DHCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DHCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DHCP over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 158 182
Rank change year-on-year -5 +24 +49
Contract jobs citing DHCP 271 386 438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.32% 1.62% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.01% 10.82% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 287 290
10th Percentile £207 £206 £185
25th Percentile £321 £320 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +18.75% -
75th Percentile £608 £550 £475
90th Percentile £650 £688 £539
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% +5.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 21
10th Percentile £19.55 £32.89 £20.00
25th Percentile - £36.75 £20.51
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.75 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +103.49% +7.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £52.13 £40.00
90th Percentile £69.00 - £48.48
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +3.90% +71.11% +12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

DHCP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,384 3,566 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.46% 14.92% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,939 2,267 2,643
10th Percentile £203 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 324 235
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.44
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
% change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DHCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
South East +41 128 £500 -3.85% 65
Midlands +10 44 £400 - 52
West Midlands +19 36 £400 -19.19% 32
North of England -29 34 £380 -22.05% 69
South West -11 32 £538 +13.16% 26
Scotland +42 25 £240 -47.28% 16
North West -14 17 £388 -8.93% 49
Yorkshire -7 15 £378 -28.10% 18
East Midlands -2 7 £325 -13.33% 20
East of England -29 6 £425 -19.05% 32
Wales +6 4 £725 +31.82% 5
North East +15 2 £613 +46.27% 3
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 73 (26.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (5.90%) Confluence
3 9 (3.32%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.11%) IIS
5 2 (0.74%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 23 (8.49%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 59 (21.77%) Azure
2 54 (19.93%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (12.18%) Entra ID
4 17 (6.27%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (6.27%) Azure Storage
5 15 (5.54%) OCI
6 14 (5.17%) AWS
7 9 (3.32%) IaaS
8 5 (1.85%) GCP
9 3 (1.11%) AWS Direct Connect
9 3 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.11%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.37%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.37%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.37%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.37%) PaaS
10 1 (0.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 260 (95.94%) DNS
2 93 (34.32%) Firewall
3 46 (16.97%) LAN
3 46 (16.97%) SAN
3 46 (16.97%) TCP/IP
3 46 (16.97%) VPN
3 46 (16.97%) WAN
4 28 (10.33%) VLAN
5 25 (9.23%) Wi-Fi
6 23 (8.49%) Wireless
7 17 (6.27%) MPLS
8 14 (5.17%) Remote Desktop
9 10 (3.69%) VoIP
10 9 (3.32%) SMTP
11 8 (2.95%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (2.95%) Ethernet
12 7 (2.58%) BGP
12 7 (2.58%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (2.58%) NAS
12 7 (2.58%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.48%) MySQL
3 4 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (5.90%) JIRA
2 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.37%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.37%) Git
3 1 (0.37%) MSI
3 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 120 (44.28%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (6.64%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.27%) Military
5 14 (5.17%) Finance
6 13 (4.80%) Banking
7 11 (4.06%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.32%) Aerospace
9 7 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.48%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.11%) Front Office
11 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.74%) Automotive
12 2 (0.74%) French Language
12 2 (0.74%) Portuguese Language
12 2 (0.74%) Retail
12 2 (0.74%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.37%) Advertising
13 1 (0.37%) Back Office
13 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (29.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (11.07%) Network Engineer
3 25 (9.23%) Architect
4 22 (8.12%) Senior
5 21 (7.75%) Support Engineer
6 20 (7.38%) Analyst
7 19 (7.01%) Support Specialist
8 17 (6.27%) Test Engineer
9 16 (5.90%) Active Directory Support
10 15 (5.54%) Active Directory Specialist
10 15 (5.54%) Azure Specialist
10 15 (5.54%) Integration Engineer
10 15 (5.54%) Test and Integration Engineer
11 14 (5.17%) IT Analyst
11 14 (5.17%) IT Support
