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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 240 298
Rank change year-on-year -12 +58 +39
Contract jobs citing DHCP 391 634 825
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.92% 1.11% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.23% 8.89% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 461 561
10th Percentile £213 £205 £200
25th Percentile £350 £340 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +14.71% +5.59%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £625 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £400
% change year-on-year -0.84% +19.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 29
10th Percentile £16.80 £20.00 £19.53
25th Percentile £20.00 £29.75 £20.51
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% +79.07% +7.50%
75th Percentile - £50.77 £46.71
90th Percentile £62.25 £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 5,406 7,129 9,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.45% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,227 4,606 6,336
10th Percentile £205 £235 £233
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £690 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 460 376
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -30.84% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.09 £50.83
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.55 £65.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
% change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -5.49%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
England +5 351 £475 -4.04% 309
UK excluding London -10 263 £475 -0.84% 256
South East +32 125 £500 -9.09% 66
London +25 110 £450 -13.79% 81
Work from Home -24 102 £465 -7.00% 94
Midlands 0 42 £400 +1.59% 43
West Midlands +15 34 £400 -23.81% 20
South West -17 34 £538 +10.26% 16
North of England -23 29 £388 -19.48% 82
Scotland +44 26 £239 -48.60% 16
North West -6 18 £400 +8.47% 51
Yorkshire -13 9 £378 -28.10% 27
East Midlands -8 7 £325 -13.33% 23
East of England -25 7 £425 -20.93% 30
North East +12 2 £613 +118.75% 4
Wales +6 2 £425 -22.73% 7

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 95 (24.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (6.39%) Confluence
3 19 (4.86%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.53%) IIS
5 5 (1.28%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.77%) Apache
7 2 (0.51%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.51%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 33 (8.44%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.26%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 103 (26.34%) Azure
2 92 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (13.81%) AWS
4 41 (10.49%) Entra ID
5 20 (5.12%) Azure Storage
5 20 (5.12%) OCI
6 18 (4.60%) GCP
7 17 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
7 17 (4.35%) IaaS
8 14 (3.58%) PaaS
9 12 (3.07%) SaaS
10 10 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
11 8 (2.05%) Nutanix
11 8 (2.05%) OneDrive
12 7 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.53%) Mimecast
13 6 (1.53%) Rubrik
13 6 (1.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 372 (95.14%) DNS
2 150 (38.36%) Firewall
3 97 (24.81%) TCP/IP
4 83 (21.23%) LAN
5 77 (19.69%) WAN
6 71 (18.16%) VPN
7 56 (14.32%) SAN
8 55 (14.07%) VLAN
9 38 (9.72%) Wireless
10 36 (9.21%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (8.18%) BGP
12 31 (7.93%) MPLS
13 27 (6.91%) OSPF
14 23 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
15 21 (5.37%) Network Security
16 19 (4.86%) Cisco ASA
17 17 (4.35%) SNMP
18 16 (4.09%) NAS
19 15 (3.84%) SD-WAN
20 13 (3.32%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 14 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (2.05%) MySQL
4 6 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (1.28%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (0.77%) Power BI
6 3 (0.77%) Redis
7 2 (0.51%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.26%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.26%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.26%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (7.67%) JIRA
2 15 (3.84%) Git
3 9 (2.30%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.53%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.51%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.26%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.26%) Darcs
7 1 (0.26%) Gradle
7 1 (0.26%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.26%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.26%) MSI
7 1 (0.26%) Subversion
7 1 (0.26%) Travis CI
General
1 137 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 45 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (8.70%) Finance
4 24 (6.14%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.12%) Military
6 18 (4.60%) Telecoms
7 12 (3.07%) Banking
8 9 (2.30%) Aerospace
8 9 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.28%) Mandarin Language
10 4 (1.02%) Retail
11 3 (0.77%) French Language
11 3 (0.77%) Front Office
11 3 (0.77%) German Language
