 1 (0.91%) Istio
11 1 (0.91%) SELinux
Vendors
1 57 (51.82%) Microsoft
2 28 (25.45%) VMware
3 14 (12.73%) Citrix
3 14 (12.73%) Okta
4 13 (11.82%) ServiceNow
5 9 (8.18%) Infoblox
6 8 (7.27%) Dell
6 8 (7.27%) NetApp
7 7 (6.36%) Cisco
7 7 (6.36%) Palo Alto
8 6 (5.45%) AppDynamics
8 6 (5.45%) Apple
8 6 (5.45%) Dynatrace
8 6 (5.45%) Tenable
9 5 (4.55%) Bloomberg
10 4 (3.64%) Google
10 4 (3.64%) Sophos
11 2 (1.82%) Blue Coat
11 2 (1.82%) Fortinet
11 2 (1.82%) SolarWinds