DHCP Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring DHCP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 26 16
Rank change year-on-year -27 -10 +88
Contract jobs citing DHCP 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.92% 3.39% 1.96%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 38.46% 40.00% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile - £298 -
25th Percentile £325 £299 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.04% - -
75th Percentile £400 £300 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £383 £355 £388
% change year-on-year +7.75% -8.39% +3.33%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Shropshire

DHCP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13 10 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 4.98% 8.47% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 3
10th Percentile £239 £187 -
25th Percentile £325 £276 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £300 £480
Median % change year-on-year +33.56% -37.60% +34.74%
75th Percentile £425 £370 £516
90th Percentile £470 £582 £529
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -8.57%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

DHCP job vacancy trend in Shropshire

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing DHCP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing DHCP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing DHCP

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford -31 3 £325 +8.51% 1
Shrewsbury - 2 £400 -
DHCP
West Midlands

DHCP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (60.00%) AWS KMS
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (60.00%) IaaS
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) AWS Administrator
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) Key Management
2 3 (60.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 3 (60.00%) Workflow
3 2 (40.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) AppDynamics
1 3 (60.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware