DHCP Job Trends in Scotland

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring DHCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 110 159
Rank change year-on-year -15 +49 +17
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 14 34 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.51% 1.27% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.55% 10.63% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 26
10th Percentile £29,150 £27,825 £30,792
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £33,750 £45,792
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -26.30% +40.90%
75th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £52,500
90th Percentile £49,500 £49,125 £63,750
UK median annual salary £35,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +1.19% -3.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 308 320 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.30% 12.00% 17.86%
Number of salaries quoted 191 128 464
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 -
25th Percentile £25,375 £34,375 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -44.00%
75th Percentile £49,500 £66,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £65,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Scotland

DHCP
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DHCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DHCP

DHCP
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Scotland over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Salary histogram for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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
Edinburgh -14 6 £33,250 -27.72% 3
Glasgow +9 5 £37,500 +15.38% 3
Aberdeen - 2 £40,000 - 2
Banffshire - 1 - -
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (7.14%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) DNS
2 8 (57.14%) Firewall
2 8 (57.14%) VPN
3 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 3 (21.43%) WAN
5 2 (14.29%) LAN
5 2 (14.29%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (14.29%) Softphone
5 2 (14.29%) VLAN
5 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (7.14%) IMAP
6 1 (7.14%) Network Security
6 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
6 1 (7.14%) VoIP
6 1 (7.14%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Retail
3 2 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Advertising
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) IT Support
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Service Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) CCTV
2 2 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (85.71%) Windows
2 9 (64.29%) Windows Server
3 3 (21.43%) Android
3 3 (21.43%) Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (28.57%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) ITSM
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 2 (14.29%) Ticket Management
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Server Management
5 1 (7.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) HND
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
1 3 (21.43%) PCI DSS
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) SLA
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) Hyper-V
3 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (14.29%) Proxmox
2 2 (14.29%) SCCM
2 2 (14.29%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Apple
4 2 (14.29%) BeyondTrust
4 2 (14.29%) Dell
4 2 (14.29%) HP
4 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.14%) Cisco
5 1 (7.14%) Datto
5 1 (7.14%) Pegasus
5 1 (7.14%) Sage
5 1 (7.14%) Veeam
5 1 (7.14%) Xero