DHCP Contracts in the North West

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 111 126
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 +2
Contract jobs citing DHCP 34 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.56% 0.66% 1.03%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.93% 5.65% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 22
10th Percentile £201 £246 £140
25th Percentile £365 £285 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £363
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% +10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £536 £491 £463
90th Percentile £538 £523 £571
England median daily rate £510 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +7.37% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - -25.00% +37.93%

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 311 283 431
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.27% 11.73% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 195 287
10th Percentile £151 £213 £288
25th Percentile £325 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £468
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +10.16% -1.58%
75th Percentile £538 £675 £564
90th Percentile £648 £840 £635
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.92% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 12
10th Percentile £21.20 £20.48 £15.72
25th Percentile £23.00 £28.44 £15.74
Median hourly rate £27.00 £46.69 £16.68
Median % change year-on-year -42.17% +179.92% -22.52%
75th Percentile £49.08 £51.68 £30.31
90th Percentile £61.73 £57.11 £46.55
England median hourly rate £43.75 £51.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.05% +3.00% +92.31%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the North West over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the North West

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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 1 August 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
Cumbria - 17 £456 - 1
Manchester +6 10 £518 +11.89% 17
Cheshire -13 5 £445 -6.32% 3
Merseyside +2 1 £140 -52.54%
Lancashire - 1 £175 - 14
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 14 (41.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (23.53%) SharePoint
3 4 (11.76%) OpenStack
3 4 (11.76%) Skype for Business
4 2 (5.88%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (29.41%) Azure
3 9 (26.47%) Entra ID
4 8 (23.53%) AWS
5 4 (11.76%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.94%) Azure Stack
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub
7 1 (2.94%) OneDrive
7 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (85.29%) DNS
2 11 (32.35%) Firewall
3 10 (29.41%) TCP/IP
3 10 (29.41%) VPN
4 8 (23.53%) VLAN
5 6 (17.65%) WAN
6 5 (14.71%) LAN
7 4 (11.76%) 3GPP
7 4 (11.76%) 4G
7 4 (11.76%) 5G
7 4 (11.76%) BGP
7 4 (11.76%) IPsec
7 4 (11.76%) MPLS
7 4 (11.76%) OSPF
7 4 (11.76%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (11.76%) Skype
7 4 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (11.76%) Wireshark
8 3 (8.82%) DMZ
9 1 (2.94%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.94%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) GitLab
General
1 9 (26.47%) Public Sector
2 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) French Language
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Military
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) IT Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) IT Support
4 5 (14.71%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Support Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Designer
5 4 (11.76%) Network Designer
5 4 (11.76%) Project Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Windows Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Build Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead
6 3 (8.82%) Windows Build Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Administrator
7 2 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior
7 2 (5.88%) VMWare Administrator
7 2 (5.88%) Wintel Administrator
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) SCCM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
1 4 (11.76%) Management Information System
1 4 (11.76%) Operational Technology
2 2 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (76.47%) Windows
2 15 (44.12%) Windows Server
3 7 (20.59%) VMS
3 7 (20.59%) Windows 10
4 5 (14.71%) Windows 7
5 3 (8.82%) Linux
5 3 (8.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.94%) Unix
7 1 (2.94%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) ITSM
2 13 (38.24%) DevOps
3 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (26.47%) ITIL
5 8 (23.53%) Service Management
6 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
6 5 (14.71%) Customer Service
6 5 (14.71%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 4 (11.76%) Disk Encryption
7 4 (11.76%) High Availability
7 4 (11.76%) Project Management
7 4 (11.76%) Server Building
7 4 (11.76%) Service Delivery
8 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (8.82%) Patch Management
9 2 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
9 2 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.76%) VB
2 4 (11.76%) VBScript
3 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.94%) Perl
3 1 (2.94%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
1 9 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.71%) Degree
3 4 (11.76%) A+ Certification
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (55.88%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) Docker
3 4 (11.76%) BitLocker
3 4 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (8.82%) Hyper-V
4 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) WSUS
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (14.71%) SCCM
4 4 (11.76%) Dell DRAC
5 3 (8.82%) Terraform
6 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (5.88%) NetApp OnCommand
6 2 (5.88%) vCenter Server
6 2 (5.88%) vMotion
7 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (35.29%) VMware
3 9 (26.47%) Dell
4 4 (11.76%) Google
4 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
5 3 (8.82%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco
6 1 (2.94%) HP