DHCP Contracts

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 237 297
Rank change year-on-year -23 +60 +52
Contract jobs citing DHCP 387 616 819
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.90% 1.10% 0.94%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.13% 8.65% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 452 556
10th Percentile £213 £205 £200
25th Percentile £350 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £431
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +16.00% +7.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £608 £693 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £400
% change year-on-year -2.56% +21.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 6 26
10th Percentile £18.00 £29.75 £17.06
25th Percentile £35.00 £36.75 £20.13
Median hourly rate £40.00 £41.13 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% +91.28% +7.50%
75th Percentile £42.19 £50.04 £46.66
90th Percentile £68.13 £52.13 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £43.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -8.57% +103.49% +7.50%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DHCP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -8 348 £475 -5.00% 259
UK excluding London -15 255 £475 -2.56% 214
South East +27 120 £513 -1.91% 50
London +26 115 £450 -14.29% 55
Work from Home -18 102 £473 -9.13% 95
Midlands +9 45 £400 - 33
West Midlands +10 36 £400 -15.79% 20
South West -21 34 £538 +8.86% 20
Scotland +37 26 £239 -50.16% 15
North of England -29 26 £388 -18.42% 73
North West 0 16 £394 +8.62% 49
East Midlands -10 8 £388 +3.33% 13
Yorkshire -12 8 £380 -27.62% 20
East of England -30 4 £425 -22.73% 25
North East +11 2 £613 +118.75% 4
Wales +4 2 £425 -22.73% 5

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 92 (23.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (6.20%) Confluence
3 16 (4.13%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.29%) IIS
4 5 (1.29%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.52%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.26%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 35 (9.04%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.58%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 98 (25.32%) Azure
2 92 (23.77%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (13.70%) AWS
4 39 (10.08%) Entra ID
5 23 (5.94%) Azure Storage
6 20 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
6 20 (5.17%) OCI
7 15 (3.88%) GCP
8 12 (3.10%) IaaS
8 12 (3.10%) PaaS
9 10 (2.58%) SaaS
10 9 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.81%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.55%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.55%) Nutanix
12 6 (1.55%) Serverless
12 6 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (1.29%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 369 (95.35%) DNS
2 146 (37.73%) Firewall
3 98 (25.32%) TCP/IP
4 82 (21.19%) LAN
5 77 (19.90%) WAN
6 74 (19.12%) VPN
7 55 (14.21%) SAN
8 53 (13.70%) VLAN
9 38 (9.82%) BGP
9 38 (9.82%) Wireless
10 35 (9.04%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (8.53%) MPLS
12 30 (7.75%) OSPF
13 25 (6.46%) Cisco Nexus
14 22 (5.68%) Network Security
15 19 (4.91%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (4.39%) SD-WAN
17 16 (4.13%) SNMP
18 15 (3.88%) Cisco ISE
18 15 (3.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.43%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (1.81%) MySQL
4 6 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.29%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.29%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.52%) Power BI
6 2 (0.52%) Redis
7 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.26%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.26%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.26%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (7.75%) JIRA
2 14 (3.62%) Git
3 8 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (1.29%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.26%) Darcs
6 1 (0.26%) Gradle
6 1 (0.26%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.26%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.26%) MSI
6 1 (0.26%) Subversion
6 1 (0.26%) Travis CI
General
1 139 (35.92%) Social Skills
2 47 (12.14%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (7.75%) Finance
4 24 (6.20%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.43%) Military
6 19 (4.91%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.84%) Banking
8 9 (2.33%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.29%) Mandarin Language
10 3 (0.78%) Front Office
10 3 (0.78%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.78%) Retail
11 2 (0.52%) Automotive
11 2 (0.52%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.52%) French Language
11 2 (0.52%) German Language
11 2 (0.52%) Local Government
11 2 (0.52%) Portuguese Language
11 2 (0.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 97 (25.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 64 (16.54%) Network Engineer
3 36 (9.30%) Senior
4 35 (9.04%) Support Engineer
5 31 (8.01%) Analyst
6 21 (5.43%) Active Directory Support
7 20 (5.17%) Test Engineer
8 19 (4.91%) Architect
8 19 (4.91%) Support Specialist
9 17 (4.39%) IT Analyst
10 16 (4.13%) Integration Engineer
10 16 (4.13%) IT Engineer
10 16 (4.13%) Server Engineer
10 16 (4.13%) Test and Integration Engineer
11 15 (3.88%) IT Support
11 15 (3.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.62%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (3.62%) Azure Specialist
13 13 (3.36%) Active Directory Engineer
13 13 (3.36%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.17%) ARM Templates
2 18 (4.65%) LDAP
