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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 142 148
Rank change year-on-year +22 +6 -75
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 67 47 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.03% 1.32% 1.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.32% 7.98% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 56 34 49
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,063 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £36,250 £43,239
Median % change year-on-year +30.11% -16.16% +23.54%
75th Percentile £54,375 £51,875 £59,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 -
South East median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% -11.76% +4.94%

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 468 589 721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.20% 16.51% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 352 282 494
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,800 £30,300
25th Percentile £31,250 £33,063 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £45,000 £47,625
Median % change year-on-year +4.81% -5.51% +0.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £59,875
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,875 £73,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -15.31% +3.16%

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 1 August 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 1 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
Oxfordshire -4 33 £50,000 +25.79% 4
Berkshire +12 20 £45,000 +27.66% 10
Buckinghamshire +1 14 £30,000 - 1
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 38 (56.72%) SharePoint
2 30 (44.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.49%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 40 (59.70%) Azure
2 38 (56.72%) Microsoft 365
3 27 (40.30%) Entra ID
4 10 (14.93%) AWS
5 7 (10.45%) Google Workspace
5 7 (10.45%) IaaS
5 7 (10.45%) Power Automate
6 6 (8.96%) OneDrive
7 3 (4.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.99%) GCP
9 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.49%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.49%) PaaS
9 1 (1.49%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 67 (100.00%) DNS
2 47 (70.15%) Firewall
3 40 (59.70%) VPN
4 37 (55.22%) VLAN
5 23 (34.33%) Wi-Fi
6 20 (29.85%) SSL
7 19 (28.36%) WAN
8 17 (25.37%) Network Security
9 16 (23.88%) TCP/IP
10 13 (19.40%) BGP
10 13 (19.40%) SD-WAN
10 13 (19.40%) Wireless
11 10 (14.93%) FTP
11 10 (14.93%) HTTP
11 10 (14.93%) ICMP
11 10 (14.93%) IPsec
11 10 (14.93%) MPLS
11 10 (14.93%) SNMP
11 10 (14.93%) SSH
12 9 (13.43%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.99%) JIRA
General
1 32 (47.76%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.96%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.48%) Manufacturing
4 3 (4.48%) Retail
5 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.49%) Aviation
5 1 (1.49%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 21 (31.34%) IT Engineer
2 16 (23.88%) IT Support
3 15 (22.39%) IT Support Engineer
3 15 (22.39%) Support Engineer
4 14 (20.90%) Senior
5 11 (16.42%) Architect
6 10 (14.93%) Network Architect
6 10 (14.93%) Network Engineer
6 10 (14.93%) Network Security Architect
6 10 (14.93%) Security Architect
7 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (10.45%) Senior IT Engineer
7 7 (10.45%) Senior IT Support
7 7 (10.45%) Senior Support Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Network Operations Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (8.96%) Platform Manager
8 6 (8.96%) Senior Manager
8 6 (8.96%) Senior Service Manager
8 6 (8.96%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.93%) OAuth
1 10 (14.93%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (20.90%) Driving Licence
2 12 (17.91%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (14.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 6 (8.96%) CCTV
5 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.97%) Security Posture
6 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (4.48%) EPoS
6 3 (4.48%) Life Science
6 3 (4.48%) Private Cloud
6 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.48%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (4.48%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.49%) Clustering
7 1 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (50.75%) Windows
2 24 (35.82%) Windows Server
3 9 (13.43%) Windows 10
4 8 (11.94%) Mac OS
5 5 (7.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.99%) Android
6 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.99%) Linux
7 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.82%) Disaster Recovery
1 24 (35.82%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (31.34%) Customer Service
2 21 (31.34%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (26.87%) Continuous Improvement
4 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (17.91%) High Availability
6 11 (16.42%) Business Continuity
7 10 (14.93%) Data Protection
7 10 (14.93%) Kalman Filter
7 10 (14.93%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 10 (14.93%) Network Segmentation
7 10 (14.93%) Project Delivery
8 9 (13.43%) Mentoring
9 8 (11.94%) ITIL
10 7 (10.45%) Data Privacy
10 7 (10.45%) Incident Response
10 7 (10.45%) Mobile Device Management
10 7 (10.45%) Root Cause Analysis
10 7 (10.45%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (38.81%) PowerShell
2 10 (14.93%) Python
3 4 (5.97%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (29.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (25.37%) Degree
3 13 (19.40%) CCNA
3 13 (19.40%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (13.43%) Network+ Certification
5 8 (11.94%) CCNP
6 7 (10.45%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (10.45%) DBS Check
7 5 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.49%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.49%) MCSE
9 1 (1.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (31.34%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (17.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (14.93%) NIST
4 8 (11.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 7 (10.45%) GDPR
6 3 (4.48%) NCSC
6 3 (4.48%) QA
6 3 (4.48%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 50 (74.63%) Active Directory
2 22 (32.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (31.34%) Hyper-V
4 6 (8.96%) vSphere
5 5 (7.46%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (5.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (35.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (20.90%) FortiGate
3 10 (14.93%) CASB
4 8 (11.94%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (5.97%) Terraform
6 3 (4.48%) Ansible
6 3 (4.48%) Grafana
6 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
6 3 (4.48%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.49%) Autotask
7 1 (1.49%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (92.54%) Microsoft
2 26 (38.81%) VMware
3 25 (37.31%) Cisco
4 14 (20.90%) Palo Alto
5 9 (13.43%) Apple
6 8 (11.94%) Datto
6 8 (11.94%) Google
7 7 (10.45%) Fortinet
7 7 (10.45%) SonicWALL
7 7 (10.45%) Veeam
8 4 (5.97%) Aruba
9 2 (2.99%) ConnectWise
10 1 (1.49%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.49%) Meraki
10 1 (1.49%) Sophos