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 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 95 108
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 -5
Contract jobs citing DHCP 52 15 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.43% 0.79% 0.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.94% 6.17% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 18
10th Percentile £185 £203 £168
25th Percentile £284 £307 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.98% +4.88%
75th Percentile £723 £616 £561
90th Percentile £800 £625 £588
England median daily rate £478 £510 £484
% change year-on-year -6.37% +5.37% +1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 2
10th Percentile £26.00 - £65.18
25th Percentile £85.00 - £67.31
Median hourly rate £95.00 - £72.75
75th Percentile £98.82 - £76.31
90th Percentile £100.00 - £77.33
England median hourly rate £67.00 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +123.33% -36.84% +41.79%

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 307 243 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.44% 12.76% 17.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 151 314
10th Percentile £210 £225 £283
25th Percentile £363 £325 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £540 £538
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.47% +3.37%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £628
90th Percentile £721 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 3 40
10th Percentile £12.95 £23.73 £12.32
25th Percentile £19.83 £32.65 £13.58
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -23.08% +13.38%
75th Percentile £90.00 £58.75 £71.56
90th Percentile £100.00 £62.50 £75.30
England median hourly rate £28.00 £43.75 £54.88
% change year-on-year -36.00% -20.27% -0.23%

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 16 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DHCP in the South West over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DHCP in the South West

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 16 August 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
Somerset -5 28 £698 - 3
Wiltshire -8 10 £400 -31.91% 3
Gloucestershire -8 7 £308 -49.80% 10
Bristol -17 2 £275 -46.99% 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 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (42.31%) AWS
2 12 (23.08%) Azure
3 4 (7.69%) GCP
3 4 (7.69%) GitHub
3 4 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.85%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.92%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 52 (100.00%) DNS
2 33 (63.46%) TCP/IP
3 31 (59.62%) Firewall
4 15 (28.85%) VSAN
5 8 (15.38%) SAN
5 8 (15.38%) VLAN
6 5 (9.62%) VoIP
7 4 (7.69%) VPN
8 3 (5.77%) Kerberos
8 3 (5.77%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (3.85%) LAN
9 2 (3.85%) Network Security
10 1 (1.92%) NAS
10 1 (1.92%) SSH
10 1 (1.92%) WAN
10 1 (1.92%) Wireless
10 1 (1.92%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) GitLab
1 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 11 (21.15%) Public Sector
2 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Military
5 2 (3.85%) Finance
5 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.85%) Law
5 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Police
6 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (34.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (21.15%) Principal Engineer
4 8 (15.38%) Senior
5 5 (9.62%) Administrator
5 5 (9.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Systems Administrator
6 4 (7.69%) QA Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) QA Test Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Active Directory Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) IT Administrator
8 2 (3.85%) IT Systems Administrator
8 2 (3.85%) Senior VMware Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Service Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) LDAP
2 2 (3.85%) OAuth
2 2 (3.85%) SAML
3 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (38.46%) PKI
2 17 (32.69%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.62%) Public Cloud
4 4 (7.69%) Clustering
5 3 (5.77%) Fat Client
5 3 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.77%) Smartcard
5 3 (5.77%) Thin Client
6 2 (3.85%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (76.92%) Windows
2 35 (67.31%) Linux
3 13 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 9 (17.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (7.69%) Unix
6 3 (5.77%) Android
6 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.92%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.92%) CentOS
7 1 (1.92%) Rocky
7 1 (1.92%) SUSE
7 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (44.23%) Infrastructure as Code
2 21 (40.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (40.38%) Platform Engineering
3 20 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
4 19 (36.54%) DevSecOps
4 19 (36.54%) Systems Engineering
5 18 (34.62%) SIEM
6 17 (32.69%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
7 16 (30.77%) Mentoring
8 15 (28.85%) Customer Requirements
9 14 (26.92%) Converged Infrastructure
9 14 (26.92%) Network Virtualisation
10 10 (19.23%) Containerisation
10 10 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (19.23%) Privileged Access Management
11 7 (13.46%) IT Strategy
11 7 (13.46%) Patch Management
11 7 (13.46%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 25 (48.08%) Bash
1 25 (48.08%) PowerShell
2 24 (46.15%) Python
3 1 (1.92%) C
Qualifications
1 40 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 32 (61.54%) DV Cleared
3 12 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 12 (23.08%) VCAP
4 7 (13.46%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.69%) Degree
6 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.92%) CCNA
7 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.92%) CISM
7 1 (1.92%) CISSP
7 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) NCSC
2 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 33 (63.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (53.85%) Hyper-V
4 15 (28.85%) VMware NSX
4 15 (28.85%) vSphere
5 14 (26.92%) Docker
6 4 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (5.77%) NFS
7 3 (5.77%) VirtualBox
7 3 (5.77%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (1.92%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.92%) KVM
8 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (51.92%) Ansible
2 26 (50.00%) Terraform
3 23 (44.23%) Kubernetes
4 14 (26.92%) VxRail
5 5 (9.62%) WSUS
6 3 (5.77%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.85%) Nagios
7 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.92%) Grafana
8 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.92%) SCCM
8 1 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 33 (63.46%) VMware
2 11 (21.15%) Microsoft
3 8 (15.38%) Cisco
3 8 (15.38%) CyberArk
4 7 (13.46%) Red Hat
5 5 (9.62%) ServiceNow
6 3 (5.77%) McAfee
6 3 (5.77%) Thales
7 2 (3.85%) BMC
7 2 (3.85%) Infoblox
7 2 (3.85%) Remedy
8 1 (1.92%) Adobe
8 1 (1.92%) FireEye
8 1 (1.92%) Google
8 1 (1.92%) NetScout
8 1 (1.92%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.92%) Samsung
8 1 (1.92%) Splunk