DHCP Job Trends in the North of England

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring DHCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 206 166
Rank change year-on-year +37 -40 +4
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 179 92 269
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.91% 1.14% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.94% 5.57% 12.63%
Number of salaries quoted 149 91 218
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,175
25th Percentile £28,250 £29,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £33,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -16.25% +0.52%
75th Percentile £43,000 £44,926 £47,500
90th Percentile £57,650 £67,500 £55,000
England median annual salary £36,000 £41,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -13.25% +3.75% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,198 1,653 2,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 6.06% 20.41% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 833 687 1,679
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £26,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £33,500 £43,461
Median % change year-on-year +11.94% -22.92% -5.52%
75th Percentile £57,239 £56,831 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,600 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in the North of England

DHCP
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DHCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing DHCP

DHCP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for DHCP in the North of England

DHCP
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
North West +34 80 £32,500 -13.33% 27
Yorkshire 0 74 £32,500 -2.99% 8
North East -20 25 £42,500 +32.81% 5
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 60 (33.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (27.37%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.03%) IIS
Applications
1 40 (22.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 141 (78.77%) Microsoft 365
2 94 (52.51%) Azure
3 41 (22.91%) Entra ID
4 28 (15.64%) AWS
5 16 (8.94%) OneDrive
6 8 (4.47%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.91%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (3.35%) Nutanix
8 6 (3.35%) SaaS
9 5 (2.79%) Google Workspace
10 4 (2.23%) IaaS
10 4 (2.23%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (1.12%) GitHub
12 2 (1.12%) iPaaS
12 2 (1.12%) PaaS
13 1 (0.56%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 179 (100.00%) DNS
2 73 (40.78%) Firewall
3 67 (37.43%) TCP/IP
3 67 (37.43%) VPN
4 50 (27.93%) VLAN
5 47 (26.26%) WAN
6 46 (25.70%) LAN
7 27 (15.08%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (8.94%) VoIP
9 12 (6.70%) SD-WAN
10 11 (6.15%) Network Security
11 10 (5.59%) SAN
12 9 (5.03%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (3.35%) BGP
13 6 (3.35%) NAS
13 6 (3.35%) Structured Cabling
14 5 (2.79%) SNMP
15 4 (2.23%) Asterisk PBX
15 4 (2.23%) MPLS
15 4 (2.23%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.50%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (5.03%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (4.47%) Power BI
5 3 (1.68%) MySQL
6 1 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.23%) GitLab
2 1 (0.56%) Git
2 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 69 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.85%) Organisational Skills
3 16 (8.94%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (5.03%) Law
4 9 (5.03%) Retail
5 8 (4.47%) Advertising
6 7 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.79%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.23%) Aerospace
8 4 (2.23%) Local Government
9 3 (1.68%) Legal
10 2 (1.12%) Finance
10 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.12%) Social Housing
11 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 97 (54.19%) IT Support
2 39 (21.79%) IT Engineer
3 37 (20.67%) IT Technician
3 37 (20.67%) Support Engineer
4 36 (20.11%) IT Support Technician
4 36 (20.11%) Support Technician
5 31 (17.32%) IT Support Engineer
6 24 (13.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (12.85%) Senior
8 21 (11.73%) Analyst
9 16 (8.94%) 2nd Line Support
10 14 (7.82%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 14 (7.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (6.15%) IT Analyst
11 11 (6.15%) IT Support Analyst
11 11 (6.15%) Support Analyst
12 9 (5.03%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 8 (4.47%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (4.47%) Infrastructure Support
13 8 (4.47%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.23%) Middleware
1 4 (2.23%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (1.12%) SAML
3 1 (0.56%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.49%) Driving Licence
2 15 (8.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (6.70%) Data Centre
4 9 (5.03%) PKI
4 9 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (3.91%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.35%) CCTV
6 6 (3.35%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.23%) Cyber Security Posture
7 4 (2.23%) IoT
7 4 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.12%) Replication
8 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 157 (87.71%) Windows
2 117 (65.36%) Windows Server
3 45 (25.14%) Windows 10
4 15 (8.38%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (7.82%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (6.70%) Android
6 12 (6.70%) Mac OS
7 11 (6.15%) Apple iOS
7 11 (6.15%) Linux
8 5 (2.79%) VMS
9 4 (2.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.56%) CentOS
10 1 (0.56%) CoreOS
10 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (41.34%) Problem-Solving
2 48 (26.82%) Customer Service
3 42 (23.46%) Disaster Recovery
4 41 (22.91%) Service Delivery
5 37 (20.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 34 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 34 (18.99%) ITIL
7 33 (18.44%) Cybersecurity
8 21 (11.73%) Incident Management
8 21 (11.73%) ITSM
9 18 (10.06%) Mentoring
10 16 (8.94%) ERP
10 16 (8.94%) Knowledge Transfer
10 16 (8.94%) Remote Monitoring and Management
11 15 (8.38%) High Availability
11 15 (8.38%) Patch Management
12 14 (7.82%) Process Improvement
13 13 (7.26%) Time Management
14 11 (6.15%) Change Management
14 11 (6.15%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 41 (22.91%) PowerShell
2 6 (3.35%) Bicep
3 5 (2.79%) Python
3 5 (2.79%) SQL
4 1 (0.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (11.17%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.94%) Network+ Certification
2 16 (8.94%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.59%) A+ Certification
3 10 (5.59%) Azure Certification
4 9 (5.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 7 (3.91%) Degree
7 6 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (3.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 5 (2.79%) CCNA
8 5 (2.79%) DBS Check
9 4 (2.23%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.56%) ACSP
11 1 (0.56%) CCNP
11 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.15%) Cyber Essentials
2 9 (5.03%) SLA
3 8 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.79%) GDPR
5 3 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 160 (89.39%) Active Directory
2 57 (31.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (24.02%) Hyper-V
4 11 (6.15%) vSphere
5 6 (3.35%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (2.23%) VMware NSX
8 3 (1.68%) DFS Replication
9 2 (1.12%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (15.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (8.38%) FortiGate
3 10 (5.59%) WSUS
4 7 (3.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (3.91%) SCCM
5 6 (3.35%) VxRail
6 4 (2.23%) Ansible
6 4 (2.23%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.56%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.56%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 150 (83.80%) Microsoft
2 80 (44.69%) VMware
3 17 (9.50%) Cisco
3 17 (9.50%) Citrix
4 16 (8.94%) Veeam
5 12 (6.70%) Dell
5 12 (6.70%) HP
6 9 (5.03%) Meraki
7 8 (4.47%) SonicWALL
8 6 (3.35%) Commvault
8 6 (3.35%) Dell Compellent
8 6 (3.35%) Google
8 6 (3.35%) Nimble Storage
8 6 (3.35%) ServiceNow
8 6 (3.35%) SolarWinds
8 6 (3.35%) Sophos
8 6 (3.35%) Tenable
8 6 (3.35%) Zerto
9 4 (2.23%) Apple
9 4 (2.23%) Palo Alto