DHCP Jobs in the West Midlands

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 132 180
Rank change year-on-year -4 +48 -35
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 51 132 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.23% 1.75% 1.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.99% 13.48% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 46 108 75
10th Percentile - £24,500 £22,593
25th Percentile £27,750 £27,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% -4.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £37,500 £47,663 £44,375
90th Percentile £43,000 £57,525 £48,750
England median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -1.23% -4.71%

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 464 979 1,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.22% 13.01% 17.64%
Number of salaries quoted 287 797 509
10th Percentile £29,000 £25,750 £25,875
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.94% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £56,950 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £67,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £46,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -4.76%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the West Midlands

DHCP
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for DHCP in the West Midlands

DHCP
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

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 23 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
Birmingham +10 15 £31,000 -31.11% 13
Staffordshire +32 12 £35,000 +27.27% 17
Warwickshire +4 9 £32,500 +18.18% 2
Shropshire +2 6 £28,500 -21.92% 15
Herefordshire +8 4 - - 1
Solihull +2 1 - - 1
Wednesbury 0 1 £45,000 +50.00%
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 12 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
1 12 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.92%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.96%) Confluence
Applications
1 33 (64.71%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (11.76%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (11.76%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 29 (56.86%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (23.53%) Google Workspace
3 7 (13.73%) Azure
4 6 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 5 (9.80%) AWS
6 4 (7.84%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.88%) Power Automate
7 3 (5.88%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.96%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (76.47%) TCP/IP
2 36 (70.59%) DNS
3 30 (58.82%) Firewall
4 15 (29.41%) LAN
4 15 (29.41%) VLAN
4 15 (29.41%) WAN
5 14 (27.45%) VPN
6 13 (25.49%) BGP
6 13 (25.49%) WLAN
7 12 (23.53%) OSPF
8 4 (7.84%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (5.88%) SAN
10 2 (3.92%) Network Security
10 2 (3.92%) Skype
10 2 (3.92%) Wireless
11 1 (1.96%) HTTP
11 1 (1.96%) MPLS
11 1 (1.96%) OpenLDAP
11 1 (1.96%) SD-WAN
11 1 (1.96%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.88%) Power BI
2 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.96%) Git
2 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.96%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) Maven
2 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 12 (23.53%) Automotive
2 12 (23.53%) Retail
3 10 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 4 (7.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Analyst
1 13 (25.49%) Systems Engineer
2 12 (23.53%) IT Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) IT Support
4 9 (17.65%) ICT Officer
4 9 (17.65%) ICT Support
4 9 (17.65%) ICT Support Officer
4 9 (17.65%) IT Analyst
4 9 (17.65%) IT Support Analyst
4 9 (17.65%) Support Analyst
4 9 (17.65%) Support Officer
5 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support
5 6 (11.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 3 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
7 2 (3.92%) Lead
7 2 (3.92%) Network Engineer
8 1 (1.96%) Network Analyst
8 1 (1.96%) Network Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.88%) Web Services
2 2 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.96%) LDAP
3 1 (1.96%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (27.45%) Management Information System
2 12 (23.53%) Smartphone
3 8 (15.69%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (72.55%) Windows
2 30 (58.82%) Windows Server
3 19 (37.25%) Windows 10
4 18 (35.29%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (33.33%) Linux
6 14 (27.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 13 (25.49%) Ubuntu
8 12 (23.53%) Mac OS X
9 6 (11.76%) Apple iOS
9 6 (11.76%) Mac OS
10 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (3.92%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (1.96%) CentOS
11 1 (1.96%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (31.37%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (29.41%) Performance Tuning
3 13 (25.49%) Customer Service
4 12 (23.53%) Business Case
4 12 (23.53%) Computer Science
4 12 (23.53%) Systems Engineering
5 10 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (19.61%) ITIL
6 6 (11.76%) Data Security
6 6 (11.76%) ERP
6 6 (11.76%) Logistics
7 5 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.84%) Agile
8 4 (7.84%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (7.84%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (7.84%) Machine Learning
9 3 (5.88%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (5.88%) Data Visualisation
9 3 (5.88%) Supplier Relationship Management
9 3 (5.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (45.10%) PowerShell
2 17 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (5.88%) Python
4 2 (3.92%) Bash
4 2 (3.92%) Perl
5 1 (1.96%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (41.18%) Degree
2 18 (35.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (23.53%) HNC
3 12 (23.53%) HND
3 12 (23.53%) MCSE
4 6 (11.76%) A+ Certification
4 6 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (11.76%) MCP
4 6 (11.76%) MCSA
5 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
6 4 (7.84%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.92%) CCNA
7 2 (3.92%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.96%) JNCIA
8 1 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) SLA
2 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (56.86%) Active Directory
2 12 (23.53%) Hyper-V
2 12 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.84%) SCOM
2 3 (5.88%) Puppet
3 2 (3.92%) Ansible
3 2 (3.92%) Progress Chef
3 2 (3.92%) SCCM
3 2 (3.92%) SCOrch
3 2 (3.92%) SCSM
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.96%) Nagios
4 1 (1.96%) Nessus
Vendors
1 45 (88.24%) Microsoft
2 18 (35.29%) Apple
3 16 (31.37%) Cisco
4 13 (25.49%) Fortinet
4 13 (25.49%) VMware
5 12 (23.53%) Dell
5 12 (23.53%) Google
5 12 (23.53%) Ubiquiti
6 9 (17.65%) SAP
7 2 (3.92%) ArcSight
7 2 (3.92%) Juniper
7 2 (3.92%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.92%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.92%) Splunk
8 1 (1.96%) Aruba
8 1 (1.96%) HP
8 1 (1.96%) Meraki
8 1 (1.96%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.96%) Sophos