Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DHCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DHCP over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 144 268 277
Rank change year-on-year +124 +9 -55
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 1,223 1,687 1,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.34% 1.38% 1.34%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 15.41% 11.12% 10.40%
Number of salaries quoted 961 1,335 1,477
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,937 £24,900
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,291 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £44,047 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +10.12% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,250 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +6.67% +7.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

DHCP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,935 15,167 16,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.18% 12.41% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,194 10,320 11,502
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,528 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.17% +2.22% -

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DHCP.

Salary trend for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England +116 1,140 £41,117 -6.55% 386
UK excluding London +109 887 £39,000 -2.50% 320
Work from Home +59 365 £45,000 -2.17% 120
London +109 309 £55,000 +5.77% 75
South East +105 229 £42,000 +12.00% 101
Midlands +113 195 £42,500 +6.25% 74
North of England +111 189 £36,500 -8.75% 82
South West +105 177 £37,500 -7.98% 32
West Midlands +122 137 £42,500 +13.33% 48
North West +83 88 £37,500 -14.29% 51
Yorkshire +85 83 £34,250 -5.05% 20
East Midlands +45 58 £33,500 -24.29% 26
East of England +16 49 £36,000 -20.00% 20
Scotland +51 41 £47,103 +44.93% 7
North East +38 18 £36,647 -2.27% 11
Northern Ireland +40 14 £37,500 -9.64% 2
Wales -4 9 £37,500 -16.67% 5

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 154 (12.59%) SharePoint
2 103 (8.42%) MS Exchange
3 61 (4.99%) IIS
4 7 (0.57%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (0.41%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.33%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.25%) Confluence
7 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.16%) Apache
8 2 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.082%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.082%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.082%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.082%) uWSGI
Applications
1 109 (8.91%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (0.98%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.33%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 16 (1.31%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.57%) SAP Business One
3 4 (0.33%) Cerner Millennium
4 3 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.25%) Eikon
4 3 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.16%) Epicor Tropos
5 2 (0.16%) Misys Equation
Cloud Services
1 683 (55.85%) Azure
2 629 (51.43%) Microsoft 365
3 283 (23.14%) AWS
4 188 (15.37%) Entra ID
5 77 (6.30%) OpenShift
6 72 (5.89%) SaaS
7 69 (5.64%) OneDrive
8 62 (5.07%) PaaS
9 57 (4.66%) IaaS
10 43 (3.52%) Mimecast
11 36 (2.94%) GCP
12 29 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 27 (2.21%) Datadog
14 25 (2.04%) Azure Storage
15 24 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (1.64%) WhatsApp
17 15 (1.23%) Nutanix
17 15 (1.23%) Power Platform
18 10 (0.82%) Cloud Computing
19 9 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 1,179 (96.40%) DNS
2 526 (43.01%) TCP/IP
3 482 (39.41%) Firewall
4 317 (25.92%) VPN
5 244 (19.95%) LAN
6 237 (19.38%) WAN
7 230 (18.81%) VLAN
8 162 (13.25%) Wireless
9 154 (12.59%) Wi-Fi
10 141 (11.53%) HTTP
11 118 (9.65%) SAN
12 75 (6.13%) SNMP
13 72 (5.89%) Internet
14 63 (5.15%) VoIP
15 60 (4.91%) Network Security
16 57 (4.66%) BGP
16 57 (4.66%) OSPF
17 53 (4.33%) SD-WAN
18 47 (3.84%) SMTP
19 46 (3.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (8.99%) SQL Server
2 55 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (0.74%) MySQL
3 9 (0.74%) Power BI
