DHCP Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 27 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing DHCP 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 2.04% 0.85% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.14% 5.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £140 - -
North West median daily rate £438 £550 £424
% change year-on-year -20.45% +29.79% +5.94%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 56 36 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 28.57% 15.25% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 12 21
10th Percentile - £142 £220
25th Percentile £129 £199 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £153 £360 £400
Median % change year-on-year -57.40% -10.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £438 £556 £425
90th Percentile £529 £575 £460
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £486
% change year-on-year -10.00% +2.88% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £18.07 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - -71.33% +216.90%
North West median hourly rate £19.00 £48.56 £16.68
% change year-on-year -60.87% +191.13% -16.35%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Merseyside

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing DHCP

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing DHCP

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 4 October 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
Liverpool 0 4 £140 - 2
DHCP
North West

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco ISE
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) NX-OS
2 3 (75.00%) VXLAN
2 3 (75.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) RF Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Ekahau
1 3 (75.00%) Remedy
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft