DHCP Contract Job Trends in the North West

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 77 123
Rank change year-on-year -46 +46 -37
Contract jobs citing DHCP 18 41 18
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.73% 1.91% 0.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.13% 12.81% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 11
10th Percentile £280 £257 £208
25th Percentile £315 £378 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £494 £385
Median % change year-on-year +8.35% +28.25% -9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £741 £444
90th Percentile £690 £750 £500
England median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -3.23%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 351 320 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.28% 14.95% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 168 317
10th Percentile £170 £202 £301
25th Percentile £332 £362 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.66% -6.00% +3.36%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £625
90th Percentile £673 £675 £672
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 13
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.76 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £22.01 £15.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £48.56 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -58.81% +174.04% -10.87%
75th Percentile £70.76 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £52.14 £49.38
England median hourly rate £34.50 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -15.85% -27.36% +26.28%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in the North West

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the North West over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the North West

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Merseyside +4 8 £330 - 7
Cumbria +6 5 £690 -
Manchester -9 4 £543 -1.36% 22
Lancashire -11 1 £175 +16.67% 7
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (27.78%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) MS Visio
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) OneDrive
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) DNS
2 8 (44.44%) BGP
3 7 (38.89%) Cisco ISE
3 7 (38.89%) Cisco Wireless
3 7 (38.89%) LAN
3 7 (38.89%) NX-OS
3 7 (38.89%) VPN
3 7 (38.89%) VXLAN
3 7 (38.89%) WAN
3 7 (38.89%) Wireless
4 6 (33.33%) VLAN
4 6 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (27.78%) Skype
5 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
6 4 (22.22%) Firewall
7 1 (5.56%) EIGRP
7 1 (5.56%) MPLS
7 1 (5.56%) OSPF
7 1 (5.56%) SSL
7 1 (5.56%) TACACS
General
1 7 (38.89%) Banking
1 7 (38.89%) Investment Banking
2 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) RF Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Wireless Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Field Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Field Service Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) SCCM Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Windows 10
3 6 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (5.56%) Windows 8
5 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) User Experience
2 5 (27.78%) Disk Encryption
2 5 (27.78%) ITSM
2 5 (27.78%) Service Management
3 3 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) Business Continuity
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Kalman Filter
5 1 (5.56%) Load Balancing
5 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.56%) Network Design
5 1 (5.56%) Operational Stability
5 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) RBAC
5 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) Task Automation
5 1 (5.56%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Lisp
1 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 5 (27.78%) VB
2 5 (27.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) CCNP
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (27.78%) DV Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) BitLocker
2 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.56%) Docker
4 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) FortiGate
2 6 (33.33%) SCCM
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.11%) Terraform
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 8 (44.44%) Cisco
3 7 (38.89%) Ekahau
3 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
3 7 (38.89%) Remedy
4 2 (11.11%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) Apple
5 1 (5.56%) F5
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) Veeam