DHCP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DHCP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DHCP over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 158 184
Rank change year-on-year -17 +26 +43
Contract jobs citing DHCP 255 343 431
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 1.51% 1.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.76% 9.71% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 248 288
10th Percentile £203 £190 £188
25th Percentile £313 £313 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £488 £403
Median % change year-on-year -0.72% +21.11% +0.00%
75th Percentile £608 £576 £488
90th Percentile - £700 £538
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £435
% change year-on-year -5.00% +14.94% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 20
10th Percentile - £36.75 £17.52
25th Percentile - £38.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £47.94 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.56% +122.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £48.75 £52.13 £22.63
90th Percentile £69.00 £66.07 £50.38
UK 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 excluding London

DHCP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DHCP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DHCP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DHCP in the UK excluding London

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +25 118 £519 +1.22% 56
Midlands +9 51 £400 +1.59% 43
West Midlands +16 39 £400 -5.88% 19
South West -20 34 £538 +2.38% 20
Scotland +49 25 £239 -52.20% 16
North of England -31 24 £384 -15.89% 72
North West -3 15 £341 +5.00% 47
East Midlands -11 11 £375 - 24
Yorkshire -15 7 £380 -27.62% 21
East of England -30 3 £425 -22.73% 22
North East +8 2 £613 +118.75% 4
Wales +7 2 £425 -22.73% 5
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 78 (30.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (7.06%) Confluence
3 9 (3.53%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.18%) IIS
5 1 (0.39%) Apache
5 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.39%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 36 (14.12%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.75%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 52 (20.39%) Azure
1 52 (20.39%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 21 (8.24%) Azure Monitor
3 21 (8.24%) Azure Storage
4 14 (5.49%) OCI
5 5 (1.96%) AWS
6 3 (1.18%) IaaS
6 3 (1.18%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.78%) GCP
8 1 (0.39%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.39%) PaaS
8 1 (0.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 249 (97.65%) DNS
2 88 (34.51%) Firewall
3 50 (19.61%) VPN
4 45 (17.65%) SAN
4 45 (17.65%) WAN
5 44 (17.25%) LAN
6 43 (16.86%) TCP/IP
7 26 (10.20%) VLAN
8 22 (8.63%) Wireless
9 19 (7.45%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (6.67%) MPLS
11 10 (3.92%) VoIP
12 9 (3.53%) Remote Desktop
13 8 (3.14%) Cisco ISE
13 8 (3.14%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (3.14%) Ethernet
13 8 (3.14%) Network Security
13 8 (3.14%) Wireshark
14 7 (2.75%) Ethereal
14 7 (2.75%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.45%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (1.96%) MySQL
3 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.39%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 18 (7.06%) JIRA
2 2 (0.78%) Artifactory
2 2 (0.78%) Git
2 2 (0.78%) MSI
3 1 (0.39%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 111 (43.53%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.55%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.45%) Military
4 17 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.71%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.53%) Aerospace
6 9 (3.53%) Finance
7 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.18%) Banking
8 3 (1.18%) Front Office
8 3 (1.18%) Local Government
8 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.78%) Automotive
9 2 (0.78%) French Language
9 2 (0.78%) Portuguese Language
9 2 (0.78%) Spanish Language
10 1 (0.39%) Advertising
10 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 76 (29.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (12.55%) Network Engineer
3 25 (9.80%) Support Engineer
4 22 (8.63%) Analyst
5 21 (8.24%) Active Directory Support
6 20 (7.84%) Test Engineer
7 19 (7.45%) Support Specialist
8 17 (6.67%) Architect
9 16 (6.27%) Integration Engineer
9 16 (6.27%) Senior
9 16 (6.27%) Test and Integration Engineer
10 14 (5.49%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (5.49%) Azure Specialist
10 14 (5.49%) IT Analyst
11 13 (5.10%) Desktop Engineer
11 13 (5.10%) Server Engineer
12 12 (4.71%) Desktop Support
12 12 (4.71%) Network Support
12 12 (4.71%) Storage Engineer
13 11 (4.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.24%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.96%) LDAP
2 5 (1.96%) Web Services
3 4 (1.57%) .NET
4 3 (1.18%) XMPP
5 2 (0.78%) ADSI
6 1 (0.39%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.39%) ADO
6 1 (0.39%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.39%) Django
6 1 (0.39%) Flask
6 1 (0.39%) Node.js
6 1 (0.39%) React
Miscellaneous
1 67 (26.27%) PKI
2 48 (18.82%) Data Centre
3 22 (8.63%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (5.88%) Clustering
5 8 (3.14%) Client/Server
6 7 (2.75%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.57%) Fat Client
8 4 (1.57%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.18%) NHS
10 2 (0.78%) CMDB
10 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.78%) Replication
10 2 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 1 (0.39%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.39%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.39%) Grid Computing
11 1 (0.39%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 184 (72.16%) Windows
2 125 (49.02%) Windows Server
3 70 (27.45%) Linux
4 60 (23.53%) Windows 10
5 56 (21.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 55 (21.57%) Windows Server 2012
7 52 (20.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (10.20%) Windows 7
9 24 (9.41%) Unix
10 14 (5.49%) Windows XP
11 12 (4.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 12 (4.71%) Ubuntu
12 10 (3.92%) Windows Server 2008
13 9 (3.53%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (1.96%) CentOS
15 3 (1.18%) Android
15 3 (1.18%) VMS
16 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
17 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
17 1 (0.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (32.16%) ITIL
2 81 (31.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 50 (19.61%) Agile
4 44 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (12.16%) Break/Fix
5 31 (12.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 30 (11.76%) Release Management
7 29 (11.37%) RBAC
8 27 (10.59%) Migration
9 26 (10.20%) Analytics
9 26 (10.20%) Service Management
10 25 (9.80%) Server Management
11 22 (8.63%) CI/CD
11 22 (8.63%) Project Delivery
12 21 (8.24%) DevOps
12 21 (8.24%) Identity Management
12 21 (8.24%) Log Analytics
12 21 (8.24%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 21 (8.24%) Privileged Identity Management
12 21 (8.24%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 95 (37.25%) PowerShell
2 31 (12.16%) C#
3 27 (10.59%) SQL
3 27 (10.59%) VBScript
4 21 (8.24%) Bicep
4 21 (8.24%) VB
5 10 (3.92%) Java
6 8 (3.14%) Python
7 5 (1.96%) Bash
8 3 (1.18%) Perl
8 3 (1.18%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.78%) C++
Qualifications
1 118 (46.27%) Security Cleared
2 90 (35.29%) SC Cleared
3 72 (28.24%) Degree
4 64 (25.10%) DV Cleared
5 46 (18.04%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (15.29%) CCNA
7 28 (10.98%) CCNP
8 26 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (8.63%) MCSE
9 22 (8.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 21 (8.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 20 (7.84%) MCSA
12 17 (6.67%) A+ Certification
13 8 (3.14%) CCIE
14 5 (1.96%) CCIE Data Center
14 5 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
14 5 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
16 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
16 2 (0.78%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.75%) NIST
2 6 (2.35%) GDPR
3 5 (1.96%) SLA
4 3 (1.18%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.78%) QA
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 183 (71.76%) Active Directory
2 104 (40.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 49 (19.22%) VMware ESXi
4 36 (14.12%) Hyper-V
5 33 (12.94%) Virtual Machines
6 28 (10.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (8.24%) vSphere
8 18 (7.06%) XenApp
9 15 (5.88%) VMware NSX
10 10 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
10 10 (3.92%) VMware Workstation
11 8 (3.14%) Terminal Services
12 7 (2.75%) BitLocker
13 5 (1.96%) VMware Server
13 5 (1.96%) XenDesktop
14 4 (1.57%) Docker
14 4 (1.57%) Microsoft App-V
15 2 (0.78%) Firmware
15 2 (0.78%) KVM
16 1 (0.39%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 109 (42.75%) SCCM
2 45 (17.65%) vCenter Server
2 45 (17.65%) WSUS
3 40 (15.69%) SCOM
4 28 (10.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 26 (10.20%) Kubernetes
6 24 (9.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (8.63%) NetBackup
8 14 (5.49%) EMC NetWorker
9 10 (3.92%) Microsoft Clustering
9 10 (3.92%) Nagios
10 8 (3.14%) Ansible
11 7 (2.75%) OpenView
12 6 (2.35%) Nessus
12 6 (2.35%) ZABBIX
13 5 (1.96%) FortiGate
13 5 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (1.57%) vMotion
15 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
15 3 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 142 (55.69%) Microsoft
2 121 (47.45%) VMware
3 64 (25.10%) Cisco
4 29 (11.37%) Veeam
5 28 (10.98%) Citrix
6 27 (10.59%) Symantec
7 26 (10.20%) Palo Alto
8 22 (8.63%) Dell
9 18 (7.06%) Oracle
10 17 (6.67%) HP
10 17 (6.67%) Ivanti
11 15 (5.88%) EMC
11 15 (5.88%) Juniper
11 15 (5.88%) SolarWinds
12 14 (5.49%) 3PAR
12 14 (5.49%) Extreme Networks
13 9 (3.53%) CheckPoint
13 9 (3.53%) Infoblox
13 9 (3.53%) NetApp
14 8 (3.14%) Hitachi