DHCP Job Trends in the East Midlands

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring DHCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 82 81
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +23
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 66 34 89
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.95% 2.17% 2.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 17.23% 14.98% 18.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60 27 79
10th Percentile £25,750 £23,500 £24,425
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,500 £35,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £33,750 £44,250 £43,375
90th Percentile £35,375 £60,200 £52,500
England median annual salary £34,000 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +3.66% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 383 227 471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.32% 14.48% 13.37%
Number of salaries quoted 190 121 394
10th Percentile £25,975 £26,250 £24,500
25th Percentile £26,500 £29,750 £27,445
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.68% +18.75% -6.98%
75th Percentile £43,750 £60,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £57,425 £66,250 £60,000
England median annual salary £42,039 £53,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year -20.68% +9.28% -4.98%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

DHCP
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DHCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing DHCP

DHCP
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for DHCP in the East Midlands

DHCP
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 March 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
Derbyshire -4 40 £28,500 +7.55% 2
Lincolnshire -16 14 £32,500 +22.64% 2
Nottinghamshire -2 9 £27,500 -21.43% 1
Leicestershire -13 3 £45,000 -7.22% 1
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 18 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 17 (25.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (95.45%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (25.76%) Azure
2 17 (25.76%) Entra ID
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
4 3 (4.55%) iPaaS
4 3 (4.55%) SaaS
5 2 (3.03%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 65 (98.48%) DNS
2 31 (46.97%) TCP/IP
3 18 (27.27%) VPN
4 14 (21.21%) VLAN
5 12 (18.18%) Firewall
5 12 (18.18%) VoIP
6 10 (15.15%) WAN
7 8 (12.12%) Network Security
8 6 (9.09%) Internet
8 6 (9.09%) SD-WAN
8 6 (9.09%) Wireless
9 4 (6.06%) LAN
9 4 (6.06%) PBX
9 4 (6.06%) WLAN
10 3 (4.55%) SAN
11 2 (3.03%) Remote Desktop
General
1 32 (48.48%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.12%) Legal
3 5 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Law
6 2 (3.03%) Automotive
7 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (66.67%) IT Support
2 38 (57.58%) IT Engineer
3 32 (48.48%) Support Engineer
4 31 (46.97%) IT Support Engineer
5 11 (16.67%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 11 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
6 10 (15.15%) IT Support Technician
6 10 (15.15%) IT Technician
6 10 (15.15%) Support Technician
7 6 (9.09%) Field Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Field Service Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Consultant
9 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support
9 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (53.03%) Driving Licence
2 8 (12.12%) Onboarding
3 6 (9.09%) iPad
3 6 (9.09%) PMI
4 3 (4.55%) Clustering
4 3 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 66 (100.00%) Windows
2 44 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 16 (24.24%) Windows 10
4 9 (13.64%) Mac OS
5 4 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (57.58%) Customer Service
1 38 (57.58%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (40.91%) Incident Management
3 17 (25.76%) ITSM
4 12 (18.18%) Service Delivery
5 8 (12.12%) Application Packaging
5 8 (12.12%) CRM
5 8 (12.12%) E-Commerce
5 8 (12.12%) Identity Management
5 8 (12.12%) Task Automation
6 7 (10.61%) ERP
6 7 (10.61%) Logistics
7 6 (9.09%) ITIL
7 6 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
7 6 (9.09%) Preventative Maintenance
7 6 (9.09%) Server Management
7 6 (9.09%) Service Management
8 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (7.58%) Process Improvement
9 4 (6.06%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 3 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (21.21%) Degree
2 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (9.09%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.03%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) GDPR
2 8 (12.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.06%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (84.85%) Active Directory
2 11 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 8 (12.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (6.06%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 13 (19.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (12.12%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (9.09%) WSUS
4 3 (4.55%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (3.03%) Nagios
Vendors
1 30 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 14 (21.21%) Apple
3 8 (12.12%) Logitech
3 8 (12.12%) VMware
3 8 (12.12%) Yealink
4 4 (6.06%) Cisco
5 3 (4.55%) Freshdesk
5 3 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.55%) Veeam
6 2 (3.03%) Darktrace
6 2 (3.03%) Epicor
6 2 (3.03%) Meraki
6 2 (3.03%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.03%) TP-LINK