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 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 92 129
Rank change year-on-year -13 +37 -24
Contract jobs citing DHCP 59 101 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.67% 2.05% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.69% 10.54% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 86 47
10th Percentile £348 £375 £185
25th Percentile £388 £425 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £519 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +1.22% +18.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £645
90th Percentile £623 - £700
England median daily rate £510 £485 £475
% change year-on-year +5.16% +2.10% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £45.20 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - £35.00
Median hourly rate £89.63 - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £45.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £33.50
% change year-on-year -22.58% +15.67% +15.52%

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 609 958 1,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.28% 19.45% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 513 596
10th Percentile £213 £256 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +1.65%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £582
90th Percentile £638 £663 £688
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 103 58
10th Percentile £14.20 £22.61 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.94 £52.23 £21.41
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.26% +28.49%
75th Percentile £67.31 £70.00 £73.19
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.24 £75.80
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £51.16
% change year-on-year -22.73% +7.52% +59.86%

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

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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 9 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the South East

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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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DHCP in the South East over the 6 months to 9 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for DHCP in the South East

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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 9 August 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
Hampshire +26 24 £600 +14.29% 17
Thames Valley -20 15 £356 -41.12% 13
Kent - 12 £569 - 21
Berkshire -16 9 £444 -26.69% 6
Oxfordshire -2 6 £288 -54.00% 6
Surrey +8 5 £350 -17.65% 4
West Sussex -4 4 £550 +22.22% 3
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 23 (38.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (25.42%) SharePoint
3 13 (22.03%) Exchange Server 2010
4 12 (20.34%) Exchange Server 2003
4 12 (20.34%) Exchange Server 2007
4 12 (20.34%) Exchange Server 2013
4 12 (20.34%) Office Communications Server
4 12 (20.34%) SharePoint Server
4 12 (20.34%) Skype for Business
5 5 (8.47%) Confluence
6 1 (1.69%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (37.29%) Azure
2 15 (25.42%) IaaS
3 12 (20.34%) AWS
3 12 (20.34%) PaaS
4 8 (13.56%) GCP
4 8 (13.56%) OpenShift
5 6 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.69%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.69%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 58 (98.31%) DNS
2 30 (50.85%) VPN
3 23 (38.98%) Firewall
4 19 (32.20%) SAN
5 15 (25.42%) TCP/IP
6 12 (20.34%) DDNS
7 10 (16.95%) SMTP
8 6 (10.17%) VLAN
9 5 (8.47%) SSL
9 5 (8.47%) Wireless
10 4 (6.78%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (3.39%) BGP
11 2 (3.39%) EIGRP
11 2 (3.39%) FTP
11 2 (3.39%) LAN
11 2 (3.39%) OSPF
11 2 (3.39%) Telnet
11 2 (3.39%) WAN
12 1 (1.69%) TACACS
12 1 (1.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (13.56%) Big Data
1 8 (13.56%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (15.25%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Git
2 2 (3.39%) Subversion
General
1 12 (20.34%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
3 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.69%) Back Office
6 1 (1.69%) Finance
6 1 (1.69%) Front Office
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 32 (54.24%) Support Engineer
2 20 (33.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (30.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 16 (27.12%) 3rd Line Support
4 16 (27.12%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 12 (20.34%) Exchange Engineer
5 12 (20.34%) Exchange Support
6 11 (18.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (18.64%) Azure Engineer
7 10 (16.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 10 (16.95%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Support
7 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 7 (11.86%) VMware Engineer
8 7 (11.86%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (10.17%) Administrator
10 5 (8.47%) Windows Engineer
10 5 (8.47%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (6.78%) Network Engineer
12 3 (5.08%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.69%) Middleware
1 1 (1.69%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Data Centre
1 12 (20.34%) Replication
2 11 (18.64%) PKI
3 8 (13.56%) Clustering
4 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Life Science
5 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 54 (91.53%) Windows
2 20 (33.90%) Windows Server
2 20 (33.90%) Windows Server 2003
3 17 (28.81%) Linux
4 7 (11.86%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (8.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (8.47%) Unix
6 4 (6.78%) Mac OS
7 2 (3.39%) Solaris
7 2 (3.39%) Windows 10
7 2 (3.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.69%) Rocky
8 1 (1.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.85%) ITIL
2 23 (38.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 16 (27.12%) DevOps
3 16 (27.12%) High Availability
4 12 (20.34%) Architectural Design
4 12 (20.34%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (20.34%) Content Management
4 12 (20.34%) Enterprise Content Management
4 12 (20.34%) Enterprise Search
5 11 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.25%) Software Deployment
7 8 (13.56%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (13.56%) Machine Learning
8 7 (11.86%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (10.17%) Security Patching
10 5 (8.47%) Service Management
11 4 (6.78%) Computer Science
11 4 (6.78%) ITSM
11 4 (6.78%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.34%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.08%) SQL
3 2 (3.39%) Bash
3 2 (3.39%) Perl
3 2 (3.39%) Python
4 1 (1.69%) Bicep
4 1 (1.69%) C#
4 1 (1.69%) Java
4 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.69%) VB
4 1 (1.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (59.32%) Security Cleared
2 20 (33.90%) DV Cleared
3 15 (25.42%) SC Cleared
4 13 (22.03%) Degree
5 4 (6.78%) A+ Certification
5 4 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.69%) CCNA
7 1 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) SLA
2 6 (10.17%) GDPR
3 2 (3.39%) QA
4 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 40 (67.80%) Active Directory
2 20 (33.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (25.42%) Hyper-V
3 15 (25.42%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (23.73%) vSphere
5 12 (20.34%) Brightmail
5 12 (20.34%) ISA Server
6 9 (15.25%) Terminal Services
7 8 (13.56%) BitLocker
7 8 (13.56%) Docker
7 8 (13.56%) Microsoft App-V
8 7 (11.86%) DFS Replication
9 5 (8.47%) NFS
10 2 (3.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (1.69%) Samba
Systems Management
1 13 (22.03%) Ansible
2 12 (20.34%) Microsoft Clustering
3 10 (16.95%) vCenter Server
4 9 (15.25%) Kubernetes
5 8 (13.56%) Nagios
5 8 (13.56%) Puppet
5 8 (13.56%) vMotion
6 7 (11.86%) SCCM
7 5 (8.47%) Tivoli
8 4 (6.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (6.78%) Terraform
8 4 (6.78%) WSUS
9 2 (3.39%) NetBackup
9 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (3.39%) SELinux
10 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.69%) SCOM
10 1 (1.69%) yum
Vendors
1 38 (64.41%) Microsoft
2 30 (50.85%) VMware
3 15 (25.42%) Citrix
4 10 (16.95%) HP
4 10 (16.95%) Symantec
5 8 (13.56%) Google
6 7 (11.86%) SolarWinds
7 6 (10.17%) Cisco
8 5 (8.47%) Red Hat
8 5 (8.47%) Veeam
9 4 (6.78%) CheckPoint
9 4 (6.78%) Palo Alto
9 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
9 4 (6.78%) Veritas
10 2 (3.39%) 3PAR
10 2 (3.39%) Dell
10 2 (3.39%) Intel
11 1 (1.69%) Arista
11 1 (1.69%) Aruba
11 1 (1.69%) Meraki