DHCP Job Trends in Wales

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring DHCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 62 78
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 +22
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 42 5 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 1.82% 0.72% 1.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 24.42% 2.92% 14.90%
Number of salaries quoted 30 5 27
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,350 £24,500
25th Percentile £34,250 £34,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £60,625 - £36,000
90th Percentile £75,000 - £45,000
UK median annual salary £37,000 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 172 171 208
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 7.44% 24.78% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 121 135 148
10th Percentile £25,000 £23,504 £26,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £25,087 £28,290
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £27,500 £40,250
Median % change year-on-year +63.64% -31.68% +0.63%
75th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £47,500
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £58,175
UK median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -7.77%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Wales

DHCP
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing DHCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing DHCP

DHCP
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in Wales over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for DHCP in Wales

DHCP
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Wales region over the 6 months to 13 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
South Wales -4 35 £38,500 +10.00% 1
West Wales - 6 £45,000 -
Dyfed - 2 £45,000 -
North Wales -7 1 £34,000 - 1
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 17 (40.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.38%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (59.52%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (40.48%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) AWS
4 3 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.14%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 41 (97.62%) DNS
2 20 (47.62%) WAN
3 17 (40.48%) VPN
4 16 (38.10%) LAN
5 15 (35.71%) Firewall
6 10 (23.81%) TCP/IP
7 9 (21.43%) Network Security
8 8 (19.05%) BGP
8 8 (19.05%) MPLS
9 6 (14.29%) IPsec
9 6 (14.29%) SSH
9 6 (14.29%) SSL
9 6 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (14.29%) WLAN
10 4 (9.52%) HSRP
10 4 (9.52%) SD-WAN
10 4 (9.52%) VLAN
10 4 (9.52%) VoIP
10 4 (9.52%) VPLS
10 4 (9.52%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) Amazon RDS
General
1 24 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 14 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (23.81%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.52%) Finance
4 4 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Senior
2 14 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (23.81%) Network Engineer
3 10 (23.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (23.81%) Senior Network Engineer
3 10 (23.81%) Support Engineer
3 10 (23.81%) Systems Engineer
4 9 (21.43%) IT Engineer
4 9 (21.43%) IT Support
4 9 (21.43%) IT Support Engineer
5 8 (19.05%) Analyst
6 7 (16.67%) Support Analyst
7 6 (14.29%) IT Analyst
7 6 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
7 6 (14.29%) Service Desk Engineer
8 5 (11.90%) Service Analyst
8 5 (11.90%) Service Desk Analyst
9 4 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (9.52%) Help Desk Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Legacy Systems
1 10 (23.81%) PKI
2 4 (9.52%) CMDB
2 4 (9.52%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.52%) Driving Licence
3 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.38%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 38 (90.48%) Windows
2 31 (73.81%) Windows Server
3 14 (33.33%) Linux
3 14 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (9.52%) Android
4 4 (9.52%) Unix
4 4 (9.52%) Windows 10
4 4 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.38%) Windows 7
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (54.76%) Customer Service
3 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 14 (33.33%) ITIL
5 10 (23.81%) Customer Experience
5 10 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (23.81%) Email Filtering
5 10 (23.81%) Kalman Filter
5 10 (23.81%) Migration
5 10 (23.81%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 10 (23.81%) Vulnerability Scanning
5 10 (23.81%) Web Filtering
6 9 (21.43%) ITSM
7 8 (19.05%) Computer Science
7 8 (19.05%) SIEM
8 7 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 7 (16.67%) Service Management
9 6 (14.29%) BCP
9 6 (14.29%) Business Continuity
9 6 (14.29%) Business Continuity Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 18 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (28.57%) Degree
3 10 (23.81%) CCIE
3 10 (23.81%) CCNP
3 10 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (19.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (19.05%) DV Cleared
5 6 (14.29%) JNCIP
6 3 (7.14%) A+ Certification
6 3 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.81%) Cyber Essentials
1 10 (23.81%) PCI DSS
2 4 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (9.52%) NIST
3 2 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (73.81%) Active Directory
2 25 (59.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (47.62%) Hyper-V
4 10 (23.81%) Terminal Server
4 10 (23.81%) vSphere
5 8 (19.05%) VMware NSX
6 4 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (19.05%) Ansible
2 6 (14.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 4 (9.52%) vCenter Server
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 35 (83.33%) VMware
2 31 (73.81%) Microsoft
3 14 (33.33%) Splunk
4 11 (26.19%) SolarWinds
5 10 (23.81%) Brocade
5 10 (23.81%) Nimble Storage
5 10 (23.81%) Tanium
5 10 (23.81%) Veeam
6 4 (9.52%) Cisco
7 1 (2.38%) Acronis