DHCP Contracts in London

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 273 303
Rank change year-on-year +26 +30 +69
Contract jobs citing DHCP 112 112 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.90% 0.64% 0.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.56% 6.73% 7.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 80 140
10th Percentile £250 £248 £210
25th Percentile £400 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £515 £650
90th Percentile £606 £601 £675
England median daily rate £525 £475 £491
% change year-on-year +10.53% -3.31% +15.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £20.28
25th Percentile - £16.00 £20.69
Median hourly rate - £18.50 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year - -14.94% -53.52%
75th Percentile - £20.00 £23.19
90th Percentile - - £23.83
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year -30.00% +3.90% +79.07%

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 1,309 1,665 2,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.55% 9.53% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 1,114 1,812
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £675
90th Percentile £724 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 51 56
10th Percentile £24.21 £14.48 £20.11
25th Percentile £24.66 £16.56 £22.72
Median hourly rate £38.75 £23.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.89% -45.35% +27.41%
75th Percentile £50.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.25 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in London

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in London

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in London

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in London

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 16 May 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
Central London +7 20 £500 +11.11% 38
West London +25 13 £400 - 10
East London +22 5 £585 +168.97% 4
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 12 (10.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.57%) Confluence
4 2 (1.79%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 43 (38.39%) Azure
2 34 (30.36%) AWS
3 26 (23.21%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (13.39%) Entra ID
5 12 (10.71%) GCP
6 6 (5.36%) GitHub
6 6 (5.36%) OneDrive
7 5 (4.46%) Google Workspace
8 4 (3.57%) Datadog
8 4 (3.57%) SaaS
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.68%) IaaS
9 3 (2.68%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.68%) PaaS
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 107 (95.54%) DNS
2 42 (37.50%) TCP/IP
3 40 (35.71%) Firewall
4 28 (25.00%) VPN
5 27 (24.11%) VLAN
6 22 (19.64%) Network Security
7 20 (17.86%) Wireless
8 18 (16.07%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (15.18%) WAN
10 16 (14.29%) LAN
11 12 (10.71%) SD-WAN
12 11 (9.82%) BGP
13 9 (8.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 9 (8.04%) OSPF
14 7 (6.25%) DOCSIS
14 7 (6.25%) SMTP
14 7 (6.25%) SSL
15 6 (5.36%) Cisco Nexus
15 6 (5.36%) VoIP
16 5 (4.46%) DMVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.68%) InfluxDB
3 3 (2.68%) Looker
3 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.79%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.79%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.79%) MariaDB
4 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.89%) Big Data
5 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.89%) Power BI
5 1 (0.89%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 7 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.46%) JIRA
3 4 (3.57%) Git
3 4 (3.57%) GitLab
4 2 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.89%) Gerrit
5 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 34 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.00%) Finance
3 10 (8.93%) Banking
4 9 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.68%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Electronics
9 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.79%) International Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.79%) Marketing
10 1 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.89%) Local Government
10 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (20.54%) Network Engineer
2 17 (15.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 13 (11.61%) Senior
5 10 (8.93%) Desktop Engineer
6 9 (8.04%) Analyst
6 9 (8.04%) Security Engineer
7 8 (7.14%) IT Support
7 8 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Architect
8 7 (6.25%) Infoblox Engineer
8 7 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Desktop Support
9 6 (5.36%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) IT Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Network Security Engineer
9 6 (5.36%) Support Analyst
10 5 (4.46%) Administrator
10 5 (4.46%) Consultant
