DHCP Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 105 94
Rank change year-on-year -22 -11 -4
Contract jobs citing DHCP 28 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.98% 0.46% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.43% 3.54% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 5
10th Percentile £386 £448 £289
25th Percentile £445 £525 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +46.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £520 £594 £688
90th Percentile £538 £618 -
England median daily rate £490 £505 £480
% change year-on-year -2.97% +5.32% +0.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 332 198 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 11.58% 13.07% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 105 105
10th Percentile £313 £235 £200
25th Percentile £400 £358 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £520
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -9.81% +15.56%
75th Percentile £554 £538 £619
90th Percentile £650 £608 £650
England median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 1 9
10th Percentile £19.94 - £13.45
25th Percentile £21.33 £47.50 £13.87
Median hourly rate £25.77 £50.00 £18.27
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +173.67% -16.95%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £25.83
90th Percentile £25.82 - -
England median hourly rate £26.72 £44.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -39.96% -18.91% -0.23%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 19 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in Yorkshire

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
West Yorkshire -10 17 £500 -16.67% 5
South Yorkshire - 10 £488 - 3
East Yorkshire -6 1 £275 -50.00%
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) IIS
2 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.57%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 28 (100.00%) DNS
2 16 (57.14%) Firewall
2 16 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 13 (46.43%) VLAN
4 12 (42.86%) VPN
5 11 (39.29%) BGP
5 11 (39.29%) LAN
5 11 (39.29%) OSPF
6 10 (35.71%) Wireless
7 9 (32.14%) Cisco Nexus
7 9 (32.14%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (28.57%) WAN
8 8 (28.57%) WLAN
9 7 (25.00%) BIG-IP
9 7 (25.00%) IPsec
9 7 (25.00%) VoIP
10 5 (17.86%) Network Security
11 4 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.86%) Police
4 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Finance
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Network Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Senior
2 9 (32.14%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) IT Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) IT Support
5 2 (7.14%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Data Centre Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Designer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (3.57%) IP Designer
6 1 (3.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) IT Technical Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Professional Services Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) JSON
2 2 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (7.14%) Redfish
3 1 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 7 (25.00%) PKI
3 6 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (7.14%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.57%) BYOD
5 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.57%) Fat Client
5 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.57%) Thin Client
5 1 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 3 (10.71%) Linux
4 2 (7.14%) Unix
4 2 (7.14%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Project Management
2 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (21.43%) Agile
3 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 5 (17.86%) API Integration
4 5 (17.86%) Risk Assessment
4 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (14.29%) ITIL
5 4 (14.29%) Observability
6 3 (10.71%) Budget Management
6 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (10.71%) ITSM
6 3 (10.71%) Network Management
6 3 (10.71%) Project Delivery
7 2 (7.14%) Data Centre Operations
7 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (7.14%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (7.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (21.43%) VBA
4 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) Perl
6 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (32.14%) CCNP
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) CCNA
5 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 5 (17.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (14.29%) Firmware
4 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.71%) vSphere
5 2 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Ansible
2 4 (14.29%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
3 2 (7.14%) SCCM
3 2 (7.14%) vCenter Server
3 2 (7.14%) vMotion
4 1 (3.57%) Tivoli
4 1 (3.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 15 (53.57%) Cisco
2 11 (39.29%) CheckPoint
3 9 (32.14%) F5
4 8 (28.57%) Infoblox
4 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 6 (21.43%) VMware
6 5 (17.86%) Dell
7 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
8 2 (7.14%) HP
9 1 (3.57%) Adobe
9 1 (3.57%) BMC
9 1 (3.57%) Citrix
9 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
9 1 (3.57%) IBM
9 1 (3.57%) Juniper
9 1 (3.57%) Remedy
9 1 (3.57%) Samsung
9 1 (3.57%) Veeam