DHCP Contracts in the Thames Valley

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 92 109
Rank change year-on-year +14 +17 +20
Contract jobs citing DHCP 62 54 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.36% 1.90% 1.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.29% 11.61% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 40 31
10th Percentile £354 £185 £200
25th Percentile £465 £250 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £575 £400
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% +43.93% -0.13%
75th Percentile £608 £700 £455
90th Percentile £638 £754 £520
South East median daily rate £500 £516 £408
% change year-on-year -3.15% +26.69% -1.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £65.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £43.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year +8.57% +103.49% +7.50%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 549 465 625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.93% 16.35% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 286 355
10th Percentile £205 £291 £211
25th Percentile £350 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% +18.75%
75th Percentile £594 £579 £550
90th Percentile £638 £663 £638
South East median daily rate £490 £481 £455
% change year-on-year +1.96% +5.62% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 15 21
10th Percentile £16.73 £18.90 £12.25
25th Percentile £22.58 £25.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +288.24% -38.18%
75th Percentile £85.65 £80.25 £20.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £81.22 £26.50
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £57.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.26% +167.44% -42.28%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the Thames Valley

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Berkshire +9 52 £605 -10.37% 15
Buckinghamshire +23 9 £465 +12.72% 3
Oxfordshire +4 1 - - 9
DHCP
South East

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 26 (41.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (56.45%) Azure
2 19 (30.65%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (29.03%) Azure Monitor
3 18 (29.03%) Azure Storage
3 18 (29.03%) Entra ID
4 14 (22.58%) OCI
5 2 (3.23%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (100.00%) DNS
2 34 (54.84%) Firewall
3 18 (29.03%) SAN
4 4 (6.45%) NAS
5 1 (1.61%) InfiniBand
5 1 (1.61%) LAN
5 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (6.45%) MySQL
1 4 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) MSI
General
1 36 (58.06%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (48.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (29.03%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (22.58%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (22.58%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (22.58%) Support Specialist
4 10 (16.13%) Storage Engineer
5 8 (12.90%) Support Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) Architect
6 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Architect
6 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
6 7 (11.29%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (9.68%) Active Directory Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (8.06%) Senior
8 5 (8.06%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Active Directory Support Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Server Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) 3rd Line Support
10 3 (4.84%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (29.03%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 30 (48.39%) PKI
2 21 (33.87%) Data Centre
3 18 (29.03%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (11.29%) Private Cloud
5 4 (6.45%) Fat Client
5 4 (6.45%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.61%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 48 (77.42%) Windows
2 43 (69.35%) Windows Server
3 38 (61.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 37 (59.68%) Linux
5 34 (54.84%) Windows Server 2016
6 17 (27.42%) Windows 10
7 16 (25.81%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (22.58%) Windows XP
9 4 (6.45%) Ubuntu
10 3 (4.84%) Windows 7
11 1 (1.61%) Mac OS
11 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (66.13%) ITIL
2 32 (51.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 26 (41.94%) Agile
4 23 (37.10%) Release Management
5 19 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (29.03%) Analytics
6 18 (29.03%) CI/CD
6 18 (29.03%) DevOps
6 18 (29.03%) Identity Management
6 18 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (29.03%) Log Analytics
6 18 (29.03%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 18 (29.03%) Privileged Identity Management
6 18 (29.03%) RBAC
6 18 (29.03%) Service Management
7 15 (24.19%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (24.19%) Project Management
8 14 (22.58%) Break/Fix
8 14 (22.58%) Proactive Monitoring
8 14 (22.58%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (61.29%) PowerShell
2 18 (29.03%) Bicep
2 18 (29.03%) C#
2 18 (29.03%) VB
2 18 (29.03%) VBScript
3 1 (1.61%) Perl
3 1 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 52 (83.87%) Security Cleared
2 43 (69.35%) DV Cleared
2 43 (69.35%) SC Cleared
3 41 (66.13%) Degree
4 18 (29.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 14 (22.58%) CCNA
5 14 (22.58%) CCNP
5 14 (22.58%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 53 (85.48%) Active Directory
2 23 (37.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (32.26%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (29.03%) Virtual Desktop
4 18 (29.03%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (22.58%) Hyper-V
6 6 (9.68%) XenApp
6 6 (9.68%) XenDesktop
7 1 (1.61%) Docker
7 1 (1.61%) NFS
7 1 (1.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 38 (61.29%) SCCM
1 38 (61.29%) WSUS
2 32 (51.61%) SCOM
3 22 (35.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (32.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (32.26%) vCenter Server
5 19 (30.65%) Kubernetes
6 14 (22.58%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (22.58%) NetBackup
7 7 (11.29%) Ansible
8 4 (6.45%) Nessus
8 4 (6.45%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (6.45%) ZABBIX
9 1 (1.61%) CFEngine
9 1 (1.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (72.58%) Microsoft
2 25 (40.32%) VMware
3 18 (29.03%) Oracle
3 18 (29.03%) Veeam
4 14 (22.58%) 3PAR
4 14 (22.58%) Cisco
4 14 (22.58%) Dell
4 14 (22.58%) EMC
4 14 (22.58%) Extreme Networks
4 14 (22.58%) HP
4 14 (22.58%) Juniper
4 14 (22.58%) Palo Alto
4 14 (22.58%) Symantec
5 7 (11.29%) Citrix
6 4 (6.45%) FireEye
6 4 (6.45%) Red Hat
6 4 (6.45%) Tanium
7 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow