DHCP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 243 218 296
Rank change year-on-year -25 +78 +60
Contract jobs citing DHCP 102 267 364
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.69% 1.08% 0.83%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.65% 9.39% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 187 240
10th Percentile £300 £325 £313
25th Percentile £350 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% +17.65% +4.29%
75th Percentile £598 £619 £550
90th Percentile £608 £700 £639
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £425
% change year-on-year -2.56% +14.71% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.00 - £20.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £21.50
75th Percentile £21.38 - £57.29
90th Percentile £22.80 - £66.90
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,533 2,844 4,340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.54% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,882 2,941
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £24.38 £57.50 £48.04
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% +19.69% +17.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.56
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%

DHCP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DHCP trend for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DHCP.

DHCP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DHCP over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

DHCP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DHCP.

DHCP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 33 (32.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.84%) Confluence
3 4 (3.92%) IIS
4 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 41 (40.20%) Azure
2 32 (31.37%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (22.55%) Entra ID
4 19 (18.63%) AWS
5 17 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
5 17 (16.67%) Azure Storage
6 13 (12.75%) IaaS
7 11 (10.78%) GCP
8 8 (7.84%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (6.86%) PaaS
10 6 (5.88%) Nutanix
10 6 (5.88%) Rubrik
10 6 (5.88%) SaaS
11 3 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.94%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (2.94%) Amazon S3
11 3 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.94%) Mimecast
11 3 (2.94%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 96 (94.12%) DNS
2 47 (46.08%) Firewall
3 28 (27.45%) TCP/IP
4 18 (17.65%) VLAN
5 15 (14.71%) VPN
6 12 (11.76%) SAN
7 11 (10.78%) LAN
8 10 (9.80%) WAN
9 9 (8.82%) BGP
9 9 (8.82%) Network Security
10 8 (7.84%) NAS
11 7 (6.86%) OSPF
12 6 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (5.88%) HTTP
12 6 (5.88%) Kerberos
12 6 (5.88%) SNMP
13 5 (4.90%) MPLS
13 5 (4.90%) SD-WAN
13 5 (4.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.96%) Power BI
4 1 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.98%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (0.98%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.98%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.98%) MySQL
4 1 (0.98%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.98%) Redis
4 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (8.82%) Git
1 9 (8.82%) Jenkins
1 9 (8.82%) JIRA
2 6 (5.88%) TeamCity
3 3 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.98%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.98%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.98%) Darcs
4 1 (0.98%) Gradle
4 1 (0.98%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.98%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.98%) Subversion
4 1 (0.98%) Travis CI
General
1 33 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 10 (9.80%) Finance
3 7 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.94%) Banking
6 3 (2.94%) Retail
7 2 (1.96%) Front Office
7 2 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.98%) Law
8 1 (0.98%) Military
8 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (24.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (16.67%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (14.71%) Network Engineer
4 14 (13.73%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (13.73%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (13.73%) Support Specialist
5 10 (9.80%) Senior
6 9 (8.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Support Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Analyst
9 6 (5.88%) Active Directory Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) IT Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Server Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 4 (3.92%) IT Support
11 4 (3.92%) Security Analyst
12 3 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
12 3 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 6 (5.88%) LDAP
3 4 (3.92%) .NET
4 2 (1.96%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.96%) ADSI
