DHCP Job Trends in the West Midlands

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring DHCP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 131 118
Rank change year-on-year -29 -13 +71
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 41 46 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.52% 1.37% 1.97%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.30% 9.24% 14.04%
Number of salaries quoted 37 44 117
10th Percentile £27,350 £27,750 £24,900
25th Percentile £27,900 £30,125 £28,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 £35,000 £39,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -11.95% +6.00%
75th Percentile £53,750 £37,500 £48,150
90th Percentile £58,750 £43,300 £57,000
England median annual salary £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% -1.72%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,242 498 990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.72% 14.86% 14.03%
Number of salaries quoted 253 298 826
10th Percentile £27,694 £29,250 £25,950
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £49,443 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% +16.34% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,375 £67,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

DHCP
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DHCP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing DHCP

DHCP
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for DHCP in the West Midlands

DHCP
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Staffordshire -18 13 £30,750 -12.14% 2
Shropshire -22 7 £27,500 -3.51%
Herefordshire - 7 £52,500 -
Coventry - 6 £39,500 - 1
Birmingham -14 2 £45,000 +51.26% 2
West Bromwich - 2 £28,600 -
Solihull +12 1 £57,500 -
Wolverhampton -20 1 £45,000 +45.16%
Worcestershire -23 1 £37,500 +20.97% 4
Kingswinford - 1 £30,500 -
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (41.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (29.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (63.41%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (56.10%) Azure
3 20 (48.78%) Entra ID
4 5 (12.20%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.88%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.44%) AWS
6 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.44%) IaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.44%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.44%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (100.00%) DNS
2 20 (48.78%) VPN
3 10 (24.39%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (19.51%) LAN
4 8 (19.51%) WAN
5 7 (17.07%) VoIP
6 6 (14.63%) TCP/IP
7 5 (12.20%) Broadband
7 5 (12.20%) Ethernet
7 5 (12.20%) Wireless
8 4 (9.76%) FTP
8 4 (9.76%) RFID
9 3 (7.32%) ADSL
9 3 (7.32%) Internet
9 3 (7.32%) VDSL
9 3 (7.32%) VLAN
10 2 (4.88%) Firewall
10 2 (4.88%) iSCSI
10 2 (4.88%) PBX
10 2 (4.88%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) LabVIEW
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 14 (34.15%) Manufacturing
3 7 (17.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (7.32%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (41.46%) Analyst
2 14 (34.15%) IT Engineer
2 14 (34.15%) IT Support
3 11 (26.83%) Support Analyst
4 10 (24.39%) Support Engineer
5 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 7 (17.07%) IT Analyst
6 7 (17.07%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (17.07%) IT Support Analyst
6 7 (17.07%) Operations Engineer
7 6 (14.63%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (12.20%) Technical Support
9 4 (9.76%) Help Desk Analyst
9 4 (9.76%) Help Desk Support
9 4 (9.76%) Help Desk Support Analyst
10 3 (7.32%) Senior Support Analyst
10 3 (7.32%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (7.32%) Technical Engineer
10 3 (7.32%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Driving Licence
1 8 (19.51%) Onboarding
2 4 (9.76%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.44%) iSeries
3 1 (2.44%) PKI
3 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (58.54%) Windows
2 11 (26.83%) Windows 10
2 11 (26.83%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) ITIL
1 21 (51.22%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (34.15%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (24.39%) Customer Service
4 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (21.95%) Migration
5 7 (17.07%) Cloud Security
5 7 (17.07%) Data Migration
5 7 (17.07%) Performance Optimisation
5 7 (17.07%) Service Delivery
6 5 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (12.20%) ERP
6 5 (12.20%) Roadmaps
7 4 (9.76%) Computer Science
7 4 (9.76%) ITSM
7 4 (9.76%) Remote Monitoring and Management
7 4 (9.76%) Server Building
8 3 (7.32%) Customer Experience
8 3 (7.32%) Project Delivery
8 3 (7.32%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.76%) SQL
3 1 (2.44%) Bicep
3 1 (2.44%) VB
3 1 (2.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (41.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (19.51%) Degree
3 7 (17.07%) MCSA
3 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
4 6 (14.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (9.76%) A+ Certification
5 4 (9.76%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.51%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (19.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 8 (19.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.32%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (75.61%) Active Directory
2 10 (24.39%) Hyper-V
3 6 (14.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (7.32%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (4.88%) BitLocker
6 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (34.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
2 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 36 (87.80%) Microsoft
2 13 (31.71%) VMware
3 9 (21.95%) Cisco
3 9 (21.95%) Meraki
4 6 (14.63%) Citrix
4 6 (14.63%) Veeam
5 4 (9.76%) Kaseya
6 2 (4.88%) Aruba
6 2 (4.88%) HP
7 1 (2.44%) Autodesk
7 1 (2.44%) Commvault
7 1 (2.44%) SAP
7 1 (2.44%) Symantec