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 8 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 116 112
Rank change year-on-year -20 -4 +6
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 36 48 131
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.70% 1.75% 2.05%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.29% 18.60% 15.88%
Number of salaries quoted 18 43 123
10th Percentile £27,000 - £29,750
25th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,250 £34,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.74% -19.05% +29.23%
75th Percentile £48,000 £50,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £57,261 £57,500 -
South East median annual salary £40,000 £35,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year +12.68% -7.79% +10.00%

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 434 258 825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.46% 9.38% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 235 200 669
10th Percentile £26,100 £27,500 £28,970
25th Percentile £31,125 £35,750 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £42,920
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +10.67% +0.99%
75th Percentile £63,329 £63,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,125 £70,000
South East median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £46,625
% change year-on-year -8.00% +7.24% +3.61%

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 8 April 2026.

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 8 April 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
Oxfordshire -8 20 £28,500 +3.64% 6
Berkshire -11 8 £52,500 +43.84% 9
Buckinghamshire - 8 £42,250 - 4
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 8 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.56%) CMS
3 2 (5.56%) IIS
3 2 (5.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) Azure
1 20 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (33.33%) Google Workspace
3 10 (27.78%) AWS
4 8 (22.22%) Entra ID
4 8 (22.22%) GCP
5 5 (13.89%) SaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.78%) IaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 36 (100.00%) DNS
2 25 (69.44%) Firewall
3 17 (47.22%) TCP/IP
4 12 (33.33%) VPN
5 8 (22.22%) VLAN
6 5 (13.89%) Wireless
7 4 (11.11%) VoIP
8 3 (8.33%) WAN
9 2 (5.56%) Ethernet
9 2 (5.56%) NAS
9 2 (5.56%) SAN
9 2 (5.56%) SSL
9 2 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (2.78%) LAN
10 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.56%) Retail
5 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.78%) Automotive
5 1 (2.78%) Aviation
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Electronics
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) IT Support
2 14 (38.89%) Support Engineer
3 10 (27.78%) IT Engineer
3 10 (27.78%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Analyst
4 7 (19.44%) Support Analyst
5 6 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
5 6 (16.67%) Technical Support
5 6 (16.67%) Technical Support Analyst
6 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) IT Support Technician
6 5 (13.89%) IT Technician
6 5 (13.89%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Linux Support
6 5 (13.89%) Linux Support Engineer
6 5 (13.89%) Support Technician
7 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
8 3 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (8.33%) Senior
9 2 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (11.11%) Driving Licence
3 2 (5.56%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.78%) Clustering
4 1 (2.78%) CMDB
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Life Science
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) PKI
4 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Replication
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (91.67%) Windows
2 13 (36.11%) Windows Server
3 10 (27.78%) Linux
4 7 (19.44%) Android
4 7 (19.44%) Apple iOS
4 7 (19.44%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (30.56%) Customer Service
3 8 (22.22%) ITIL
3 8 (22.22%) Mobile Device Management
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (13.89%) Project Delivery
5 4 (11.11%) B2B
5 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (8.33%) Agile
6 3 (8.33%) Business Continuity
6 3 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (8.33%) Decision-Making
6 3 (8.33%) High Availability
6 3 (8.33%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (8.33%) Sprint Retrospective
7 2 (5.56%) Computer Security
Programming Languages
1 7 (19.44%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.33%) SQL
3 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.78%) Bash
4 1 (2.78%) Bicep
4 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Degree
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (13.89%) A+ Certification
3 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 4 (11.11%) MCSE
5 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (8.33%) DBS Check
5 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.56%) CCNA
6 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.56%) MCSA
7 1 (2.78%) CCIE
7 1 (2.78%) HND
7 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (13.89%) SLA
3 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.78%) GDPR
5 1 (2.78%) QA
5 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 10 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (19.44%) Hyper-V
4 4 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (5.56%) Docker
5 2 (5.56%) vSphere
6 1 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Autotask
3 1 (2.78%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.78%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (80.56%) Microsoft
2 14 (38.89%) Google
3 11 (30.56%) VMware
4 8 (22.22%) Palo Alto
5 5 (13.89%) Atlassian
5 5 (13.89%) CheckPoint
6 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
7 2 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (2.78%) 3PAR
8 1 (2.78%) Cisco
8 1 (2.78%) ConnectWise
8 1 (2.78%) Datto
8 1 (2.78%) HP
8 1 (2.78%) Meraki
8 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.78%) Sophos
8 1 (2.78%) Veeam