DHCP Contracts in Manchester

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 91 89
Rank change year-on-year +28 -2 +26
Contract jobs citing DHCP 16 5 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.73% 0.33% 1.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.33% 2.44% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 25
10th Percentile £200 £387 £179
25th Percentile £385 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -17.95% +14.71%
75th Percentile £473 £431 £550
90th Percentile £504 £488 -
North West median daily rate £425 £394 £425
% change year-on-year +7.94% -7.35% +47.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 98 205 233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 10.58% 13.51% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 158 177
10th Percentile £193 £262 £313
25th Percentile £288 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £456 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -8.75% +7.76%
75th Percentile £491 £750 £575
90th Percentile £582 £850 £668
North West median daily rate £450 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -8.16% -2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 5
10th Percentile - £14.29 £15.00
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £17.72 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - -14.42% +16.65%
75th Percentile - £100.00 £28.75
90th Percentile - £102.40 £32.50
North West median hourly rate £24.59 £26.75 £31.25
% change year-on-year -8.09% -14.40% +68.92%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in Manchester

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in Manchester

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Manchester

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in Manchester

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bolton - 5 £190 - 3
DHCP
North West

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 3 (18.75%) AWS
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
4 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (12.50%) Nutanix
4 2 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (87.50%) DNS
2 7 (43.75%) TCP/IP
3 6 (37.50%) VPN
4 2 (12.50%) Firewall
5 1 (6.25%) DMZ
5 1 (6.25%) HTTP
5 1 (6.25%) Intranet
5 1 (6.25%) Network Security
5 1 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) French Language
3 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Military
5 1 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) IT Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) IT Support
1 5 (31.25%) IT Support Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Project Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Support
5 1 (6.25%) IT Operations Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
1 1 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (12.50%) Clustering
4 1 (6.25%) Blog
4 1 (6.25%) CMDB
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (31.25%) Linux
4 3 (18.75%) VMS
5 2 (12.50%) CentOS
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (6.25%) Unix
6 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) ITSM
2 7 (43.75%) ITIL
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Project Management
4 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (25.00%) Service Management
5 3 (18.75%) Change Management
5 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (12.50%) Network Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Perl
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) A+ Certification
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) CCNA
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (12.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (25.00%) WSUS
2 3 (18.75%) Nagios
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) ZABBIX
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (6.25%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) VMware
3 4 (25.00%) Dell
3 4 (25.00%) Google
4 3 (18.75%) HP
4 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds
5 2 (12.50%) IBM
6 1 (6.25%) CyberArk