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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 71 115
Rank change year-on-year -43 +44 -14
Contract jobs citing DHCP 26 41 35
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.80% 2.41% 1.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.24% 15.95% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 36 24
10th Percentile £450 £325 £200
25th Percentile £507 £495 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £614 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.10% +14.19% +16.22%
75th Percentile £575 £628 £588
90th Percentile £594 £744 £643
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
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 £25.80 £40.00
% change year-on-year +77.21% -35.51% +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 254 257 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 7.82% 15.13% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 175 348
10th Percentile £285 £250 £275
25th Percentile £422 £413 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £548 £535
Median % change year-on-year -8.76% +2.43% +7.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £701 £688 £713
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.41% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 40
10th Percentile £13.07 £33.15 £12.50
25th Percentile £37.25 £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 £72.54 - £70.66
90th Percentile £94.00 - £85.00
England median hourly rate £42.60 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -8.39% +111.30%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -16 7 £400 -34.96% 7
Bristol -19 7 £520 -11.49% 2
Somerset -14 5 £575 - 2
Devon -13 3 £500 +21.21% 4
Wiltshire -22 3 £575 -2.13% 4
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 (15.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (15.38%) IaaS
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (15.38%) PaaS
3 3 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (11.54%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (65.38%) DNS
2 11 (42.31%) Firewall
3 10 (38.46%) VPN
4 8 (30.77%) LAN
5 7 (26.92%) VLAN
5 7 (26.92%) Wireless
6 6 (23.08%) HTTPS
6 6 (23.08%) Network Security
7 4 (15.38%) WAN
7 4 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (11.54%) VoIP
9 2 (7.69%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (7.69%) H.323
9 2 (7.69%) RTP
10 1 (3.85%) SAN
10 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
10 1 (3.85%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 7 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (3.85%) Electronics
5 1 (3.85%) Law
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Military
5 1 (3.85%) Police
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (15.38%) Administrator
1 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (15.38%) IT Support
1 4 (15.38%) IT Support Specialist
1 4 (15.38%) Junior
1 4 (15.38%) Junior IT Support
1 4 (15.38%) Support Specialist
1 4 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 2 (7.69%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 2 (7.69%) Telephony Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V Administrator
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (3.85%) IT Administrator
4 1 (3.85%) IT Systems Administrator
4 1 (3.85%) Network Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) 802.1X
2 2 (7.69%) XMPP
3 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) IoT
2 3 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (42.31%) Windows
2 9 (34.62%) Windows Server
3 5 (19.23%) Linux
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) Zero Trust
3 7 (26.92%) ITIL
4 6 (23.08%) Network Segmentation
4 6 (23.08%) Regulatory Compliance
4 6 (23.08%) Risk Assessment
4 6 (23.08%) Security Architecture
4 6 (23.08%) Vulnerability Management
5 5 (19.23%) Change Management
6 4 (15.38%) Business Continuity
6 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (15.38%) Mathematics
7 3 (11.54%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (11.54%) Cost Management
7 3 (11.54%) Migration
7 3 (11.54%) Operational Stability
7 3 (11.54%) Runbook
7 3 (11.54%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.54%) Bicep
3 1 (3.85%) C
3 1 (3.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 5 (19.23%) Azure Certification
4 3 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) CCNA
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.85%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (57.69%) Active Directory
2 7 (26.92%) Hyper-V
3 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) SCCM
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (7.69%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) CA Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) Nagios
3 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Microsoft
2 6 (23.08%) ForeScout
3 5 (19.23%) Cisco
3 5 (19.23%) VMware
4 2 (7.69%) Genesys
4 2 (7.69%) Google
4 2 (7.69%) Infoblox
4 2 (7.69%) NetApp
5 1 (3.85%) FireEye
5 1 (3.85%) NetScout
5 1 (3.85%) Netskope
5 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.85%) SAP