DHCP Contracts in the West Midlands

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 72 82
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 +52
Contract jobs citing DHCP 23 39 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.57% 1.90% 1.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.07% 10.66% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 37
10th Percentile £201 £213 £197
25th Percentile £226 £300 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £255 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year -36.25% -5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £367 £575 £700
90th Percentile £400 £775 -
England median daily rate £525 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +10.53% -2.56% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile £38.35 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £47.94
% change year-on-year -25.00% -16.56% +122.98%

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 176 366 394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.01% 17.82% 17.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 222 240
10th Percentile £201 £201 £250
25th Percentile £294 £302 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £620
90th Percentile £713 £686 £713
England median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -0.92% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 11
10th Percentile £14.32 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.61 £13.50 £16.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.95 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +50.38% -10.98% +28.06%
75th Percentile £39.74 £23.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.70 £37.58 -
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £19.00
% change year-on-year -18.27% +141.47% -23.23%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the West Midlands

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the West Midlands

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the West Midlands

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the West Midlands

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 25 June 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 +6 9 £255 -27.14% 11
Staffordshire +8 5 - - 4
Solihull +7 5 £220 -2.22%
Warwickshire 0 5 £220 -70.67% 4
Coventry 0 1 £220 -45.00% 4
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 21 (91.30%) DNS
2 16 (69.57%) Firewall
3 13 (56.52%) Wireless
4 9 (39.13%) WAN
5 7 (30.43%) LAN
6 5 (21.74%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (21.74%) Network Security
6 5 (21.74%) WLAN
7 4 (17.39%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (17.39%) HTTP
7 4 (17.39%) PuTTY
7 4 (17.39%) SD-WAN
7 4 (17.39%) SSL
7 4 (17.39%) VLAN
7 4 (17.39%) VPN
8 3 (13.04%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (8.70%) BGP
9 2 (8.70%) EIGRP
9 2 (8.70%) IPsec
9 2 (8.70%) TACACS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
1 2 (8.70%) Maven
1 2 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (21.74%) Manufacturing
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Automotive
5 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Analyst
1 5 (21.74%) Network Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Support Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Network Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Network Support
4 2 (8.70%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Product Owner
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) LDAP
1 2 (8.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Data Centre
2 4 (17.39%) Virtual Team
3 2 (8.70%) Driving Licence
3 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Windows 10
3 2 (8.70%) CentOS
3 2 (8.70%) Debian
3 2 (8.70%) Linux
3 2 (8.70%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) ITIL
2 6 (26.09%) Change Management
3 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
3 5 (21.74%) High Availability
4 4 (17.39%) Agile
4 4 (17.39%) Process Improvement
4 4 (17.39%) Project Management
4 4 (17.39%) Service Management
5 3 (13.04%) Mentoring
5 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
5 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (8.70%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (8.70%) Log Aggregation
6 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.70%) Product Backlog
6 2 (8.70%) Product Strategy
6 2 (8.70%) Product Vision
6 2 (8.70%) Server Management
6 2 (8.70%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
2 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (43.48%) CCNA
3 8 (34.78%) CCNP
4 5 (21.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (21.74%) Degree
5 4 (17.39%) CCIE
6 3 (13.04%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (4.35%) MCP
8 1 (4.35%) MCSA
8 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) OpenView
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (8.70%) Nagios
2 2 (8.70%) Nessus
2 2 (8.70%) Puppet
2 2 (8.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (73.91%) Cisco
2 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) F5
3 4 (17.39%) Fortinet
3 4 (17.39%) Peregrine
3 4 (17.39%) Remedy
4 3 (13.04%) Juniper
4 3 (13.04%) VMware
5 2 (8.70%) Arista
5 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
5 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
5 2 (8.70%) SolarWinds
5 2 (8.70%) Sophos
6 1 (4.35%) Dell
6 1 (4.35%) HP