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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 87 100
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +43
Contract jobs citing DHCP 32 53 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.42% 1.78% 1.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.08% 11.28% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 37 46
10th Percentile £222 £213 £189
25th Percentile £243 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £381
Median % change year-on-year - +4.92% +1.67%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £563
90th Percentile £609 £775 £700
England median daily rate £510 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +7.37% -2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile £37.13 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £41.88
% change year-on-year -25.00% -4.48% +90.34%

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 265 470 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.76% 15.81% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 288 331
10th Percentile £200 £200 £250
25th Percentile £300 £312 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +1.12% +7.88%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £699 £679 £706
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 33 16
10th Percentile - £12.28 £13.75
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £19.56
Median hourly rate £24.61 £14.27 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.46% -32.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £23.75 £27.81
90th Percentile £42.10 £28.23 £28.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £20.71
% change year-on-year -18.27% +121.59% -17.18%

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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the Midlands

DHCP
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 3 July 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
West Midlands -6 25 £255 -36.25% 39
East Midlands -3 7 £550 +46.67% 21
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 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (3.13%) AWS KMS
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) Route 53
5 1 (3.13%) Serverless
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (93.75%) DNS
2 23 (71.88%) Firewall
3 14 (43.75%) Wireless
4 11 (34.38%) WAN
5 9 (28.13%) LAN
6 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
7 6 (18.75%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (18.75%) WLAN
8 5 (15.63%) Network Security
8 5 (15.63%) PuTTY
8 5 (15.63%) VLAN
8 5 (15.63%) VPN
9 4 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (12.50%) HTTP
9 4 (12.50%) SD-WAN
9 4 (12.50%) SSL
10 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (6.25%) Internet
11 2 (6.25%) IPsec
11 2 (6.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
1 2 (6.25%) Maven
1 2 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (18.75%) Manufacturing
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Automotive
5 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
5 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Network Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Support Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Network Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Network Support
5 2 (6.25%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Product Owner
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Network Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Linux/Unix DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) LDAP
1 2 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 5 (15.63%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) PKI
4 1 (3.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (37.50%) Windows
2 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Ubuntu
2 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (9.38%) CentOS
3 3 (9.38%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.25%) Debian
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.13%) Rocky
5 1 (3.13%) SUSE
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Change Management
1 8 (25.00%) ITIL
2 6 (18.75%) Computer Science
2 6 (18.75%) Process Improvement
3 5 (15.63%) High Availability
3 5 (15.63%) Project Management
4 4 (12.50%) Agile
4 4 (12.50%) Service Management
5 3 (9.38%) Coaching
5 3 (9.38%) DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
5 3 (9.38%) Problem Management
5 3 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (6.25%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (6.25%) Log Aggregation
6 2 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.25%) Product Backlog
6 2 (6.25%) Product Requirements
6 2 (6.25%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
1 3 (9.38%) Python
2 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.13%) Perl
3 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (50.00%) CCNA
3 14 (43.75%) CCNP
4 6 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (18.75%) Degree
5 4 (12.50%) CCIE
6 3 (9.38%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 2 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (3.13%) MCP
8 1 (3.13%) MCSA
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
8 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (3.13%) Firmware
3 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) OpenView
2 3 (9.38%) SCCM
3 2 (6.25%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (6.25%) Nagios
3 2 (6.25%) Nessus
3 2 (6.25%) Puppet
4 1 (3.13%) Ansible
4 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.13%) PowerCLI
4 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (78.13%) Cisco
2 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.63%) CheckPoint
3 5 (15.63%) Peregrine
3 5 (15.63%) Remedy
3 5 (15.63%) VMware
4 4 (12.50%) F5
4 4 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 3 (9.38%) Juniper
6 2 (6.25%) Arista
6 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
6 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
6 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
6 2 (6.25%) Sophos
7 1 (3.13%) Dell
7 1 (3.13%) HP
7 1 (3.13%) Veeam