11 14 (5.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 13 (4.80%) IT Engineer
13 11 (4.06%) Server Engineer
13 11 (4.06%) Storage Engineer
14 10 (3.69%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.90%) ARM Templates
2 10 (3.69%) LDAP
3 5 (1.85%) Web Services
4 4 (1.48%) .NET
5 3 (1.11%) XMPP
6 2 (0.74%) ADSI
7 1 (0.37%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.37%) Middleware
7 1 (0.37%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 67 (24.72%) PKI
2 58 (21.40%) Data Centre
3 20 (7.38%) Clustering
4 19 (7.01%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.43%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.32%) Client/Server
7 7 (2.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 6 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.48%) Fat Client
10 4 (1.48%) NHS
10 4 (1.48%) Thin Client
11 3 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.74%) CMDB
12 2 (0.74%) Driving Licence
13 1 (0.37%) Grid Computing
13 1 (0.37%) LIMS
13 1 (0.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 180 (66.42%) Windows
2 124 (45.76%) Windows Server
3 69 (25.46%) Linux
4 58 (21.40%) Windows 10
5 52 (19.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 51 (18.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 43 (15.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (9.23%) Unix
8 25 (9.23%) Windows 7
9 14 (5.17%) Windows XP
10 13 (4.80%) Windows Server 2003
10 13 (4.80%) Windows Server 2008
11 12 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 11 (4.06%) Ubuntu
13 4 (1.48%) CentOS
14 3 (1.11%) Android
14 3 (1.11%) Apple iOS
15 2 (0.74%) VMS
16 1 (0.37%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (31.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 70 (25.83%) ITIL
3 49 (18.08%) Agile
4 45 (16.61%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (13.65%) Migration
6 28 (10.33%) RBAC
7 26 (9.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 25 (9.23%) Project Management
8 25 (9.23%) Release Management
8 25 (9.23%) Service Management
9 24 (8.86%) Server Management
10 23 (8.49%) Customer Service
10 23 (8.49%) Project Delivery
11 22 (8.12%) Analytics
12 20 (7.38%) Break/Fix
12 20 (7.38%) Disaster Recovery
12 20 (7.38%) Storage Management
13 19 (7.01%) Computer Science
13 19 (7.01%) Cybersecurity
13 19 (7.01%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 91 (33.58%) PowerShell
2 27 (9.96%) C#
3 25 (9.23%) SQL
4 23 (8.49%) VBScript
5 17 (6.27%) VB
6 16 (5.90%) Bicep
7 11 (4.06%) Python
8 10 (3.69%) Java
9 8 (2.95%) Perl
10 5 (1.85%) Bash
11 3 (1.11%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.74%) C++
Qualifications
1 108 (39.85%) Security Cleared
2 74 (27.31%) SC Cleared
3 71 (26.20%) Degree
4 67 (24.72%) DV Cleared
5 47 (17.34%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (14.39%) CCNA
7 29 (10.70%) CCNP
8 28 (10.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 25 (9.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 20 (7.38%) MCSE
11 17 (6.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 17 (6.27%) MCSA
12 11 (4.06%) A+ Certification
13 9 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
14 8 (2.95%) CCIE
15 5 (1.85%) CCIE Data Center
15 5 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
16 4 (1.48%) DBS Check
17 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.58%) NIST
1 7 (2.58%) SLA
2 5 (1.85%) GDPR
3 4 (1.48%) QA
4 3 (1.11%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 183 (67.53%) Active Directory
2 111 (40.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (21.03%) VMware ESXi
4 48 (17.71%) Hyper-V
5 35 (12.92%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (8.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (7.75%) vSphere
8 19 (7.01%) XenApp
9 15 (5.54%) VMware NSX
9 15 (5.54%) VMware Workstation
10 14 (5.17%) Virtual Servers
11 10 (3.69%) Terminal Services
12 9 (3.32%) BitLocker
13 7 (2.58%) KVM
14 6 (2.21%) Microsoft App-V
14 6 (2.21%) XenDesktop
15 5 (1.85%) VMware Server
16 3 (1.11%) Docker
16 3 (1.11%) Firmware
16 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 94 (34.69%) SCCM
2 58 (21.40%) vCenter Server
3 45 (16.61%) WSUS
4 34 (12.55%) SCOM
5 23 (8.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 22 (8.12%) NetBackup
7 21 (7.75%) Kubernetes
7 21 (7.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (5.17%) EMC NetWorker
9 13 (4.80%) Microsoft Clustering
10 9 (3.32%) Ansible
10 9 (3.32%) Nagios
11 7 (2.58%) FortiGate
12 6 (2.21%) vMotion
13 5 (1.85%) Nessus
13 5 (1.85%) OpenView
13 5 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (1.85%) ZABBIX
14 3 (1.11%) AppManager
15 2 (0.74%) OPNET
Vendors
1 141 (52.03%) Microsoft
2 128 (47.23%) VMware
3 53 (19.56%) Cisco
4 31 (11.44%) Citrix
5 30 (11.07%) Veeam
6 29 (10.70%) Symantec
7 27 (9.96%) Palo Alto
8 22 (8.12%) Dell
9 20 (7.38%) HP
10 19 (7.01%) Oracle
11 16 (5.90%) EMC
11 16 (5.90%) Juniper
12 15 (5.54%) Ivanti
13 14 (5.17%) 3PAR
13 14 (5.17%) Extreme Networks
14 13 (4.80%) SolarWinds
15 11 (4.06%) Infoblox
16 10 (3.69%) CheckPoint
17 9 (3.32%) NetApp
18 8 (2.95%) Hitachi