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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 122 107
Rank change year-on-year -17 -15 +106
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 18 29 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.67% 0.89% 1.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.00% 8.63% 8.80%
Number of salaries quoted 16 13 34
10th Percentile - £26,700 £26,400
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £37,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% -14.45% +33.08%
75th Percentile £38,750 £39,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £44,125 £49,750 £63,600
UK median annual salary £35,000 £42,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +1.19% -4.65%

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 300 336 534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.19% 10.26% 21.89%
Number of salaries quoted 180 155 466
10th Percentile - £29,000 -
25th Percentile £25,087 £37,500 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £50,000 £28,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +78.57% -41.61%
75th Percentile £38,750 £67,500 £52,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £80,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.62% +5.00% -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 25 October 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 25 October 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 -6 12 £30,000 -23.08% 3
Perth and Kinross - 3 £33,000 -
Edinburgh +1 2 £48,000 -
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 11 (61.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (66.67%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (100.00%) DNS
2 11 (61.11%) Firewall
3 10 (55.56%) TCP/IP
4 9 (50.00%) VPN
5 5 (27.78%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (16.67%) DKIM
6 3 (16.67%) DMARC
7 2 (11.11%) Softphone
8 1 (5.56%) IMAP
8 1 (5.56%) LAN
8 1 (5.56%) VoIP
8 1 (5.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Law
3 1 (5.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) IT Support
2 8 (44.44%) IT Support Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Support Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Desktop Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Desktop Support
4 5 (27.78%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Field Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Field Support Engineer
5 3 (16.67%) Help Desk Team Lead
5 3 (16.67%) Lead
5 3 (16.67%) Team Leader
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Network Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Driving Licence
2 3 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (11.11%) CCTV
3 2 (11.11%) Cyber Security Posture
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
3 5 (27.78%) Unix
3 5 (27.78%) Windows 10
4 4 (22.22%) Linux
5 3 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Customer Service
2 5 (27.78%) Virtual Environments
3 3 (16.67%) Incident Response
3 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 3 (16.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 2 (11.11%) Server Management
4 2 (11.11%) Server Virtualisation
4 2 (11.11%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (11.11%) HND
3 2 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 11 (61.11%) Hyper-V
2 11 (61.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (11.11%) FortiGate
2 2 (11.11%) Proxmox
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (61.11%) VMware
3 3 (16.67%) Apple
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) Dell
4 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 2 (11.11%) HP
5 1 (5.56%) Pegasus
5 1 (5.56%) Sage
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) Xero