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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 157 145 69
Rank change year-on-year -12 -76 +107
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 44 46 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.12% 0.95% 3.81%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.76% 7.47% 21.08%
Number of salaries quoted 34 31 107
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £33,063 £30,625 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.14% -17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £51,875 £46,086 £60,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £56,525 £74,250
South East median annual salary £37,500 £45,798 £42,250
% change year-on-year -18.12% +8.40% -0.59%

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 567 616 683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.40% 12.78% 18.08%
Number of salaries quoted 262 337 485
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,250 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £74,900
South East median annual salary £41,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.00% - +5.26%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP 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 16 September 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 16 September 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
Berkshire -5 22 £50,000 -11.54% 8
Oxfordshire +30 18 £36,000 -15.29% 3
Buckinghamshire -16 4 £44,000 +35.38%
DHCP
South East

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (34.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (11.36%) SharePoint
3 4 (9.09%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) Azure
2 15 (34.09%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (22.73%) AWS
4 5 (11.36%) Mimecast
5 4 (9.09%) GCP
6 3 (6.82%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 44 (100.00%) DNS
2 18 (40.91%) Firewall
3 17 (38.64%) VPN
4 15 (34.09%) TCP/IP
5 12 (27.27%) VLAN
6 9 (20.45%) Wireless
7 6 (13.64%) SAN
7 6 (13.64%) SMTP
8 5 (11.36%) LAN
8 5 (11.36%) WAN
9 4 (9.09%) InfiniBand
9 4 (9.09%) NAS
9 4 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (6.82%) VoIP
11 2 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 14 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Support Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) IT Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) IT Support
4 6 (13.64%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (13.64%) Systems Engineer
5 5 (11.36%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (11.36%) Junior
6 4 (9.09%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Desktop Support
6 4 (9.09%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (9.09%) Senior
7 3 (6.82%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (6.82%) Senior IT Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Senior IT Support
7 3 (6.82%) Senior Support Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Storage Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Technical Coordinator
7 3 (6.82%) Technical Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.36%) PKI
3 3 (6.82%) Driving Licence
3 3 (6.82%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.27%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 31 (70.45%) Windows
2 18 (40.91%) Windows Server
3 10 (22.73%) Mac OS
4 8 (18.18%) Android
5 7 (15.91%) Windows 10
6 6 (13.64%) Linux
7 5 (11.36%) Apple iOS
8 3 (6.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (18.18%) Business Continuity
3 8 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 7 (15.91%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (11.36%) High Availability
6 4 (9.09%) Agile
6 4 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 4 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 4 (9.09%) Low Latency
6 4 (9.09%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (9.09%) Project Planning
6 4 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (9.09%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (6.82%) Budget Management
7 3 (6.82%) Remote Monitoring and Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.09%) Python
3 3 (6.82%) Bash
3 3 (6.82%) Perl
4 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (29.55%) Degree
2 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (13.64%) MCP
4 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
5 4 (9.09%) MCSE
5 4 (9.09%) RHCE
6 3 (6.82%) A+ Certification
6 3 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.82%) DBS Check
6 3 (6.82%) LPIC
6 3 (6.82%) MCSA
7 1 (2.27%) CCNA
7 1 (2.27%) CCNP
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.27%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 23 (52.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (50.00%) Hyper-V
4 9 (20.45%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (9.09%) NFS
5 4 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (9.09%) vSphere
6 3 (6.82%) GPFS
6 3 (6.82%) Lustre
6 3 (6.82%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (4.55%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (15.91%) WSUS
3 2 (4.55%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.27%) Ansible
4 1 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (2.27%) SCCM
4 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (77.27%) Microsoft
2 29 (65.91%) VMware
3 7 (15.91%) Citrix
3 7 (15.91%) Sophos
3 7 (15.91%) Ubiquiti
4 5 (11.36%) Barracuda Networks
4 5 (11.36%) Dell
4 5 (11.36%) HP
5 4 (9.09%) Cisco
5 4 (9.09%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (9.09%) Palo Alto
6 3 (6.82%) Apple
6 3 (6.82%) Google
6 3 (6.82%) SonicWALL
7 1 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.27%) SolarWinds