DHCP Contracts in Scotland

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for DHCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DHCP over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 147 149
Rank change year-on-year +48 +2 -27
Contract jobs citing DHCP 28 23 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.29% 0.83% 0.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.62% 6.48% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 17
10th Percentile £200 £301 £260
25th Percentile £202 £415 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £239 £465 £400
Median % change year-on-year -48.60% +16.13% +3.23%
75th Percentile £243 £538 £500
90th Percentile £301 £541 £538
UK median daily rate £468 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -4.10% +14.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £40.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +3.90% +79.07% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

DHCP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 241 355 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.12% 12.85% 8.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 220 190
10th Percentile £188 £160 £208
25th Percentile £280 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £459 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% +1.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £538
90th Percentile £649 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £517 £500
% change year-on-year -4.16% +3.30% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 16
10th Percentile £13.45 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £41.31
Median hourly rate £18.27 £11.90 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.59% -74.96% -24.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £44.55 £55.81
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% -

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Edinburgh +50 14 £238 -37.00% 10
Renfrewshire +3 8 £525 -0.94%
Glasgow +3 6 - - 4
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 4 (14.29%) IaaS
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (100.00%) DNS
2 16 (57.14%) VPN
3 5 (17.86%) Firewall
3 5 (17.86%) SMTP
4 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
General
1 6 (21.43%) Banking
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
1 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Desktop Support
2 5 (17.86%) Hardware Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 3 (10.71%) Active Directory Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux Server Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Server Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Python Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) LDAP
2 1 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Clustering
1 6 (21.43%) PKI
2 4 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (10.71%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.57%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Windows
2 11 (39.29%) Windows 10
3 9 (32.14%) Windows 7
4 6 (21.43%) Linux
4 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
5 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Break/Fix
1 10 (35.71%) Service Delivery
2 9 (32.14%) High Availability
2 9 (32.14%) ITIL
3 6 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 6 (21.43%) Project Delivery
4 5 (17.86%) Agile
4 5 (17.86%) Customer Requirements
4 5 (17.86%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 4 (14.29%) Investment Management
5 4 (14.29%) Wealth Management
6 3 (10.71%) DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Open Source
7 1 (3.57%) Containerisation
7 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (3.57%) Software Deployment
7 1 (3.57%) Task Automation
7 1 (3.57%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
2 6 (21.43%) Perl
2 6 (21.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (67.86%) Security Cleared
2 16 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 9 (32.14%) A+ Certification
4 8 (28.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 22 (78.57%) Active Directory
2 6 (21.43%) Hyper-V
2 6 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (17.86%) BitLocker
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (17.86%) Terminal Services
4 3 (10.71%) Firmware
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (39.29%) SCCM
2 6 (21.43%) vCenter Server
3 5 (17.86%) vMotion
4 1 (3.57%) Ansible
4 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
4 1 (3.57%) McAfee ePO
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.57%) Puppet
4 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 11 (39.29%) Cisco
3 7 (25.00%) VMware
4 6 (21.43%) Citrix
5 5 (17.86%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.57%) HP
6 1 (3.57%) McAfee
6 1 (3.57%) Symantec
6 1 (3.57%) Veritas