4 6 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (0.25%) Metadata
6 3 (0.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.16%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.16%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.16%) InfluxDB
7 2 (0.16%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.16%) SQLPlus
8 1 (0.082%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.082%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.082%) GIS
8 1 (0.082%) MS Access
8 1 (0.082%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.082%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.082%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (1.23%) JIRA
2 10 (0.82%) Axure RP
3 4 (0.33%) Git
3 4 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.25%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.25%) Maven
4 3 (0.25%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.16%) Fiddler
5 2 (0.16%) MSBuild
5 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.082%) GitLab
6 1 (0.082%) MSI
General
1 322 (26.33%) Social Skills
2 148 (12.10%) Finance
3 110 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 66 (5.40%) Telecoms
6 45 (3.68%) Aerospace
7 43 (3.52%) Banking
7 43 (3.52%) Law
8 42 (3.43%) Legal
9 36 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
10 20 (1.64%) Financial Institution
10 20 (1.64%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.55%) Public Sector
12 17 (1.39%) Retail
13 14 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (0.98%) Back Office
15 11 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (0.90%) Publishing
16 8 (0.65%) Investment Banking
17 6 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 330 (26.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 210 (17.17%) Support Engineer
3 201 (16.43%) Senior
4 145 (11.86%) IT Engineer
5 119 (9.73%) IT Support
6 114 (9.32%) Network Engineer
7 103 (8.42%) Analyst
8 82 (6.70%) 2nd Line Support
8 82 (6.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 79 (6.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 72 (5.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 68 (5.56%) 3rd Line Support
11 68 (5.56%) Administrator
12 66 (5.40%) Support Analyst
13 64 (5.23%) IT Support Engineer
14 55 (4.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 55 (4.50%) Systems Administrator
15 53 (4.33%) Windows Engineer
16 49 (4.01%) Systems Engineer
17 44 (3.60%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.45%) SAML
2 29 (2.37%) HTML
2 29 (2.37%) OpenID
3 15 (1.23%) ARM Templates
4 11 (0.90%) FIX Protocol
5 10 (0.82%) Web Services
6 9 (0.74%) MFC
7 8 (0.65%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.57%) LDAP
8 7 (0.57%) REST
8 7 (0.57%) XML
9 6 (0.49%) .NET
9 6 (0.49%) Middleware
10 4 (0.33%) FHIR
11 3 (0.25%) YAML
12 2 (0.16%) .NET Framework
12 2 (0.16%) ASP.NET
12 2 (0.16%) Kafka
12 2 (0.16%) WSH
13 1 (0.082%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 115 (9.40%) Data Centre
2 69 (5.64%) Self-Motivation
3 65 (5.31%) Driving Licence
4 45 (3.68%) PKI
5 35 (2.86%) Cyberattack
6 34 (2.78%) Clustering
7 30 (2.45%) CMDB
8 29 (2.37%) Cloud Native
9 27 (2.21%) Onboarding
10 26 (2.13%) Replication
11 24 (1.96%) EFT
12 22 (1.80%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.72%) Management Information System
14 17 (1.39%) NHS
15 14 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
16 12 (0.98%) Public Cloud
17 11 (0.90%) Eurex
18 9 (0.74%) Hedge funds
18 9 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
18 9 (0.74%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 960 (78.50%) Windows
2 608 (49.71%) Windows Server
3 256 (20.93%) Linux
4 232 (18.97%) Windows 10
5 180 (14.72%) Windows Server 2016
6 178 (14.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 129 (10.55%) Windows Server 2012
8 92 (7.52%) Android
9 79 (6.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 45 (3.68%) Apple iOS
11 38 (3.11%) Windows Server 2003
12 34 (2.78%) Windows Server 2008
13 33 (2.70%) Mac OS
14 25 (2.04%) Windows 8
15 21 (1.72%) Unix
16 20 (1.64%) Ubuntu
17 18 (1.47%) CentOS
18 13 (1.06%) Windows 7
19 12 (0.98%) Solaris
20 7 (0.57%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (30.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 281 (22.98%) ITIL