3 6 (1.55%) .NET
4 5 (1.29%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.29%) NETCONF
4 5 (1.29%) Node.js
4 5 (1.29%) Web Services
5 4 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.78%) Jinja
6 3 (0.78%) JSON
6 3 (0.78%) React
6 3 (0.78%) RESTful
6 3 (0.78%) XML
6 3 (0.78%) XMPP
6 3 (0.78%) YANG
7 2 (0.52%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.52%) ADSI
7 2 (0.52%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.52%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.26%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 85 (21.96%) PKI
2 66 (17.05%) Data Centre
3 31 (8.01%) Clustering
4 28 (7.24%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.36%) Client/Server
6 11 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.58%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.33%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.81%) Replication
10 6 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.29%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.29%) NHS
11 5 (1.29%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.03%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.03%) Fat Client
12 4 (1.03%) Thin Client
13 3 (0.78%) CCTV
14 2 (0.52%) CMDB
14 2 (0.52%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 237 (61.24%) Windows
2 160 (41.34%) Windows Server
3 89 (23.00%) Linux
4 67 (17.31%) Windows 10
5 58 (14.99%) Windows Server 2012
6 57 (14.73%) Windows Server 2019
7 52 (13.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (8.01%) Windows 7
9 27 (6.98%) Unix
10 17 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 14 (3.62%) Windows Server 2008
11 14 (3.62%) Windows XP
12 12 (3.10%) Ubuntu
13 9 (2.33%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (1.55%) Solaris
15 5 (1.29%) CentOS
15 5 (1.29%) Oracle Linux
16 4 (1.03%) Mac OS
17 3 (0.78%) Android
17 3 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (27.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 95 (24.55%) ITIL
3 69 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
4 68 (17.57%) Agile
5 43 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 41 (10.59%) Migration
7 34 (8.79%) DevOps
8 32 (8.27%) Cybersecurity
8 32 (8.27%) Release Management
9 31 (8.01%) Break/Fix
9 31 (8.01%) Service Management
10 30 (7.75%) Analytics
10 30 (7.75%) Disaster Recovery
11 29 (7.49%) CI/CD
11 29 (7.49%) Customer Service
12 28 (7.24%) RBAC
12 28 (7.24%) Server Management
13 27 (6.98%) Change Management
13 27 (6.98%) Project Management
14 25 (6.46%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 122 (31.52%) PowerShell
2 43 (11.11%) Python
3 35 (9.04%) SQL
4 32 (8.27%) C#
5 29 (7.49%) VBScript
6 20 (5.17%) Bicep
6 20 (5.17%) VB
7 18 (4.65%) Java
8 16 (4.13%) Bash
9 7 (1.81%) Go
9 7 (1.81%) Perl
10 6 (1.55%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.29%) C
12 3 (0.78%) C++
12 3 (0.78%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.78%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.52%) Ruby
14 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 128 (33.07%) Security Cleared
2 93 (24.03%) SC Cleared
3 85 (21.96%) Degree
4 78 (20.16%) Cisco Certification
5 63 (16.28%) DV Cleared
6 60 (15.50%) CCNA
7 52 (13.44%) CCNP
8 41 (10.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 26 (6.72%) MCSE
10 24 (6.20%) MCSA
11 22 (5.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 20 (5.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 17 (4.39%) A+ Certification
14 10 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
15 9 (2.33%) AWS Certification
15 9 (2.33%) CCIE
16 8 (2.07%) Azure Certification
17 7 (1.81%) ITIL Certification
18 6 (1.55%) JNCIA
19 5 (1.29%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.84%) GDPR
2 8 (2.07%) NIST
2 8 (2.07%) SLA
3 5 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (0.78%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (0.78%) NCSC
5 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.52%) QA
6 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 243 (62.79%) Active Directory
2 128 (33.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (13.70%) VMware ESXi
4 46 (11.89%) Hyper-V
5 36 (9.30%) Virtual Machines
6 35 (9.04%) vSphere
7 32 (8.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 23 (5.94%) XenApp
9 20 (5.17%) Docker
10 16 (4.13%) VMware NSX
11 14 (3.62%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (2.58%) VMware Workstation
13 9 (2.33%) Terminal Services
14 8 (2.07%) BitLocker
15 7 (1.81%) XenDesktop
16 6 (1.55%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (1.29%) VMware Server
18 3 (0.78%) KVM
18 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 2 (0.52%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 115 (29.72%) SCCM
2 50 (12.92%) SCOM
3 48 (12.40%) WSUS
4 47 (12.14%) vCenter Server
5 39 (10.08%) Kubernetes
6 37 (9.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (8.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 24 (6.20%) Ansible
9 22 (5.68%) NetBackup
9 22 (5.68%) Terraform
10 19 (4.91%) EMC NetWorker
11 11 (2.84%) Microsoft Clustering
11 11 (2.84%) Nagios
12 10 (2.58%) FortiGate
13 8 (2.07%) SolarWinds Orion
14 7 (1.81%) Nessus
15 6 (1.55%) ZABBIX
16 5 (1.29%) Red Hat Satellite
16 5 (1.29%) Tivoli
16 5 (1.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 190 (49.10%) Microsoft
2 153 (39.53%) VMware
3 111 (28.68%) Cisco
4 44 (11.37%) Palo Alto
5 42 (10.85%) Citrix
6 41 (10.59%) Dell
7 29 (7.49%) Veeam
8 27 (6.98%) HP
8 27 (6.98%) Symantec
9 25 (6.46%) Oracle
9 25 (6.46%) SolarWinds
10 21 (5.43%) Infoblox
11 20 (5.17%) CheckPoint
11 20 (5.17%) EMC
11 20 (5.17%) Juniper
12 17 (4.39%) F5
13 16 (4.13%) Aruba
13 16 (4.13%) Ivanti
14 15 (3.88%) Extreme Networks
15 14 (3.62%) 3PAR