DHCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 162 163 159
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +20
Contract jobs citing DHCP 195 269 391
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.53% 1.30% 1.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.92% 7.79% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 199 291
10th Percentile £223 £206 £206
25th Percentile £350 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% +1.89% +18.75%
75th Percentile £610 £608 £550
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £491
% change year-on-year +10.53% -3.31% +15.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 17 10
10th Percentile - £19.55 £34.82
25th Percentile - - £36.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £44.93
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -10.97% +108.97%
75th Percentile - £60.00 £52.13
90th Percentile - £69.00 £55.52
UK median hourly rate £23.59 £40.00 £41.13
% change year-on-year -41.03% -2.74% +82.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,965 3,454 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.39% 16.63% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,982 2,287
10th Percentile £200 £204 £207
25th Percentile £301 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 358 328
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.48 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.38 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 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
North of England +45 62 £385 +0.33% 172
South East -19 53 £575 +15.00% 195
North West +40 41 £425 +7.94% 84
South West +50 37 £615 +14.42% 97
Yorkshire +11 18 £394 +4.30% 73
Midlands -5 13 £450 +9.09% 128
Wales +7 10 £450 -37.93% 18
East of England +33 9 £454 +6.76% 113
Scotland -4 9 £450 +87.50% 23
East Midlands +11 8 £500 +53.85% 51
West Midlands -13 5 £185 -64.76% 66
Northern Ireland - 4 £160 - 8
North East +1 3 £225 -63.27% 18
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 59 (30.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (19.49%) SharePoint
3 15 (7.69%) Skype for Business
4 9 (4.62%) Apache
5 8 (4.10%) Confluence
5 8 (4.10%) IIS
6 3 (1.54%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (1.54%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (1.54%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (1.54%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (1.54%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (1.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 43 (22.05%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.05%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 56 (28.72%) Azure
2 35 (17.95%) AWS
2 35 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (12.31%) Entra ID
4 23 (11.79%) OpenShift
5 18 (9.23%) IaaS
6 14 (7.18%) OneDrive
7 12 (6.15%) GCP
7 12 (6.15%) PaaS
8 4 (2.05%) Nutanix
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.03%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.03%) GitHub
9 2 (1.03%) Mimecast
9 2 (1.03%) SaaS
9 2 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.51%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 185 (94.87%) DNS
2 59 (30.26%) TCP/IP
3 57 (29.23%) Firewall
4 48 (24.62%) VPN
5 26 (13.33%) WAN
6 25 (12.82%) LAN
6 25 (12.82%) VLAN
7 22 (11.28%) Wi-Fi
8 20 (10.26%) HTTP
8 20 (10.26%) SMTP
9 16 (8.21%) VoIP
10 15 (7.69%) SAN
10 15 (7.69%) Skype
11 14 (7.18%) Wireless
12 11 (5.64%) FTP
12 11 (5.64%) Telnet
13 8 (4.10%) Network Security
14 6 (3.08%) BGP
14 6 (3.08%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (3.08%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (4.10%) Big Data
2 8 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (6.15%) JIRA
2 4 (2.05%) Git
2 4 (2.05%) GitLab
3 3 (1.54%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.03%) Maven
4 2 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.03%) Subversion
General
1 30 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.87%) Public Sector
3 22 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.74%) Finance
5 9 (4.62%) Banking
6 7 (3.59%) Investment Banking
6 7 (3.59%) Military
7 5 (2.56%) Electronics
8 4 (2.05%) French Language
8 4 (2.05%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.54%) Marketing
9 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.51%) Automotive
11 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 31 (15.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 30 (15.38%) Network Engineer
4 15 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 14 (7.18%) 3rd Line Support
5 14 (7.18%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 14 (7.18%) Administrator
5 14 (7.18%) Infrastructure Support
6 13 (6.67%) Analyst
7 12 (6.15%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 11 (5.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (5.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
9 10 (5.13%) Desktop Support
9 10 (5.13%) IT Engineer
9 10 (5.13%) Lead
10 9 (4.62%) Desktop Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) IT Support
10 9 (4.62%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.59%) LDAP
