DHCP Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 42 63
Rank change year-on-year -6 +21 +2
Contract jobs citing DHCP 6 15 14
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.48% 3.24% 2.07%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.89% 15.00% 10.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 8
10th Percentile £230 £238 -
25th Percentile £261 £260 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £300 £233
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% +29.03% -7.00%
75th Percentile £549 £531 £250
90th Percentile £565 £658 £258
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +5.56% -16.28% +19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.50
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £84.00 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +81.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 76 100 131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 18.77% 21.60% 19.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 72 91
10th Percentile - £203 £206
25th Percentile £204 £262 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £431 £340
Median % change year-on-year -36.23% +26.84% +6.25%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £555
90th Percentile £531 £561 £645
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -2.50% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 13
10th Percentile £22.15 - £39.80
25th Percentile £28.98 - £58.50
Median hourly rate £51.47 - £76.53
Median % change year-on-year - - +70.07%
75th Percentile £70.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.26% +4.17% +33.33%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Surrey

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing DHCP

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Surrey over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Surrey

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing DHCP

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. 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
Leatherhead - 2 £560 -
Redhill +13 1 £500 -
Guildford - 1 £200 - 1
DHCP
South East

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) NGFW
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CMDB
1 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) PKI
1 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Resilience
2 1 (16.67%) Disk Encryption
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (16.67%) Security Hardening
2 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (33.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
2 1 (16.67%) Wyse