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 citing DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	93	92	101
Rank change year-on-year	-1	+9	+1
Contract jobs citing DHCP	65	31	33
As % of all contract jobs in the South West	1.76%	1.52%	1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	22.34%	11.70%	9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted	38	27	20
10^th Percentile	£209	£320	£304
25^th Percentile	£450	£525	£330
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£600	£575	£416
Median % change year-on-year	+4.35%	+38.14%	-27.61%
75^th Percentile	£718	£725	£517
90^th Percentile	£800	-	£576
England median daily rate	£500	£450	£450
% change year-on-year	+11.11%	-	-5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	13	0	0
10^th Percentile	£37.80	-	-
25^th Percentile	£90.00	-	-
Median hourly rate	£95.00	-	-
75^th Percentile	£98.82	-	-
90^th Percentile	£100.00	-	-
England median hourly rate	£60.37	£30.00	£47.50
% change year-on-year	+101.23%	-36.84%	+39.71%

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 citing communications or computer networking skills in the South West.

	6 months to 24 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills	291	265	355
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West	7.90%	12.98%	14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted	161	195	210
10^th Percentile	£210	£225	£330
25^th Percentile	£463	£296	£431
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£555	£508	£525
Median % change year-on-year	+9.36%	-3.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£688	£628	£617
90^th Percentile	£725	£709	£675
England median daily rate	£500	£488	£500
% change year-on-year	+2.56%	-2.50%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	48	4	20
10^th Percentile	£12.71	£26.70	£11.75
25^th Percentile	£18.50	£40.07	£50.94
Median hourly rate	£49.25	£56.50	£65.00
Median % change year-on-year	-12.83%	-13.08%	+15.06%
75^th Percentile	£90.63	£64.63	£72.81
90^th Percentile	£100.00	£64.85	£75.00
England median hourly rate	£43.50	£34.00	£57.25
% change year-on-year	+27.94%	-40.61%	+1.35%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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 24 October 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.

DHCP Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the South West over the 6 months to 24 October 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 24 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Somerset	-1	32	£697	+26.64%	16
Wiltshire	-7	17	£525	-25.00%	9
Gloucestershire	-2	6	£383	+17.69%	15
Bristol	-14	6	£600	+9.09%	9
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DHCP Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 24 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing DHCP also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region citing DHCP.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	DNS	100.0%	65
2	Security Cleared	81.5%	53
3	Active Directory	72.3%	47
3	Windows	72.3%	47
5	DV Cleared	61.5%	40
5	TCP/IP	61.5%	40
7	Firewall	60.0%	39
7	Linux	60.0%	39
9	VMware	58.5%	38
9	VMware Infrastructure	58.5%	38
11	PowerShell	53.8%	35
12	Ansible	49.2%	32
13	Terraform	44.6%	29
14	Infrastructure as Code	43.1%	28
15	AWS	41.5%	27
15	Bash	41.5%	27
15	Hyper-V	41.5%	27
18	Kubernetes	40.0%	26
19	Infrastructure Engineering	38.5%	25
20	Python	36.9%	24
20	Technical Leadership	36.9%	24
22	Platform Engineering	32.3%	21
22	SIEM	32.3%	21
24	Cybersecurity	30.8%	20
24	DevSecOps	30.8%	20
26	CI/CD	29.2%	19
26	Microsoft	29.2%	19
26	Systems Engineering	29.2%	19
29	Windows Server	27.7%	18
30	Azure	26.2%	17

DHCP Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	DNS	100.0%	65
2	TCP/IP	61.5%	40
3	Firewall	60.0%	39
4	VSAN	23.1%	15
5	VLAN	15.4%	10
6	SAN	10.8%	7
7	Kerberos	9.2%	6
7	Network Security	9.2%	6
9	VoIP	6.2%	4
10	VPN	4.6%	3
11	Asterisk PBX	3.1%	2
11	Cisco ASA	3.1%	2
11	Cisco IOS	3.1%	2
11	NX-OS	3.1%	2
11	PABX	3.1%	2
11	Skype	3.1%	2
11	SNMP	3.1%	2
11	Wi-Fi	3.1%	2
11	Wireless	3.1%	2
20	BGP	1.5%	1