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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 156 142
Rank change year-on-year +45 -14 -77
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 98 43 50
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.29% 1.14% 1.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.96% 8.04% 8.16%
Number of salaries quoted 82 33 31
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,900 -
25th Percentile £37,750 £35,000 £25,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £43,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% +24.29% -26.32%
75th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £46,086
90th Percentile £73,750 £60,750 £56,525
South East median annual salary £39,000 £37,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 517 535 613
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.81% 14.12% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 369 260 275
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,475 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £62,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £70,125 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +5.00%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -13 43 £53,750 +49.31% 9
Berkshire +21 37 £39,500 -21.00% 10
Buckinghamshire +6 18 £30,000 -31.82% 5
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 53 (54.08%) SharePoint
2 42 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 62 (63.27%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (61.22%) Azure
3 48 (48.98%) Entra ID
4 19 (19.39%) Google Workspace
5 9 (9.18%) IaaS
6 8 (8.16%) AWS
6 8 (8.16%) OneDrive
7 7 (7.14%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.04%) GCP
9 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.02%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.02%) Mimecast
9 1 (1.02%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 98 (100.00%) DNS
2 65 (66.33%) Firewall
3 61 (62.24%) VPN
4 58 (59.18%) VLAN
5 36 (36.73%) Wi-Fi
6 35 (35.71%) TCP/IP
7 31 (31.63%) WAN
8 27 (27.55%) SSL
9 25 (25.51%) Network Security
10 23 (23.47%) Wireless
11 21 (21.43%) LAN
12 15 (15.31%) BGP
12 15 (15.31%) SD-WAN
12 15 (15.31%) VoIP
13 12 (12.24%) IPsec
14 11 (11.22%) SSH
15 10 (10.20%) FTP
15 10 (10.20%) HTTP
15 10 (10.20%) ICMP
15 10 (10.20%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 2 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 50 (51.02%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.14%) Retail
3 6 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.02%) Digital Health
7 1 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (33.67%) IT Engineer
2 30 (30.61%) IT Support
3 25 (25.51%) IT Support Engineer
3 25 (25.51%) Support Engineer
4 24 (24.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (21.43%) Senior
6 16 (16.33%) Network Engineer
7 11 (11.22%) Architect
7 11 (11.22%) Senior IT Engineer
7 11 (11.22%) Senior IT Support
7 11 (11.22%) Senior Support Engineer
8 10 (10.20%) Network Architect
8 10 (10.20%) Network Security Architect
8 10 (10.20%) Security Architect
9 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
9 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 7 (7.14%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Network Operations Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Operations Engineer
10 6 (6.12%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.20%) OAuth
1 10 (10.20%) SAML
2 5 (5.10%) Terraform
3 2 (2.04%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.47%) Driving Licence
2 13 (13.27%) Onboarding
3 11 (11.22%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (10.20%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 8 (8.16%) Replication
6 6 (6.12%) CCTV
7 4 (4.08%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.04%) ARM Cortex
8 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.04%) EPoS
8 2 (2.04%) Life Science
8 2 (2.04%) Private Cloud
8 2 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.02%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 54 (55.10%) Windows
2 32 (32.65%) Windows Server
3 12 (12.24%) macOS
4 11 (11.22%) Linux
5 10 (10.20%) Windows 10
6 9 (9.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (8.16%) Rocky
7 8 (8.16%) Ubuntu
8 4 (4.08%) Android
8 4 (4.08%) Apple iOS
8 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (40.82%) Customer Service
3 35 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 32 (32.65%) Cybersecurity
4 32 (32.65%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (23.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (17.35%) Kalman Filter
6 17 (17.35%) Migration
7 16 (16.33%) Project Delivery
8 14 (14.29%) High Availability
9 13 (13.27%) Business Continuity
10 12 (12.24%) Data Protection
10 12 (12.24%) Mentoring
11 11 (11.22%) Data Privacy
11 11 (11.22%) ITIL
11 11 (11.22%) Mobile Device Management
12 10 (10.20%) MITRE ATT&CK
12 10 (10.20%) Network Segmentation
12 10 (10.20%) Performance Optimisation
12 10 (10.20%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 38 (38.78%) PowerShell
2 9 (9.18%) Python
3 5 (5.10%) Bash
4 2 (2.04%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 31 (31.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (20.41%) Degree
3 15 (15.31%) CCNA
3 15 (15.31%) Cisco Certification
3 15 (15.31%) Network+ Certification
4 13 (13.27%) DBS Check
5 11 (11.22%) CompTIA Security+
6 10 (10.20%) CCNP
7 6 (6.12%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.08%) A+ Certification
9 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.06%) Security Cleared
10 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 11 (11.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 11 (11.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (10.20%) NIST
4 8 (8.16%) GDPR
5 4 (4.08%) NCSC
6 2 (2.04%) QA
6 2 (2.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (75.51%) Active Directory
2 28 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (25.51%) Hyper-V
4 7 (7.14%) vSphere
5 4 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (2.04%) Docker
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (39.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (15.31%) FortiGate
3 14 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
4 10 (10.20%) CASB
5 4 (4.08%) Ansible
6 2 (2.04%) Autotask
6 2 (2.04%) Grafana
6 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.04%) N-central
6 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.04%) SCCM
7 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (91.84%) Microsoft
2 40 (40.82%) VMware
3 32 (32.65%) Cisco
4 20 (20.41%) Google
5 19 (19.39%) Veeam
6 16 (16.33%) Apple
7 14 (14.29%) Palo Alto
8 13 (13.27%) Datto
8 13 (13.27%) Fortinet
9 11 (11.22%) SonicWALL
10 8 (8.16%) Dell
11 4 (4.08%) Aruba
11 4 (4.08%) ConnectWise
12 3 (3.06%) Infoblox
13 2 (2.04%) Brocade
13 2 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
13 2 (2.04%) Juniper
13 2 (2.04%) Meraki
13 2 (2.04%) Ruckus Wireless
14 1 (1.02%) Barracuda Networks