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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 240 276
Rank change year-on-year +2 +36 +54
Contract jobs citing DHCP 351 531 687
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.96% 1.10% 0.98%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.33% 8.99% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 383 474
10th Percentile £215 £200 £197
25th Percentile £350 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% +6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £632 £693 £618
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -2.56% +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 4,791 5,904 7,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.15% 12.25% 11.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 3,859 5,188
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 419 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.90
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.13 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.60 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +50 124 £506 -7.95% 60
London +24 111 £450 -14.04% 79
Midlands +4 41 £400 +1.59% 45
West Midlands +17 34 £400 -23.81% 23
South West -22 34 £538 +11.69% 16
North of England -19 30 £388 -18.42% 77
North West +1 19 £400 +10.34% 48
Yorkshire -17 9 £378 -28.10% 27
East of England -32 7 £425 -20.93% 28
East Midlands -11 6 £325 -13.33% 22
North East +12 2 £613 +118.75% 2
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 (25.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (7.12%) Confluence
3 19 (5.41%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.42%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.14%) IIS
6 3 (0.85%) Apache
7 2 (0.57%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.57%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 94 (26.78%) Azure
2 91 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (14.53%) AWS
4 35 (9.97%) Entra ID
5 20 (5.70%) Azure Storage
5 20 (5.70%) OCI
6 17 (4.84%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (4.84%) GCP
7 14 (3.99%) PaaS
8 13 (3.70%) IaaS
9 12 (3.42%) SaaS
10 9 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.28%) Nutanix
11 8 (2.28%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.71%) Amazon S3
13 6 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.71%) Mimecast
13 6 (1.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 333 (94.87%) DNS
2 141 (40.17%) Firewall
3 92 (26.21%) TCP/IP
4 81 (23.08%) LAN
5 74 (21.08%) WAN
6 55 (15.67%) SAN
7 49 (13.96%) VLAN
8 46 (13.11%) VPN
9 38 (10.83%) Wireless
10 36 (10.26%) Wi-Fi
11 31 (8.83%) BGP
12 29 (8.26%) MPLS
13 26 (7.41%) OSPF
14 22 (6.27%) Cisco Nexus
15 19 (5.41%) Cisco ASA
16 16 (4.56%) NAS
16 16 (4.56%) Network Security
16 16 (4.56%) SNMP
17 13 (3.70%) Cisco ISE
17 13 (3.70%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.98%) SQL Server
2 9 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.28%) MySQL
4 6 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.42%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.85%) Redis
7 2 (0.57%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.28%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.28%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.28%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.28%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.28%) Power BI
8 1 (0.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (8.26%) JIRA
2 14 (3.99%) Git
3 8 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.71%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.28%) Darcs
7 1 (0.28%) Gradle
7 1 (0.28%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.28%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.28%) MSI
7 1 (0.28%) Subversion
7 1 (0.28%) Travis CI
General
1 127 (36.18%) Social Skills
2 41 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (8.26%) Finance
4 20 (5.70%) Military
5 19 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.13%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.56%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.99%) Banking
10 5 (1.42%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.85%) French Language
11 3 (0.85%) Front Office
11 3 (0.85%) German Language
11 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.85%) Retail
12 2 (0.57%) Automotive
12 2 (0.57%) Cantonese Language
12 2 (0.57%) Portuguese Language
12 2 (0.57%) Spanish Language
13 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 90 (25.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 52 (14.81%) Network Engineer
3 36 (10.26%) Senior
4 34 (9.69%) Support Engineer
5 29 (8.26%) Analyst
6 23 (6.55%) Architect
7 22 (6.27%) IT Support
8 21 (5.98%) IT Engineer
9 19 (5.41%) Support Specialist
9 19 (5.41%) Test Engineer
10 18 (5.13%) Active Directory Support
11 17 (4.84%) IT Analyst
12 16 (4.56%) Integration Engineer
12 16 (4.56%) Test and Integration Engineer
13 15 (4.27%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (3.99%) Active Directory Specialist
14 14 (3.99%) Azure Specialist
14 14 (3.99%) Wintel Engineer
15 13 (3.70%) Server Engineer
16 12 (3.42%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.84%) ARM Templates
1 17 (4.84%) LDAP
2 5 (1.42%) .NET
2 5 (1.42%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.42%) Node.js
2 5 (1.42%) Web Services
3 4 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.14%) NETCONF
4 3 (0.85%) React
4 3 (0.85%) XMPP
5 2 (0.57%) ADSI
5 2 (0.57%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.57%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.57%) Jinja
5 2 (0.57%) JSON
5 2 (0.57%) Kafka
5 2 (0.57%) RESTful
5 2 (0.57%) XML
5 2 (0.57%) YANG
6 1 (0.28%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 74 (21.08%) PKI
2 70 (19.94%) Data Centre
3 29 (8.26%) Clustering
4 23 (6.55%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.70%) Client/Server
6 11 (3.13%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.28%) Replication
8 6 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.71%) NHS
9 5 (1.42%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.42%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (1.14%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.14%) Fat Client
10 4 (1.14%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.14%) Thin Client
11 3 (0.85%) CCTV
11 3 (0.85%) CMDB
11 3 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 210 (59.83%) Windows
2 149 (42.45%) Windows Server
3 83 (23.65%) Linux
4 59 (16.81%) Windows Server 2012
5 54 (15.38%) Windows 10
6 53 (15.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 49 (13.96%) Windows Server 2016
8 27 (7.69%) Unix
9 20 (5.70%) Windows 7
10 18 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (4.56%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (3.99%) Windows XP
13 11 (3.13%) Ubuntu
14 8 (2.28%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (1.99%) Solaris
16 6 (1.71%) Oracle Linux
17 4 (1.14%) Android
17 4 (1.14%) Apple iOS
17 4 (1.14%) CentOS
18 3 (0.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (28.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 77 (21.94%) ITIL
3 63 (17.95%) Agile
4 61 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (11.68%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (11.40%) Migration
7 32 (9.12%) DevOps
8 30 (8.55%) Service Management
9 29 (8.26%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (8.26%) Release Management
10 28 (7.98%) Server Management
11 27 (7.69%) Analytics
12 26 (7.41%) Change Management
12 26 (7.41%) CI/CD
12 26 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
12 26 (7.41%) Storage Management
13 25 (7.12%) Customer Service
13 25 (7.12%) RBAC
14 23 (6.55%) Load Balancing
14 23 (6.55%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 113 (32.19%) PowerShell
2 40 (11.40%) Python
3 36 (10.26%) SQL
4 29 (8.26%) C#
5 27 (7.69%) VBScript
6 18 (5.13%) Java
7 17 (4.84%) Bicep
7 17 (4.84%) VB
8 16 (4.56%) Bash
9 8 (2.28%) Go
10 6 (1.71%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.42%) C
12 4 (1.14%) Perl
13 3 (0.85%) C++
13 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.85%) Ruby
13 3 (0.85%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 99 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 79 (22.51%) Degree
3 70 (19.94%) Cisco Certification
4 67 (19.09%) SC Cleared
5 58 (16.52%) DV Cleared
6 51 (14.53%) CCNA
7 50 (14.25%) CCNP
8 37 (10.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (6.55%) MCSE
9 23 (6.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 20 (5.70%) MCSA
11 17 (4.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 8 (2.28%) Azure Certification
12 8 (2.28%) CCIE
12 8 (2.28%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (1.71%) AWS Certification
15 5 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 5 (1.42%) CCIE Data Center
15 5 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.13%) GDPR
2 10 (2.85%) SLA
3 8 (2.28%) NIST
4 6 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.85%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.85%) QA
6 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.57%) NCSC
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 217 (61.82%) Active Directory
2 123 (35.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
4 44 (12.54%) Hyper-V
5 35 (9.97%) Virtual Machines
6 29 (8.26%) vSphere
7 27 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (6.27%) XenApp
9 20 (5.70%) Docker
10 16 (4.56%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (4.56%) VMware NSX
11 11 (3.13%) VMware Workstation
12 6 (1.71%) XenDesktop
13 5 (1.42%) BitLocker
13 5 (1.42%) Terminal Services
13 5 (1.42%) VMware Server
14 4 (1.14%) KVM
14 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 2 (0.57%) NFS
15 2 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 95 (27.07%) SCCM
2 46 (13.11%) vCenter Server
2 46 (13.11%) WSUS
3 43 (12.25%) SCOM
4 36 (10.26%) Kubernetes
5 33 (9.40%) Microsoft Intune
6 29 (8.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 25 (7.12%) Ansible
8 22 (6.27%) NetBackup
8 22 (6.27%) Terraform
9 20 (5.70%) EMC NetWorker
10 11 (3.13%) Microsoft Clustering
11 10 (2.85%) FortiGate
11 10 (2.85%) Nagios
12 7 (1.99%) Nessus
12 7 (1.99%) SolarWinds Orion
13 6 (1.71%) Netcool
13 6 (1.71%) Tivoli
13 6 (1.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 6 (1.71%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 165 (47.01%) Microsoft
2 143 (40.74%) VMware
3 83 (23.65%) Cisco
4 43 (12.25%) Palo Alto
5 40 (11.40%) Dell
6 36 (10.26%) Citrix
7 34 (9.69%) Veeam
8 27 (7.69%) HP
8 27 (7.69%) Symantec
9 26 (7.41%) Oracle
10 24 (6.84%) SolarWinds
11 22 (6.27%) EMC
12 21 (5.98%) CheckPoint
13 19 (5.41%) F5
13 19 (5.41%) Juniper
14 18 (5.13%) Infoblox
15 16 (4.56%) Ivanti
16 15 (4.27%) Extreme Networks
16 15 (4.27%) Google
17 14 (3.99%) Aruba