DHCP Contracts in the Midlands

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 98 93 105
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +40
Contract jobs citing DHCP 13 40 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 1.45% 1.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.07% 8.13% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 32 48
10th Percentile £265 £213 £279
25th Percentile £373 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% +33.33%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £576
90th Percentile £618 £775 £700
England median daily rate £519 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +9.21% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate - - £38.50
75th Percentile - - £40.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.80 £40.00 £41.13
% change year-on-year -35.51% -2.74% +91.28%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 214 492 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.18% 17.85% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 294 337
10th Percentile £162 £200 £250
25th Percentile £249 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +12.64%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £594
90th Percentile £693 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 36 17
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.28 £12.50
25th Percentile - £13.13 £16.25
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -31.08% +18.31%
75th Percentile £18.13 £24.35 £28.50
90th Percentile £24.21 £28.75 £40.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the Midlands

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the Midlands

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Midlands 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
East Midlands +11 8 £500 +53.85% 20
West Midlands -13 5 £185 -64.76% 26
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (84.62%) DNS
2 10 (76.92%) Firewall
3 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (15.38%) Ethernet
4 2 (15.38%) HTTP
4 2 (15.38%) Internet
4 2 (15.38%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (15.38%) SAN
4 2 (15.38%) SSL
4 2 (15.38%) VLAN
4 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.69%) LAN
5 1 (7.69%) Network Security
5 1 (7.69%) VPN
5 1 (7.69%) WAN
5 1 (7.69%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
1 2 (15.38%) Maven
1 2 (15.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Automotive
1 1 (7.69%) Finance
1 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Server Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) LDAP
1 2 (15.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) CentOS
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) Ubuntu
3 2 (15.38%) Debian
3 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.69%) Rocky
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
2 2 (15.38%) Capacity Management
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Log Aggregation
2 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
2 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
2 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) Server Management
3 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (7.69%) Customer Service
3 1 (7.69%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (7.69%) High Availability
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (7.69%) Network Management
3 1 (7.69%) Process Improvement
3 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) CCNA
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (38.46%) CCNP
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Firmware
2 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Nessus
1 2 (15.38%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Cisco
2 5 (38.46%) CheckPoint
3 4 (30.77%) VMware
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 2 (15.38%) Sophos
5 1 (7.69%) Juniper