DHCP Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 75 98
Rank change year-on-year -15 +23 0
Contract jobs citing DHCP 3 11 9
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.26% 0.94% 0.56%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.80% 9.40% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 6
10th Percentile £487 £350 £233
25th Percentile £505 £445 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £385
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +42.86% -9.41%
75th Percentile £543 £750 £396
90th Percentile £547 - £450
North West median daily rate £500 £538 £385
% change year-on-year -6.98% +39.61% -9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
North West median hourly rate - £47.50 -

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 79 117 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 6.94% 10.00% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 75 147
10th Percentile £170 £323 £294
25th Percentile £257 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £572 £584
90th Percentile £680 £690 £688
North West median daily rate £458 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.68% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 10
10th Percentile - - £15.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £46.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £47.50 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -58.95% +174.73% +4.38%
75th Percentile £20.00 £48.75 £39.59
90th Percentile - - £47.19
North West median hourly rate £23.50 £48.03 £17.72
% change year-on-year -51.07% +171.05% -10.87%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Manchester

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing DHCP

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing DHCP

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Server Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft