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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 113 158
Rank change year-on-year -16 +45 +25
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 14 35 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.51% 1.28% 1.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.47% 10.67% 6.27%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 24
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,825 £28,975
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £33,750 £47,103
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -28.35% +44.93%
75th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £53,938
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% -5.90%

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 313 328 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.31% 12.01% 17.86%
Number of salaries quoted 196 133 454
10th Percentile - £30,000 -
25th Percentile £25,087 £35,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £47,500 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.79% +69.64% -43.86%
75th Percentile £49,625 £66,250 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £64,750
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 26 December 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 26 December 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 +5 6 £33,750 +3.85% 4
Edinburgh -13 6 £33,250 -27.72% 3
Aberdeen - 1 £40,000 - 4
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 5 (35.71%) SharePoint
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (7.14%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 2 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (100.00%) DNS
2 7 (50.00%) Firewall
2 7 (50.00%) VPN
3 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 3 (21.43%) WAN
5 2 (14.29%) LAN
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%) Remote Desktop
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
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 7 (50.00%) 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 7 (50.00%) IT Support
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) IT Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (21.43%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 1 (7.14%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
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 Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
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
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) 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 9 (64.29%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (21.43%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
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%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 1 (7.14%) Client Onboarding
5 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Experience
5 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
5 1 (7.14%) Server Management
5 1 (7.14%) Tech Ops
5 1 (7.14%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) HND
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%) ITIL Certification
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
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (7.14%) SLA
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%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) Apple
4 2 (14.29%) Dell
4 2 (14.29%) HP
4 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 1 (7.14%) BeyondTrust
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