Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DHCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DHCP over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 227 232 339
Rank change year-on-year +5 +107 -73
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 1,321 1,528 1,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.57% 1.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.77% 9.86% 8.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,115 1,166 1,548
10th Percentile £26,017 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +2.41%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,750 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £38,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -1.32% -5.00% +6.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,526 15,491 22,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.18% 15.91% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,761 11,859
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,900 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +16 1,246 £40,000 -1.23% 296
UK excluding London +1 1,030 £37,500 -1.32% 246
Work from Home 0 411 £47,500 +5.56% 111
London +29 272 £55,000 +10.00% 63
North of England +24 270 £40,000 +0.52% 72
Midlands +62 241 £35,000 -5.41% 40
South East -41 241 £37,500 -3.85% 60
North West -3 142 £42,500 - 48
West Midlands +50 134 £36,500 -2.67% 24
South West -15 128 £31,000 -22.50% 26
East Midlands +27 103 £35,000 -4.11% 16
East of England -44 90 £32,500 -18.75% 31
Yorkshire +52 86 £32,250 -6.11% 21
North East +5 42 £41,500 +10.67% 3
Wales +11 26 £34,000 +6.25% 6
Scotland -78 26 £35,000 - 16
Northern Ireland +10 5 £32,500 -2.26% 1
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 373 (28.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 237 (17.94%) SharePoint
3 66 (5.00%) IIS
4 12 (0.91%) Exchange Server 2010
5 11 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.83%) Exchange Server 2013
6 9 (0.68%) Confluence
7 7 (0.53%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.38%) Apache
9 4 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2003
10 3 (0.23%) Skype for Business
11 2 (0.15%) nginx
11 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.15%) WordPress
12 1 (0.076%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 203 (15.37%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (0.45%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.15%) CATIA
6 2 (0.15%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 17 (1.29%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.53%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 4 (0.30%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.23%) Epicor Tropos
6 2 (0.15%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.076%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.076%) Eikon
7 1 (0.076%) Sage 300 ERP
7 1 (0.076%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.076%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.076%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 710 (53.75%) Azure
2 702 (53.14%) Microsoft 365
3 265 (20.06%) Entra ID
4 208 (15.75%) AWS
5 93 (7.04%) OneDrive
6 58 (4.39%) IaaS
7 54 (4.09%) SaaS
8 48 (3.63%) Mimecast
9 43 (3.26%) Power Platform
10 39 (2.95%) OpenShift
11 38 (2.88%) Nutanix
12 31 (2.35%) PaaS
13 24 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (1.51%) Azure Storage
15 16 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (1.14%) GCP
17 14 (1.06%) WhatsApp
18 13 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
19 12 (0.91%) Google Workspace
19 12 (0.91%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1,272 (96.29%) DNS
2 560 (42.39%) Firewall
3 505 (38.23%) TCP/IP
4 350 (26.50%) WAN
5 319 (24.15%) LAN
6 316 (23.92%) VPN
7 224 (16.96%) Wi-Fi
8 208 (15.75%) VLAN
9 157 (11.88%) Wireless
10 156 (11.81%) SAN
11 71 (5.37%) MPLS
12 68 (5.15%) VoIP
13 64 (4.84%) SD-WAN
14 61 (4.62%) OSPF
15 60 (4.54%) Network Security
16 58 (4.39%) IPsec
17 57 (4.31%) HTTP
18 55 (4.16%) Internet
19 54 (4.09%) BGP
20 52 (3.94%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (7.80%) SQL Server
2 30 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (1.82%) Power BI
4 12 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (0.83%) Oracle Database
6 9 (0.68%) MySQL
7 5 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (0.38%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (0.38%) NoSQL
7 5 (0.38%) Redis
7 5 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.23%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.076%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.076%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.076%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 33 (2.50%) JIRA
2 11 (0.83%) Git
2 11 (0.83%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.76%) Trac
4 2 (0.15%) GitLab
4 2 (0.15%) Hudson
4 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.076%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.076%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.076%) Selenium
5 1 (0.076%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 367 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 128 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
3 126 (9.54%) Finance
4 42 (3.18%) Telecoms
5 37 (2.80%) Banking
6 30 (2.27%) Law
7 29 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 24 (1.82%) Aerospace
9 24 (1.82%) Legal
10 21 (1.59%) Manufacturing
11 18 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.36%) Retail
12 12 (0.91%) Marketing
12 12 (0.91%) Public Sector
13 9 (0.68%) Publishing
14 8 (0.61%) Automotive
15 7 (0.53%) German Language
16 6 (0.45%) Italian Language
16 6 (0.45%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 271 (20.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 225 (17.03%) IT Support
3 190 (14.38%) IT Engineer
4 184 (13.93%) Senior
4 184 (13.93%) Support Engineer
5 157 (11.88%) Analyst
6 121 (9.16%) Network Engineer
7 95 (7.19%) IT Support Engineer
8 82 (6.21%) 2nd Line Support
9 80 (6.06%) Support Analyst
10 76 (5.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 72 (5.45%) IT Technician
12 64 (4.84%) 3rd Line Support
13 63 (4.77%) Support Technician
14 57 (4.31%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 53 (4.01%) Administrator
15 53 (4.01%) Systems Engineer
16 51 (3.86%) IT Analyst
17 47 (3.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 46 (3.48%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (2.42%) ARM Templates
2 23 (1.74%) 802.1X
3 17 (1.29%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (1.29%) LDAP
4 8 (0.61%) Middleware
5 7 (0.53%) .NET
5 7 (0.53%) ADSI
5 7 (0.53%) HTML
5 7 (0.53%) XML
6 6 (0.45%) ADO
7 3 (0.23%) Keycloak
8 2 (0.15%) LAMP
8 2 (0.15%) TAPI
8 2 (0.15%) V-Ray
9 1 (0.076%) EDI
9 1 (0.076%) JSON
9 1 (0.076%) NETCONF
9 1 (0.076%) Redfish
9 1 (0.076%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 137 (10.37%) Data Centre
2 101 (7.65%) Driving Licence
3 69 (5.22%) PKI
4 65 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
5 55 (4.16%) Replication
6 44 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 36 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 31 (2.35%) Onboarding
9 24 (1.82%) Clustering
10 23 (1.74%) Security Posture
11 19 (1.44%) Client/Server
12 17 (1.29%) Eurex
13 15 (1.14%) CCTV
13 15 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
14 14 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
15 12 (0.91%) PMI
16 11 (0.83%) CMDB
17 10 (0.76%) Virtual Team
18 9 (0.68%) Fat Client
18 9 (0.68%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 975 (73.81%) Windows
2 674 (51.02%) Windows Server
3 275 (20.82%) Linux
4 220 (16.65%) Windows 10
5 197 (14.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 175 (13.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 131 (9.92%) Windows Server 2012
8 59 (4.47%) Apple iOS
9 52 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 51 (3.86%) Windows Server 2008
11 50 (3.79%) Android
12 46 (3.48%) Unix
13 37 (2.80%) CentOS
14 35 (2.65%) Mac OS
15 32 (2.42%) Ubuntu
16 22 (1.67%) Windows XP
17 18 (1.36%) VyOS
18 17 (1.29%) Windows 7
18 17 (1.29%) Windows 8
19 14 (1.06%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (25.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 330 (24.98%) ITIL
