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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 68 102
Rank change year-on-year -38 +34 +1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DHCP 11 54 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.66% 2.39% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.33% 14.44% 7.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 42 30
10th Percentile £338 £411 £192
25th Percentile £350 £484 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -41.12% +10.00% +20.88%
75th Percentile £495 £608 £675
90th Percentile £572 - £700
South East median daily rate £575 £525 £523
% change year-on-year +9.52% +0.48% +16.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £76.59 - -
25th Percentile £84.97 - -
Median hourly rate £89.63 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £89.63 - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +81.82%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 254 374 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.34% 16.54% 18.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 181 312
10th Percentile £293 £281 £205
25th Percentile £375 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.05% +0.12%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £600
90th Percentile £600 £650 £668
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £457
% change year-on-year - +9.36% -0.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 20
10th Percentile - £39.42 £16.93
25th Percentile £14.20 £62.81 £18.50
Median hourly rate £18.05 £75.24 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.01% +14.00% +300.00%
75th Percentile £84.66 £87.46 £75.67
90th Percentile £89.63 - £76.19
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £58.20
% change year-on-year -4.21% -1.46% +29.34%

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

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DHCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DHCP

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the Thames Valley

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DHCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DHCP

DHCP
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -22 6 £350 -42.15% 18
Oxfordshire -9 5 £363 -30.95% 5
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 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) TCP/IP
3 4 (36.36%) VPN
3 4 (36.36%) Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) BGP
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
4 1 (9.09%) FTP
4 1 (9.09%) OSPF
4 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 1 (9.09%) SMTP
4 1 (9.09%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (9.09%) TACACS
4 1 (9.09%) Telnet
4 1 (9.09%) VLAN
4 1 (9.09%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Coordinator
3 2 (18.18%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Project Coordinator
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Service Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Service Support Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Coordinator
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Project Coordinator
4 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Life Science
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Mac OS
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Rocky
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ITIL
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Service Management
3 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
3 4 (36.36%) ITSM
3 4 (36.36%) Time Management
4 2 (18.18%) Budget Management
4 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (18.18%) Project Management
4 2 (18.18%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (18.18%) Server Virtualisation
4 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Change Management
5 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
5 1 (9.09%) Identity Management
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Log Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Bicep
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
1 1 (9.09%) VB
1 1 (9.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) Degree
3 4 (36.36%) A+ Certification
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (9.09%) CCNA
5 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
3 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (9.09%) NFS
4 1 (9.09%) Samba
4 1 (9.09%) Terminal Services
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) vCenter Server
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) SCOM
2 1 (9.09%) WSUS
2 1 (9.09%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco
3 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
3 4 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
3 4 (36.36%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) Intel
5 1 (9.09%) Meraki
5 1 (9.09%) Red Hat