DHCP Contracts in the South East

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 106 87 121
Rank change year-on-year -19 +34 +18
Contract jobs citing DHCP 53 127 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.76% 2.28% 1.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.33% 10.12% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 106 70
10th Percentile £310 £269 £213
25th Percentile £425 £401 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -3.15% +29.14%
75th Percentile £603 £608 £684
90th Percentile £638 £638 £738
England median daily rate £519 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +9.21% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £28.00 £55.25 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.32% +26.29% +103.49%
England median hourly rate £25.80 £40.00 £41.13
% change year-on-year -35.51% -2.74% +91.28%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 513 1,255 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.04% 22.58% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 617 590
10th Percentile £216 £205 £235
25th Percentile £325 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 131 74
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.33
25th Percentile £20.26 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.88 £85.65 £80.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the South East

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the South East

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the South East

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the South East

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the South East 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
Thames Valley -2 21 £356 -41.12% 30
Hampshire +22 19 £575 +6.98% 24
Berkshire -7 18 £419 -30.79% 18
Kent +11 6 £592 +188.66% 8
Surrey +5 4 £300 +39.53% 5
Buckinghamshire +10 2 £150 -67.85% 6
West Sussex +2 2 £550 +22.22% 5
Oxfordshire +3 1 £213 +18.06% 11
East Sussex -7 1 £163 -65.79% 1
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (24.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (15.09%) Apache
3 4 (7.55%) SharePoint
4 3 (5.66%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (5.66%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (5.66%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (5.66%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (5.66%) Office Communications Server
4 3 (5.66%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (5.66%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.77%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) Azure
2 14 (26.42%) IaaS
3 11 (20.75%) AWS
3 11 (20.75%) PaaS
4 8 (15.09%) GCP
4 8 (15.09%) OpenShift
5 6 (11.32%) Entra ID
6 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.89%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.89%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 52 (98.11%) DNS
2 20 (37.74%) Firewall
3 19 (35.85%) SMTP
4 14 (26.42%) VPN
5 13 (24.53%) SAN
6 11 (20.75%) FTP
6 11 (20.75%) Telnet
7 6 (11.32%) TCP/IP
7 6 (11.32%) VLAN
8 4 (7.55%) iSCSI
8 4 (7.55%) tcpdump
9 3 (5.66%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (5.66%) DDNS
9 3 (5.66%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (5.66%) Wireless
10 2 (3.77%) IP Telephony
10 2 (3.77%) LAN
10 2 (3.77%) WAN
10 2 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (1.89%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (15.09%) Big Data
1 8 (15.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Git
1 2 (3.77%) Subversion
General
1 14 (26.42%) Public Sector
2 9 (16.98%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Finance
4 3 (5.66%) Electronics
4 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
4 3 (5.66%) Marketing
4 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Support Engineer
2 15 (28.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (26.42%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 14 (26.42%) Infrastructure Support
4 13 (24.53%) 3rd Line Support
4 13 (24.53%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 11 (20.75%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 10 (18.87%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (13.21%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (11.32%) Administrator
8 6 (11.32%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (11.32%) Lead
8 6 (11.32%) VMware Engineer
8 6 (11.32%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (9.43%) Linux Administrator
10 4 (7.55%) Analyst
11 3 (5.66%) Exchange Engineer
11 3 (5.66%) Linux Engineer
11 3 (5.66%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) LDAP
2 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Data Centre
2 10 (18.87%) PKI
3 8 (15.09%) Clustering
4 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (7.55%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (5.66%) Replication
6 2 (3.77%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.89%) Derivative
7 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (66.04%) Windows
2 28 (52.83%) Linux
3 17 (32.08%) Windows Server
4 11 (20.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.77%) Solaris
7 2 (3.77%) Unix
7 2 (3.77%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.89%) Android
8 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.89%) CentOS
8 1 (1.89%) Fedora
8 1 (1.89%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 19 (35.85%) ITIL
2 14 (26.42%) DevOps
3 10 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (16.98%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (16.98%) High Availability
4 9 (16.98%) Software Deployment
4 9 (16.98%) Vulnerability Management
5 8 (15.09%) Artificial Intelligence
5 8 (15.09%) Machine Learning
6 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (11.32%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (11.32%) Security Patching
7 6 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (9.43%) RBAC
8 5 (9.43%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (9.43%) Workflow
8 5 (9.43%) Workflow Management
9 4 (7.55%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (7.55%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.55%) Bash
3 2 (3.77%) Perl
3 2 (3.77%) Python
4 1 (1.89%) Bicep
4 1 (1.89%) C#
4 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.89%) SQL
4 1 (1.89%) VB
4 1 (1.89%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (67.92%) Security Cleared
2 20 (37.74%) SC Cleared
3 16 (30.19%) DV Cleared
4 9 (16.98%) Degree
5 3 (5.66%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.77%) CCNA
6 2 (3.77%) HP APS
6 2 (3.77%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.89%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) SLA
2 2 (3.77%) GDPR
2 2 (3.77%) QA
System Software
1 28 (52.83%) Active Directory
2 18 (33.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (22.64%) vSphere
4 11 (20.75%) NFS
4 11 (20.75%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (18.87%) Hyper-V
6 8 (15.09%) BitLocker
6 8 (15.09%) Docker
6 8 (15.09%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (15.09%) Samba
6 8 (15.09%) Terminal Services
7 6 (11.32%) DFS Replication
8 3 (5.66%) Brightmail
8 3 (5.66%) ISA Server
9 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (26.42%) Ansible
2 9 (16.98%) Kubernetes
3 8 (15.09%) Nagios
3 8 (15.09%) Puppet
3 8 (15.09%) vCenter Server
3 8 (15.09%) vMotion
3 8 (15.09%) yum
4 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (7.55%) NetBackup
6 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (3.77%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (3.77%) SCCM
7 2 (3.77%) SELinux
8 1 (1.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.89%) SCOM
8 1 (1.89%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (49.06%) VMware
2 24 (45.28%) Microsoft
3 17 (32.08%) HP
4 11 (20.75%) Red Hat
5 10 (18.87%) Symantec
6 8 (15.09%) Citrix
6 8 (15.09%) Google
7 6 (11.32%) Veritas
8 4 (7.55%) 3PAR
8 4 (7.55%) Cisco
8 4 (7.55%) Dell
8 4 (7.55%) SolarWinds
9 3 (5.66%) LogRhythm
9 3 (5.66%) SAP
10 2 (3.77%) CheckPoint
10 2 (3.77%) Infoblox
10 2 (3.77%) Palo Alto
11 1 (1.89%) Arista
11 1 (1.89%) D-Link
11 1 (1.89%) Netskope