DHCP Contracts in the North of England

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 155 136 143
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 +7
Contract jobs citing DHCP 30 83 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.65% 1.48% 1.38%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.40% 12.41% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 69 61
10th Percentile £217 £165 £133
25th Percentile £310 £280 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 £325
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +46.15% -17.20%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £475
90th Percentile £645 £700 £550
England median daily rate £475 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £45.60 £17.88
25th Percentile - £49.80 £18.23
Median hourly rate - £52.13 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year - +176.99% +71.09%
75th Percentile - - £19.41
90th Percentile - - £19.76
England 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
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 556 669 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.00% 11.94% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 448 632
10th Percentile £200 £200 £180
25th Percentile £316 £325 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £612 £566 £550
90th Percentile £775 £665 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 49 24
10th Percentile £13.31 - £12.25
25th Percentile £18.89 £9.80 £16.17
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.35% +3.30%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.72 £22.88
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.00 £53.79
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% +0.41%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the North of England

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the North of England

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the North of England

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the North of England

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +1 19 £400 +10.34% 48
Yorkshire -17 9 £378 -28.10% 27
North East +12 2 £613 +118.75% 2
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.67%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (16.67%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
3 4 (13.33%) GCP
4 3 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.33%) IaaS
5 1 (3.33%) OCI
5 1 (3.33%) PaaS
5 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (100.00%) DNS
2 7 (23.33%) TCP/IP
3 6 (20.00%) Firewall
3 6 (20.00%) LAN
3 6 (20.00%) VLAN
4 5 (16.67%) SAN
5 4 (13.33%) VPN
5 4 (13.33%) WAN
5 4 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (10.00%) Wireless
7 2 (6.67%) Broadband
7 2 (6.67%) NAS
7 2 (6.67%) VoIP
8 1 (3.33%) BGP
8 1 (3.33%) NetScaler
8 1 (3.33%) Network Security
8 1 (3.33%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Banking
4 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.33%) Back Office
5 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (6.67%) Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Technician
4 2 (6.67%) Data Technician
4 2 (6.67%) IT Operations Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) IT Technician
4 2 (6.67%) Operations Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Server Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Service Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) ADSI
2 1 (3.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) NHS
2 3 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (6.67%) Clustering
3 2 (6.67%) CMDB
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.33%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.33%) LIMS
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.33%) PKI
4 1 (3.33%) Replication
4 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (56.67%) Windows
2 9 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (10.00%) VMS
5 3 (10.00%) Windows 7
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (33.33%) Migration
3 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 5 (16.67%) Runbook
5 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 4 (13.33%) ITIL
6 3 (10.00%) Change Management
6 3 (10.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (10.00%) Task Automation
7 2 (6.67%) Capacity Management
7 2 (6.67%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (6.67%) Incident Response
7 2 (6.67%) Performance Analysis
7 2 (6.67%) Problem Management
7 2 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (6.67%) Security Hardening
7 2 (6.67%) Time Management
7 2 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (26.67%) CCNA
3 6 (20.00%) Degree
4 5 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
4 5 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (13.33%) CCNP
5 4 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (10.00%) A+ Certification
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
7 2 (6.67%) JNCIA
7 2 (6.67%) MCSE
7 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
8 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (3.33%) CCIE
8 1 (3.33%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 17 (56.67%) Active Directory
2 13 (43.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 6 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (10.00%) KVM
6 3 (10.00%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (6.67%) vSphere
8 1 (3.33%) BitLocker
8 1 (3.33%) Firmware
8 1 (3.33%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (3.33%) Terminal Services
8 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
8 1 (3.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) vCenter Server
2 2 (6.67%) Nagios
2 2 (6.67%) ZABBIX
3 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (3.33%) SCCM
3 1 (3.33%) vMotion
3 1 (3.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (46.67%) VMware
3 4 (13.33%) Google
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco
4 3 (10.00%) Citrix
4 3 (10.00%) HP
5 2 (6.67%) Dell
5 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.33%) Aruba
6 1 (3.33%) EMC
6 1 (3.33%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.33%) NetApp
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle
6 1 (3.33%) Sophos
6 1 (3.33%) Symantec