DHCP Contracts in the South West

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 123 114
Rank change year-on-year +29 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing DHCP 27 37 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.47% 1.13% 1.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.11% 6.65% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 30
10th Percentile £227 £173 £324
25th Percentile £538 £390 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% +1.19% +31.25%
75th Percentile £623 £558 £631
90th Percentile £693 £588 £742
England median daily rate £510 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +7.37% -2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 1
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -50.00% +4.23%
England median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% - +81.82%

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 267 556 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.56% 17.03% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 355 340
10th Percentile £235 £300 £247
25th Percentile £366 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +2.38% +11.70%
75th Percentile £623 £644 £627
90th Percentile £671 £688 £725
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 45 71
10th Percentile £13.09 £12.60 -
25th Percentile £14.85 £15.75 £9.80
Median hourly rate £17.79 £56.49 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.51% +113.17% -50.93%
75th Percentile £41.40 £71.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £55.56 £75.00 £85.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.44 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.47% +101.96% -10.00%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the South West over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the South West

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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 6 July 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
Gloucestershire +35 9 £615 +17.14% 21
Wiltshire +27 8 £588 +9.30% 22
Bristol +11 6 £588 +20.51% 21
Dorset - 3 £205 - 8
Somerset -11 1 - - 9
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 6 (22.22%) Confluence
3 6 (22.22%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) OpenShift
3 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (11.11%) OneDrive
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.70%) GitHub
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (100.00%) DNS
2 10 (37.04%) TCP/IP
3 9 (33.33%) HTTP
4 7 (25.93%) Skype
5 6 (22.22%) LAN
5 6 (22.22%) WAN
6 5 (18.52%) Unified Communications
7 4 (14.81%) VPN
7 4 (14.81%) Wireless
8 3 (11.11%) Firewall
8 3 (11.11%) VLAN
8 3 (11.11%) VoIP
8 3 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (7.41%) Network Security
10 1 (3.70%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 7 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.11%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Network Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Test Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (7.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Desktop Support
5 1 (3.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (3.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) PKI
2 1 (3.70%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 22 (81.48%) Windows
2 17 (62.96%) Windows Server
3 10 (37.04%) Linux
4 8 (29.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (25.93%) Windows 10
6 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (3.70%) Unix
8 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (37.04%) Service Management
3 8 (29.63%) Agile
3 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
4 5 (18.52%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (14.81%) Customer Service
5 4 (14.81%) Incident Management
5 4 (14.81%) ITIL
5 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.11%) DevOps
6 3 (11.11%) Information Security
6 3 (11.11%) Load Balancing
6 3 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 3 (11.11%) System Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Test Scripting
6 3 (11.11%) Two-Factor Authentication
6 3 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 2 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (7.41%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 9 (33.33%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) SQL
3 8 (29.63%) Bash
3 8 (29.63%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) Perl
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 15 (55.56%) DV Cleared
3 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
4 6 (22.22%) Degree
5 2 (7.41%) CCNP
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (7.41%) MCSA
5 2 (7.41%) MCSE
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (3.70%) CCNA
6 1 (3.70%) CCSA
6 1 (3.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (51.85%) Active Directory
1 14 (51.85%) Hyper-V
1 14 (51.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (33.33%) Docker
3 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (22.22%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 9 (33.33%) Terraform
2 8 (29.63%) Ansible
2 8 (29.63%) Puppet
3 5 (18.52%) SCCM
3 5 (18.52%) WSUS
4 3 (11.11%) AppManager
5 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (3.70%) SCOM
5 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (59.26%) VMware
2 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
3 8 (29.63%) Red Hat
4 5 (18.52%) Veeam
5 3 (11.11%) Atlassian
5 3 (11.11%) Ivanti
6 2 (7.41%) Aruba
6 2 (7.41%) CheckPoint
6 2 (7.41%) Extreme Networks
6 2 (7.41%) F5
6 2 (7.41%) Infoblox
6 2 (7.41%) Ruckus Wireless
6 2 (7.41%) Zscaler
7 1 (3.70%) Cisco
7 1 (3.70%) Remedy
7 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.70%) Veritas