3 225 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
4 184 (15.04%) Customer Service
5 145 (11.86%) Agile
6 135 (11.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 94 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
8 84 (6.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 78 (6.38%) Migration
10 76 (6.21%) Actionable Insight
11 72 (5.89%) High Availability
12 67 (5.48%) Collaborative Working
13 63 (5.15%) DevOps
13 63 (5.15%) Identity Management
14 58 (4.74%) Roadmaps
15 56 (4.58%) Virtual Infrastructure
16 55 (4.50%) Project Delivery
17 51 (4.17%) Continuous Integration
18 50 (4.09%) Service Management
19 49 (4.01%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 379 (30.99%) PowerShell
2 156 (12.76%) Python
3 107 (8.75%) Bash
4 96 (7.85%) SQL
5 77 (6.30%) Java
6 31 (2.53%) C#
7 25 (2.04%) VBScript
8 24 (1.96%) VB
9 14 (1.14%) Perl
10 11 (0.90%) Bicep
10 11 (0.90%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.90%) Ruby
11 6 (0.49%) C++
12 5 (0.41%) DataFlex
13 3 (0.25%) PHP
14 1 (0.082%) Go
14 1 (0.082%) R
14 1 (0.082%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 216 (17.66%) Degree
2 161 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 139 (11.37%) Cisco Certification
4 116 (9.48%) DV Cleared
5 112 (9.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 92 (7.52%) SC Cleared
7 76 (6.21%) CCNA
8 49 (4.01%) Azure Certification
9 38 (3.11%) MCSE
10 34 (2.78%) MCSA
11 33 (2.70%) A+ Certification
12 31 (2.53%) AWS Certification
13 30 (2.45%) CCNP
13 30 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
14 29 (2.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 28 (2.29%) DBS Check
16 27 (2.21%) CompTIA Security+
17 22 (1.80%) MCP
18 21 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 20 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (6.05%) SLA
2 21 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (0.90%) QA
5 10 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 10 (0.82%) GDPR
6 9 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.65%) NIST
8 5 (0.41%) PMO
9 4 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.33%) HL7
10 3 (0.25%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.16%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.082%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.082%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.082%) SOC 2
System Software
1 818 (66.88%) Active Directory
2 395 (32.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 277 (22.65%) Hyper-V
4 81 (6.62%) Docker
5 80 (6.54%) VMware ESXi
6 64 (5.23%) Virtual Machines
7 54 (4.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 50 (4.09%) Firmware
9 35 (2.86%) vSphere
10 27 (2.21%) XenApp
11 21 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
12 13 (1.06%) DFS Replication
12 13 (1.06%) Terminal Services
12 13 (1.06%) VMware NSX
13 10 (0.82%) XenDesktop
14 9 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 7 (0.57%) BitLocker
15 7 (0.57%) Samba
16 5 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.41%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 205 (16.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 143 (11.69%) SCCM
3 142 (11.61%) Ansible
4 130 (10.63%) Puppet
5 106 (8.67%) Kubernetes
6 93 (7.60%) Terraform
7 84 (6.87%) SCOM
8 54 (4.42%) WSUS
9 51 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 47 (3.84%) vCenter Server
11 45 (3.68%) FortiGate
12 21 (1.72%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 16 (1.31%) Failover Clustering
13 16 (1.31%) Microsoft Clustering
13 16 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
14 15 (1.23%) PaperCut
15 11 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
16 10 (0.82%) NetBackup
17 9 (0.74%) Grafana
18 8 (0.65%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 649 (53.07%) Microsoft
2 548 (44.81%) VMware
3 291 (23.79%) Cisco
4 179 (14.64%) Citrix
5 95 (7.77%) Red Hat
6 90 (7.36%) HP
7 82 (6.70%) Veeam
8 74 (6.05%) Meraki
9 69 (5.64%) SolarWinds
10 54 (4.42%) Dynatrace
11 45 (3.68%) Aruba
12 42 (3.43%) Sophos
13 41 (3.35%) Fortinet
13 41 (3.35%) Google
13 41 (3.35%) Juniper
14 38 (3.11%) Dell
15 35 (2.86%) Mitel
16 31 (2.53%) SonicWALL
17 29 (2.37%) Apple
18 28 (2.29%) Palo Alto