DHCP Contract Job Trends in the South West

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 79 121
Rank change year-on-year -37 +42 -11
Contract jobs citing DHCP 31 34 33
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.93% 1.99% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.06% 12.88% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 29 22
10th Percentile £257 £535 £183
25th Percentile £388 £569 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £615 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.53% +14.42% +13.16%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £580
90th Percentile £589 £775 £645
England median daily rate £480 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -8.57% +10.53% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £40.00
75th Percentile £12.69 - -
90th Percentile - - £71.93
England median hourly rate £45.71 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +63.26% -30.00% +3.90%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 257 264 518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 7.72% 15.42% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 175 334
10th Percentile £265 £250 £290
25th Percentile £400 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £536
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% +2.19% +4.63%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £691 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 5 43
10th Percentile £12.65 £33.15 £12.55
25th Percentile £27.79 £65.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £75.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +87.50% +308.16%
75th Percentile £72.02 - £68.46
90th Percentile £89.25 - £83.60
England median hourly rate £41.94 £29.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +41.40% -25.85% +116.22%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in the South West

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DHCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DHCP

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the South West over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the South West

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DHCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DHCP

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. 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
Gloucestershire -11 9 £215 -65.04% 3
Bristol -19 8 £520 -11.57% 2
Somerset -9 5 £575 - 3
Wiltshire -26 3 £575 -2.13% 3
Devon - 3 £500 - 2
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 4 (12.90%) AWS
2 4 (12.90%) IaaS
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (12.90%) PaaS
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.23%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (70.97%) DNS
2 13 (41.94%) Firewall
3 10 (32.26%) VPN
4 8 (25.81%) LAN
5 7 (22.58%) VLAN
5 7 (22.58%) Wireless
6 6 (19.35%) HTTPS
6 6 (19.35%) Network Security
7 5 (16.13%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (12.90%) WAN
9 3 (9.68%) TCP/IP
9 3 (9.68%) VoIP
10 2 (6.45%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (6.45%) H.323
10 2 (6.45%) RTP
10 2 (6.45%) SAN
11 1 (3.23%) Kerberos
11 1 (3.23%) NAS
11 1 (3.23%) SSH
11 1 (3.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
1 2 (6.45%) JIRA
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Law
4 2 (6.45%) Police
5 1 (3.23%) Electronics
5 1 (3.23%) Legal
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Military
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.13%) Administrator
2 5 (16.13%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (12.90%) IT Support
3 4 (12.90%) IT Support Specialist
3 4 (12.90%) Junior
3 4 (12.90%) Junior IT Support
3 4 (12.90%) Support Specialist
4 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 2 (6.45%) IT Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) IT Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.45%) Telephony Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.23%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) 802.1X
2 2 (6.45%) XMPP
3 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) IoT
2 3 (9.68%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Driving Licence
3 1 (3.23%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (48.39%) Windows
2 11 (35.48%) Windows Server
3 6 (19.35%) Linux
4 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.45%) Windows 10
4 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (6.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.23%) CentOS
5 1 (3.23%) Rocky
5 1 (3.23%) SUSE
5 1 (3.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (29.03%) Zero Trust
3 8 (25.81%) ITIL
4 6 (19.35%) Change Management
4 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (19.35%) Network Segmentation
4 6 (19.35%) Regulatory Compliance
4 6 (19.35%) Risk Assessment
4 6 (19.35%) Security Architecture
4 6 (19.35%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.90%) Business Continuity
6 4 (12.90%) Configuration Management
6 4 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (12.90%) Mathematics
7 3 (9.68%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (9.68%) Migration
7 3 (9.68%) Problem Management
7 3 (9.68%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.68%) Bicep
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) C
3 1 (3.23%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) Azure Certification
4 4 (12.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (12.90%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.23%) CCNA
5 1 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.23%) Degree
5 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (64.52%) Active Directory
2 10 (32.26%) Hyper-V
3 8 (25.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (3.23%) BitLocker
4 1 (3.23%) Docker
4 1 (3.23%) KVM
4 1 (3.23%) NFS
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.23%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) SCCM
1 5 (16.13%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (6.45%) Nagios
2 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.23%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.23%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.23%) WSUS
3 1 (3.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) VMware
3 6 (19.35%) ForeScout
4 5 (16.13%) Cisco
5 2 (6.45%) Genesys
5 2 (6.45%) Google
5 2 (6.45%) Infoblox
5 2 (6.45%) NetApp
6 1 (3.23%) FireEye
6 1 (3.23%) NetScout
6 1 (3.23%) Netskope
6 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.23%) SAP
6 1 (3.23%) Splunk