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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 131 56
Rank change year-on-year +7 -75 +82
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 50 55 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.27% 1.50% 4.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.44% 11.32% 28.02%
Number of salaries quoted 35 38 109
10th Percentile £27,100 - £32,500
25th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.71% -7.89% +19.09%
75th Percentile £45,375 £48,438 £56,250
90th Percentile £60,250 £57,500 £74,250
South East median annual salary £37,250 £45,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year -17.22% +7.14% +11.26%

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 372 486 496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.42% 13.24% 15.65%
Number of salaries quoted 209 231 390
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,250 £31,475
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £35,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £68,841 £90,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +8.00% +5.23%

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 16 December 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 December 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
Oxfordshire +22 30 £31,000 +12.73% 10
Buckinghamshire +15 11 £46,000 +31.43% 5
Berkshire -14 9 £57,500 +15.00% 13
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 7 (14.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (10.00%) IIS
3 2 (4.00%) CMS
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (4.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 33 (66.00%) Azure
2 25 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (28.00%) AWS
4 12 (24.00%) GCP
5 9 (18.00%) Entra ID
5 9 (18.00%) Google Workspace
6 5 (10.00%) Mimecast
7 4 (8.00%) SaaS
8 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 50 (100.00%) DNS
2 26 (52.00%) Firewall
3 24 (48.00%) TCP/IP
4 18 (36.00%) VPN
5 13 (26.00%) Wireless
6 11 (22.00%) VLAN
7 8 (16.00%) SAN
8 6 (12.00%) NAS
8 6 (12.00%) WAN
9 5 (10.00%) LAN
10 4 (8.00%) VoIP
11 3 (6.00%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (4.00%) Ethernet
12 2 (4.00%) SSL
13 1 (2.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
General
1 22 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (8.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.00%) Automotive
4 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Electronics
4 1 (2.00%) Finance
4 1 (2.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (44.00%) IT Support
2 18 (36.00%) Support Engineer
3 14 (28.00%) IT Engineer
3 14 (28.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) IT Support Technician
5 6 (12.00%) IT Technician
5 6 (12.00%) Support Technician
6 5 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (10.00%) Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) Junior
6 5 (10.00%) Support Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Linux Support
7 4 (8.00%) Linux Support Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Technical Support
7 4 (8.00%) Technical Support Analyst
8 3 (6.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Driving Licence
1 4 (8.00%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (4.00%) Clustering
2 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.00%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (4.00%) Replication
3 1 (2.00%) CMDB
3 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 44 (88.00%) Windows
2 15 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (20.00%) Android
3 10 (20.00%) Apple iOS
3 10 (20.00%) Linux
4 7 (14.00%) Mac OS
4 7 (14.00%) Windows 10
5 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 10 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (18.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (16.00%) High Availability
5 7 (14.00%) Business Continuity
5 7 (14.00%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (14.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 6 (12.00%) Agile
6 6 (12.00%) Dashboard Development
6 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 6 (12.00%) Mobile Device Management
6 6 (12.00%) Project Delivery
6 6 (12.00%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (12.00%) Sprint Retrospective
7 5 (10.00%) ITIL
8 4 (8.00%) B2B
8 4 (8.00%) Collaborative Culture
9 3 (6.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.00%) SQL
3 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (20.00%) MCP
3 9 (18.00%) A+ Certification
4 7 (14.00%) Degree
5 4 (8.00%) DBS Check
5 4 (8.00%) MCSE
6 3 (6.00%) MCSA
6 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.00%) CCNA
7 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.00%) HND
7 1 (2.00%) RHCE
7 1 (2.00%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (10.00%) SLA
3 2 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 41 (82.00%) Active Directory
2 20 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (24.00%) Hyper-V
4 7 (14.00%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (12.00%) vSphere
6 4 (8.00%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (4.00%) Docker
7 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) Ansible
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (2.00%) SCCM
3 1 (2.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 41 (82.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (44.00%) VMware
3 15 (30.00%) Google
4 9 (18.00%) Palo Alto
5 6 (12.00%) LogicMonitor
6 5 (10.00%) Barracuda Networks
6 5 (10.00%) Dell
6 5 (10.00%) HP
6 5 (10.00%) Sophos
6 5 (10.00%) Ubiquiti
7 4 (8.00%) Atlassian
7 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
8 3 (6.00%) CheckPoint
8 3 (6.00%) Cisco
9 1 (2.00%) Citrix
9 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds