DHCP Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 29 26
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing DHCP 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 2.09% 0.59% 2.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.00% 3.33% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £510 - £386
25th Percentile £525 £425 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -7.69% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £475 £614
90th Percentile £595 - £808
South West median daily rate £600 £413 £573
% change year-on-year +45.45% -27.98% +30.91%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 40 30 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 20.94% 17.75% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 15 15
10th Percentile - £191 £165
25th Percentile £225 £397 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £438 £581 £578
90th Percentile £573 £649 £744
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - - £37.38
25th Percentile £61.50 £12.50 £48.31
Median hourly rate £63.00 £13.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +384.62% -74.95% +226.87%
75th Percentile £64.50 £13.50 £55.47
90th Percentile - - £55.61
South West median hourly rate £56.50 £67.02 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.70% +18.64% -13.09%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Somerset

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing DHCP

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing DHCP

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 8 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
Taunton - 2 £550 - 1
DHCP
South West

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) LAN
4 1 (25.00%) NAS
4 1 (25.00%) SAN
4 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 1 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (25.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (25.00%) Express.js
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) WCF
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) BCP
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) SOAR
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bicep
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (25.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (25.00%) SAP