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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 160 157
Rank change year-on-year +52 -3 -84
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 83 46 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.20% 1.18% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 18.04% 7.78% 7.27%
Number of salaries quoted 72 34 32
10th Percentile £28,650 £28,250 £25,800
25th Percentile £38,063 £34,000 £29,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,083 £39,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.16% +11.43% -14.63%
75th Percentile £55,313 £50,000 £47,690
90th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £57,875
South East median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £45,096
% change year-on-year +13.33% -16.84% +7.37%

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 460 591 633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.65% 15.15% 12.52%
Number of salaries quoted 361 284 392
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,075 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £34,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% 0.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £63,750 £62,813
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,075 £80,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £41,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.46% -17.00% +1.01%

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 September 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 September 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 -6 37 £52,500 +45.83% 4
Berkshire +32 31 £42,000 +23.53% 7
Buckinghamshire +10 15 £30,000 -31.82% 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 49 (59.04%) SharePoint
2 39 (46.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 53 (63.86%) Azure
1 53 (63.86%) Microsoft 365
2 42 (50.60%) Entra ID
3 15 (18.07%) Google Workspace
4 10 (12.05%) AWS
4 10 (12.05%) IaaS
5 7 (8.43%) Power Automate
6 6 (7.23%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.41%) GCP
9 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.20%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.20%) PaaS
9 1 (1.20%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 83 (100.00%) DNS
2 57 (68.67%) Firewall
3 51 (61.45%) VPN
4 48 (57.83%) VLAN
5 30 (36.14%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (30.12%) SSL
7 23 (27.71%) TCP/IP
8 22 (26.51%) WAN
9 20 (24.10%) Network Security
10 16 (19.28%) Wireless
11 14 (16.87%) VoIP
12 13 (15.66%) BGP
12 13 (15.66%) SD-WAN
13 12 (14.46%) LAN
14 10 (12.05%) FTP
14 10 (12.05%) HTTP
14 10 (12.05%) ICMP
14 10 (12.05%) IPsec
14 10 (12.05%) MPLS
14 10 (12.05%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.41%) JIRA
General
1 41 (49.40%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.23%) Influencing Skills
2 6 (7.23%) Retail
3 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.20%) Aviation
6 1 (1.20%) Digital Health
Job Titles
1 29 (34.94%) IT Engineer
2 24 (28.92%) IT Support
3 23 (27.71%) IT Support Engineer
3 23 (27.71%) Support Engineer
4 18 (21.69%) Senior
5 17 (20.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (13.25%) Architect
6 11 (13.25%) Network Engineer
6 11 (13.25%) Senior IT Engineer
6 11 (13.25%) Senior IT Support
6 11 (13.25%) Senior Support Engineer
7 10 (12.05%) Network Architect
7 10 (12.05%) Network Security Architect
7 10 (12.05%) Security Architect
8 6 (7.23%) Network Operations Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (7.23%) Platform Manager
8 6 (7.23%) Senior Manager
8 6 (7.23%) Senior Service Manager
8 6 (7.23%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.05%) OAuth
1 10 (12.05%) SAML
2 4 (4.82%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.69%) Driving Licence
2 12 (14.46%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (12.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 8 (9.64%) Onboarding
5 6 (7.23%) CCTV
6 5 (6.02%) Replication
7 4 (4.82%) Security Posture
8 3 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (3.61%) EPoS
8 3 (3.61%) Life Science
8 3 (3.61%) Private Cloud
8 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
8 3 (3.61%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (3.61%) Virtual Team
9 1 (1.20%) Clustering
9 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
9 1 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 46 (55.42%) Windows
2 32 (38.55%) Windows Server
3 12 (14.46%) Mac OS
4 11 (13.25%) Windows 10
5 9 (10.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (7.23%) Linux
7 4 (4.82%) Rocky
7 4 (4.82%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.61%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.41%) Android
9 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (43.37%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (39.76%) Disaster Recovery
3 31 (37.35%) Customer Service
4 27 (32.53%) Cybersecurity
4 27 (32.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 20 (24.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (18.07%) High Availability
6 15 (18.07%) Project Delivery
7 14 (16.87%) Business Continuity
7 14 (16.87%) Kalman Filter
7 14 (16.87%) Migration
8 11 (13.25%) Data Privacy
8 11 (13.25%) Data Protection
8 11 (13.25%) Mobile Device Management
9 10 (12.05%) ITIL
9 10 (12.05%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 10 (12.05%) Network Segmentation
9 10 (12.05%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 9 (10.84%) Root Cause Analysis
10 9 (10.84%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 35 (42.17%) PowerShell
2 10 (12.05%) Python
3 4 (4.82%) Bash
Qualifications
1 31 (37.35%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (25.30%) Degree
3 15 (18.07%) Network+ Certification
4 13 (15.66%) CCNA
4 13 (15.66%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (13.25%) CompTIA Security+
5 11 (13.25%) DBS Check
6 8 (9.64%) CCNP
7 7 (8.43%) Azure Certification
8 5 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (3.61%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.20%) MCSE
10 1 (1.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (33.73%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (14.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 12 (14.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (12.05%) NIST
4 7 (8.43%) GDPR
5 4 (4.82%) NCSC
6 3 (3.61%) QA
6 3 (3.61%) SOC 2
7 1 (1.20%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (78.31%) Active Directory
2 28 (33.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (32.53%) Hyper-V
4 6 (7.23%) vSphere
5 5 (6.02%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (4.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (42.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (16.87%) FortiGate
3 12 (14.46%) Jamf Pro
4 10 (12.05%) CASB
5 3 (3.61%) Ansible
5 3 (3.61%) Grafana
5 3 (3.61%) Kubernetes
5 3 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.20%) Autotask
6 1 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 77 (92.77%) Microsoft
2 36 (43.37%) VMware
3 30 (36.14%) Cisco
4 16 (19.28%) Google
5 15 (18.07%) Apple
5 15 (18.07%) Veeam
6 14 (16.87%) Palo Alto
7 12 (14.46%) Datto
8 11 (13.25%) SonicWALL
9 8 (9.64%) Fortinet
10 4 (4.82%) Aruba
10 4 (4.82%) ConnectWise
10 4 (4.82%) Dell
11 2 (2.41%) Meraki
12 1 (1.20%) Brocade
12 1 (1.20%) Infoblox
12 1 (1.20%) Juniper
12 1 (1.20%) Ruckus Wireless
12 1 (1.20%) Sophos