DHCP Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 82 88
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +50
Contract jobs citing DHCP 39 26 27
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.75% 1.56% 1.46%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.27% 11.11% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 20
10th Percentile £128 £211 £189
25th Percentile £225 £213 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £385 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% +6.67%
75th Percentile £537 £461 £475
90th Percentile £544 £500 £493
England median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - £26.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £27.00
75th Percentile £31.00 - £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £27.10 £29.75
% change year-on-year +176.75% -8.91% +2.59%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 346 234 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.56% 14.07% 21.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 135 216
10th Percentile £209 £170 £216
25th Percentile £301 £286 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £520 £583 £575
90th Percentile £582 £671 £688
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 19
10th Percentile £18.50 £12.18 £20.55
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.22 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +20.37% +11.34%
75th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £49.00 £40.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £34.50 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -15.85% -27.36% +26.28%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DHCP

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the West Midlands

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DHCP

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 December 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
Birmingham -8 14 £145 -50.00% 6
Warwickshire -3 11 £534 +6.70%
Shropshire - 5 £363 - 1
Staffordshire - 4 £325 - 5
Coventry - 2 £525 - 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £425 -
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 7 (17.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (17.95%) MS Visio
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) AWS
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 8 (20.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 7 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (12.82%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.26%) AWS CloudTrail
5 4 (10.26%) AWS KMS
5 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (10.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (10.26%) GCP
5 4 (10.26%) Serverless
6 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
6 3 (7.69%) IaaS
6 3 (7.69%) PaaS
6 3 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.56%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 38 (97.44%) DNS
2 15 (38.46%) Wireless
3 14 (35.90%) VPN
4 11 (28.21%) BGP
4 11 (28.21%) Firewall
4 11 (28.21%) VXLAN
5 9 (23.08%) Cisco ISE
6 8 (20.51%) LAN
6 8 (20.51%) TCP/IP
6 8 (20.51%) WAN
7 7 (17.95%) Cisco Wireless
7 7 (17.95%) NX-OS
8 6 (15.38%) SD-WAN
8 6 (15.38%) VLAN
8 6 (15.38%) WLAN
9 4 (10.26%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (10.26%) EIGRP
9 4 (10.26%) IPv4
9 4 (10.26%) IPv6
9 4 (10.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Banking
3 7 (17.95%) Investment Banking
4 3 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (7.69%) Legal
5 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.13%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (20.51%) Analyst
1 8 (20.51%) Network Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) IT Support
2 7 (17.95%) RF Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Support Analyst
2 7 (17.95%) Wireless Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) 1st/2nd Line Support
3 6 (15.38%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (12.82%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) IT Analyst
4 5 (12.82%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (10.26%) Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Network Architect
5 4 (10.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.56%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.82%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (12.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (5.13%) NHS
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.56%) CCTV
4 1 (2.56%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.56%) IoT
4 1 (2.56%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (58.97%) Windows
2 13 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 7 (17.95%) Windows 10
4 6 (15.38%) Linux
5 1 (2.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.56%) SUSE
5 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.90%) ITIL
2 12 (30.77%) Change Management
3 10 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (17.95%) User Experience
6 6 (15.38%) Customer Service
6 6 (15.38%) Mobile Device Management
6 6 (15.38%) Problem Management
7 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
7 5 (12.82%) CRM
7 5 (12.82%) Disk Encryption
7 5 (12.82%) Mentoring
7 5 (12.82%) Service Delivery
7 5 (12.82%) Zero Trust
8 4 (10.26%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (10.26%) Load Balancing
8 4 (10.26%) Network Management
8 4 (10.26%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (10.26%) Roadmaps
9 3 (7.69%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.95%) Lisp
1 7 (17.95%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (5.13%) Bash
3 2 (5.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) CCNP
1 14 (35.90%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
3 6 (15.38%) MCP
4 5 (12.82%) Degree
4 5 (12.82%) MCDST
4 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
5 4 (10.26%) AWS Certification
5 4 (10.26%) CCIE
6 3 (7.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 3 (7.69%) CCIE Security
6 3 (7.69%) CCNA
6 3 (7.69%) CCSP
6 3 (7.69%) CISSP
7 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (5.13%) JNCIE
7 2 (5.13%) JNCIP
8 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) GDPR
1 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.26%) NIST
1 4 (10.26%) PCI DSS
2 3 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (53.85%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (15.38%) Terminal Services
4 5 (12.82%) VMware NSX
5 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.56%) Firmware
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) FortiGate
1 7 (17.95%) SCCM
2 5 (12.82%) Terraform
3 4 (10.26%) Ansible
4 3 (7.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.56%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (2.56%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) Cisco
1 16 (41.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (23.08%) Remedy
2 9 (23.08%) VMware
3 8 (20.51%) ServiceNow
4 7 (17.95%) Ekahau
5 6 (15.38%) Fortinet
5 6 (15.38%) SolarWinds
6 5 (12.82%) F5
6 5 (12.82%) iManage
6 5 (12.82%) Meraki
6 5 (12.82%) Mitel
7 4 (10.26%) Palo Alto
8 3 (7.69%) AppDynamics
8 3 (7.69%) Dynatrace
9 2 (5.13%) Dell
9 2 (5.13%) Forcepoint
9 2 (5.13%) Juniper
9 2 (5.13%) Peregrine
10 1 (2.56%) HP