DHCP Jobs in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring DHCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DHCP over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 160 187
Rank change year-on-year -103 +27 +5
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 87 272 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.74% 1.47% 1.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.74% 12.35% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 86 224 205
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £29,313 £31,250 £32,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £39,794
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +0.52% -0.52%
75th Percentile £45,264 £45,625 £47,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
England median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -1.23% -4.71%

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 2,328 2,203 3,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 19.78% 11.93% 19.71%
Number of salaries quoted 976 1,676 1,213
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,813 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,086 £31,250 £34,723
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £29,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.76% -5.56% -2.64%
75th Percentile £45,764 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,113 £72,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the North of England

DHCP
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the North of England.

Salary trend for DHCP in the North of England

DHCP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025. 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 -85 51 £37,500 -11.76% 52
Yorkshire +1 30 £33,000 +2.33% 42
North East +14 6 £32,000 -22.89% 12
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (18.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (13.79%) SharePoint
3 8 (9.20%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (27.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 54 (62.07%) Microsoft 365
2 46 (52.87%) Azure
3 9 (10.34%) Entra ID
4 7 (8.05%) AWS
5 6 (6.90%) OneDrive
6 5 (5.75%) GCP
7 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.30%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.30%) Nutanix
7 2 (2.30%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.30%) SaaS
8 1 (1.15%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 87 (100.00%) DNS
2 38 (43.68%) Firewall
3 29 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 25 (28.74%) VPN
5 21 (24.14%) LAN
6 19 (21.84%) VLAN
7 16 (18.39%) WAN
8 9 (10.34%) SAN
8 9 (10.34%) Wireless
9 7 (8.05%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (6.90%) NAS
11 5 (5.75%) VoIP
11 5 (5.75%) VSAN
12 4 (4.60%) Reverse Proxy
13 3 (3.45%) IPv4
14 2 (2.30%) BGP
14 2 (2.30%) IP Telephony
14 2 (2.30%) OSPF
14 2 (2.30%) PSTN
14 2 (2.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.75%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.30%) Power BI
4 1 (1.15%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.15%) JIRA
General
1 34 (39.08%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.34%) Retail
4 7 (8.05%) Finance
5 5 (5.75%) Banking
6 4 (4.60%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.45%) Automotive
7 3 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Games
8 2 (2.30%) Legal
8 2 (2.30%) Local Government
8 2 (2.30%) Police
9 1 (1.15%) Aviation
9 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (21.84%) IT Support
3 12 (13.79%) Senior
4 11 (12.64%) 2nd Line Support
4 11 (12.64%) Network Engineer
5 9 (10.34%) Analyst
5 9 (10.34%) Support Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Support Analyst
7 6 (6.90%) IT Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Senior Technical Support
7 6 (6.90%) Technical Support
8 5 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Infrastructure Support
8 5 (5.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Administrator
9 4 (4.60%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
10 3 (3.45%) IT Technician
10 3 (3.45%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.20%) Driving Licence
2 7 (8.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.60%) Clustering
5 3 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.45%) EPoS
6 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.30%) HP Storage
6 2 (2.30%) PKI
6 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.15%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.15%) Replication
7 1 (1.15%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 62 (71.26%) Windows
2 41 (47.13%) Windows Server
3 24 (27.59%) Linux
4 11 (12.64%) Windows 10
5 7 (8.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (6.90%) Mac OS
7 5 (5.75%) Unix
7 5 (5.75%) Windows 7
7 5 (5.75%) Windows 8
7 5 (5.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (4.60%) CentOS
8 4 (4.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.15%) VMS
10 1 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (31.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 25 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (19.54%) Customer Service
4 13 (14.94%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (12.64%) Patch Management
7 9 (10.34%) ITIL
8 8 (9.20%) Mentoring
9 7 (8.05%) Incident Management
10 6 (6.90%) Logistics
11 5 (5.75%) Agile
11 5 (5.75%) Architectural Design
11 5 (5.75%) Collaborative Culture
11 5 (5.75%) Defect Management
11 5 (5.75%) Fintech
11 5 (5.75%) Infrastructure Management
11 5 (5.75%) Performance Optimisation
11 5 (5.75%) Process Improvement
11 5 (5.75%) Service Design
12 4 (4.60%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.09%) SQL
2 13 (14.94%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.60%) Python
4 2 (2.30%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (19.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (11.49%) Network+ Certification
3 8 (9.20%) Degree
4 7 (8.05%) CCNA
4 7 (8.05%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (6.90%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.90%) Security Cleared
6 5 (5.75%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.45%) A+ Certification
7 3 (3.45%) MCSE
8 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.30%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.15%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (2.30%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (67.82%) Active Directory
2 23 (26.44%) Hyper-V
3 17 (19.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (10.34%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (8.05%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.45%) vSphere
7 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.15%) Firmware
8 1 (1.15%) RHEV
8 1 (1.15%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (21.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (8.05%) Terraform
3 5 (5.75%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.60%) Ansible
4 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.45%) Autotask
5 3 (3.45%) SCCM
6 2 (2.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.30%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 2 (2.30%) SCOM
6 2 (2.30%) WSUS
7 1 (1.15%) Backup Exec
7 1 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 50 (57.47%) Microsoft
2 38 (43.68%) VMware
3 14 (16.09%) Cisco
4 11 (12.64%) Veeam
5 7 (8.05%) Oracle
6 5 (5.75%) Fortinet
6 5 (5.75%) Google
6 5 (5.75%) Meraki
6 5 (5.75%) ServiceNow
6 5 (5.75%) SonicWALL
7 4 (4.60%) Datto
8 3 (3.45%) Acronis
8 3 (3.45%) Citrix
8 3 (3.45%) Kaseya
8 3 (3.45%) MobileIron
8 3 (3.45%) Sage
8 3 (3.45%) Ubiquiti
8 3 (3.45%) WatchGuard
9 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.30%) Sophos