DHCP Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring DHCP skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 127 149
Rank change year-on-year -30 +22 +3
Contract jobs citing DHCP 25 38 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.63% 0.92% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.13% 7.51% 7.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 21 37
10th Percentile £159 £281 £164
25th Percentile £266 £388 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.76% +40.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £569 £738 £575
90th Percentile £575 £750 £700
England median daily rate £463 £486 £475
% change year-on-year -4.88% +2.37% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £34.00
% change year-on-year -22.58% +13.97% +54.55%

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 487 506 673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.30% 12.22% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 299 477
10th Percentile £160 £213 £222
25th Percentile £325 £404 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £583
90th Percentile £638 £823 £650
England median daily rate £490 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 18
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.87 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.33 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £39.00 £19.82
Median % change year-on-year -39.74% +96.77% -7.34%
75th Percentile £63.56 £51.23 £40.07
90th Percentile £67.54 £52.20 £47.16
England median hourly rate £41.23 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -28.12% +1.52% +34.50%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DHCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DHCP

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 13 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the North of England

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DHCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DHCP

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 13 September 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 -22 14 £438 -20.45% 22
Yorkshire -15 8 £550 +46.67% 15
North East -2 3 £250 +78.57% 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 4 (16.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (8.00%) IIS
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Azure
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Stack
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (96.00%) DNS
2 15 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 12 (48.00%) Firewall
4 6 (24.00%) VLAN
5 5 (20.00%) BGP
5 5 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (20.00%) OSPF
6 4 (16.00%) 3GPP
6 4 (16.00%) 4G
6 4 (16.00%) 5G
6 4 (16.00%) IPsec
6 4 (16.00%) MPLS
6 4 (16.00%) Radio Access Network
6 4 (16.00%) Wireshark
7 3 (12.00%) LAN
7 3 (12.00%) VPN
7 3 (12.00%) WAN
8 2 (8.00%) Wireless
9 1 (4.00%) EIGRP
9 1 (4.00%) HSRP
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) French Language
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Designer
3 4 (16.00%) IT Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) IT Support
3 4 (16.00%) Network Designer
4 3 (12.00%) Desktop Support
4 3 (12.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Project Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) VMWare Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) Wintel Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Operational Technology
2 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (12.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) Windows
2 6 (24.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (16.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.00%) Android
6 1 (4.00%) Linux
6 1 (4.00%) Windows 7
6 1 (4.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.00%) Customer Service
1 5 (20.00%) High Availability
1 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (16.00%) ITSM
3 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (12.00%) Project Management
3 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (12.00%) Service Management
4 2 (8.00%) ITIL
4 2 (8.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (8.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (8.00%) Resource Management
4 2 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (4.00%) Server Hardening
5 1 (4.00%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) CCNA
1 6 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) CCNP
3 3 (12.00%) A+ Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (32.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) Docker
3 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Terraform
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (8.00%) NetApp OnCommand
2 2 (8.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (8.00%) vMotion
2 2 (8.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (24.00%) Cisco
3 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (16.00%) Dell
5 3 (12.00%) Google
5 3 (12.00%) VMware
6 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow