DHCP Job Trends in Cheshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring DHCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 32 42
Rank change year-on-year -35 +10 +56
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 8 31 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.64% 5.19% 4.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.42% 39.24% 27.63%
Number of salaries quoted 5 20 21
10th Percentile - £31,250 -
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.63% +18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £38,750 £52,500 £44,250
90th Percentile £68,900 - £48,000
North West median annual salary £32,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -28.89% +12.50% -11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Cheshire

DHCP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 562 79 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 44.67% 13.23% 15.26%
Number of salaries quoted 56 53 68
10th Percentile - £31,050 £27,050
25th Percentile £25,087 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £42,500 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% -0.58% +14.00%
75th Percentile £34,000 £52,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £45,000 £56,750 £79,014
North West median annual salary £30,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -32.22% -5.26% +5.56%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Cheshire

DHCP
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DHCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DHCP in Cheshire

DHCP
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Macclesfield - 3 £32,000 -
Warrington -8 2 - - 3
Knutsford - 2 £86,000 -
Chester - 1 £37,500 -
DHCP
North West

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
2 3 (37.50%) LAN
2 3 (37.50%) WAN
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) HTTP
3 2 (25.00%) SSL
3 2 (25.00%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security
General
1 3 (37.50%) Aerospace
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Automotive
1 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) IT Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) IT Support
2 3 (37.50%) IT Support Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Support Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) DPDK
1 2 (25.00%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (62.50%) Data Protection
2 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Open Source
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Zero Trust
4 1 (12.50%) BCP
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) KVM
2 2 (25.00%) QEMU
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
1 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) SaltStack
2 2 (25.00%) VMware