2 2 (1.03%) YAML
3 1 (0.51%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.51%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.51%) HTML
3 1 (0.51%) Node.js
3 1 (0.51%) Web Services
3 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.31%) PKI
2 18 (9.23%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.15%) Clustering
4 9 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.05%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (2.05%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.05%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.54%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.54%) NHS
7 3 (1.54%) Replication
8 2 (1.03%) Anti-Spyware
8 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.03%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.51%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.51%) FMCG
9 1 (0.51%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.51%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 132 (67.69%) Windows
2 77 (39.49%) Windows Server
3 64 (32.82%) Linux
4 32 (16.41%) Windows 10
5 30 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (9.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (8.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 15 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
9 11 (5.64%) VMS
10 7 (3.59%) CentOS
10 7 (3.59%) Windows 7
10 7 (3.59%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (3.08%) Android
12 4 (2.05%) Ubuntu
13 3 (1.54%) Unix
14 2 (1.03%) Apple iOS
14 2 (1.03%) Debian
14 2 (1.03%) Solaris
15 1 (0.51%) Fedora
15 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (25.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 45 (23.08%) ITIL
3 41 (21.03%) DevOps
4 34 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (12.82%) Service Management
6 22 (11.28%) Customer Service
7 21 (10.77%) High Availability
7 21 (10.77%) ITSM
8 19 (9.74%) Agile
9 17 (8.72%) Incident Management
10 16 (8.21%) Containerisation
10 16 (8.21%) Root Cause Analysis
11 14 (7.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (7.18%) Patch Management
11 14 (7.18%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (6.67%) Project Management
13 12 (6.15%) Service Delivery
14 10 (5.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (5.13%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.05%) PowerShell
2 27 (13.85%) Python
3 21 (10.77%) Bash
4 15 (7.69%) Java
5 13 (6.67%) SQL
6 6 (3.08%) Perl
7 5 (2.56%) Shell Script
7 5 (2.56%) VB
7 5 (2.56%) VBScript
8 1 (0.51%) Bicep
8 1 (0.51%) C#
8 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 74 (37.95%) Security Cleared
2 42 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 35 (17.95%) DV Cleared
4 30 (15.38%) Degree
5 26 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (10.26%) CCNA
7 16 (8.21%) CCNP
8 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (3.59%) A+ Certification
10 4 (2.05%) MCSA
10 4 (2.05%) MCSE
11 3 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.03%) CCIE
12 2 (1.03%) CISSP
12 2 (1.03%) HP APS
12 2 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.51%) CCSA
13 1 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.69%) SLA
2 4 (2.05%) GDPR
3 3 (1.54%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.03%) QA
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.51%) NIST
System Software
1 97 (49.74%) Active Directory
2 65 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (20.51%) Hyper-V
4 26 (13.33%) Docker
5 23 (11.79%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (7.18%) vSphere
7 12 (6.15%) BitLocker
8 11 (5.64%) NFS
8 11 (5.64%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (4.10%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (4.10%) Samba
9 8 (4.10%) Terminal Services
10 6 (3.08%) DFS Replication
10 6 (3.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (1.54%) Brightmail
11 3 (1.54%) ISA Server
12 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (1.03%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.51%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 35 (17.95%) Ansible
2 26 (13.33%) Puppet
2 26 (13.33%) SCCM
3 25 (12.82%) Kubernetes
4 23 (11.79%) WSUS
5 19 (9.74%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (9.23%) Terraform
7 16 (8.21%) vCenter Server
8 12 (6.15%) vMotion
9 11 (5.64%) AppManager
9 11 (5.64%) Nagios
10 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Clustering
10 8 (4.10%) yum
11 6 (3.08%) Cisco Prime
12 5 (2.56%) AirWatch
13 4 (2.05%) Dell DRAC
13 4 (2.05%) NetApp OnCommand
13 4 (2.05%) NetBackup
14 3 (1.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (1.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 93 (47.69%) VMware
2 91 (46.67%) Microsoft
3 36 (18.46%) Cisco
4 31 (15.90%) Red Hat
5 22 (11.28%) HP
6 16 (8.21%) CheckPoint
7 13 (6.67%) Ivanti
8 12 (6.15%) Google
9 11 (5.64%) Dell
9 11 (5.64%) SolarWinds
10 10 (5.13%) Citrix
10 10 (5.13%) Symantec
11 9 (4.62%) Palo Alto
11 9 (4.62%) ServiceNow
12 8 (4.10%) Infoblox
13 7 (3.59%) Veritas
14 6 (3.08%) Aruba
14 6 (3.08%) Veeam
15 5 (2.56%) Apple
16 4 (2.05%) Juniper