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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 97 110
Rank change year-on-year +5 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing DHCP 63 28 29
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.70% 1.41% 1.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.86% 10.98% 7.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 23 17
10th Percentile £209 £229 £323
25th Percentile £400 £425 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £420
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +30.95% -26.96%
75th Percentile £719 £710 £550
90th Percentile £800 £725 £580
England median daily rate £500 £450 £460
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.17% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 0
10th Percentile £31.90 - -
25th Percentile £88.75 - -
Median hourly rate £96.91 - -
75th Percentile £99.12 - -
90th Percentile £100.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +106.67% -36.84% +55.74%

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 302 255 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.16% 12.88% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 181 212
10th Percentile £210 £213 £339
25th Percentile £450 £275 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -7.62% -
75th Percentile £688 £588 £613
90th Percentile £725 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 4 25
10th Percentile £12.71 £26.70 £12.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £40.07 -
Median hourly rate £35.57 £56.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% -13.08% +15.06%
75th Percentile £90.00 £64.63 £75.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £64.85 £81.00
England median hourly rate £38.72 £34.00 £57.43
% change year-on-year +13.88% -40.79% +1.66%

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 9 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.

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 9 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 9 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Somerset -2 30 £697 +26.64% 13
Wiltshire -11 16 £536 -23.43% 12
Gloucestershire +1 6 £383 +17.69% 15
Bristol -17 6 £600 +9.09% 8
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 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 26 (41.27%) AWS
2 16 (25.40%) Azure
3 6 (9.52%) GCP
3 6 (9.52%) GitHub
3 6 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.17%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.17%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.59%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.59%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 63 (100.00%) DNS
2 39 (61.90%) TCP/IP
3 38 (60.32%) Firewall
4 15 (23.81%) VSAN
5 9 (14.29%) VLAN
6 7 (11.11%) SAN
7 6 (9.52%) Network Security
8 5 (7.94%) Kerberos
9 4 (6.35%) VoIP
10 3 (4.76%) VPN
11 2 (3.17%) Asterisk PBX
11 2 (3.17%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (3.17%) Cisco IOS
11 2 (3.17%) NX-OS
11 2 (3.17%) PABX
11 2 (3.17%) SNMP
11 2 (3.17%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (3.17%) Wireless
12 1 (1.59%) NAS
12 1 (1.59%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (9.52%) GitLab
1 6 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.17%) JIRA
3 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.46%) Public Sector
3 7 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.17%) Finance
6 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.17%) Law
6 2 (3.17%) Military
6 2 (3.17%) Police
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
7 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (20.63%) Platform Engineer
3 11 (17.46%) Principal Engineer
4 7 (11.11%) Senior
5 6 (9.52%) QA Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) QA Test Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Test Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Administrator
6 5 (7.94%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (6.35%) Architect
7 4 (6.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Deployment Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.76%) Wintel Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Active Directory Architect
9 2 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.17%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (44.44%) Terraform
2 6 (9.52%) LDAP
3 4 (6.35%) OAuth
3 4 (6.35%) SAML
4 1 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 23 (36.51%) PKI
2 16 (25.40%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.94%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.35%) Clustering
4 4 (6.35%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (6.35%) Replication
5 3 (4.76%) Fat Client
5 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.76%) Smartcard
5 3 (4.76%) Thin Client
6 2 (3.17%) Driving Licence
6 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 46 (73.02%) Windows
2 38 (60.32%) Linux
3 17 (26.98%) Windows Server
4 8 (12.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (9.52%) Unix
6 4 (6.35%) Android
7 3 (4.76%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.59%) CentOS
8 1 (1.59%) Rocky
8 1 (1.59%) SUSE
8 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 24 (38.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (38.10%) Technical Leadership
3 21 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 20 (31.75%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (31.75%) DevSecOps
4 20 (31.75%) SIEM
5 19 (30.16%) Systems Engineering
6 18 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 16 (25.40%) Mentoring
7 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (23.81%) Customer Requirements
9 14 (22.22%) Converged Infrastructure
9 14 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
10 12 (19.05%) Containerisation
10 12 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (17.46%) ITIL
12 10 (15.87%) Privileged Access Management
13 9 (14.29%) Validation
14 7 (11.11%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 33 (52.38%) PowerShell
2 27 (42.86%) Bash
3 24 (38.10%) Python
4 3 (4.76%) SQL
5 1 (1.59%) Java
5 1 (1.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 51 (80.95%) Security Cleared
2 37 (58.73%) DV Cleared
3 18 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 12 (19.05%) VCAP
5 7 (11.11%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.35%) Degree
7 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (3.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.59%) CISM
8 1 (1.59%) CISSP
8 1 (1.59%) MCSE
8 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (1.59%) NCSC
2 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 45 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 36 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (44.44%) Hyper-V
4 17 (26.98%) Docker
5 15 (23.81%) VMware NSX
5 15 (23.81%) vSphere
6 4 (6.35%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (6.35%) VirtualBox
7 3 (4.76%) NFS
7 3 (4.76%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (1.59%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.59%) KVM
8 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (49.21%) Ansible
2 25 (39.68%) Kubernetes
3 14 (22.22%) VxRail
4 8 (12.70%) WSUS
5 4 (6.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (4.76%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (4.76%) OPNET
6 3 (4.76%) SCCM
7 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.59%) Grafana
8 1 (1.59%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (1.59%) Nagios
8 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
8 1 (1.59%) SCOM
8 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (1.59%) WMI
8 1 (1.59%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 36 (57.14%) VMware
2 17 (26.98%) Microsoft
3 11 (17.46%) Cisco
4 8 (12.70%) CyberArk
5 6 (9.52%) Red Hat
6 5 (7.94%) ServiceNow
7 4 (6.35%) McAfee
8 3 (4.76%) Thales
9 2 (3.17%) BMC
9 2 (3.17%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.17%) Palo Alto
9 2 (3.17%) Remedy
10 1 (1.59%) Adobe
10 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
10 1 (1.59%) F5
10 1 (1.59%) FireEye
10 1 (1.59%) Google
10 1 (1.59%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.59%) Samsung
10 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds