DHCP Contracts in England

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DHCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DHCP over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 244 279
Rank change year-on-year -2 +35 +40
Contract jobs citing DHCP 364 547 691
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.99% 1.12% 0.99%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.49% 9.14% 8.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 400 478
10th Percentile £213 £203 £195
25th Percentile £350 £325 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £538
90th Percentile £631 £688 £619
UK median daily rate £468 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -4.10% +14.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 23
10th Percentile £16.70 £20.00 £20.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £29.75 £20.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +79.07% +7.50%
75th Percentile - £50.77 £46.33
90th Percentile £55.50 £52.13 £48.56
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +3.90% +79.07% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,859 5,983 7,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.22% 12.22% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,933 3,910 5,113
10th Percentile £208 £235 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 431 302
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.83
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.90 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.24
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.25
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.51% +4.63%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in England

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in England.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in England

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in England

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in England.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in England

DHCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DHCP in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DHCP in England

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +38 126 £500 -9.09% 54
London +25 116 £450 -14.29% 63
Midlands +6 43 £400 - 54
West Midlands +11 35 £400 -19.19% 32
North of England -19 34 £380 -20.00% 69
South West -11 33 £538 +13.16% 20
North West -3 18 £394 -3.37% 48
Yorkshire -7 14 £375 -28.57% 18
East Midlands -3 7 £325 -13.33% 22
East of England -25 6 £425 -19.05% 29
North East +15 2 £613 +118.75% 3
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 89 (24.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (7.14%) Confluence
3 19 (5.22%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.10%) IIS
4 4 (1.10%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.82%) Apache
6 2 (0.55%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.55%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.55%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 98 (26.92%) Azure
2 95 (26.10%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (15.11%) AWS
4 34 (9.34%) Entra ID
5 20 (5.49%) OCI
6 19 (5.22%) Azure Storage
6 19 (5.22%) GCP
7 16 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
7 16 (4.40%) IaaS
7 16 (4.40%) PaaS
8 14 (3.85%) SaaS
9 10 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (2.75%) Nutanix
10 8 (2.20%) OneDrive
10 8 (2.20%) Rubrik
11 7 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.65%) Mimecast
12 6 (1.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 345 (94.78%) DNS
2 145 (39.84%) Firewall
3 95 (26.10%) TCP/IP
4 84 (23.08%) LAN
5 77 (21.15%) WAN
6 57 (15.66%) SAN
7 51 (14.01%) VLAN
8 48 (13.19%) VPN
9 41 (11.26%) Wi-Fi
10 39 (10.71%) Wireless
11 31 (8.52%) BGP
12 29 (7.97%) MPLS
13 26 (7.14%) OSPF
14 22 (6.04%) Cisco Nexus
15 19 (5.22%) Cisco ASA
16 18 (4.95%) NAS
17 16 (4.40%) Network Security
17 16 (4.40%) SNMP
18 14 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
19 13 (3.57%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.04%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.47%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.20%) MySQL
4 6 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.37%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.82%) Redis
7 2 (0.55%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.27%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.27%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.27%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.27%) Power BI
8 1 (0.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (8.24%) JIRA
2 15 (4.12%) Git
3 10 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.20%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.27%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.27%) Darcs
7 1 (0.27%) Gradle
7 1 (0.27%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.27%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.27%) MSI
7 1 (0.27%) Subversion
7 1 (0.27%) Travis CI
General
1 132 (36.26%) Social Skills
2 40 (10.99%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (8.79%) Finance
4 20 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.22%) Military
6 18 (4.95%) Telecoms
7 11 (3.02%) Banking
8 9 (2.47%) Aerospace
9 8 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.37%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.82%) French Language
11 3 (0.82%) Front Office
11 3 (0.82%) German Language
11 3 (0.82%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.82%) Retail
12 2 (0.55%) Automotive
12 2 (0.55%) Cantonese Language
12 2 (0.55%) Portuguese Language
12 2 (0.55%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 93 (25.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 52 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 38 (10.44%) Senior
4 34 (9.34%) Support Engineer
5 29 (7.97%) Analyst
6 23 (6.32%) Architect
6 23 (6.32%) IT Support
7 21 (5.77%) IT Engineer
8 19 (5.22%) Support Specialist
9 18 (4.95%) Test Engineer
10 17 (4.67%) Active Directory Support
10 17 (4.67%) IT Analyst
10 17 (4.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (4.40%) Integration Engineer
11 16 (4.40%) Test and Integration Engineer
12 14 (3.85%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (3.85%) Azure Specialist
12 14 (3.85%) Wintel Engineer
13 12 (3.30%) IT Support Engineer
13 12 (3.30%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.77%) LDAP
2 16 (4.40%) ARM Templates
3 5 (1.37%) .NET
3 5 (1.37%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.37%) Node.js
3 5 (1.37%) Web Services
4 4 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (1.10%) NETCONF
5 3 (0.82%) XMPP
6 2 (0.55%) ADSI
6 2 (0.55%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.55%) Jinja
6 2 (0.55%) JSON
6 2 (0.55%) Kafka
6 2 (0.55%) React
6 2 (0.55%) RESTful
6 2 (0.55%) XML
6 2 (0.55%) YANG
7 1 (0.27%) LAPP Stack
7 1 (0.27%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 74 (20.33%) Data Centre
2 72 (19.78%) PKI
3 31 (8.52%) Clustering
4 22 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.57%) Client/Server
6 10 (2.75%) Private Cloud
6 10 (2.75%) Replication
7 9 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.92%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.65%) NHS
9 6 (1.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.10%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.10%) Data Structures
11 4 (1.10%) Fat Client
11 4 (1.10%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.10%) Thin Client
12 3 (0.82%) CCTV
12 3 (0.82%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 225 (61.81%) Windows
2 155 (42.58%) Windows Server
3 86 (23.63%) Linux
4 62 (17.03%) Windows 10
5 59 (16.21%) Windows Server 2012
6 53 (14.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 47 (12.91%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (7.42%) Unix
9 25 (6.87%) Windows 7
10 20 (5.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 18 (4.95%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (3.85%) Windows XP
13 11 (3.02%) Ubuntu
14 9 (2.47%) Solaris
15 8 (2.20%) Oracle Linux
15 8 (2.20%) Windows Server 2003
16 5 (1.37%) CentOS
17 4 (1.10%) Android
17 4 (1.10%) Apple iOS
18 3 (0.82%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (28.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 76 (20.88%) ITIL
3 63 (17.31%) Agile
4 62 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (12.36%) Migration
6 42 (11.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (9.07%) DevOps
8 32 (8.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 30 (8.24%) Service Management
10 28 (7.69%) Release Management
10 28 (7.69%) Server Management
10 28 (7.69%) Storage Management
11 27 (7.42%) Customer Service
12 26 (7.14%) Analytics
12 26 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (7.14%) RBAC
13 25 (6.87%) Change Management
14 24 (6.59%) CI/CD
14 24 (6.59%) Performance Tuning
14 24 (6.59%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 113 (31.04%) PowerShell
2 40 (10.99%) Python
3 34 (9.34%) SQL
4 28 (7.69%) C#
5 26 (7.14%) VBScript
6 18 (4.95%) Bash
6 18 (4.95%) Java
7 16 (4.40%) Bicep
7 16 (4.40%) VB
8 8 (2.20%) Go
9 6 (1.65%) TypeScript
10 5 (1.37%) C
11 4 (1.10%) Perl
12 3 (0.82%) C++
12 3 (0.82%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.82%) Ruby
12 3 (0.82%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.27%) Rust
Qualifications
1 100 (27.47%) Security Cleared
2 81 (22.25%) Degree
3 70 (19.23%) Cisco Certification
4 69 (18.96%) SC Cleared
5 56 (15.38%) DV Cleared
6 51 (14.01%) CCNA
7 50 (13.74%) CCNP
8 39 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 22 (6.04%) MCSE
11 19 (5.22%) MCSA
12 16 (4.40%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 8 (2.20%) Azure Certification
13 8 (2.20%) CCIE
13 8 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (1.65%) AWS Certification
15 5 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (1.37%) CCIE Data Center
15 5 (1.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.57%) GDPR
2 10 (2.75%) SLA
3 8 (2.20%) NIST
3 8 (2.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.10%) QA
5 3 (0.82%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.55%) NCSC
7 1 (0.27%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 230 (63.19%) Active Directory
2 134 (36.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
4 48 (13.19%) Hyper-V
5 39 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (7.97%) vSphere
7 26 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (6.04%) XenApp
9 21 (5.77%) Docker
10 16 (4.40%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (4.40%) VMware NSX
11 15 (4.12%) VMware Workstation
12 8 (2.20%) KVM
13 6 (1.65%) XenDesktop
14 5 (1.37%) BitLocker
14 5 (1.37%) Terminal Services
14 5 (1.37%) VMware Server
15 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 2 (0.55%) NFS
16 2 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 95 (26.10%) SCCM
2 51 (14.01%) vCenter Server
3 46 (12.64%) WSUS
4 42 (11.54%) SCOM
5 36 (9.89%) Kubernetes
6 33 (9.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 29 (7.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 27 (7.42%) Ansible
9 24 (6.59%) Terraform
10 22 (6.04%) EMC NetWorker
10 22 (6.04%) NetBackup
11 11 (3.02%) Microsoft Clustering
12 10 (2.75%) FortiGate
13 9 (2.47%) Nagios
14 8 (2.20%) Netcool
14 8 (2.20%) Tivoli
14 8 (2.20%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 7 (1.92%) Nessus
15 7 (1.92%) SolarWinds Orion
16 5 (1.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 177 (48.63%) Microsoft
2 154 (42.31%) VMware
3 86 (23.63%) Cisco
4 44 (12.09%) Palo Alto
5 42 (11.54%) Dell
6 37 (10.16%) Citrix
7 34 (9.34%) Veeam
8 29 (7.97%) HP
9 28 (7.69%) Oracle
10 27 (7.42%) Symantec
11 24 (6.59%) EMC
12 23 (6.32%) SolarWinds
13 21 (5.77%) CheckPoint
14 19 (5.22%) F5
14 19 (5.22%) Juniper
15 18 (4.95%) Infoblox
16 16 (4.40%) Ivanti
17 15 (4.12%) Extreme Networks
17 15 (4.12%) Splunk
18 14 (3.85%) Aruba