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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 75 117
Rank change year-on-year -28 +42 -16
Contract jobs citing DHCP 37 38 34
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.09% 2.22% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.75% 14.56% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 31 21
10th Percentile £210 £406 £173
25th Percentile £350 £567 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £615 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.42% +8.86%
75th Percentile £569 £638 £588
90th Percentile £588 £775 £599
England median daily rate £495 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -5.71% +10.53% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - -
Median hourly rate £12.56 - £40.00
75th Percentile £22.67 - -
90th Percentile £26.00 - £71.93
England median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -2.74%

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 269 261 544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 7.95% 15.28% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 174 350
10th Percentile £270 £235 £300
25th Percentile £406 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £581 £624 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £701
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 4 41
10th Percentile £12.98 £13.67 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £16.32 £15.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £41.40 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.95% +3.49% +308.16%
75th Percentile £68.25 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.00 £74.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £39.32 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.34% -1.70% +134.40%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 3 June 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
Gloucestershire -11 9 £215 -65.04% 14
Bristol -21 9 £520 -11.57% 5
Somerset -10 7 £575 - 5
Wiltshire -17 4 £393 -33.19% 4
Devon - 3 £500 - 3
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 (13.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) GCP
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.11%) IaaS
4 3 (8.11%) PaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Stack
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (75.68%) DNS
2 14 (37.84%) Firewall
3 10 (27.03%) VLAN
3 10 (27.03%) VPN
4 8 (21.62%) LAN
4 8 (21.62%) Network Security
5 7 (18.92%) Wireless
6 6 (16.22%) HTTPS
7 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
7 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (10.81%) SAN
8 4 (10.81%) WAN
9 3 (8.11%) VoIP
10 2 (5.41%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (5.41%) H.323
10 2 (5.41%) RTP
11 1 (2.70%) Kerberos
11 1 (2.70%) NAS
11 1 (2.70%) SSH
11 1 (2.70%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Git
1 2 (5.41%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Law
4 2 (5.41%) Police
5 1 (2.70%) Electronics
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.70%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Military
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Administrator
1 8 (21.62%) Systems Administrator
2 7 (18.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Junior
4 4 (10.81%) IT Support
4 4 (10.81%) IT Support Specialist
4 4 (10.81%) Junior IT Support
4 4 (10.81%) Support Specialist
5 3 (8.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) IT Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) IT Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.41%) Telephony Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Desktop Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) 802.1X
2 2 (5.41%) XMPP
3 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) IoT
2 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (48.65%) Windows
2 13 (35.14%) Windows Server
3 9 (24.32%) Linux
4 4 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (8.11%) Windows 10
6 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (2.70%) CentOS
7 1 (2.70%) Rocky
7 1 (2.70%) SUSE
7 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (27.03%) ITIL
3 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (21.62%) Zero Trust
4 7 (18.92%) Network Segmentation
5 6 (16.22%) Regulatory Compliance
5 6 (16.22%) Risk Assessment
5 6 (16.22%) Security Architecture
5 6 (16.22%) Vulnerability Management
6 5 (13.51%) Change Management
6 5 (13.51%) Configuration Management
6 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (13.51%) Problem Management
7 4 (10.81%) Computer Science
7 4 (10.81%) Mathematics
7 4 (10.81%) Storage Management
7 4 (10.81%) Validation
8 3 (8.11%) Business Continuity
8 3 (8.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.11%) Bash
2 3 (8.11%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) Bicep
4 1 (2.70%) C
4 1 (2.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) DV Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Certification
3 4 (10.81%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (10.81%) Degree
4 1 (2.70%) CCNA
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) SLA
2 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 23 (62.16%) Active Directory
2 13 (35.14%) Hyper-V
3 11 (29.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (10.81%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (8.11%) NFS
5 3 (8.11%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (2.70%) BitLocker
6 1 (2.70%) Docker
6 1 (2.70%) KVM
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.70%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) SCCM
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 3 (8.11%) Ansible
3 2 (5.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (5.41%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.41%) Nagios
3 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.70%) CA Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.70%) Grafana
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.70%) WSUS
4 1 (2.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft
1 11 (29.73%) VMware
2 6 (16.22%) ForeScout
3 5 (13.51%) Cisco
4 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
5 2 (5.41%) BMC
5 2 (5.41%) Genesys
5 2 (5.41%) Google
5 2 (5.41%) Infoblox
5 2 (5.41%) NetApp
5 2 (5.41%) Remedy
5 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.70%) Adobe
6 1 (2.70%) FireEye
6 1 (2.70%) NetScout
6 1 (2.70%) Netskope
6 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.70%) Samsung
6 1 (2.70%) SAP
6 1 (2.70%) Splunk