DHCP Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DHCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DHCP over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 265 200 187
Rank change year-on-year -65 -13 +41
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 397 1,020 1,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.01% 1.44% 1.84%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.00% 10.47% 10.10%
Number of salaries quoted 371 854 803
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.60% -3.75%
75th Percentile £50,000 £47,438 £48,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £57,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%

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 6,616 9,744 10,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.77% 13.73% 18.25%
Number of salaries quoted 3,230 7,069 4,702
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,500 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £43,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.49% -3.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £60,047
90th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,250
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -4.29%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 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
South East -24 96 £37,500 - 118
Midlands -42 94 £35,000 -2.78% 43
North of England -91 90 £37,500 -6.25% 115
West Midlands -10 56 £32,500 -10.96% 24
North West -80 55 £40,000 -5.88% 54
South West +38 48 £40,000 +29.03% 56
East of England +7 48 £45,000 +38.46% 47
East Midlands -27 38 £37,500 +5.63% 15
Yorkshire +15 28 £35,000 +8.53% 50
Scotland +104 16 £37,500 +10.29% 13
North East +11 7 £32,000 -22.89% 15
Wales +17 4 £42,111 +23.85% 6
Isle of Man +12 1 £34,500 -19.77%
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 111 (27.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (15.37%) SharePoint
3 30 (7.56%) IIS
4 3 (0.76%) Confluence
5 2 (0.50%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.50%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.25%) Apache
6 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 97 (24.43%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.25%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (1.76%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (1.51%) SAP ERP
3 3 (0.76%) Sage 50
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 214 (53.90%) Microsoft 365
2 192 (48.36%) Azure
3 61 (15.37%) AWS
4 58 (14.61%) Entra ID
5 22 (5.54%) GCP
5 22 (5.54%) OneDrive
6 18 (4.53%) Google Workspace
7 13 (3.27%) Power Platform
8 12 (3.02%) Mimecast
9 9 (2.27%) SaaS
10 7 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.76%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.51%) Azure Storage
11 6 (1.51%) Nutanix
11 6 (1.51%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.01%) IaaS
12 4 (1.01%) PaaS
13 3 (0.76%) Power Automate
14 2 (0.50%) Azure Stack
14 2 (0.50%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 378 (95.21%) DNS
2 211 (53.15%) Firewall
3 162 (40.81%) TCP/IP
4 129 (32.49%) VPN
5 109 (27.46%) VLAN
6 81 (20.40%) LAN
7 69 (17.38%) WAN
8 38 (9.57%) Network Security
9 36 (9.07%) VoIP
10 35 (8.82%) SAN
10 35 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (8.06%) Wireless
12 22 (5.54%) Remote Desktop
13 20 (5.04%) BGP
13 20 (5.04%) OSPF
14 18 (4.53%) NAS
14 18 (4.53%) WLAN
15 14 (3.53%) MPLS
15 14 (3.53%) SD-WAN
15 14 (3.53%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (10.33%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.02%) Power BI
4 5 (1.26%) MongoDB
4 5 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.01%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (1.01%) Tableau
6 3 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.25%) MySQL
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (2.27%) JIRA
2 5 (1.26%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.25%) Git
5 1 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Maven
General
1 143 (36.02%) Social Skills
2 39 (9.82%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (8.06%) Retail
4 23 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (4.79%) Automotive
6 16 (4.03%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.02%) Finance
8 9 (2.27%) Legal
8 9 (2.27%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.76%) Law
9 7 (1.76%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.26%) Banking
11 3 (0.76%) Aviation
11 3 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.76%) Local Government
11 3 (0.76%) Police
12 2 (0.50%) Games
13 1 (0.25%) Advertising
13 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 78 (19.65%) Support Engineer
2 76 (19.14%) IT Support
3 73 (18.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 66 (16.62%) Analyst
5 53 (13.35%) IT Engineer
6 42 (10.58%) Support Analyst
7 34 (8.56%) Network Engineer
8 32 (8.06%) IT Analyst
9 31 (7.81%) 3rd Line Support
9 31 (7.81%) Senior
10 30 (7.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 29 (7.30%) IT Support Analyst
12 26 (6.55%) 2nd Line Support
13 25 (6.30%) Systems Engineer
14 22 (5.54%) IT Support Engineer
