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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 124 100
Rank change year-on-year +50 -24 +37
Contract jobs citing DHCP 37 33 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.21% 1.03% 1.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.40% 6.25% 10.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 22 49
10th Percentile £406 £183 £323
25th Percentile £558 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.42% +13.16% +26.67%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £575
90th Percentile £768 £648 £655
England median daily rate £519 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +9.21% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.00
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £84.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.38% +79.83%
75th Percentile - - £86.00
90th Percentile - £71.93 -
England median hourly rate £25.80 £40.00 £41.13
% change year-on-year -35.51% -2.74% +91.28%

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 257 528 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 15.32% 16.51% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 343 416
10th Percentile £250 £276 £206
25th Percentile £413 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £630
90th Percentile £688 £713 £717
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 41 125
10th Percentile £33.15 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £40.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +308.16% -80.62%
75th Percentile - £70.66 £60.70
90th Percentile - £85.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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 1 May 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 1 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
Gloucestershire - 17 £615 - 16
Wiltshire +30 10 £588 +5.62% 3
Bristol +16 5 £588 +49.21% 14
Dorset - 3 £225 - 4
Somerset -9 1 - - 3
Devon - 1 £413 - 10
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 14 (37.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (29.73%) SharePoint
3 8 (21.62%) Skype for Business
4 6 (16.22%) Confluence
5 1 (2.70%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (48.65%) AWS
1 18 (48.65%) Azure
2 15 (40.54%) OpenShift
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.11%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.70%) GitHub
5 1 (2.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (100.00%) DNS
2 18 (48.65%) TCP/IP
3 16 (43.24%) HTTP
4 9 (24.32%) Skype
5 7 (18.92%) VPN
6 6 (16.22%) LAN
6 6 (16.22%) WAN
7 5 (13.51%) Unified Communications
8 4 (10.81%) Firewall
8 4 (10.81%) VLAN
8 4 (10.81%) VoIP
8 4 (10.81%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (10.81%) Wireless
9 2 (5.41%) Network Security
10 1 (2.70%) BGP
10 1 (2.70%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (2.70%) OSPF
10 1 (2.70%) SMTP
10 1 (2.70%) Spanning Tree
10 1 (2.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (16.22%) JIRA
2 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket
General
1 6 (16.22%) Public Sector
1 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Military
4 2 (5.41%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Automation Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (10.81%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Desktop Support
5 2 (5.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (2.70%) Administrator
6 1 (2.70%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (32.43%) PKI
2 2 (5.41%) Clustering
2 2 (5.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 31 (83.78%) Windows
2 27 (72.97%) Windows Server
3 17 (45.95%) Linux
4 15 (40.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (24.32%) Windows 10
6 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (18.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (8.11%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (2.70%) Unix
9 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Containerisation
1 16 (43.24%) Service Management
2 12 (32.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (21.62%) Agile
4 6 (16.22%) DevOps
4 6 (16.22%) Incident Management
5 5 (13.51%) Critical Thinking
5 5 (13.51%) ITIL
5 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (10.81%) Customer Service
7 3 (8.11%) Information Security
7 3 (8.11%) Load Balancing
7 3 (8.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 3 (8.11%) System Testing
7 3 (8.11%) Test Scripting
7 3 (8.11%) Two-Factor Authentication
7 3 (8.11%) Waterfall
8 2 (5.41%) High Availability
8 2 (5.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (51.35%) PowerShell
2 17 (45.95%) Python
3 16 (43.24%) Bash
4 15 (40.54%) Java
5 9 (24.32%) SQL
6 2 (5.41%) Perl
7 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (64.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (48.65%) DV Cleared
3 10 (27.03%) SC Cleared
4 6 (16.22%) Degree
5 4 (10.81%) MCSA
5 4 (10.81%) MCSE
5 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.70%) CCNP
7 1 (2.70%) CCSA
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.70%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (59.46%) Hyper-V
1 22 (59.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (43.24%) Active Directory
2 16 (43.24%) Docker
3 6 (16.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (16.22%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (43.24%) Ansible
1 16 (43.24%) Kubernetes
1 16 (43.24%) Puppet
1 16 (43.24%) Terraform
2 7 (18.92%) SCCM
3 6 (16.22%) WSUS
4 3 (8.11%) AppManager
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (5.41%) OPNET
5 2 (5.41%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.70%) NetApp OnCommand
6 1 (2.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.70%) SCOM
6 1 (2.70%) vMotion
Vendors
1 24 (64.86%) VMware
2 16 (43.24%) Microsoft
2 16 (43.24%) Red Hat
3 5 (13.51%) Veeam
4 3 (8.11%) Aruba
4 3 (8.11%) Atlassian
4 3 (8.11%) Infoblox
4 3 (8.11%) Ivanti
5 2 (5.41%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.41%) Cisco
5 2 (5.41%) Extreme Networks
5 2 (5.41%) F5
5 2 (5.41%) Ruckus Wireless
5 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
5 2 (5.41%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.70%) Juniper
6 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.70%) Remedy
6 1 (2.70%) Veritas