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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 185 117
Rank change year-on-year +62 -68 +100
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 22 20 54
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.87% 0.46% 2.01%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.70% 5.48% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 20 6 40
10th Percentile - £32,500 £26,125
25th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £34,626
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £39,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £38,750 £39,500 £52,813
90th Percentile £49,826 £51,000 £58,075
UK median annual salary £37,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +3.66% -6.02%

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 253 365 566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.00% 8.35% 21.06%
Number of salaries quoted 144 195 427
10th Percentile - £30,000 -
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,559 £52,500 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.41% +69.35% -35.01%
75th Percentile £49,625 £65,000 £54,375
90th Percentile £71,250 £76,500 £77,542
UK median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £50,250
% change year-on-year -20.00% -0.50% -4.29%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +79 12 £30,000 -23.08% 4
Perth and Kinross - 5 £33,000 -
Edinburgh +11 4 £49,957 +42.73% 3
Banffshire - 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 13 (59.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (36.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (9.09%) IIS
3 2 (9.09%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 17 (77.27%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (72.73%) Azure
3 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) Entra ID
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (100.00%) DNS
2 12 (54.55%) Firewall
3 10 (45.45%) TCP/IP
3 10 (45.45%) VPN
4 6 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (22.73%) DKIM
5 5 (22.73%) DMARC
6 1 (4.55%) IMAP
6 1 (4.55%) LAN
6 1 (4.55%) Softphone
6 1 (4.55%) VoIP
6 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Law
3 1 (4.55%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) IT Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) IT Support
2 7 (31.82%) IT Support Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Support Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Desktop Support
4 5 (22.73%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Field Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Field Support Engineer
4 5 (22.73%) Help Desk Team Lead
4 5 (22.73%) Lead
4 5 (22.73%) Team Leader
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (9.09%) Network Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Help Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Driving Licence
2 5 (22.73%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.09%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.09%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.55%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 22 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Windows Server
3 7 (31.82%) Unix
4 6 (27.27%) Windows 10
5 5 (22.73%) VMS
6 4 (18.18%) Linux
7 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (22.73%) Customer Service
3 5 (22.73%) Incident Response
3 5 (22.73%) IT Strategy
3 5 (22.73%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 5 (22.73%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 2 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (9.09%) Line Management
4 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.09%) Server Management
4 2 (9.09%) Server Virtualisation
4 2 (9.09%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (4.55%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (68.18%) Hyper-V
2 14 (63.64%) Active Directory
3 13 (59.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.55%) Docker
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) FortiGate
2 2 (9.09%) Proxmox
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Microsoft
2 13 (59.09%) VMware
3 5 (22.73%) Apple
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco
4 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.55%) Dell
5 1 (4.55%) HP
5 1 (4.55%) Pegasus
5 1 (4.55%) Sage
5 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) Xero