DHCP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DHCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 209 200
Rank change year-on-year +23 -9 -37
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 716 504 964
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.00% 1.49% 1.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.12% 9.01% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 529 455 789
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £30,500 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% - -
75th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £47,250
90th Percentile £57,650 £58,750 £57,500
UK median annual salary £37,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,070 5,595 9,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.11% 16.57% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,464 3,035 6,661
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,087 £25,875
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £39,500 £44,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.59% -10.23% -2.22%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.50%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DHCP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

DHCP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DHCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DHCP

DHCP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +41 199 £32,500 -13.33% 43
South West -8 145 £32,500 -18.75% 49
South East -8 136 £41,250 -2.94% 78
Midlands -27 106 £32,500 - 26
North West +30 103 £31,500 -16.00% 21
Yorkshire -14 71 £32,500 -18.75% 16
East Midlands -15 62 £32,500 -7.14% 8
East of England -12 60 £35,000 -22.22% 26
West Midlands -30 43 £35,250 +8.46% 18
Wales -9 42 £40,000 +14.29% 2
North East -36 25 £42,500 +32.81% 9
Scotland +15 24 £27,500 -16.67% 7
Northern Ireland -56 4 - - 11
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 294 (41.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 202 (28.21%) SharePoint
3 24 (3.35%) IIS
4 5 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (0.42%) Apache
5 3 (0.42%) SAS
6 1 (0.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.14%) Site Server
Applications
1 68 (9.50%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (0.84%) Raiser’s Edge
2 5 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.28%) Alphatax
4 1 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.14%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 543 (75.84%) Microsoft 365
2 406 (56.70%) Azure
3 222 (31.01%) Entra ID
4 86 (12.01%) AWS
5 68 (9.50%) OneDrive
6 17 (2.37%) IaaS
7 14 (1.96%) Nutanix
8 13 (1.82%) PaaS
8 13 (1.82%) SaaS
9 11 (1.54%) Google Workspace
9 11 (1.54%) Power Platform
10 7 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
10 7 (0.98%) Mimecast
10 7 (0.98%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.56%) GCP
12 3 (0.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (0.42%) Serverless
13 2 (0.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 715 (99.86%) DNS
2 303 (42.32%) Firewall
3 284 (39.66%) VPN
4 262 (36.59%) TCP/IP
5 205 (28.63%) VLAN
6 140 (19.55%) WAN
7 125 (17.46%) LAN
8 117 (16.34%) Wi-Fi
9 72 (10.06%) VoIP
10 60 (8.38%) Network Security
11 54 (7.54%) Wireless
12 37 (5.17%) SD-WAN
13 33 (4.61%) BGP
14 29 (4.05%) SSL
15 24 (3.35%) IPsec
16 23 (3.21%) MPLS
16 23 (3.21%) Remote Desktop
17 22 (3.07%) SAN
18 17 (2.37%) SNMP
19 16 (2.23%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (13.27%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (4.05%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.54%) Power BI
4 9 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (0.56%) MySQL
6 2 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.28%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.28%) KNIME
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.51%) JIRA
2 6 (0.84%) GitLab
3 3 (0.42%) Git
4 1 (0.14%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.14%) Carbide.c++
General
1 346 (48.32%) Social Skills
2 110 (15.36%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (7.12%) Organisational Skills
4 37 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
5 23 (3.21%) Finance
5 23 (3.21%) Manufacturing
6 21 (2.93%) Retail
7 19 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.23%) Law
8 16 (2.23%) Telecoms
9 13 (1.82%) Public Sector
10 11 (1.54%) Legal
11 10 (1.40%) Local Government
12 9 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.12%) Advertising
13 8 (1.12%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.56%) Electronics
14 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.42%) Games
16 2 (0.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 290 (40.50%) IT Support
2 177 (24.72%) IT Engineer
3 162 (22.63%) Support Engineer
4 141 (19.69%) IT Support Engineer
5 102 (14.25%) Systems Engineer
6 100 (13.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 95 (13.27%) Support Technician
8 91 (12.71%) IT Technician
9 84 (11.73%) IT Support Technician
10 82 (11.45%) 2nd Line Support
10 82 (11.45%) Analyst
11 75 (10.47%) Senior
12 52 (7.26%) Support Analyst
13 48 (6.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 44 (6.15%) IT Analyst
15 41 (5.73%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 41 (5.73%) Network Engineer
16 40 (5.59%) IT Support Analyst
17 38 (5.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 33 (4.61%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.68%) SAML
