DHCP Job Trends in the South East

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring DHCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 163 202
Rank change year-on-year -20 +39 -85
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 145 143 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.85% 1.62% 1.04%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.37% 10.71% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 121 122 105
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,000 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +1.19%
75th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £52,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £58,750 £58,750
England median annual salary £38,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.75% -5.88% +6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,398 1,335 2,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.17% 15.12% 15.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,097 822 1,270
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,275 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,250 £30,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £70,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £47,870 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.63% -15.00% -2.63%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in the South East

DHCP
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing DHCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing DHCP

DHCP
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the South East over the 6 months to 15 August 2026.

Salary histogram for DHCP in the South East

DHCP
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Thames Valley +33 75 £47,166 +12.30% 20
Oxfordshire -6 35 £52,500 +32.08% 6
Berkshire +20 26 £45,000 +32.35% 13
Kent -41 25 £30,000 -11.76% 5
Hampshire -57 19 £60,000 +30.43% 16
Buckinghamshire +2 14 £30,000 -31.82% 1
Surrey -19 10 £41,250 +10.00% 6
East Sussex - 7 £29,500 - 2
Sussex - 5 £31,500 -
West Sussex -18 4 £47,500 - 4
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 57 (39.31%) SharePoint
2 51 (35.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.07%) IIS
4 1 (0.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Raiser’s Edge
2 2 (1.38%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 86 (59.31%) Microsoft 365
2 84 (57.93%) Azure
3 49 (33.79%) Entra ID
4 21 (14.48%) AWS
5 16 (11.03%) OneDrive
6 11 (7.59%) Google Workspace
7 10 (6.90%) IaaS
8 7 (4.83%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.07%) Nutanix
10 2 (1.38%) GCP
11 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.69%) PaaS
11 1 (0.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 145 (100.00%) DNS
2 97 (66.90%) Firewall
3 77 (53.10%) VPN
4 66 (45.52%) VLAN
5 51 (35.17%) TCP/IP
6 35 (24.14%) WAN
7 32 (22.07%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (18.62%) LAN
9 25 (17.24%) Network Security
9 25 (17.24%) SSL
9 25 (17.24%) VoIP
10 23 (15.86%) Wireless
11 17 (11.72%) BGP
12 14 (9.66%) SD-WAN
13 11 (7.59%) IPsec
13 11 (7.59%) MPLS
13 11 (7.59%) SNMP
14 10 (6.90%) FTP
14 10 (6.90%) HTTP
14 10 (6.90%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (2.76%) JIRA
General
1 76 (52.41%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 6 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (3.45%) Retail
5 4 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.76%) Electronics
5 4 (2.76%) Finance
5 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.07%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.38%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.38%) Local Government
8 1 (0.69%) Aviation
8 1 (0.69%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.69%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (24.14%) IT Engineer
2 33 (22.76%) IT Support
3 26 (17.93%) IT Support Engineer
3 26 (17.93%) Support Engineer
4 22 (15.17%) Senior
5 20 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (11.72%) 2nd Line Support
7 15 (10.34%) Network Engineer
8 11 (7.59%) Analyst
8 11 (7.59%) Architect
9 10 (6.90%) Network Architect
9 10 (6.90%) Network Security Architect
9 10 (6.90%) Security Architect
9 10 (6.90%) Senior IT Engineer
9 10 (6.90%) Senior IT Support
9 10 (6.90%) Senior Support Engineer
10 9 (6.21%) Lead
10 9 (6.21%) Support Analyst
10 9 (6.21%) Support Technician
11 7 (4.83%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.90%) OAuth
1 10 (6.90%) SAML
2 5 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (0.69%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 35 (24.14%) Driving Licence
2 15 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (6.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 6 (4.14%) CCTV
4 6 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.14%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.76%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.07%) EPoS
7 3 (2.07%) Life Science
7 3 (2.07%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.07%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.07%) Replication
7 3 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.38%) PKI
9 1 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.69%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 97 (66.90%) Windows
2 67 (46.21%) Windows Server
3 18 (12.41%) Mac OS
4 15 (10.34%) Windows 10
5 13 (8.97%) Linux
6 8 (5.52%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (1.38%) Android
7 2 (1.38%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.38%) Rocky
7 2 (1.38%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (32.41%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (30.34%) Customer Service
3 39 (26.90%) Disaster Recovery
4 35 (24.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (19.31%) Project Delivery
6 27 (18.62%) Continuous Improvement
6 27 (18.62%) Mentoring
7 26 (17.93%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (15.17%) High Availability
8 22 (15.17%) ITIL
9 17 (11.72%) Business Continuity
10 13 (8.97%) Coaching
10 13 (8.97%) Customer Experience
10 13 (8.97%) ITSM
10 13 (8.97%) Kalman Filter
10 13 (8.97%) Technical Leadership
10 13 (8.97%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 11 (7.59%) Data Protection
11 11 (7.59%) Network Segmentation
11 11 (7.59%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 46 (31.72%) PowerShell
2 12 (8.28%) Python
3 5 (3.45%) C#
4 4 (2.76%) Bash
5 2 (1.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (15.86%) Degree
3 22 (15.17%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (14.48%) CCNA
5 15 (10.34%) Network+ Certification
6 14 (9.66%) DBS Check
7 12 (8.28%) CCNP
8 10 (6.90%) CompTIA Security+
8 10 (6.90%) Security Cleared
9 9 (6.21%) DV Cleared
10 8 (5.52%) Azure Certification
11 6 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (3.45%) SC Cleared
13 3 (2.07%) AWS Certification
14 2 (1.38%) A+ Certification
14 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.69%) ITIL Certification
15 1 (0.69%) MCSA
15 1 (0.69%) MCSE
15 1 (0.69%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (17.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 21 (14.48%) SLA
3 13 (8.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (8.97%) NIST
4 10 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 8 (5.52%) GDPR
6 6 (4.14%) NCSC
7 4 (2.76%) QA
8 3 (2.07%) Accessibility
8 3 (2.07%) SOC 2
System Software
1 109 (75.17%) Active Directory
2 47 (32.41%) Hyper-V
3 46 (31.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (6.21%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (4.83%) vSphere
6 5 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (2.76%) Docker
8 2 (1.38%) UAG
9 1 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (28.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (9.66%) FortiGate
3 10 (6.90%) CASB
3 10 (6.90%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (3.45%) Terraform
5 4 (2.76%) Ansible
6 3 (2.07%) Grafana
6 3 (2.07%) Kubernetes
6 3 (2.07%) Prometheus
7 2 (1.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (1.38%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (1.38%) SCCM
7 2 (1.38%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.69%) Autotask
8 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 116 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 54 (37.24%) VMware
3 40 (27.59%) Cisco
4 19 (13.10%) Veeam
5 18 (12.41%) Palo Alto
6 14 (9.66%) SonicWALL
7 12 (8.28%) Apple
7 12 (8.28%) Fortinet
7 12 (8.28%) Google
8 10 (6.90%) Datto
9 8 (5.52%) WatchGuard
10 5 (3.45%) Dell
10 5 (3.45%) HP
10 5 (3.45%) Meraki
11 4 (2.76%) Aruba
11 4 (2.76%) N-able
11 4 (2.76%) Ubiquiti
12 3 (2.07%) ConnectWise
12 3 (2.07%) Juniper
12 3 (2.07%) MikroTik