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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 147 145
Rank change year-on-year +24 -2 -52
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 51 44 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.84% 1.25% 1.49%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.31% 7.71% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 39 33 94
10th Percentile £29,700 £25,750 £26,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £28,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,166 £36,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -8.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £55,625 £52,500 £58,756
90th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £59,000
South East median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +10.39% -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 451 571 937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.45% 16.26% 13.13%
Number of salaries quoted 322 272 659
10th Percentile £28,000 £25,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £44,089
Median % change year-on-year - +2.07% -2.03%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,063 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +3.83%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +2 28 £48,583 +36.85% 6
Buckinghamshire - 13 £30,000 - 3
Berkshire -9 10 £42,000 +15.07% 8
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 25 (49.02%) SharePoint
2 20 (39.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
3 1 (1.96%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 27 (52.94%) Azure
1 27 (52.94%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (31.37%) Entra ID
3 11 (21.57%) AWS
4 6 (11.76%) OneDrive
5 5 (9.80%) Google Workspace
6 4 (7.84%) Power Automate
7 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (5.88%) GCP
7 3 (5.88%) IaaS
8 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.96%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.96%) PaaS
8 1 (1.96%) Route 53
8 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (100.00%) DNS
2 35 (68.63%) Firewall
3 30 (58.82%) VPN
4 26 (50.98%) VLAN
5 16 (31.37%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (29.41%) WAN
7 14 (27.45%) SSL
8 13 (25.49%) Network Security
9 9 (17.65%) BGP
9 9 (17.65%) FTP
9 9 (17.65%) HTTP
9 9 (17.65%) ICMP
9 9 (17.65%) IPsec
9 9 (17.65%) MPLS
9 9 (17.65%) SD-WAN
9 9 (17.65%) SNMP
9 9 (17.65%) SSH
10 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
11 7 (13.73%) Wireless
12 5 (9.80%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.96%) JIRA
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Aviation
5 1 (1.96%) Digital Health
5 1 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) IT Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) Senior
3 10 (19.61%) Architect
3 10 (19.61%) Support Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) IT Support
4 9 (17.65%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) Network Architect
4 9 (17.65%) Network Security Architect
4 9 (17.65%) Security Architect
5 6 (11.76%) Network Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Platform Manager
5 6 (11.76%) Senior Manager
5 6 (11.76%) Senior Service Manager
5 6 (11.76%) Service Manager
6 5 (9.80%) Network Operations Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior IT Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Senior IT Support
7 4 (7.84%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.65%) OAuth
1 9 (17.65%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (19.61%) Driving Licence
3 9 (17.65%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 5 (9.80%) CCTV
5 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
5 4 (7.84%) Security Posture
6 3 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (5.88%) EPoS
6 3 (5.88%) Life Science
6 3 (5.88%) Private Cloud
6 3 (5.88%) Public Cloud
6 3 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (5.88%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.96%) Clustering
7 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.96%) PKI
7 1 (1.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (52.94%) Windows
2 18 (35.29%) Windows Server
3 7 (13.73%) Windows 10
4 5 (9.80%) Mac OS
5 4 (7.84%) Linux
5 4 (7.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.96%) Android
6 1 (1.96%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 17 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (31.37%) Customer Service
4 14 (27.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (21.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (17.65%) MITRE ATT&CK
6 9 (17.65%) Network Segmentation
7 8 (15.69%) High Availability
8 7 (13.73%) Business Continuity
8 7 (13.73%) Data Protection
8 7 (13.73%) Incident Response
8 7 (13.73%) Kalman Filter
8 7 (13.73%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (11.76%) Coaching
9 6 (11.76%) Data Governance
9 6 (11.76%) Line Management
9 6 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (11.76%) Time Management
10 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (37.25%) PowerShell
2 9 (17.65%) Python
3 4 (7.84%) Bash
4 1 (1.96%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) Degree
2 8 (15.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (13.73%) CCNA
3 7 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (9.80%) CCNP
4 5 (9.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (9.80%) Network+ Certification
5 4 (7.84%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (7.84%) DBS Check
6 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.96%) CCIE
7 1 (1.96%) MCSE
7 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.57%) Cyber Essentials
1 11 (21.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (17.65%) NIST
3 6 (11.76%) GDPR
4 5 (9.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (5.88%) QA
5 3 (5.88%) SOC 2
6 1 (1.96%) NCSC
6 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (74.51%) Active Directory
2 18 (35.29%) Hyper-V
2 18 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (9.80%) vSphere
4 4 (7.84%) Docker
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (27.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (19.61%) FortiGate
3 9 (17.65%) CASB
4 5 (9.80%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (9.80%) Terraform
5 3 (5.88%) Ansible
5 3 (5.88%) Grafana
5 3 (5.88%) Kubernetes
5 3 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.96%) Autotask
6 1 (1.96%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (90.20%) Microsoft
2 22 (43.14%) VMware
3 18 (35.29%) Cisco
4 14 (27.45%) Palo Alto
5 6 (11.76%) Google
6 5 (9.80%) Apple
6 5 (9.80%) Datto
6 5 (9.80%) Veeam
7 4 (7.84%) Aruba
7 4 (7.84%) Fortinet
7 4 (7.84%) SonicWALL
8 1 (1.96%) 3PAR
8 1 (1.96%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.96%) ConnectWise
8 1 (1.96%) HP
8 1 (1.96%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.96%) Meraki
8 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.96%) Sophos