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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 73 113
Rank change year-on-year -27 +40 -7
Contract jobs citing DHCP 40 54 37
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.54% 2.89% 1.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.87% 19.01% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 40 22
10th Percentile £503 £247 £362
25th Percentile £525 £405 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £581 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -3.13% +33.33%
75th Percentile £725 £628 £645
90th Percentile - £730 £698
England median daily rate £525 £450 £465
% change year-on-year +16.67% -3.22% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £24.20 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -39.50% +32.23%

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 252 284 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.73% 15.18% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 180 287
10th Percentile £263 £300 £265
25th Percentile £381 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% -3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £614 £623 £675
90th Percentile £725 £707 £738
England median daily rate £490 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.04% -6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 67
10th Percentile £23.87 £11.88 £40.00
25th Percentile £37.25 £12.50 £46.32
Median hourly rate £50.00 £67.02 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +18.64% +476.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.94
90th Percentile £64.80 - £75.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -14.29% -32.55% +138.56%

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 January 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 January 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
Wiltshire -11 16 £700 +12.00% 3
Bristol -5 9 £550 - 2
Somerset +2 8 £575 - 2
Gloucestershire -25 5 £325 -47.15% 8
Devon -4 2 - - 9
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 25 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (47.50%) SharePoint
2 19 (47.50%) Skype for Business
3 3 (7.50%) IIS
4 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 18 (45.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (22.50%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) IaaS
3 4 (10.00%) PaaS
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 3 (7.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (85.00%) DNS
2 19 (47.50%) Skype
3 16 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 7 (17.50%) VPN
5 6 (15.00%) Firewall
6 5 (12.50%) Unified Communications
7 4 (10.00%) WAN
8 3 (7.50%) HTTPS
8 3 (7.50%) LAN
8 3 (7.50%) Network Security
8 3 (7.50%) VLAN
8 3 (7.50%) Wireless
9 2 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (5.00%) H.323
9 2 (5.00%) RTP
9 2 (5.00%) VoIP
10 1 (2.50%) NAS
10 1 (2.50%) SAN
10 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 24 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (42.50%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Electronics
4 2 (5.00%) Finance
4 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.00%) Marketing
4 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Microsoft Engineer
2 13 (32.50%) Support Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Administrator
5 3 (7.50%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.00%) Telephony Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Architect
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Exchange Architect
7 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V Administrator
7 1 (2.50%) IT Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) 802.1X
2 2 (5.00%) XMPP
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.50%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.50%) Express.js
3 1 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) SOAP
3 1 (2.50%) WCF
3 1 (2.50%) Web Services
3 1 (2.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) PKI
2 3 (7.50%) IoT
3 1 (2.50%) CMDB
3 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 20 (50.00%) Windows
2 19 (47.50%) Windows Server
3 5 (12.50%) Linux
4 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 14 (35.00%) ITIL
4 7 (17.50%) Service Management
4 7 (17.50%) Zero Trust
5 6 (15.00%) Critical Thinking
6 5 (12.50%) Business Continuity
6 5 (12.50%) Change Management
6 5 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 5 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (12.50%) System Testing
6 5 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
7 4 (10.00%) Agile
7 4 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
7 4 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 26 (65.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (15.00%) SQL
3 4 (10.00%) Bicep
4 1 (2.50%) C#
4 1 (2.50%) Python
4 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (72.50%) Security Cleared
2 21 (52.50%) SC Cleared
3 17 (42.50%) DV Cleared
4 6 (15.00%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (15.00%) MCSE
4 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (12.50%) CCNA
5 5 (12.50%) CCNP
5 5 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (12.50%) Degree
5 5 (12.50%) Master's Degree
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.50%) MCSA
7 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (52.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (22.50%) Hyper-V
4 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 5 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (20.00%) SCCM
1 8 (20.00%) WSUS
2 5 (12.50%) Terraform
3 2 (5.00%) Ansible
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
3 2 (5.00%) NetApp OnCommand
3 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (5.00%) vMotion
4 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.50%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 34 (85.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (37.50%) VMware
3 7 (17.50%) Cisco
4 5 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 5 (12.50%) Splunk
4 5 (12.50%) Veeam
5 3 (7.50%) ForeScout
6 2 (5.00%) Genesys
6 2 (5.00%) Google
6 2 (5.00%) NetApp
6 2 (5.00%) SAP
7 1 (2.50%) Atlassian