3 304 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
4 220 (16.65%) Customer Service
5 156 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
6 155 (11.73%) Disaster Recovery
7 113 (8.55%) Agile
8 95 (7.19%) DevOps
9 85 (6.43%) Project Management
10 80 (6.06%) Migration
11 70 (5.30%) Service Management
12 68 (5.15%) Server Management
13 64 (4.84%) Proactive Monitoring
14 60 (4.54%) Service Delivery
15 59 (4.47%) ITSM
16 58 (4.39%) Mentoring
17 54 (4.09%) Project Delivery
18 51 (3.86%) Incident Management
19 50 (3.79%) Kalman Filter
19 50 (3.79%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 341 (25.81%) PowerShell
2 117 (8.86%) SQL
3 110 (8.33%) Python
4 76 (5.75%) Bash
5 51 (3.86%) Java
6 36 (2.73%) C#
7 34 (2.57%) JavaScript
7 34 (2.57%) VBScript
8 26 (1.97%) Perl
9 23 (1.74%) VB
10 18 (1.36%) Bicep
11 17 (1.29%) Ruby
12 10 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.38%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.30%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.23%) R
16 2 (0.15%) C
16 2 (0.15%) C++
16 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 188 (14.23%) Degree
2 146 (11.05%) Cisco Certification
3 137 (10.37%) Security Cleared
4 133 (10.07%) CCNA
5 125 (9.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 92 (6.96%) DV Cleared
7 80 (6.06%) SC Cleared
8 53 (4.01%) MCSE
9 52 (3.94%) CCNP
10 42 (3.18%) MCSA
11 41 (3.10%) DBS Check
12 38 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
13 35 (2.65%) A+ Certification
14 34 (2.57%) Azure Certification
15 31 (2.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 31 (2.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 27 (2.04%) JNCIA
16 27 (2.04%) MCP
17 25 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
18 16 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (8.10%) SLA
2 25 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.14%) GDPR
5 8 (0.61%) PMO
6 6 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.30%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.30%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.30%) QA
7 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.23%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.15%) NCSC
10 1 (0.076%) GxP
10 1 (0.076%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.076%) NIST
System Software
1 974 (73.73%) Active Directory
2 407 (30.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 389 (29.45%) Hyper-V
4 89 (6.74%) VMware ESXi
5 62 (4.69%) Docker
6 58 (4.39%) vSphere
7 55 (4.16%) Virtual Machines
8 37 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 33 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (1.51%) Terminal Services
11 18 (1.36%) pfSense
12 17 (1.29%) XenApp
13 16 (1.21%) NFS
14 13 (0.98%) XenDesktop
15 11 (0.83%) Firmware
16 9 (0.68%) DFS Replication
17 6 (0.45%) VMware NSX
18 5 (0.38%) KVM
19 4 (0.30%) Citrix Hypervisor
19 4 (0.30%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 218 (16.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 143 (10.83%) SCCM
3 84 (6.36%) WSUS
4 81 (6.13%) Ansible
5 77 (5.83%) SCOM
6 74 (5.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 72 (5.45%) Kubernetes
8 56 (4.24%) Puppet
9 44 (3.33%) vCenter Server
10 25 (1.89%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 25 (1.89%) Terraform
11 23 (1.74%) ZABBIX
12 21 (1.59%) FortiGate
13 19 (1.44%) Grafana
13 19 (1.44%) NetBackup
14 17 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
14 17 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
15 16 (1.21%) SCDPM
16 13 (0.98%) VxRail
17 12 (0.91%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 820 (62.07%) Microsoft
2 547 (41.41%) VMware
3 266 (20.14%) Cisco
4 161 (12.19%) Veeam
5 134 (10.14%) Citrix
6 101 (7.65%) Dell
7 98 (7.42%) HP
8 92 (6.96%) Fortinet
9 86 (6.51%) Juniper
10 79 (5.98%) Red Hat
11 66 (5.00%) Apple
12 65 (4.92%) SolarWinds
13 57 (4.31%) Oracle
14 55 (4.16%) Meraki
15 46 (3.48%) Ruckus Wireless
16 43 (3.26%) Sophos
17 40 (3.03%) Bloomberg
18 31 (2.35%) Palo Alto
18 31 (2.35%) WatchGuard
19 29 (2.20%) NetApp