DHCP Contracts in South Wales

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 40 47
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 +20
Contract jobs citing DHCP 8 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 3.31% 0.60% 2.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% 6.45% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £398 - £447
25th Percentile £419 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -22.73% +25.13%
75th Percentile £475 £438 -
90th Percentile £509 - £590
Wales median daily rate £450 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -37.93% +31.82% +21.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 56 31 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 23.14% 9.25% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 19 69
10th Percentile £160 £165 £238
25th Percentile £199 £199 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £220 £513
Median % change year-on-year +42.05% -57.07% +13.89%
75th Percentile £437 £513 £550
90th Percentile £465 £667 £640
Wales median daily rate £350 £325 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -35.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £30.00 - -
25th Percentile £33.75 - -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £14.36 -
Median % change year-on-year +161.14% - -
75th Percentile £44.06 - -
90th Percentile £51.25 - -
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £16.77 -
% change year-on-year +123.68% - -

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in South Wales

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in South Wales

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in South Wales

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 2 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
Cardiff - 5 £450 - 2
Newport +8 2 £483 +13.53%
Glamorgan - 1 - - 5
DHCP
Wales

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Linode
2 1 (12.50%) PaaS
2 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) VPN
3 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (37.50%) Wireless
5 2 (25.00%) BGP
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (25.00%) IPv4
5 2 (25.00%) OSPF
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (12.50%) HTTP
6 1 (12.50%) SSL
6 1 (12.50%) VoIP
6 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) NHS
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) e-Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) CentOS
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
2 1 (12.50%) Data Security
2 1 (12.50%) High Availability
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (12.50%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
2 1 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) CCNP
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (25.00%) CCIE
3 2 (25.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Ekahau
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Aerohive Networks
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds