DHCP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for DHCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DHCP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 216 297
Rank change year-on-year -28 +81 +48
Contract jobs citing DHCP 110 299 361
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.71% 1.15% 0.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.63% 10.07% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 216 235
10th Percentile £279 £325 £300
25th Percentile £320 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £520 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% +22.35% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £608 £700 £633
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.00% +17.65% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 15
10th Percentile - £22.60 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £32.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £20.25 £50.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.90% +134.88% +7.50%
75th Percentile £34.69 £69.00 £57.29
90th Percentile £54.38 £79.20 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +3.90% +71.11% +12.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

DHCP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,658 2,969 4,346
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.75% 11.41% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 1,978 2,957
10th Percentile £293 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £612 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 107 100
10th Percentile £12.75 £20.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £57.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.39% +21.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.38
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.55 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +4.05%

DHCP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DHCP trend for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DHCP.

DHCP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DHCP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

DHCP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DHCP.

DHCP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DHCP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

DHCP hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 30 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.27%) Confluence
3 4 (3.64%) IIS
4 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (43.64%) Azure
2 35 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (20.00%) AWS
3 22 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 17 (15.45%) IaaS
5 15 (13.64%) Azure Monitor
5 15 (13.64%) Azure Storage
6 11 (10.00%) GCP
7 8 (7.27%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (7.27%) PaaS
7 8 (7.27%) Rubrik
8 7 (6.36%) Nutanix
8 7 (6.36%) SaaS
9 3 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.73%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.73%) Amazon ElastiCache
9 3 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.73%) Mimecast
9 3 (2.73%) Route 53
9 3 (2.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 105 (95.45%) DNS
2 49 (44.55%) Firewall
3 28 (25.45%) TCP/IP
4 19 (17.27%) VLAN
5 16 (14.55%) VPN
6 13 (11.82%) SAN
7 12 (10.91%) LAN
8 10 (9.09%) WAN
9 9 (8.18%) BGP
9 9 (8.18%) NAS
9 9 (8.18%) Network Security
10 7 (6.36%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (6.36%) Kerberos
10 7 (6.36%) OSPF
11 6 (5.45%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (5.45%) HTTP
11 6 (5.45%) MPLS
11 6 (5.45%) SNMP
12 5 (4.55%) Wireless
13 4 (3.64%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.82%) Power BI
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.91%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.91%) MySQL
4 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.91%) Redis
4 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.18%) Git
2 9 (8.18%) JIRA
3 7 (6.36%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.91%) Axure RP
5 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.91%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.91%) Darcs
5 1 (0.91%) Gradle
5 1 (0.91%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.91%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.91%) Subversion
5 1 (0.91%) Travis CI
General
1 32 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.73%) Finance
3 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.55%) Banking
5 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.64%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.73%) Retail
7 2 (1.82%) Front Office
8 1 (0.91%) Law
8 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (23.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (13.64%) Active Directory Specialist
2 15 (13.64%) Azure Specialist
2 15 (13.64%) Network Engineer
3 14 (12.73%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (12.73%) Support Specialist
4 13 (11.82%) Senior
5 10 (9.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (6.36%) Analyst
6 7 (6.36%) IT Engineer
6 7 (6.36%) Server Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Administrator
8 4 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Hardware Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) IT Support
8 4 (3.64%) Security Analyst
8 4 (3.64%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.73%) ARM Templates
2 8 (7.27%) LDAP
3 5 (4.55%) .NET
4 3 (2.73%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.82%) ADSI
5 2 (1.82%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.91%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.91%) CSS
6 1 (0.91%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.91%) HTML
6 1 (0.91%) Node.js
6 1 (0.91%) React
6 1 (0.91%) REST
6 1 (0.91%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.64%) PKI
2 19 (17.27%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (12.73%) Clustering
4 7 (6.36%) Replication
5 5 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.55%) NHS
6 4 (3.64%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.64%) Embedded Systems
6 4 (3.64%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.91%) CBDC
8 1 (0.91%) Digital Currency
8 1 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (59.09%) Windows
2 49 (44.55%) Windows Server
3 34 (30.91%) Linux
4 21 (19.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (16.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (8.18%) Windows 10
8 8 (7.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (7.27%) Solaris
9 7 (6.36%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (6.36%) Windows 7
10 4 (3.64%) Unix
10 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (3.64%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (1.82%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.82%) VMS
12 1 (0.91%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (32.73%) Agile
2 30 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 26 (23.64%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (23.64%) ITIL
4 24 (21.82%) DevOps
5 20 (18.18%) Release Management
6 19 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (16.36%) High Availability
7 18 (16.36%) RBAC
7 18 (16.36%) Service Management
8 16 (14.55%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 15 (13.64%) Analytics
9 15 (13.64%) CI/CD
9 15 (13.64%) Identity Management
9 15 (13.64%) Log Analytics
9 15 (13.64%) Privileged Identity Management
10 13 (11.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (10.00%) Computer Science
12 10 (9.09%) Security Hardening
12 10 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (38.18%) PowerShell
2 19 (17.27%) Python
2 19 (17.27%) VBScript
3 16 (14.55%) C#
4 15 (13.64%) VB
5 14 (12.73%) Bicep
6 12 (10.91%) Bash
7 5 (4.55%) Perl
8 3 (2.73%) C++
8 3 (2.73%) Java
8 3 (2.73%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.82%) SQL
9 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.82%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.91%) C
10 1 (0.91%) Go
10 1 (0.91%) Rust
Qualifications
1 32 (29.09%) Degree
2 29 (26.36%) Security Cleared
3 24 (21.82%) SC Cleared
4 20 (18.18%) DV Cleared
5 18 (16.36%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (13.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 11 (10.00%) CCNA
7 11 (10.00%) CCNP
8 7 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (4.55%) CCDP
9 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (3.64%) APMP
10 4 (3.64%) CEH
10 4 (3.64%) CISM
10 4 (3.64%) CISSP
10 4 (3.64%) PMP
11 3 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.82%) JNCIA
12 2 (1.82%) MCSA
12 2 (1.82%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.91%) GDPR
2 7 (6.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (3.64%) SLA
4 2 (1.82%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.91%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.91%) NIST
5 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 75 (68.18%) Active Directory
2 31 (28.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (22.73%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (13.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (10.00%) Docker
6 10 (9.09%) Hyper-V
7 9 (8.18%) vSphere
7 9 (8.18%) XenApp
8 5 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (4.55%) XenDesktop
9 4 (3.64%) Firmware
10 3 (2.73%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.82%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.91%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.91%) KVM
12 1 (0.91%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.91%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 32 (29.09%) SCCM
2 24 (21.82%) Kubernetes
3 22 (20.00%) WSUS
4 18 (16.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (15.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (15.45%) SCOM
6 12 (10.91%) Ansible
7 11 (10.00%) Terraform
8 7 (6.36%) EMC NetWorker
8 7 (6.36%) Netcool
8 7 (6.36%) Tivoli
8 7 (6.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 6 (5.45%) vCenter Server
10 4 (3.64%) Kibana
11 2 (1.82%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.82%) Nessus
11 2 (1.82%) Puppet
12 1 (0.91%) SCVMM
12 1 (0.91%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 47 (42.73%) Microsoft
2 38 (34.55%) VMware
3 21 (19.09%) Cisco
4 12 (10.91%) Citrix
4 12 (10.91%) Dell
5 11 (10.00%) HP
5 11 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 11 (10.00%) Splunk
6 10 (9.09%) Palo Alto
7 9 (8.18%) Qualys
8 8 (7.27%) Oracle
9 7 (6.36%) CyberArk
9 7 (6.36%) EMC
9 7 (6.36%) IBM
9 7 (6.36%) Isilon
9 7 (6.36%) Serena
10 6 (5.45%) Arista
10 6 (5.45%) Aruba
11 5 (4.55%) SolarWinds
11 5 (4.55%) Zscaler