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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 112 98
Rank change year-on-year +16 -14 +23
Contract jobs citing DHCP 19 29 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.96% 1.09% 1.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.60% 7.30% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 34
10th Percentile £204 £167 £456
25th Percentile £316 £313 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £573
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -14.88% +20.58%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £627
90th Percentile £604 £580 £693
England median daily rate £463 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -5.13% +2.63% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £30.50
% change year-on-year -22.58% +27.05% +38.64%

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 250 397 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.66% 14.93% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 235 269
10th Percentile £213 £320 £218
25th Percentile £296 £453 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £649 £672 £700
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 28 59
10th Percentile £26.70 £11.75 £40.85
25th Percentile £40.07 £15.00 £48.32
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +15.06% -8.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.06 £65.98
90th Percentile - £78.00 £72.13
England median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%

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

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 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 +14 5 £325 -38.10% 11
Bristol +13 5 £550 +46.67% 3
Wiltshire +5 3 £588 +9.30% 6
Somerset +4 3 £550 +83.33% 3
Dorset +2 3 £205 -36.92% 2
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 (63.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (42.11%) SharePoint
3 6 (31.58%) Skype for Business
4 4 (21.05%) Confluence
5 3 (15.79%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.79%) OneDrive
3 2 (10.53%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) DNS
2 6 (31.58%) Skype
3 5 (26.32%) LAN
3 5 (26.32%) Unified Communications
3 5 (26.32%) WAN
4 4 (21.05%) VLAN
4 4 (21.05%) VPN
5 3 (15.79%) VoIP
5 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 9 (47.37%) Public Sector
3 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Finance
5 2 (10.53%) Military
6 1 (5.26%) Electronics
6 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.26%) Marketing
6 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Wintel Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) .NET Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
1 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (5.26%) Bootstrap
1 1 (5.26%) Express.js
1 1 (5.26%) Middleware
1 1 (5.26%) React
1 1 (5.26%) SOAP
1 1 (5.26%) WCF
1 1 (5.26%) Web Services
1 1 (5.26%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) PKI
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Windows
2 13 (68.42%) Windows Server
3 6 (31.58%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (21.05%) Windows 10
5 2 (10.53%) Linux
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) ITIL
2 7 (36.84%) Critical Thinking
3 6 (31.58%) Service Management
4 5 (26.32%) Agile
4 5 (26.32%) System Testing
5 4 (21.05%) Computer Science
5 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (15.79%) Customer Service
6 3 (15.79%) High Availability
6 3 (15.79%) Patch Management
6 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (10.53%) Regression Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Resource Management
8 1 (5.26%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 6 (31.58%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.26%) C#
3 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (68.42%) Security Cleared
2 12 (63.16%) SC Cleared
3 6 (31.58%) MCSE
3 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (26.32%) CCNA
4 5 (26.32%) CCNP
4 5 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (26.32%) Degree
5 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
5 4 (21.05%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (21.05%) Master's Degree
6 2 (10.53%) MCSA
6 2 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (94.74%) Active Directory
2 13 (68.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (26.32%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (21.05%) Hyper-V
5 3 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (10.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) WSUS
2 7 (36.84%) SCCM
3 3 (15.79%) AppManager
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (10.53%) NetApp OnCommand
4 2 (10.53%) vCenter Server
4 2 (10.53%) vMotion
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 15 (78.95%) VMware
3 5 (26.32%) Veeam
4 4 (21.05%) Cisco
4 4 (21.05%) SolarWinds
4 4 (21.05%) Splunk
5 3 (15.79%) Ivanti
6 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
7 1 (5.26%) SAP