DHCP Contracts in Scotland

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > Scotland

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 103 140
Rank change year-on-year -4 +37 +4
Contract jobs citing DHCP 9 26 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 1.17% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.38% 10.40% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 20
10th Percentile £340 £200 £296
25th Percentile £411 £203 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £240 £455
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -47.28% +12.41%
75th Percentile £475 £363 £538
90th Percentile - £485 £539
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £491
% change year-on-year +10.53% -3.31% +15.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate £23.59 £40.00 £41.13
% change year-on-year -41.03% -2.74% +82.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 141 250 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 8.68% 11.28% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 150 227
10th Percentile £200 £187 £160
25th Percentile £313 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +2.78%
75th Percentile £525 £626 £538
90th Percentile £550 £700 £600
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 21
10th Percentile - £15.43 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.69 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £22.14 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +108.23% -77.62%
75th Percentile £23.53 £60.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £32.36 £60.75 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
Glasgow +1 6 £450 - 2
Edinburgh -2 2 £240 +12.94% 2
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 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) IaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (44.44%) Banking
3 4 (44.44%) Investment Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Scrum Master
2 2 (22.22%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Designer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (77.78%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (22.22%) Windows 10
5 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 5 (55.56%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Service Delivery
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Conflict Resolution
3 4 (44.44%) DevOps
3 4 (44.44%) High Availability
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Investment Management
3 4 (44.44%) Kanban
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) Wealth Management
4 3 (33.33%) Load Balancing
4 3 (33.33%) Project Management
4 3 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 3 (33.33%) Workflow
5 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
6 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (11.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 1 (11.11%) Aruba
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper
4 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto