DHCP Jobs in Scotland

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 256 174
Rank change year-on-year +102 -82 +29
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 13 25 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 0.37% 1.06%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.63% 3.88% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 11 23 39
10th Percentile - £30,250 £24,950
25th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.15%
75th Percentile £45,755 £43,750 £50,000
90th Percentile £52,761 - £55,500
UK median annual salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +3.75% - -5.88%

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 358 644 749
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.98% 9.47% 16.60%
Number of salaries quoted 190 389 257
10th Percentile - £28,000 £26,550
25th Percentile £23,504 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £50,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -0.99% +5.21%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,125 £70,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DHCP in Scotland.

Salary trend for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

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 27 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
Glasgow +166 5 £37,500 -24.24% 14
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
Edinburgh 0 2 £51,914 +50.48% 10
Argyll and Bute - 1 - -
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (53.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (15.38%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (7.69%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
2 10 (76.92%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
2 9 (69.23%) Firewall
3 7 (53.85%) VPN
4 5 (38.46%) DKIM
4 5 (38.46%) DMARC
4 5 (38.46%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
6 1 (7.69%) BGP
6 1 (7.69%) OSPF
6 1 (7.69%) VLAN
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Help Desk Team Lead
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
1 5 (38.46%) Team Leader
2 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) IT Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Field Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Field Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Help Desk Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Support
4 1 (7.69%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (15.38%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.69%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (7.69%) e-Learning
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Unix
3 5 (38.46%) VMS
3 5 (38.46%) Windows Server
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (15.38%) Linux
5 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (38.46%) Incident Response
2 5 (38.46%) IT Strategy
2 5 (38.46%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
5 2 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (15.38%) Line Management
6 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
6 1 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (7.69%) ITIL
6 1 (7.69%) Kalman Filter
6 1 (7.69%) Migration
6 1 (7.69%) Network Management
6 1 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 1 (7.69%) Server Management
6 1 (7.69%) Server Virtualisation
6 1 (7.69%) Virtual Environments
6 1 (7.69%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.69%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Hyper-V
2 9 (69.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.69%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 9 (69.23%) VMware
3 5 (38.46%) Apple
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
5 1 (7.69%) Fortinet