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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 138 146
Rank change year-on-year -4 +8 -39
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 37 46 111
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.63% 1.35% 1.51%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.53% 8.13% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 25 35 99
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £27,875 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £34,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -15.00% +15.94%
75th Percentile £73,750 £50,000 £59,000
90th Percentile - £57,500 -
South East median annual salary £39,000 £42,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year -8.24% +10.39% -1.28%

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 434 566 962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.40% 16.59% 13.09%
Number of salaries quoted 312 259 684
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £44,588
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -4.68% -0.92%
75th Percentile £65,313 £63,125 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +4.40%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -3 18 £72,500 +163.64% 9
Buckinghamshire - 11 £30,000 - 3
Berkshire -15 8 £39,000 +10.64% 9
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 15 (40.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 15 (40.54%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (56.76%) Microsoft 365
2 20 (54.05%) Azure
3 11 (29.73%) Entra ID
4 9 (24.32%) AWS
5 6 (16.22%) Google Workspace
5 6 (16.22%) OneDrive
6 3 (8.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (8.11%) IaaS
7 2 (5.41%) GCP
8 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (2.70%) Mimecast
8 1 (2.70%) PaaS
8 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (100.00%) DNS
2 26 (70.27%) Firewall
3 19 (51.35%) VPN
4 17 (45.95%) VLAN
5 12 (32.43%) SSL
5 12 (32.43%) WAN
6 10 (27.03%) Network Security
7 8 (21.62%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (18.92%) BGP
8 7 (18.92%) FTP
8 7 (18.92%) HTTP
8 7 (18.92%) ICMP
8 7 (18.92%) IPsec
8 7 (18.92%) MPLS
8 7 (18.92%) SD-WAN
8 7 (18.92%) SNMP
8 7 (18.92%) SSH
9 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
10 4 (10.81%) LAN
10 4 (10.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) JIRA
General
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.70%) Aviation
5 1 (2.70%) Digital Health
5 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Senior
2 7 (18.92%) Architect
2 7 (18.92%) Network Architect
2 7 (18.92%) Network Security Architect
2 7 (18.92%) Security Architect
2 7 (18.92%) Support Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) IT Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) IT Support
3 6 (16.22%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Platform Manager
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Manager
3 6 (16.22%) Senior Service Manager
3 6 (16.22%) Service Manager
4 4 (10.81%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior IT Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior IT Support
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Support Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Technical Support
5 3 (8.11%) Technical Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) OAuth
1 7 (18.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Driving Licence
2 7 (18.92%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (10.81%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (8.11%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (8.11%) EPoS
4 3 (8.11%) Life Science
4 3 (8.11%) Private Cloud
4 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
4 3 (8.11%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (8.11%) Security Posture
4 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team
5 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.70%) Clustering
6 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.70%) PKI
6 1 (2.70%) Replication
6 1 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (59.46%) Windows
2 16 (43.24%) Windows Server
3 5 (13.51%) Mac OS
3 5 (13.51%) Windows 10
4 4 (10.81%) Linux
4 4 (10.81%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (5.41%) Android
5 2 (5.41%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (37.84%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (32.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (29.73%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (24.32%) Customer Service
7 7 (18.92%) High Availability
7 7 (18.92%) Kalman Filter
7 7 (18.92%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 7 (18.92%) Network Segmentation
7 7 (18.92%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (16.22%) Business Continuity
8 6 (16.22%) Coaching
8 6 (16.22%) Data Governance
8 6 (16.22%) Incident Response
8 6 (16.22%) Line Management
8 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (13.51%) Computer Science
9 5 (13.51%) Mobile Device Management
9 5 (13.51%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.11%) Bash
2 3 (8.11%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (27.03%) Degree
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (13.51%) CCNA
3 5 (13.51%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (13.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (13.51%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (10.81%) CCNP
4 4 (10.81%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (10.81%) DBS Check
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.70%) CCIE
6 1 (2.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (21.62%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (18.92%) NIST
4 5 (13.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (8.11%) QA
5 3 (8.11%) SOC 2
6 1 (2.70%) GDPR
6 1 (2.70%) NCSC
6 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (75.68%) Active Directory
2 14 (37.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (32.43%) Hyper-V
4 4 (10.81%) Docker
5 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (29.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (21.62%) FortiGate
3 7 (18.92%) CASB
4 5 (13.51%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (10.81%) Terraform
6 3 (8.11%) Ansible
6 3 (8.11%) Grafana
6 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
6 3 (8.11%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.70%) Autotask
7 1 (2.70%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (89.19%) Microsoft
2 17 (45.95%) VMware
3 15 (40.54%) Cisco
4 12 (32.43%) Palo Alto
5 6 (16.22%) Google
6 5 (13.51%) Apple
6 5 (13.51%) Datto
6 5 (13.51%) Veeam
7 4 (10.81%) SonicWALL
8 3 (8.11%) Aruba
8 3 (8.11%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.70%) 3PAR
9 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
9 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.70%) ConnectWise
9 1 (2.70%) HP
9 1 (2.70%) Meraki
9 1 (2.70%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.70%) Sophos