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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 94 89
Rank change year-on-year -31 -5 -1
Contract jobs citing DHCP 26 14 12
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.92% 1.04% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.03% 6.86% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 8
10th Percentile £252 £429 £301
25th Percentile £426 £472 £318
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £378
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +45.70% -24.50%
75th Percentile £500 £613 £463
90th Percentile £525 £624 £688
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -

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 370 204 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 13.02% 15.10% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 112 122
10th Percentile £300 £235 £191
25th Percentile £367 £359 £277
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £484
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -1.81% +7.50%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £597
90th Percentile £672 £613 £645
England median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.21% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 0 10
10th Percentile £19.74 - £12.75
25th Percentile £21.33 - £13.87
Median hourly rate £25.77 - £17.23
Median % change year-on-year - - +62.09%
75th Percentile - - £25.83
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £26.72 £44.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -39.96% +11.25% +23.08%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -26 13 £468 -4.10% 4
West Yorkshire -16 10 £500 -16.67% 7
East Yorkshire -8 2 £344 -37.50% 2
North Yorkshire -11 1 £213 -37.04% 1
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 (3.85%) Confluence
1 1 (3.85%) IIS
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Azure
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.85%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 26 (100.00%) DNS
2 18 (69.23%) TCP/IP
3 10 (38.46%) BIG-IP
4 9 (34.62%) Firewall
5 6 (23.08%) BGP
5 6 (23.08%) LAN
5 6 (23.08%) OSPF
5 6 (23.08%) VLAN
5 6 (23.08%) VPN
5 6 (23.08%) Wireless
6 5 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
7 4 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (15.38%) IPsec
7 4 (15.38%) VoIP
7 4 (15.38%) WAN
7 4 (15.38%) WLAN
8 3 (11.54%) Internet
8 3 (11.54%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) JIRA
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Police
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Network Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) IT Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) IT Support
4 3 (11.54%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Desktop Support
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
5 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.85%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.85%) IP Designer
6 1 (3.85%) Subject Matter Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) JSON
2 2 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (7.69%) Redfish
3 1 (3.85%) REST
3 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
2 4 (15.38%) PKI
2 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.85%) BYOD
4 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.85%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Unix
3 2 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.85%) Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Agile
2 8 (30.77%) Project Management
2 8 (30.77%) Risk Management
3 7 (26.92%) API Integration
3 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (23.08%) Risk Assessment
5 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (19.23%) Observability
6 4 (15.38%) Change Control
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.54%) ITIL
7 3 (11.54%) ITSM
7 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
8 2 (7.69%) Break/Fix
8 2 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Monitoring
8 2 (7.69%) Performance Metrics
8 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (7.69%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) JavaScript
3 8 (30.77%) VBA
4 4 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.69%) Bash
6 1 (3.85%) Perl
6 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (15.38%) CCNP
2 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) Degree
5 1 (3.85%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) Firmware
2 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.69%) vSphere
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Ansible
2 2 (7.69%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 2 (7.69%) SCCM
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.85%) Tivoli
3 1 (3.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (46.15%) F5
2 11 (42.31%) Infoblox
3 8 (30.77%) Cisco
4 7 (26.92%) Microsoft
5 6 (23.08%) CheckPoint
6 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
6 4 (15.38%) VMware
7 3 (11.54%) Dell
7 3 (11.54%) HP
8 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
8 2 (7.69%) Veeam
9 1 (3.85%) Adobe
9 1 (3.85%) BMC
9 1 (3.85%) Citrix
9 1 (3.85%) IBM
9 1 (3.85%) Juniper
9 1 (3.85%) Remedy
9 1 (3.85%) Samsung