DHCP Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DHCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 150 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 -85 +101
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 46 51 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.21% 1.15% 4.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.66% 8.73% 24.57%
Number of salaries quoted 35 32 106
10th Percentile £27,250 - £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £25,750 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £42,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -11.58% -3.36%
75th Percentile £52,500 £46,086 £56,525
90th Percentile £60,250 £55,873 £74,250
South East median annual salary £37,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 531 584 582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.02% 13.22% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 257 272 440
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,625
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% -0.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,500 £80,000 £77,050
South East median annual salary £42,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -19.81% +6.00% +3.09%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

DHCP
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DHCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DHCP

DHCP
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Salary histogram for DHCP in the Thames Valley

DHCP
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 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
Oxfordshire +12 22 £36,000 +30.91% 9
Berkshire -5 20 £50,000 +5.26% 55
Buckinghamshire -3 4 £44,000 +30.37% 34
DHCP
South East

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (15.22%) IIS
3 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 28 (60.87%) Azure
2 16 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (32.61%) AWS
4 8 (17.39%) GCP
5 5 (10.87%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.87%) Mimecast
6 2 (4.35%) Google Workspace
6 2 (4.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (100.00%) DNS
2 20 (43.48%) Firewall
3 14 (30.43%) TCP/IP
3 14 (30.43%) VPN
4 9 (19.57%) Wireless
5 8 (17.39%) VLAN
6 6 (13.04%) SAN
6 6 (13.04%) SMTP
6 6 (13.04%) WAN
7 5 (10.87%) LAN
8 4 (8.70%) InfiniBand
8 4 (8.70%) NAS
9 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
10 1 (2.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) IT Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) IT Support
2 11 (23.91%) Support Engineer
3 9 (19.57%) IT Support Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (10.87%) Junior
7 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Manager
7 4 (8.70%) Senior
8 3 (6.52%) Coordinator
8 3 (6.52%) Lead
8 3 (6.52%) Project Coordinator
8 3 (6.52%) Senior IT Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior IT Support
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Support Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Storage Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Technical Coordinator
8 3 (6.52%) Technical Project Coordinator
9 2 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.87%) PKI
3 2 (4.35%) Clustering
3 2 (4.35%) Replication
4 1 (2.17%) CMDB
4 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (71.74%) Windows
2 17 (36.96%) Windows Server
3 9 (19.57%) Linux
4 6 (13.04%) Android
4 6 (13.04%) Mac OS
5 5 (10.87%) Apple iOS
6 4 (8.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (6.52%) Windows 10
7 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (26.09%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (17.39%) Business Continuity
3 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (17.39%) Project Delivery
4 7 (15.22%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (13.04%) High Availability
6 5 (10.87%) Proactive Monitoring
7 4 (8.70%) Agile
7 4 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (8.70%) Customer Service
7 4 (8.70%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 4 (8.70%) Low Latency
7 4 (8.70%) Project Planning
7 4 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.70%) Service Delivery
7 4 (8.70%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (8.70%) Sprint Retrospective
8 3 (6.52%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.70%) Python
3 3 (6.52%) Bash
3 3 (6.52%) Perl
4 2 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Degree
2 13 (28.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (19.57%) MCP
4 5 (10.87%) A+ Certification
4 5 (10.87%) MCSE
4 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
5 4 (8.70%) MCSA
5 4 (8.70%) RHCE
6 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.52%) DBS Check
6 3 (6.52%) LPIC
7 2 (4.35%) CCNA
7 2 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.17%) CCNP
8 1 (2.17%) HND
8 1 (2.17%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) SLA
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (76.09%) Active Directory
2 22 (47.83%) Hyper-V
3 19 (41.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (15.22%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (10.87%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (8.70%) NFS
6 4 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (8.70%) vSphere
7 3 (6.52%) GPFS
7 3 (6.52%) Lustre
8 2 (4.35%) Docker
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (4.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (15.22%) WSUS
3 2 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (4.35%) Terraform
4 1 (2.17%) Ansible
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (2.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 38 (82.61%) Microsoft
2 27 (58.70%) VMware
3 7 (15.22%) Citrix
3 7 (15.22%) Google
4 5 (10.87%) Barracuda Networks
4 5 (10.87%) Cisco
4 5 (10.87%) Dell
4 5 (10.87%) HP
4 5 (10.87%) Sophos
4 5 (10.87%) Ubiquiti
5 4 (8.70%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (8.70%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.17%) Apple
7 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.17%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.17%) SonicWALL