DHCP Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 46 38
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +13
Contract jobs citing DHCP 13 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 2.44% 1.55% 1.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.46% 9.33% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 3
10th Percentile £234 £430 £240
25th Percentile £300 £456 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £338
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +48.15% +60.71%
75th Percentile £538 - £356
90th Percentile £558 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £365 £383 £375
% change year-on-year -4.58% +2.00% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 79 75 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 14.82% 16.56% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 49 44
10th Percentile £203 £500 £238
25th Percentile £350 £523 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £583 £488
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +19.59% +0.98%
75th Percentile £582 £663 £732
90th Percentile £641 £675 £750
West Midlands median daily rate £418 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -16.50% +25.00% -8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +20.00%
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +13.40%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing DHCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Warwickshire

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing DHCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Warwick -2 7 £525 +5.00%
Leamington Spa - 4 £363 - 1
Gaydon - 1 £220 -
DHCP
West Midlands

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) DNS
2 6 (46.15%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) SD-WAN
2 6 (46.15%) Wireless
3 4 (30.77%) Network Security
3 4 (30.77%) VPN
3 4 (30.77%) WAN
4 3 (23.08%) Wireshark
5 2 (15.38%) Ethereal
6 1 (7.69%) BGP
6 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (7.69%) EIGRP
6 1 (7.69%) IPv4
6 1 (7.69%) LAN
6 1 (7.69%) MPLS
6 1 (7.69%) OSPF
6 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 1 (7.69%) VLAN
6 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (7.69%) WLAN
General
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Automotive
2 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) Network Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) IT Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Network Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Site Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.69%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Network Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Rollout Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) CCTV
2 1 (7.69%) IoT
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) ITIL
2 4 (30.77%) High Availability
2 4 (30.77%) Problem Management
2 4 (30.77%) Service Management
3 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) Zero Trust
5 1 (7.69%) Hardware Maintenance
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.69%) Network Management
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.69%) Runbook
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) CCIE
1 5 (38.46%) CCNP
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) CCIE Routing and Switching
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.69%) NIST
2 1 (7.69%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
1 4 (30.77%) Terminal Services
2 1 (7.69%) Firmware
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.69%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) OpenView
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
1 6 (46.15%) F5
1 6 (46.15%) Fortinet
2 2 (15.38%) Dell
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) HP
3 1 (7.69%) Meraki
3 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto