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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 73 91
Rank change year-on-year -50 +18 +6
Contract jobs citing DHCP 14 12 13
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.74% 1.14% 0.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.97% 6.19% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 10
10th Percentile £156 £219 £257
25th Percentile £171 £223 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £245 £355
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -30.99% -29.00%
75th Percentile £538 £300 £472
90th Percentile £541 £450 £553
England median daily rate £516 £423 £465
% change year-on-year +22.19% -9.13% -2.11%

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 201 194 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 10.67% 18.39% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 114 158
10th Percentile £203 £160 £254
25th Percentile £304 £221 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £408 £430
Median % change year-on-year +11.59% -5.17% +1.18%
75th Percentile £540 £565 £575
90th Percentile £668 £718 £669
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile - £11.97 £15.42
25th Percentile £15.25 £12.30 £17.07
Median hourly rate £15.50 £16.19 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -26.41% +124.49%
75th Percentile £34.13 £41.50 -
90th Percentile £45.15 - £23.91
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +112.53%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 -17 7 £195 -20.41% 8
South Yorkshire -50 5 £525 -25.00% 6
North Yorkshire +4 1 - - 5
East Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 4 (28.57%) Azure
4 3 (21.43%) IaaS
4 3 (21.43%) PaaS
4 3 (21.43%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) AWS
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) DNS
2 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 5 (35.71%) LAN
3 5 (35.71%) WAN
4 4 (28.57%) Firewall
4 4 (28.57%) VPN
5 3 (21.43%) VoIP
6 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (14.29%) Internet
6 2 (14.29%) VLAN
6 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (14.29%) Wireless
7 1 (7.14%) BIG-IP
7 1 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (7.14%) Network Security
7 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) IT Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) IT Support
2 4 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Administrator
3 3 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support
4 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Service Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) iPhone
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
2 1 (7.14%) RSA SecurID
2 1 (7.14%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Windows 10
2 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
3 3 (21.43%) Android
3 3 (21.43%) Linux
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) ITIL
2 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
3 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Architectural Design
5 1 (7.14%) Business Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (7.14%) Information Governance
5 1 (7.14%) Observability
5 1 (7.14%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (7.14%) RBAC
5 1 (7.14%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.14%) Security Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) CCNA
1 1 (7.14%) CCNP
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
3 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Terraform
2 3 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (7.14%) Ansible
4 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
4 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
2 1 (7.14%) F5
2 1 (7.14%) Infoblox
2 1 (7.14%) NetScout
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) SevOne