DHCP Contract Job Trends

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 278 223 261
Rank change year-on-year -55 +38 -7
Contract jobs citing DHCP 433 351 384
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 1.18% 0.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.06% 9.49% 7.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 258 293
10th Percentile £207 £250 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £575
90th Percentile £625 £708 £608
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £525 £484
% change year-on-year -5.71% +8.47% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 9 17
10th Percentile £12.43 £26.29 £18.40
25th Percentile £26.00 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -23.27%
75th Percentile £51.33 £31.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £46.35 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -25.00% -23.27%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,780 3,698 5,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.52% 12.48% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,930 2,273 3,186
10th Percentile £263 £220 £210
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% -3.40% -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £470 £488
% change year-on-year +2.13% -3.59% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 172 422
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.13 £17.69
Median hourly rate £27.69 £41.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.87% +3.13% +111.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.41 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.50 £71.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.25 £31.08 £47.50
% change year-on-year -2.67% -34.57% +156.76%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in the UK

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

DHCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DHCP over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 16 June 2026. 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
England -51 386 £475 -9.09% 232
UK excluding London -41 279 £495 -5.71% 209
London -59 125 £450 -10.00% 50
South East -8 107 £515 -9.41% 71
Work from Home -57 85 £550 +4.76% 90
North of England -68 59 £534 +18.97% 39
Midlands -48 39 £450 +12.50% 36
South West -25 37 £508 -17.48% 35
North West -48 34 £608 +37.79% 24
West Midlands -49 31 £450 +76.47% 24
Scotland +4 21 £425 -5.56% 4
Yorkshire -47 21 £447 -18.73% 8
East of England -28 16 £475 -9.52% 28
East Midlands -23 8 £363 -27.50% 12
Wales -15 5 £175 -61.11% 6
North East -31 4 £200 -15.79% 9

