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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 98 118
Rank change year-on-year +1 +20 -7
Contract jobs citing DHCP 49 17 29
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.38% 0.90% 0.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.01% 6.61% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 22
10th Percentile £176 £204 £173
25th Percentile £249 £406 £292
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +8.24% +1.19%
75th Percentile £608 £613 £556
90th Percentile £715 £624 £588
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.43 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.50 - £53.75
75th Percentile £99.12 - £72.94
90th Percentile £100.00 - £75.98
England median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.00% -

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 288 257 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.14% 13.59% 16.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 168 330
10th Percentile £208 £225 £285
25th Percentile £350 £352 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £627
90th Percentile £691 £655 £675
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 2 39
10th Percentile £12.71 £22.51 £12.48
25th Percentile £18.25 £29.59 £15.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £41.40 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.02% -36.32% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £53.20 £71.25
90th Percentile £100.00 £60.28 £75.60
England median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £48.56
% change year-on-year -40.62% -7.33% -2.88%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -10 19 £683 - 10
Gloucestershire -4 10 £215 -64.90% 12
Wiltshire -5 9 £480 -17.46% 2
Bristol -13 5 £533 -9.23% 2
Devon - 1 £500 - 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 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.57%) AWS
2 10 (20.41%) Azure
3 3 (6.12%) Entra ID
4 2 (4.08%) GCP
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub
4 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.08%) OneDrive
4 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.04%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.04%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 46 (93.88%) DNS
2 24 (48.98%) Firewall
2 24 (48.98%) TCP/IP
3 10 (20.41%) VLAN
4 9 (18.37%) VSAN
5 8 (16.33%) SAN
6 7 (14.29%) VPN
7 6 (12.24%) LAN
7 6 (12.24%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (10.20%) Network Security
8 5 (10.20%) VoIP
9 4 (8.16%) Wireless
10 3 (6.12%) HTTPS
11 2 (4.08%) WAN
12 1 (2.04%) Kerberos
12 1 (2.04%) NAS
12 1 (2.04%) SSH
12 1 (2.04%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) GitLab
1 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) Git
General
1 11 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.24%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Military
6 2 (4.08%) Finance
6 2 (4.08%) Law
6 2 (4.08%) Police
7 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 7 (14.29%) Senior
3 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Administrator
4 5 (10.20%) Junior
4 5 (10.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (8.16%) IT Support
5 4 (8.16%) IT Support Specialist
5 4 (8.16%) Junior IT Support
5 4 (8.16%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Support Specialist
6 2 (4.08%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) IT Administrator
6 2 (4.08%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.08%) LDAP
3 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.61%) PKI
2 11 (22.45%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.16%) Clustering
4 3 (6.12%) Fat Client
4 3 (6.12%) IoT
4 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.12%) Smartcard
4 3 (6.12%) Thin Client
5 2 (4.08%) Driving Licence
5 2 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (65.31%) Windows
2 25 (51.02%) Linux
3 12 (24.49%) Windows Server
4 9 (18.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
6 3 (6.12%) Android
7 2 (4.08%) Unix
8 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.04%) CentOS
8 1 (2.04%) Rocky
8 1 (2.04%) SUSE
8 1 (2.04%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.78%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (36.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (26.53%) Platform Engineering
4 13 (26.53%) Systems Engineering
5 12 (24.49%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (24.49%) DevSecOps
5 12 (24.49%) Technical Leadership
6 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
6 11 (22.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (22.45%) Mentoring
7 10 (20.41%) Customer Requirements
7 10 (20.41%) SIEM
8 9 (18.37%) Network Virtualisation
9 8 (16.33%) Containerisation
9 8 (16.33%) Converged Infrastructure
10 7 (14.29%) ITIL
10 7 (14.29%) Patch Management
11 6 (12.24%) Server Management
11 6 (12.24%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) Bash
1 17 (34.69%) PowerShell
2 16 (32.65%) Python
3 1 (2.04%) C
3 1 (2.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (59.18%) Security Cleared
2 22 (44.90%) DV Cleared
3 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
4 7 (14.29%) VCAP
5 4 (8.16%) Degree
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
6 3 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.04%) CCNA
7 1 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (73.47%) Active Directory
2 24 (48.98%) Hyper-V
2 24 (48.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (22.45%) Docker
4 9 (18.37%) VMware NSX
4 9 (18.37%) vSphere
5 4 (8.16%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (6.12%) NFS
6 3 (6.12%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (4.08%) VirtualBox
8 1 (2.04%) BitLocker
8 1 (2.04%) KVM
8 1 (2.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) Ansible
2 16 (32.65%) Terraform
3 15 (30.61%) Kubernetes
4 8 (16.33%) VxRail
5 5 (10.20%) WSUS
6 3 (6.12%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (4.08%) Nagios
7 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (4.08%) SCCM
8 1 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.04%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.04%) Grafana
8 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.04%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (48.98%) VMware
2 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
3 8 (16.33%) Cisco
4 7 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 5 (10.20%) CyberArk
5 5 (10.20%) ServiceNow
6 3 (6.12%) ForeScout
6 3 (6.12%) McAfee
7 2 (4.08%) BMC
7 2 (4.08%) Infoblox
7 2 (4.08%) Remedy
7 2 (4.08%) Thales
8 1 (2.04%) Adobe
8 1 (2.04%) FireEye
8 1 (2.04%) Google
8 1 (2.04%) NetScout
8 1 (2.04%) Netskope
8 1 (2.04%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.04%) Samsung
8 1 (2.04%) Splunk