10 5 (4.46%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (3.57%) LDAP
3 3 (2.68%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.68%) Yocto
4 2 (1.79%) .NET
4 2 (1.79%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.79%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.79%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.79%) Node.js
4 2 (1.79%) React
5 1 (0.89%) Bazel
5 1 (0.89%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.04%) PKI
2 8 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.36%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.57%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.68%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.68%) Clustering
5 3 (2.68%) Cyberattack
5 3 (2.68%) Digital TV
5 3 (2.68%) IoT
5 3 (2.68%) STB
5 3 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.79%) Eurex
6 2 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.79%) Replication
6 2 (1.79%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 61 (54.46%) Windows
2 30 (26.79%) Linux
3 17 (15.18%) Windows Server
4 14 (12.50%) Windows 10
5 8 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (5.36%) Rocky
7 5 (4.46%) Apple iOS
7 5 (4.46%) Mac OS
7 5 (4.46%) Mac OS X
7 5 (4.46%) Unix
8 4 (3.57%) CentOS
9 3 (2.68%) Android
9 3 (2.68%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (1.79%) OpenWrt
10 2 (1.79%) SUSE
10 2 (1.79%) Ubuntu
10 2 (1.79%) Windows 7
10 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (1.79%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (1.79%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (15.18%) ITIL
4 15 (13.39%) Agile
5 14 (12.50%) Migration
6 13 (11.61%) High Availability
7 12 (10.71%) DevOps
7 12 (10.71%) Incident Management
8 10 (8.93%) Business Continuity
8 10 (8.93%) Network Monitoring
8 10 (8.93%) Security Operations
9 9 (8.04%) Containerisation
9 9 (8.04%) Customer Service
9 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (8.04%) Infrastructure Management
9 9 (8.04%) Mentoring
10 8 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
10 8 (7.14%) CI/CD
10 8 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (7.14%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.68%) Python
2 26 (23.21%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.25%) Perl
4 6 (5.36%) C
4 6 (5.36%) C#
4 6 (5.36%) Shell Script
4 6 (5.36%) SQL
4 6 (5.36%) VBScript
5 5 (4.46%) Java
6 4 (3.57%) Bash
6 4 (3.57%) C++
6 4 (3.57%) Go
6 4 (3.57%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.79%) VB
8 1 (0.89%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 17 (15.18%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (13.39%) CCNP
3 14 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 12 (10.71%) Degree
5 7 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 5 (4.46%) CCSA
6 5 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.57%) CCNA
8 3 (2.68%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.68%) CISSP
8 3 (2.68%) CTC Cleared
9 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.89%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.89%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.89%) CWDP
10 1 (0.89%) CWNA
10 1 (0.89%) GIAC
10 1 (0.89%) JNCIP
10 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) QA
2 3 (2.68%) NCSC
3 2 (1.79%) Government Security Classifications
3 2 (1.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (0.89%) GDPR
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.14%) Docker
3 8 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (5.36%) Hyper-V
5 5 (4.46%) Firmware
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (2.68%) BitLocker
6 3 (2.68%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.68%) vSphere
7 2 (1.79%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.79%) XenApp
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (18.75%) SCCM
2 16 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (11.61%) Ansible
3 13 (11.61%) Terraform
4 7 (6.25%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.46%) FortiGate
6 4 (3.57%) WSUS
7 3 (2.68%) CA Spectrum
7 3 (2.68%) Grafana
7 3 (2.68%) Puppet
8 2 (1.79%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (1.79%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.79%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (1.79%) OPNET
8 2 (1.79%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
8 2 (1.79%) Rundeck
8 2 (1.79%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.79%) vMotion
8 2 (1.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (29.46%) Cisco
2 26 (23.21%) Microsoft
3 21 (18.75%) VMware
4 17 (15.18%) F5
4 17 (15.18%) Infoblox
5 15 (13.39%) CheckPoint
6 9 (8.04%) Citrix
6 9 (8.04%) Google
7 8 (7.14%) Meraki
7 8 (7.14%) Palo Alto
7 8 (7.14%) ServiceNow
7 8 (7.14%) SolarWinds
7 8 (7.14%) Splunk
8 6 (5.36%) Fortinet
8 6 (5.36%) Juniper
9 5 (4.46%) Brocade
9 5 (4.46%) Oracle
9 5 (4.46%) Red Hat
9 5 (4.46%) Sophos
10 4 (3.57%) HP