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 38 (8.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (6.47%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.62%) IIS
4 4 (0.92%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.23%) Apache
5 1 (0.23%) Confluence
5 1 (0.23%) nginx
5 1 (0.23%) Traefik
Applications
1 13 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.46%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 178 (41.11%) Azure
2 91 (21.02%) Entra ID
3 89 (20.55%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (15.70%) AWS
5 27 (6.24%) OneDrive
6 24 (5.54%) IaaS
7 20 (4.62%) PaaS
8 17 (3.93%) GCP
9 13 (3.00%) SaaS
10 7 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.62%) Nutanix
11 6 (1.39%) Datadog
12 5 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
13 4 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (0.92%) GitHub
13 4 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.92%) OpenShift
13 4 (0.92%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 417 (96.30%) DNS
2 145 (33.49%) Firewall
3 101 (23.33%) TCP/IP
4 94 (21.71%) VPN
5 88 (20.32%) LAN
6 85 (19.63%) WAN
7 83 (19.17%) VLAN
8 52 (12.01%) Network Security
8 52 (12.01%) Wi-Fi
9 45 (10.39%) Wireless
10 42 (9.70%) SAN
11 40 (9.24%) BIG-IP
12 39 (9.01%) BGP
13 38 (8.78%) OSPF
14 29 (6.70%) Kerberos
15 28 (6.47%) Cisco ISE
15 28 (6.47%) VXLAN
16 25 (5.77%) Ethernet VPN
16 25 (5.77%) Junos
17 23 (5.31%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.24%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (0.69%) Big Data
5 2 (0.46%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.23%) Power BI
6 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.54%) JIRA
2 6 (1.39%) Chocolatey
3 5 (1.15%) Git
4 4 (0.92%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (0.69%) GitLab
6 2 (0.46%) Jenkins
General
1 114 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 47 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (6.93%) Finance
4 26 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.70%) Banking
7 14 (3.23%) Legal
8 7 (1.62%) Local Government
8 7 (1.62%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.39%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.15%) Military
10 5 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.15%) Police
11 4 (0.92%) Law
12 2 (0.46%) Advertising
12 2 (0.46%) Publishing
12 2 (0.46%) Retail
13 1 (0.23%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 96 (22.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 61 (14.09%) Network Engineer
3 47 (10.85%) Support Engineer
4 46 (10.62%) IT Support
5 40 (9.24%) Architect
6 36 (8.31%) IT Engineer
7 35 (8.08%) Senior
8 28 (6.47%) Analyst
9 24 (5.54%) IT Support Engineer
10 17 (3.93%) Administrator
11 15 (3.46%) Infrastructure Support
11 15 (3.46%) Network Specialist
12 14 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 14 (3.23%) Firewall Specialist
12 14 (3.23%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
13 13 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (3.00%) IT Analyst
13 13 (3.00%) Senior Network Engineer
13 13 (3.00%) Technical Architect
14 12 (2.77%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (9.47%) 802.1X
2 30 (6.93%) LDAP
3 21 (4.85%) SAML
4 15 (3.46%) OAuth
5 10 (2.31%) JSON
6 5 (1.15%) ARM Templates
6 5 (1.15%) OpenID
7 3 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (0.69%) Redfish
7 3 (0.69%) REST
7 3 (0.69%) Software Packaging
8 2 (0.46%) .NET
8 2 (0.46%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.46%) ASP.NET
8 2 (0.46%) Blazor
8 2 (0.46%) OpenGL
8 2 (0.46%) Qt
8 2 (0.46%) XMPP
9 1 (0.23%) CSS
9 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 82 (18.94%) Data Centre
2 50 (11.55%) PKI
3 36 (8.31%) Clustering
4 29 (6.70%) Replication
5 28 (6.47%) Onboarding
6 18 (4.16%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 12 (2.77%) IoT
9 11 (2.54%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.62%) Enterprise Storage
11 6 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
13 4 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
13 4 (0.92%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.92%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.92%) Public Cloud
13 4 (0.92%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.69%) Driving Licence
14 3 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 277 (63.97%) Windows
2 157 (36.26%) Windows Server
3 52 (12.01%) Linux
4 38 (8.78%) Windows 10
5 31 (7.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (6.24%) Mac OS
7 15 (3.46%) Apple iOS
8 14 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (2.31%) Android
10 10 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (1.62%) Windows Server 2003
12 6 (1.39%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.92%) Unix
14 3 (0.69%) VMS
15 2 (0.46%) CentOS
15 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.23%) Rocky
16 1 (0.23%) SUSE
16 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (24.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 104 (24.02%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (20.55%) ITIL
4 81 (18.71%) High Availability
5 77 (17.78%) ITSM
6 52 (12.01%) Migration
7 47 (10.85%) Identity Access Management
8 45 (10.39%) Load Balancing
9 43 (9.93%) Disaster Recovery
10 38 (8.78%) Observability
11 33 (7.62%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (7.62%) Root Cause Analysis
11 33 (7.62%) Task Automation
12 30 (6.93%) Network Segmentation
13 29 (6.70%) Incident Management
14 26 (6.00%) DevOps
15 25 (5.77%) Project Delivery
16 24 (5.54%) User Experience
17 22 (5.08%) Customer Service
17 22 (5.08%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (23.33%) PowerShell
2 37 (8.55%) Python
3 21 (4.85%) Bash
4 11 (2.54%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.08%) VBA
6 6 (1.39%) VBScript
7 5 (1.15%) SQL
8 4 (0.92%) VB
9 3 (0.69%) Lisp
10 2 (0.46%) Bicep
11 1 (0.23%) C
11 1 (0.23%) Go
11 1 (0.23%) Perl
11 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 160 (36.95%) Security Cleared
2 93 (21.48%) SC Cleared
3 64 (14.78%) Cisco Certification
4 52 (12.01%) DV Cleared
5 41 (9.47%) CCNP
6 32 (7.39%) Degree
7 30 (6.93%) CCNA
8 22 (5.08%) Network+ Certification
9 17 (3.93%) Server+ Certification
10 10 (2.31%) Azure Certification
10 10 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.85%) JNCIA
12 7 (1.62%) JNCIP
12 7 (1.62%) JNCIS
13 6 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (1.39%) CCIE
14 5 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (0.92%) CCIE Security
15 4 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 3 (0.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.00%) SLA
2 17 (3.93%) GDPR
3 13 (3.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 11 (2.54%) NIST
5 7 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.15%) QA
7 3 (0.69%) NCSC
8 2 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.23%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.23%) RMADS
System Software
1 250 (57.74%) Active Directory
2 120 (27.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (14.78%) Hyper-V
4 38 (8.78%) vSphere
5 34 (7.85%) VMware ESXi
6 25 (5.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (4.16%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (3.93%) BitLocker
9 15 (3.46%) Docker
10 12 (2.77%) Microsoft App-V
11 10 (2.31%) VMware NSX
12 8 (1.85%) NFS
13 7 (1.62%) Firmware
14 6 (1.39%) Terminal Services
14 6 (1.39%) VMware Workstation
15 3 (0.69%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.46%) UAG
16 2 (0.46%) VirtualBox
16 2 (0.46%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 58 (13.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (9.93%) Ansible
3 39 (9.01%) SCCM
4 33 (7.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 31 (7.16%) FortiGate
5 31 (7.16%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (4.62%) Terraform
7 17 (3.93%) Kubernetes
8 16 (3.70%) vCenter Server
9 14 (3.23%) WSUS
10 13 (3.00%) vMotion
11 12 (2.77%) Jamf Pro
12 9 (2.08%) Puppet
13 7 (1.62%) Nagios
14 6 (1.39%) Red Hat Satellite
15 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
16 4 (0.92%) HAProxy
17 3 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
17 3 (0.69%) Failover Clustering
17 3 (0.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 188 (43.42%) Microsoft
2 130 (30.02%) VMware
3 92 (21.25%) Cisco
4 84 (19.40%) ServiceNow
5 50 (11.55%) F5
6 41 (9.47%) Infoblox
7 40 (9.24%) Citrix
7 40 (9.24%) SolarWinds
8 36 (8.31%) Juniper
9 25 (5.77%) Splunk
10 24 (5.54%) Palo Alto
11 22 (5.08%) Extreme Networks
12 18 (4.16%) Dell
13 16 (3.70%) Fortinet
14 13 (3.00%) HP
14 13 (3.00%) NetApp
14 13 (3.00%) Okta
15 12 (2.77%) CheckPoint
15 12 (2.77%) Google
16 10 (2.31%) Veeam