DHCP Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DHCP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 2.78% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £225 - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile £425 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £385 £400
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% +6.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 10 20 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 13.89% 21.51% 15.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 12
10th Percentile £166 £146 £375
25th Percentile £233 £341 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.12% -10.53% +72.73%
75th Percentile £425 £497 £575
90th Percentile £513 £593 -
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £24.00 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 £16.26 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.90% -29.30% -5.15%
75th Percentile £28.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.00 £18.13 £46.00
% change year-on-year +43.41% -60.59% +125.77%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DHCP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

DHCP job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing DHCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Staffordshire

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing DHCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cannock - 1 £450 -
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £200 - 3
DHCP
West Midlands

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds