DHCP Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 149 175
Rank change year-on-year -56 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing DHCP 177 271 287
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 1.12% 1.55% 1.33%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.39% 10.68% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 167 189
10th Percentile £200 £200 £197
25th Percentile £262 £260 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £420 £488
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% -13.85% +14.71%
75th Percentile £578 £544 £613
90th Percentile £616 £608 £665
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 6
10th Percentile - £21.99 £19.92
25th Percentile £29.00 £23.10 £24.76
Median hourly rate £35.73 £30.00 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.08% -10.45% +52.27%
75th Percentile £87.97 £48.75 £45.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £49.50 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £38.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -21.05% +11.76% +65.85%

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 2,110 2,538 3,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 14.50% 16.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,340 1,389 2,197
10th Percentile £200 £200 £205
25th Percentile £313 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £485 £455
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +6.59% +1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £644 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 169 271
10th Percentile £15.45 £14.16 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £23.10 £24.42
Median hourly rate £42.50 £57.35 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.89% -0.26% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.41 £75.00 £76.10
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £50.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -16.12% -11.49% +42.74%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DHCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DHCP

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 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DHCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DHCP

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 October 2025.

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 October 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
South East -15 59 £447 -10.60% 86
Midlands -27 43 £325 -13.33% 27
West Midlands 0 42 £325 -11.56% 14
South West +16 27 £550 +22.22% 36
North of England -44 26 £442 -4.38% 46
East of England 0 16 £383 -4.38% 27
North West -27 15 £438 -20.45% 22
Scotland -30 9 £465 +93.75% 3
Yorkshire -20 7 £550 +83.33% 19
North East -7 4 £248 +77.32% 8
East Midlands -26 1 - - 13
Channel Islands - 1 £440 -
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 41 (23.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (18.08%) SharePoint
3 23 (12.99%) Skype for Business
4 11 (6.21%) Exchange Server 2010
5 10 (5.65%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (5.65%) Exchange Server 2007
5 10 (5.65%) Exchange Server 2013
5 10 (5.65%) Office Communications Server
5 10 (5.65%) SharePoint Server
6 9 (5.08%) Confluence
7 6 (3.39%) IIS
8 4 (2.26%) OpenStack
9 2 (1.13%) Apache
Applications
1 37 (20.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 50 (28.25%) Azure
2 38 (21.47%) AWS
3 36 (20.34%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (7.34%) IaaS
5 12 (6.78%) Entra ID
6 10 (5.65%) PaaS
7 9 (5.08%) GCP
8 7 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (3.39%) AWS Direct Connect
10 5 (2.82%) OneDrive
11 4 (2.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.26%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.26%) Apigee
11 4 (2.26%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (2.26%) AWS KMS
11 4 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.26%) SaaS
11 4 (2.26%) Serverless
12 3 (1.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 176 (99.44%) DNS
2 66 (37.29%) TCP/IP
3 55 (31.07%) Firewall
4 43 (24.29%) VPN
5 34 (19.21%) VLAN
6 31 (17.51%) Wireless
7 26 (14.69%) LAN
8 25 (14.12%) WAN
9 19 (10.73%) SAN
10 16 (9.04%) Cisco IOS
11 13 (7.34%) Skype
12 12 (6.78%) PuTTY
12 12 (6.78%) WLAN
13 11 (6.21%) BGP
13 11 (6.21%) SSL
14 10 (5.65%) DDNS
15 8 (4.52%) IPsec
15 8 (4.52%) Network Security
15 8 (4.52%) OSPF
15 8 (4.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (2.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.69%) Big Data
2 3 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (7.91%) JIRA
2 5 (2.82%) Git
2 5 (2.82%) Jenkins
General
1 49 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.03%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (15.82%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.04%) Finance
5 15 (8.47%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.39%) Banking
6 6 (3.39%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.69%) Legal
9 3 (1.69%) Military
10 2 (1.13%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.13%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Back Office
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) Front Office
11 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (31.64%) Support Engineer
2 36 (20.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (14.69%) Network Engineer
4 23 (12.99%) Analyst
5 16 (9.04%) Infrastructure Support
5 16 (9.04%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 10 (5.65%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 10 (5.65%) Exchange Engineer
6 10 (5.65%) Exchange Support
6 10 (5.65%) Support Analyst
7 9 (5.08%) Administrator
7 9 (5.08%) Network Analyst
8 8 (4.52%) 2nd Line Support
8 8 (4.52%) 3rd Line Support
8 8 (4.52%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) IT Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) IT Support
8 8 (4.52%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.39%) SOAP
2 5 (2.82%) AngularJS
2 5 (2.82%) REST
3 3 (1.69%) Middleware
3 3 (1.69%) RESTful
4 1 (0.56%) .NET
4 1 (0.56%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.56%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.56%) Express.js
4 1 (0.56%) LDAP
4 1 (0.56%) OAuth
4 1 (0.56%) OpenID
4 1 (0.56%) React
4 1 (0.56%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.56%) SAML
4 1 (0.56%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.56%) WCF
4 1 (0.56%) Web Services
4 1 (0.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.04%) PKI
2 14 (7.91%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.34%) Replication
4 11 (6.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (3.95%) Virtual Team
6 6 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 4 (2.26%) Driving Licence
8 4 (2.26%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.69%) Clustering
9 3 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.69%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.13%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.13%) Smartphone
10 2 (1.13%) Video Conferencing
11 1 (0.56%) Life Science
11 1 (0.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 107 (60.45%) Windows
2 45 (25.42%) Windows Server
3 35 (19.77%) Linux
4 16 (9.04%) Windows Server 2003
5 15 (8.47%) Windows 10
6 12 (6.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (5.08%) Unix
7 9 (5.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (2.82%) Mac OS
9 4 (2.26%) Ubuntu
10 3 (1.69%) CentOS
10 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.13%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.56%) Android
12 1 (0.56%) Rocky
12 1 (0.56%) SUSE
12 1 (0.56%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.56%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (36.16%) ITIL
2 45 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (23.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 27 (15.25%) Service Management
5 24 (13.56%) Computer Science
5 24 (13.56%) High Availability
6 19 (10.73%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (10.17%) Change Management
8 14 (7.91%) Agile
9 13 (7.34%) Customer Service
10 12 (6.78%) DevOps
11 11 (6.21%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (6.21%) Preventative Maintenance
11 11 (6.21%) Project Management
11 11 (6.21%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 10 (5.65%) Architectural Design
12 10 (5.65%) Content Management
12 10 (5.65%) Enterprise Search
12 10 (5.65%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.51%) PowerShell
2 16 (9.04%) SQL
3 10 (5.65%) Python
4 8 (4.52%) Perl
5 7 (3.95%) Bash
6 6 (3.39%) Java
7 4 (2.26%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.69%) Lisp
9 1 (0.56%) C#
9 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (37.85%) Security Cleared
2 48 (27.12%) SC Cleared
3 44 (24.86%) Cisco Certification
4 33 (18.64%) CCNA
5 31 (17.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (15.82%) CCNP
6 28 (15.82%) Degree
7 24 (13.56%) DV Cleared
8 14 (7.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (6.78%) Azure Certification
10 11 (6.21%) Network+ Certification
10 11 (6.21%) Server+ Certification
11 8 (4.52%) MCSE
12 7 (3.95%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (3.95%) MCP
13 6 (3.39%) A+ Certification
13 6 (3.39%) CCIE
14 5 (2.82%) Master's Degree
14 5 (2.82%) MCDST
15 4 (2.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.91%) SLA
2 6 (3.39%) GDPR
3 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.13%) NIST
4 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.56%) COBIT
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
4 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 85 (48.02%) Active Directory
2 47 (26.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (18.08%) Hyper-V
4 13 (7.34%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (6.78%) vSphere
6 10 (5.65%) Brightmail
6 10 (5.65%) ISA Server
7 9 (5.08%) Docker
8 7 (3.95%) Terminal Services
9 6 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (2.82%) DFS Replication
10 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (2.82%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (2.26%) NFS
12 3 (1.69%) BitLocker
12 3 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (1.13%) KVM
13 2 (1.13%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.56%) Samba
14 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (13.56%) SCCM
2 14 (7.91%) Microsoft Clustering
3 13 (7.34%) WSUS
4 11 (6.21%) vCenter Server
5 10 (5.65%) Ansible
6 9 (5.08%) Terraform
7 7 (3.95%) vMotion
8 6 (3.39%) OpenView
9 5 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (2.82%) Kubernetes
9 5 (2.82%) Nagios
9 5 (2.82%) Puppet
9 5 (2.82%) Tivoli
10 4 (2.26%) NetApp OnCommand
11 3 (1.69%) AppManager
11 3 (1.69%) FortiGate
11 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.13%) Cisco Prime
12 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.56%) yum
Vendors
1 110 (62.15%) Microsoft
2 61 (34.46%) VMware
3 53 (29.94%) Cisco
4 16 (9.04%) SolarWinds
5 14 (7.91%) Citrix
5 14 (7.91%) ServiceNow
6 13 (7.34%) Veeam
7 12 (6.78%) F5
8 11 (6.21%) Dell
9 10 (5.65%) CheckPoint
9 10 (5.65%) Remedy
10 7 (3.95%) Fortinet
10 7 (3.95%) HP
10 7 (3.95%) Peregrine
11 6 (3.39%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.82%) iManage
12 5 (2.82%) Infoblox
12 5 (2.82%) Mitel
12 5 (2.82%) Splunk
13 4 (2.26%) Google