DHCP Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 12 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing DHCP 5 7 5
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 3.29% 4.76% 2.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 35.71% 30.43% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £356 £406 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £413 £195
Median % change year-on-year -12.12% +111.54% -10.86%
75th Percentile £369 £425 £233
90th Percentile - £553 £348
South East median daily rate £436 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -12.80% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - -
Median hourly rate £89.63 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £89.63 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +81.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 14 23 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 9.21% 15.65% 10.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 21
10th Percentile £378 £155 £180
25th Percentile £403 £350 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £340
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% +21.32% -17.58%
75th Percentile £559 £563 £450
90th Percentile £600 £645 £650
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -2.50% +7.53% +0.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - -
Median hourly rate £89.63 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £68.51 £59.00
% change year-on-year -19.72% +16.13% +31.10%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing DHCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing DHCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 October 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
Oxford - 3 - - 3
Abingdon 0 1 £363 -13.43% 3
DHCP
South East

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Organisational Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Service Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Service Support Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) ITSM
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Service Management
1 4 (80.00%) Time Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) A+ Certification
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (20.00%) VMware