2 10 (1.40%) OAuth
3 8 (1.12%) Middleware
4 5 (0.70%) .NET
5 4 (0.56%) 802.1X
5 4 (0.56%) ModSecurity
5 4 (0.56%) OpenTelemetry
5 4 (0.56%) Web Services
6 1 (0.14%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.14%) Node.js
6 1 (0.14%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 153 (21.37%) Driving Licence
2 87 (12.15%) Legacy Systems
3 50 (6.98%) Onboarding
4 38 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 36 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (4.75%) Data Centre
7 25 (3.49%) PKI
8 16 (2.23%) CCTV
9 15 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.82%) Replication
11 12 (1.68%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.40%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 9 (1.26%) Clustering
14 8 (1.12%) Cyber Security Posture
14 8 (1.12%) FMCG
14 8 (1.12%) Virtual Team
15 5 (0.70%) Cloud Native
15 5 (0.70%) IoT
15 5 (0.70%) Private Cloud
16 4 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 609 (85.06%) Windows
2 447 (62.43%) Windows Server
3 139 (19.41%) Linux
4 131 (18.30%) Windows 10
5 122 (17.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 50 (6.98%) Mac OS
7 33 (4.61%) Windows Server 2019
8 25 (3.49%) Apple iOS
9 23 (3.21%) Android
10 15 (2.09%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (1.82%) VMS
12 6 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.70%) Unix
14 4 (0.56%) CentOS
14 4 (0.56%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.42%) CoreOS
15 3 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.14%) Solaris
16 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (44.41%) Problem-Solving
2 257 (35.89%) Customer Service
3 149 (20.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 147 (20.53%) ITIL
5 139 (19.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 121 (16.90%) Cybersecurity
7 115 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 111 (15.50%) Migration
9 105 (14.66%) Vulnerability Remediation
10 102 (14.25%) Service Delivery
11 94 (13.13%) Customer Experience
12 93 (12.99%) Kalman Filter
13 86 (12.01%) Web Filtering
14 85 (11.87%) Email Filtering
15 82 (11.45%) ITSM
16 81 (11.31%) Vulnerability Scanning
17 79 (11.03%) Mentoring
18 70 (9.78%) Project Delivery
19 53 (7.40%) High Availability
20 52 (7.26%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 167 (23.32%) PowerShell
2 36 (5.03%) SQL
3 30 (4.19%) Python
4 13 (1.82%) Bash
5 12 (1.68%) Bicep
6 11 (1.54%) VBA
7 5 (0.70%) C#
8 1 (0.14%) Ruby
8 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 136 (18.99%) Security Cleared
2 114 (15.92%) SC Cleared
3 76 (10.61%) Degree
4 75 (10.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 60 (8.38%) Cisco Certification
6 45 (6.28%) CCNA
7 37 (5.17%) Azure Certification
8 36 (5.03%) Network+ Certification
9 31 (4.33%) CCNP
10 25 (3.49%) DBS Check
11 20 (2.79%) DV Cleared
12 19 (2.65%) A+ Certification
13 15 (2.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 14 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
15 12 (1.68%) MCSA
16 11 (1.54%) CCIE
17 9 (1.26%) AWS Certification
17 9 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
18 8 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
18 8 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (19.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 86 (12.01%) PCI DSS
3 67 (9.36%) SLA
4 44 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (3.35%) GDPR
6 18 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 17 (2.37%) NIST
8 8 (1.12%) QA
9 5 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.42%) NCSC
10 3 (0.42%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 589 (82.26%) Active Directory
2 279 (38.97%) Hyper-V
3 195 (27.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 80 (11.17%) Terminal Server
5 37 (5.17%) vSphere
6 21 (2.93%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (2.79%) VMware ESXi
8 12 (1.68%) VMware NSX
9 9 (1.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.84%) Docker
10 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 6 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
11 5 (0.70%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.42%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.28%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.28%) UAG
14 1 (0.14%) Firmware
14 1 (0.14%) KVM
Systems Management
1 125 (17.46%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (4.89%) FortiGate
3 24 (3.35%) Ansible
4 21 (2.93%) Jamf Pro
5 15 (2.09%) WSUS
6 13 (1.82%) SCCM
7 12 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 11 (1.54%) Terraform
8 11 (1.54%) vCenter Server
9 10 (1.40%) CASB
10 9 (1.26%) Backup Exec
10 9 (1.26%) Failover Clustering
11 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.84%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.84%) VxRail
13 5 (0.70%) Kubernetes
14 4 (0.56%) Iperf
14 4 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.56%) SolarWinds Orion
15 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 594 (82.96%) Microsoft
2 309 (43.16%) VMware
3 139 (19.41%) Veeam
4 104 (14.53%) Cisco
5 94 (13.13%) SolarWinds
6 92 (12.85%) Nimble Storage
7 88 (12.29%) Splunk
8 80 (11.17%) Brocade
8 80 (11.17%) Tanium
9 34 (4.75%) HP
10 31 (4.33%) Dell
10 31 (4.33%) Meraki
11 30 (4.19%) Palo Alto
12 29 (4.05%) SonicWALL
13 26 (3.63%) Apple
14 25 (3.49%) Citrix
15 21 (2.93%) ServiceNow
16 19 (2.65%) Aruba
16 19 (2.65%) Fortinet
17 14 (1.96%) Google