DHCP Job Trends in the South West

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring DHCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 88 190
Rank change year-on-year -8 +102 -40
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 150 86 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.79% 2.58% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 23.85% 16.20% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 61 69 56
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £27,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £40,000 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +29.03% -22.50%
75th Percentile £53,750 £48,750 £39,063
90th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £52,500
England median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £41,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -3.61% +3.75%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 629 531 1,082
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.52% 15.94% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 377 368 847
10th Percentile £28,400 £28,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year - -14.14% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £76,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.47%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in the South West

DHCP
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing DHCP

DHCP
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the South West over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for DHCP in the South West

DHCP
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Somerset -16 41 £39,000 -2.50% 8
Wiltshire +6 37 £47,500 +37.68% 2
Bristol -23 21 £47,500 -2.06% 1
Devon -14 20 £32,250 +4.03% 2
Gloucestershire -20 16 £55,000 +59.42% 12
Cornwall +13 9 £29,000 -9.38% 2
Dorset -10 6 £37,500 -23.08% 3
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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
1 107 (71.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (21.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.33%) IIS
4 1 (0.67%) Site Server
Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 129 (86.00%) Microsoft 365
2 122 (81.33%) Azure
3 48 (32.00%) Entra ID
4 15 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 10 (6.67%) AWS
6 4 (2.67%) IaaS
6 4 (2.67%) PaaS
7 3 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.00%) Serverless
8 2 (1.33%) Rubrik
9 1 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.67%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 150 (100.00%) DNS
2 32 (21.33%) TCP/IP
3 30 (20.00%) Firewall
4 28 (18.67%) VLAN
5 19 (12.67%) VPN
6 17 (11.33%) Wi-Fi
7 16 (10.67%) WAN
8 15 (10.00%) LAN
9 12 (8.00%) Network Security
10 6 (4.00%) DMZ
10 6 (4.00%) Wireless
11 5 (3.33%) VoIP
11 5 (3.33%) Wireshark
12 3 (2.00%) NAS
12 3 (2.00%) SAN
13 2 (1.33%) IPsec
13 2 (1.33%) SD-WAN
13 2 (1.33%) SSL
13 2 (1.33%) VSAN
14 1 (0.67%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (51.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (0.67%) JIRA
General
1 102 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 78 (52.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 5 (3.33%) Law
5 4 (2.67%) Finance
6 3 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.00%) Retail
7 2 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (54.00%) Systems Engineer
2 37 (24.67%) IT Support
3 34 (22.67%) IT Engineer
4 27 (18.00%) Support Engineer
5 25 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
6 17 (11.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (6.67%) IT Support Technician
7 10 (6.67%) IT Technician
7 10 (6.67%) Support Technician
8 9 (6.00%) 2nd Line Support
9 8 (5.33%) Infrastructure Support
10 7 (4.67%) Analyst
11 6 (4.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (4.00%) Support Analyst
12 5 (3.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 5 (3.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 4 (2.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 4 (2.67%) Server Engineer
13 4 (2.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 78 (52.00%) Legacy Systems
2 21 (14.00%) Driving Licence
3 5 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.67%) Digital Signage
4 4 (2.67%) Educational Technology
4 4 (2.67%) Replication
5 2 (1.33%) BYOD
5 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.33%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.67%) Clustering
6 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 133 (88.67%) Windows
2 124 (82.67%) Windows Server
3 91 (60.67%) Linux
4 83 (55.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (6.00%) Mac OS
5 9 (6.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 5 (3.33%) Apple iOS
7 4 (2.67%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.00%) VMS
9 2 (1.33%) CentOS
9 2 (1.33%) CoreOS
9 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (67.33%) Customer Service
2 98 (65.33%) Problem-Solving
3 83 (55.33%) Migration
4 81 (54.00%) Email Filtering
4 81 (54.00%) Kalman Filter
4 81 (54.00%) Web Filtering
5 78 (52.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 77 (51.33%) Customer Experience
6 77 (51.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 26 (17.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 21 (14.00%) ITIL
9 19 (12.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (10.67%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (8.00%) Project Delivery
13 8 (5.33%) Preventative Maintenance
14 7 (4.67%) Tech Ops
15 6 (4.00%) Cloud Security
15 6 (4.00%) IT Strategy
15 6 (4.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.00%) Bash
3 5 (3.33%) Python
4 1 (0.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (58.67%) Security Cleared
2 84 (56.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (7.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (6.00%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (4.67%) Degree
6 6 (4.00%) CCNA
7 5 (3.33%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.33%) CCNP
8 4 (2.67%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.67%) MCSA
8 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (2.00%) MCSE
10 2 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 77 (51.33%) PCI DSS
3 7 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 133 (88.67%) Active Directory
2 99 (66.00%) Hyper-V
3 77 (51.33%) Terminal Server
4 10 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (14.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (4.00%) FortiGate
3 4 (2.67%) Ansible
3 4 (2.67%) Iperf
4 2 (1.33%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (1.33%) Proxmox
4 2 (1.33%) SCVMM
5 1 (0.67%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.67%) SCCM
5 1 (0.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 124 (82.67%) Microsoft
2 91 (60.67%) VMware
3 88 (58.67%) Veeam
4 77 (51.33%) Brocade
4 77 (51.33%) Nimble Storage
4 77 (51.33%) SolarWinds
4 77 (51.33%) Splunk
4 77 (51.33%) Tanium
5 13 (8.67%) Cisco
6 6 (4.00%) Aruba
7 4 (2.67%) Apple
7 4 (2.67%) ConnectWise
7 4 (2.67%) Datto
7 4 (2.67%) Draytek
7 4 (2.67%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.67%) Ruckus Wireless
7 4 (2.67%) SonicWALL
7 4 (2.67%) Ubiquiti
8 3 (2.00%) Dell
8 3 (2.00%) HP