4 2 (1.96%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.96%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.96%) React
5 1 (0.98%) CSS
5 1 (0.98%) Django
5 1 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.98%) Flask
5 1 (0.98%) HTML
5 1 (0.98%) Node.js
5 1 (0.98%) REST
5 1 (0.98%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 29 (28.43%) PKI
2 20 (19.61%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (12.75%) Clustering
4 6 (5.88%) Replication
5 4 (3.92%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.92%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.96%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.96%) NHS
6 2 (1.96%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.98%) CBDC
7 1 (0.98%) Digital Currency
7 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 58 (56.86%) Windows
2 44 (43.14%) Windows Server
3 34 (33.33%) Linux
4 23 (22.55%) Windows Server 2016
5 20 (19.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (9.80%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (7.84%) Windows 10
8 7 (6.86%) Solaris
9 6 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (5.88%) Windows 7
10 4 (3.92%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (3.92%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (2.94%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.94%) Unix
12 2 (1.96%) CentOS
12 2 (1.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (35.29%) Agile
2 28 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
2 28 (27.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 27 (26.47%) ITIL
4 26 (25.49%) DevOps
5 22 (21.57%) Release Management
6 20 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (19.61%) Service Management
7 19 (18.63%) CI/CD
7 19 (18.63%) RBAC
8 18 (17.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 17 (16.67%) Analytics
9 17 (16.67%) Identity Management
9 17 (16.67%) Log Analytics
9 17 (16.67%) Privileged Identity Management
10 14 (13.73%) High Availability
11 12 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (8.82%) Computer Science
12 9 (8.82%) Security Hardening
12 9 (8.82%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (42.16%) PowerShell
2 21 (20.59%) VBScript
3 18 (17.65%) C#
4 17 (16.67%) Bicep
4 17 (16.67%) Python
4 17 (16.67%) VB
5 12 (11.76%) Bash
6 3 (2.94%) C++
6 3 (2.94%) Java
6 3 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.94%) Perl
6 3 (2.94%) SQL
7 2 (1.96%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.96%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.98%) C
8 1 (0.98%) Go
8 1 (0.98%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (32.35%) Degree
2 31 (30.39%) Security Cleared
3 26 (25.49%) SC Cleared
4 21 (20.59%) DV Cleared
5 17 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 11 (10.78%) CCNP
7 10 (9.80%) CCNA
8 6 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (4.90%) CCDP
9 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (3.92%) APMP
10 4 (3.92%) CEH
10 4 (3.92%) CISM
10 4 (3.92%) CISSP
10 4 (3.92%) PMP
11 3 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (2.94%) MCSA
11 3 (2.94%) MCSE
12 2 (1.96%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.78%) GDPR
2 6 (5.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (3.92%) SLA
4 2 (1.96%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.98%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 70 (68.63%) Active Directory
2 27 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (24.51%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 11 (10.78%) Docker
6 9 (8.82%) XenApp
7 8 (7.84%) Hyper-V
7 8 (7.84%) vSphere
8 5 (4.90%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (4.90%) XenDesktop
9 2 (1.96%) Firmware
9 2 (1.96%) Terminal Services
9 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.98%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.98%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.98%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 34 (33.33%) SCCM
2 26 (25.49%) Kubernetes
3 22 (21.57%) WSUS
4 19 (18.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (18.63%) SCOM
5 18 (17.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (10.78%) Ansible
7 10 (9.80%) Terraform
8 6 (5.88%) EMC NetWorker
8 6 (5.88%) Netcool
8 6 (5.88%) Tivoli
8 6 (5.88%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 5 (4.90%) vCenter Server
10 4 (3.92%) Kibana
11 2 (1.96%) FortiGate
11 2 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.96%) Nessus
11 2 (1.96%) Puppet
12 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
12 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (46.08%) Microsoft
2 29 (28.43%) VMware
3 19 (18.63%) Cisco
4 12 (11.76%) Citrix
5 11 (10.78%) Dell
6 10 (9.80%) ServiceNow
6 10 (9.80%) Splunk
7 9 (8.82%) HP
8 8 (7.84%) Palo Alto
8 8 (7.84%) Qualys
9 7 (6.86%) Aruba
9 7 (6.86%) Oracle
10 6 (5.88%) Arista
10 6 (5.88%) CyberArk
10 6 (5.88%) EMC
10 6 (5.88%) IBM
10 6 (5.88%) Isilon
10 6 (5.88%) Serena
11 5 (4.90%) Symantec
11 5 (4.90%) Zscaler