15 21 (5.29%) Infrastructure Support
16 20 (5.04%) Technical Support
17 17 (4.28%) Administrator
17 17 (4.28%) IT Technician
17 17 (4.28%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.26%) Middleware
2 3 (0.76%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.76%) Web Services
3 2 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.50%) LDAP
4 1 (0.25%) FreeSWITCH
4 1 (0.25%) Node.js
4 1 (0.25%) SAML
4 1 (0.25%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.25%) WSH
4 1 (0.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (9.57%) Driving Licence
2 30 (7.56%) Data Centre
3 28 (7.05%) Management Information System
4 22 (5.54%) Clustering
5 15 (3.78%) Smartphone
6 14 (3.53%) PKI
7 12 (3.02%) Replication
8 11 (2.77%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.51%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.26%) CCTV
12 5 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
13 4 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
14 3 (0.76%) Cloud Native
15 2 (0.50%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 305 (76.83%) Windows
2 221 (55.67%) Windows Server
3 97 (24.43%) Linux
4 52 (13.10%) Windows Server 2016
5 45 (11.34%) Windows 10
6 39 (9.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 37 (9.32%) Mac OS
8 19 (4.79%) Ubuntu
9 16 (4.03%) Mac OS X
10 15 (3.78%) Unix
11 14 (3.53%) Apple iOS
12 13 (3.27%) Windows 7
13 12 (3.02%) VMS
14 10 (2.52%) Android
15 9 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
16 8 (2.02%) CentOS
17 7 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 5 (1.26%) Windows 8
18 5 (1.26%) Windows Server 2003
18 5 (1.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (29.22%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (21.41%) Customer Service
2 85 (21.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 76 (19.14%) Cybersecurity
4 67 (16.88%) Disaster Recovery
5 62 (15.62%) ITIL
6 29 (7.30%) Incident Management
7 26 (6.55%) High Availability
8 20 (5.04%) Computer Science
9 19 (4.79%) Project Delivery
9 19 (4.79%) Server Management
10 18 (4.53%) Infrastructure Management
10 18 (4.53%) Patch Management
10 18 (4.53%) Performance Tuning
11 17 (4.28%) Agile
11 17 (4.28%) Migration
12 16 (4.03%) Artificial Intelligence
12 16 (4.03%) Task Automation
13 15 (3.78%) Incident Response
13 15 (3.78%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 116 (29.22%) PowerShell
2 45 (11.34%) SQL
3 17 (4.28%) Python
4 7 (1.76%) Bash
5 4 (1.01%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.50%) Perl
7 1 (0.25%) Java
7 1 (0.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.25%) R
7 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 63 (15.87%) Microsoft Certification
2 53 (13.35%) Degree
3 45 (11.34%) Security Cleared
4 34 (8.56%) A+ Certification
5 28 (7.05%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (6.80%) Network+ Certification
7 26 (6.55%) DV Cleared
8 25 (6.30%) CCNA
9 22 (5.54%) Azure Certification
9 22 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (5.29%) MCP
11 19 (4.79%) MCSE
12 18 (4.53%) MCSA
12 18 (4.53%) SC Cleared
13 16 (4.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 13 (3.27%) HNC
14 13 (3.27%) HND
15 9 (2.27%) CCNP
16 8 (2.02%) DBS Check
17 6 (1.51%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.79%) SLA
2 12 (3.02%) GDPR
3 8 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (0.76%) Government Security Classifications
4 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.25%) GRC
6 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.25%) PMO
6 1 (0.25%) QA
System Software
1 270 (68.01%) Active Directory
2 125 (31.49%) Hyper-V
3 118 (29.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 36 (9.07%) VMware ESXi
5 31 (7.81%) vSphere
6 20 (5.04%) Docker
7 16 (4.03%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (3.78%) Terminal Services
9 12 (3.02%) Firmware
10 11 (2.77%) VMware NSX
11 8 (2.02%) BitLocker
11 8 (2.02%) Microsoft App-V
11 8 (2.02%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.76%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.25%) KVM
13 1 (0.25%) LXC
13 1 (0.25%) RHEV
13 1 (0.25%) vCloud
13 1 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 61 (15.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (7.81%) vCenter Server
3 30 (7.56%) Ansible
4 20 (5.04%) Kubernetes
5 18 (4.53%) Puppet
6 16 (4.03%) SCCM
7 14 (3.53%) vMotion
8 12 (3.02%) SCOM
9 10 (2.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 10 (2.52%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.52%) Terraform
9 10 (2.52%) WSUS
10 7 (1.76%) Nagios
10 7 (1.76%) PowerCLI
10 7 (1.76%) vRealize
11 5 (1.26%) Autotask
11 5 (1.26%) FortiGate
12 4 (1.01%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (1.01%) VxRail
Vendors
1 271 (68.26%) Microsoft
2 154 (38.79%) VMware
3 76 (19.14%) Cisco
4 41 (10.33%) Google
5 36 (9.07%) HP
6 34 (8.56%) Apple
7 31 (7.81%) Citrix
8 29 (7.30%) Fortinet
9 28 (7.05%) Dell
9 28 (7.05%) Veeam
10 20 (5.04%) Ubiquiti
11 15 (3.78%) Meraki
12 13 (3.27%) SAP
13 12 (3.02%) SolarWinds
13 12 (3.02%) Sophos
14 11 (2.77%) SonicWALL
15 10 (2.52%) Aruba
16 9 (2.27%) Juniper
16 9 (2.27%) Oracle
16 9 (2.27%) ServiceNow