DHCP Contracts in the Thames Valley

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DHCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DHCP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 79 98
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 +19
Contract jobs citing DHCP 21 67 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.39% 2.49% 1.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.33% 11.07% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 61 38
10th Percentile £242 £350 £185
25th Percentile £325 £465 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £605 £516
Median % change year-on-year -41.12% +17.19% +37.67%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £692
90th Percentile £655 £675 £756
South East median daily rate £575 £500 £516
% change year-on-year +15.00% -3.15% +29.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £55.25 £43.75
% change year-on-year -49.32% +26.29% +103.49%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 605 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.68% 22.52% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 295 291
10th Percentile £242 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +2.46% +5.51%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £570
90th Percentile £618 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 50 15
10th Percentile - £17.79 £19.70
25th Percentile - £23.78 £25.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.15% -1.52% +288.24%
75th Percentile £22.09 £85.65 £80.25
90th Percentile £31.44 £87.47 £81.22
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire -7 18 £419 -30.79% 22
Buckinghamshire +10 2 £150 -67.85% 10
Oxfordshire +3 1 £213 +18.06% 13
DHCP
South East

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (38.10%) Apache
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) AWS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
4 1 (4.76%) Mimecast
4 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 21 (100.00%) DNS
2 11 (52.38%) FTP
2 11 (52.38%) SMTP
2 11 (52.38%) Telnet
3 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
4 4 (19.05%) tcpdump
5 2 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (4.76%) Firewall
6 1 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (4.76%) VPN
General
1 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Support
2 4 (19.05%) Lead
3 3 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Support
5 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Coordinator
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Technician
5 1 (4.76%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Coordinator
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
1 4 (19.05%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (9.52%) PKI
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (71.43%) Windows
2 14 (66.67%) Linux
3 8 (38.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
4 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
6 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
6 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (23.81%) ITIL
3 5 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (23.81%) Workflow
3 5 (23.81%) Workflow Management
4 4 (19.05%) DevSecOps
4 4 (19.05%) High Availability
4 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (19.05%) Server Migrations
4 4 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (9.52%) Identity Management
6 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (9.52%) Ticket Management
7 1 (4.76%) Agile
7 1 (4.76%) Incident Management
7 1 (4.76%) Release Management
7 1 (4.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) Bicep
2 1 (4.76%) C#
2 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
2 1 (4.76%) VB
2 1 (4.76%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (80.95%) Security Cleared
2 16 (76.19%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 11 (52.38%) NFS
2 9 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 8 (38.10%) Samba
4 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) yum
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (19.05%) NetBackup
4 3 (14.29%) Ansible
5 1 (4.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.76%) SCCM
5 1 (4.76%) SCOM
5 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (42.86%) VMware
2 8 (38.10%) Red Hat
3 7 (33.33%) HP
4 4 (19.05%) 3PAR
4 4 (19.05%) Dell
4 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (19.05%) Veritas
5 1 (4.76%) Commvault
5 1 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (4.76%) Imperva
5 1 (4.76%) Intel
5 1 (4.76%) Netskope