DHCP Job Trends in Manchester

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring DHCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 130 101
Rank change year-on-year +13 -29 +74
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 15 26 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.51% 0.97% 2.02%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.56% 10.74% 18.09%
Number of salaries quoted 15 16 46
10th Percentile - £30,125 £26,625
25th Percentile £31,500 £35,188 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.38% -8.57%
75th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £81,610 £54,375 £75,000
North West median annual salary £32,000 £43,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year -26.86% +9.38% -11.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 585 242 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 20.05% 9.07% 11.15%
Number of salaries quoted 142 140 236
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -12.62% +8.42%
75th Percentile £60,000 £71,250 £69,850
90th Percentile £68,750 £83,750 £79,375
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 Manchester

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Manchester

DHCP
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing DHCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing DHCP

DHCP
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DHCP in Manchester

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (53.33%) Azure
3 7 (46.67%) Entra ID
4 4 (26.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (20.00%) OneDrive
6 2 (13.33%) iPaaS
6 2 (13.33%) SaaS
7 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) DNS
2 7 (46.67%) Firewall
3 6 (40.00%) VPN
3 6 (40.00%) WAN
4 5 (33.33%) LAN
4 5 (33.33%) VLAN
5 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
6 2 (13.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (6.67%) FTP
7 1 (6.67%) HTTP
7 1 (6.67%) Network Security
7 1 (6.67%) SMTP
7 1 (6.67%) SNMP
7 1 (6.67%) SSH
7 1 (6.67%) SSL
7 1 (6.67%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) IT Support
2 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Desktop Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Desktop Support
3 4 (26.67%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) IT Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) IT Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) IT Support Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Support Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Support
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Support Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 13 (86.67%) Windows
2 11 (73.33%) Windows Server
3 4 (26.67%) Android
3 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Customer Service
1 8 (53.33%) Service Delivery
2 7 (46.67%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) ITIL
4 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Process Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (13.33%) Business Continuity
7 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
7 2 (13.33%) Investment Management
7 2 (13.33%) Migration
8 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
8 1 (6.67%) DevOps
8 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
8 1 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
8 1 (6.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Network+ Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 14 (93.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (6.67%) Docker
4 1 (6.67%) Firmware
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Extreme Networks