DHCP Contracts in the North of England

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 105 150 126
Rank change year-on-year +45 -24 +6
Contract jobs citing DHCP 62 35 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.88% 0.73% 1.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.23% 5.84% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 28 84
10th Percentile £206 £229 £190
25th Percentile £243 £317 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £384 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% -21.28% +51.16%
75th Percentile £506 £520 £550
90th Percentile £613 £641 £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 4
10th Percentile - - £45.60
25th Percentile - - £49.80
Median hourly rate - - £52.13
75th Percentile - - -
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the North of England

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the North of England

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the North of England

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the North of England

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the North of England 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
North West +40 41 £425 +7.94% 44
Yorkshire +11 18 £394 +4.30% 34
North East +1 3 £225 -63.27% 9
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 23 (37.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (29.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (8.06%) IIS
4 4 (6.45%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 22 (35.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (25.81%) Azure
3 14 (22.58%) Entra ID
4 6 (9.68%) OneDrive
5 4 (6.45%) GCP
6 3 (4.84%) AWS
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.23%) Nutanix
7 2 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.61%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.61%) GitHub
8 1 (1.61%) SaaS
8 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 56 (90.32%) DNS
2 16 (25.81%) TCP/IP
3 15 (24.19%) VPN
4 10 (16.13%) Firewall
4 10 (16.13%) VLAN
4 10 (16.13%) WAN
4 10 (16.13%) Wi-Fi
5 9 (14.52%) LAN
6 5 (8.06%) VoIP
7 4 (6.45%) Skype
8 3 (4.84%) DMZ
8 3 (4.84%) Network Security
9 1 (1.61%) BGP
9 1 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.61%) EIGRP
9 1 (1.61%) HTTP
9 1 (1.61%) Intranet
9 1 (1.61%) OSPF
9 1 (1.61%) SSH
9 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.61%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (6.45%) GitLab
General
1 10 (16.13%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.52%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Finance
4 4 (6.45%) French Language
4 4 (6.45%) Military
5 2 (3.23%) Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (19.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 12 (19.35%) Support Engineer
2 7 (11.29%) IT Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) Administrator
3 6 (9.68%) IT Support
3 6 (9.68%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) Network Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) VMWare Administrator
3 6 (9.68%) Windows Engineer
3 6 (9.68%) Wintel Administrator
4 5 (8.06%) Desktop Support
5 4 (6.45%) Analyst
5 4 (6.45%) Consultant
5 4 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.45%) Lead
5 4 (6.45%) Project Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Build Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Desktop Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 3 (4.84%) Windows Build Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (1.61%) LDAP
1 1 (1.61%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.84%) Clustering
4 1 (1.61%) Blog
4 1 (1.61%) CMDB
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 45 (72.58%) Windows
2 25 (40.32%) Windows Server
3 11 (17.74%) VMS
3 11 (17.74%) Windows 10
4 8 (12.90%) Linux
4 8 (12.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (9.68%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (9.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (6.45%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.23%) Android
7 2 (3.23%) CentOS
8 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.26%) ITSM
2 18 (29.03%) ITIL
3 16 (25.81%) DevOps
4 15 (24.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (16.13%) Customer Service
5 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (14.52%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (12.90%) Patch Management
7 8 (12.90%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (12.90%) Service Management
8 6 (9.68%) Migration
8 6 (9.68%) Project Management
9 5 (8.06%) CI/CD
9 5 (8.06%) Computer Science
10 4 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (6.45%) Disk Encryption
10 4 (6.45%) High Availability
10 4 (6.45%) Incident Management
10 4 (6.45%) Server Building
10 4 (6.45%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.68%) Python
3 4 (6.45%) VB
3 4 (6.45%) VBScript
4 2 (3.23%) Perl
5 1 (1.61%) Bash
5 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.61%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.61%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.13%) SC Cleared
1 10 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.68%) CCNA
2 6 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (9.68%) Degree
3 4 (6.45%) A+ Certification
3 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.84%) CCNP
5 1 (1.61%) CISSP
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.45%) SLA
2 3 (4.84%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.61%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (61.29%) Active Directory
2 16 (25.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (12.90%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (9.68%) Hyper-V
5 4 (6.45%) BitLocker
5 4 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.61%) Docker
7 1 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 16 (25.81%) WSUS
2 13 (20.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (16.13%) SCCM
4 6 (9.68%) vCenter Server
5 5 (8.06%) AppManager
6 4 (6.45%) Ansible
6 4 (6.45%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (4.84%) Nagios
7 3 (4.84%) NetApp OnCommand
7 3 (4.84%) Terraform
7 3 (4.84%) vMotion
7 3 (4.84%) ZABBIX
8 2 (3.23%) Prometheus
9 1 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.61%) FortiGate
9 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
9 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (64.52%) Microsoft
2 28 (45.16%) VMware
3 7 (11.29%) Cisco
3 7 (11.29%) Dell
3 7 (11.29%) ServiceNow
4 5 (8.06%) Ivanti
5 4 (6.45%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.45%) Google
6 3 (4.84%) CyberArk
6 3 (4.84%) HP
6 3 (4.84%) Infoblox
6 3 (4.84%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.23%) IBM
7 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.61%) Aruba
8 1 (1.61%) F5