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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 74 89
Rank change year-on-year -53 +15 -7
Contract jobs citing DHCP 20 17 14
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.81% 1.63% 0.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.76% 8.99% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 11
10th Percentile £277 £215 £319
25th Percentile £411 £239 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £491 £613 £469
90th Percentile £520 £640 £688
England median daily rate £480 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -8.57% +10.53% -2.56%

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 296 189 189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 12.01% 18.12% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 102 136
10th Percentile £212 £206 £200
25th Percentile £360 £237 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £466 £459
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% +1.42% -3.37%
75th Percentile £536 £575 £578
90th Percentile £670 £673 £631
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 0 9
10th Percentile £19.34 - £12.75
25th Percentile £21.33 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.81 - £18.27
Median % change year-on-year - - +71.87%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.94 £29.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +41.40% -25.85% +116.22%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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
South Yorkshire -52 13 £460 -5.64% 10
West Yorkshire -23 3 £470 +91.84% 5
North Yorkshire -7 2 £213 -22.37% 1
East Yorkshire -10 2 £344 -40.22% 3
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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) IaaS
2 1 (5.00%) PaaS
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (100.00%) DNS
2 11 (55.00%) TCP/IP
3 8 (40.00%) BIG-IP
4 5 (25.00%) Firewall
5 4 (20.00%) Internet
6 2 (10.00%) BGP
6 2 (10.00%) LAN
6 2 (10.00%) Network Security
6 2 (10.00%) OSPF
6 2 (10.00%) SAN
6 2 (10.00%) SNMP
6 2 (10.00%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (10.00%) VLAN
6 2 (10.00%) WAN
6 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (10.00%) Wireless
7 1 (5.00%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (5.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) IT Support
2 2 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Administrator
3 1 (5.00%) Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Designer
3 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support
3 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (5.00%) IP Designer
3 1 (5.00%) Service Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) JSON
2 2 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (10.00%) Redfish
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (5.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (30.00%) Observability
2 6 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 5 (25.00%) API Integration
3 5 (25.00%) Project Management
3 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (20.00%) Change Control
4 4 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (15.00%) Change Management
5 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Data Transformation
6 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) ITSM
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (10.00%) Scrum
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (30.00%) VBA
4 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 2 (10.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) Perl
6 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) CCNA
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Firmware
2 2 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 2 (10.00%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) F5
2 9 (45.00%) Infoblox
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (15.00%) Cisco
5 2 (10.00%) CheckPoint
5 2 (10.00%) Dell
5 2 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (10.00%) HP
5 2 (10.00%) Veeam
5 2 (10.00%) VMware
6 1 (5.00%) Juniper