11 3 (0.77%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.51%) Automotive
12 2 (0.51%) Cantonese Language
12 2 (0.51%) Portuguese Language
12 2 (0.51%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 97 (24.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 57 (14.58%) Network Engineer
3 37 (9.46%) Senior
4 35 (8.95%) Support Engineer
5 33 (8.44%) Analyst
6 23 (5.88%) Architect
7 22 (5.63%) IT Engineer
7 22 (5.63%) IT Support
8 19 (4.86%) Support Specialist
8 19 (4.86%) Test Engineer
9 18 (4.60%) Active Directory Support
9 18 (4.60%) Server Engineer
10 17 (4.35%) IT Analyst
11 16 (4.09%) Integration Engineer
11 16 (4.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (4.09%) Test and Integration Engineer
12 14 (3.58%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (3.58%) Azure Specialist
12 14 (3.58%) Wintel Engineer
13 12 (3.07%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.37%) LDAP
2 17 (4.35%) ARM Templates
3 6 (1.53%) .NET
4 5 (1.28%) 802.1X
4 5 (1.28%) NETCONF
4 5 (1.28%) Node.js
4 5 (1.28%) Web Services
5 4 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.77%) Jinja
6 3 (0.77%) JSON
6 3 (0.77%) React
6 3 (0.77%) RESTful
6 3 (0.77%) XML
6 3 (0.77%) XMPP
6 3 (0.77%) YANG
7 2 (0.51%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.51%) ADSI
7 2 (0.51%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.51%) AWS CDK
7 2 (0.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 81 (20.72%) PKI
2 69 (17.65%) Data Centre
3 34 (8.70%) Clustering
4 24 (6.14%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.32%) Client/Server
6 12 (3.07%) Private Cloud
7 11 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 8 (2.05%) Replication
10 6 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.53%) NHS
11 5 (1.28%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.28%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
12 4 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.02%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.02%) Fat Client
12 4 (1.02%) Thin Client
13 3 (0.77%) CCTV
13 3 (0.77%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 235 (60.10%) Windows
2 158 (40.41%) Windows Server
3 90 (23.02%) Linux
4 70 (17.90%) Windows 10
5 62 (15.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 57 (14.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 52 (13.30%) Windows Server 2016
8 31 (7.93%) Windows 7
9 27 (6.91%) Unix
10 18 (4.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (4.09%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (3.58%) Windows XP
13 12 (3.07%) Ubuntu
14 10 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
15 7 (1.79%) Solaris
16 6 (1.53%) Oracle Linux
17 5 (1.28%) CentOS
18 4 (1.02%) Android
18 4 (1.02%) Apple iOS
18 4 (1.02%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (27.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 87 (22.25%) ITIL
3 67 (17.14%) Agile
3 67 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (10.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 42 (10.74%) Migration
5 35 (8.95%) DevOps
6 32 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
7 31 (7.93%) Customer Service
8 30 (7.67%) Service Management
9 29 (7.42%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (7.42%) Release Management
10 28 (7.16%) Server Management
11 27 (6.91%) Analytics
11 27 (6.91%) Change Management
12 26 (6.65%) Break/Fix
12 26 (6.65%) CI/CD
12 26 (6.65%) High Availability
12 26 (6.65%) Storage Management
13 25 (6.39%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 123 (31.46%) PowerShell
2 47 (12.02%) Python
3 37 (9.46%) SQL
4 29 (7.42%) C#
5 27 (6.91%) VBScript
6 19 (4.86%) Java
7 17 (4.35%) Bash
7 17 (4.35%) Bicep
7 17 (4.35%) VB
8 9 (2.30%) Perl
9 8 (2.05%) Go
10 6 (1.53%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.28%) C
12 3 (0.77%) C++
12 3 (0.77%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.77%) Ruby
12 3 (0.77%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 123 (31.46%) Security Cleared
2 85 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 83 (21.23%) Degree
4 74 (18.93%) Cisco Certification
5 64 (16.37%) DV Cleared
6 56 (14.32%) CCNA
7 49 (12.53%) CCNP
8 38 (9.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (6.14%) MCSE
10 23 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 21 (5.37%) MCSA
12 17 (4.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 15 (3.84%) A+ Certification
14 11 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (2.05%) Azure Certification
15 8 (2.05%) CCIE
15 8 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (1.53%) AWS Certification
17 5 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 5 (1.28%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.81%) GDPR
2 10 (2.56%) SLA
3 8 (2.05%) NIST
4 6 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (0.77%) ISO 9001
5 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.77%) NCSC
5 3 (0.77%) QA
6 2 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.26%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 245 (62.66%) Active Directory
2 129 (32.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (14.58%) VMware ESXi
4 48 (12.28%) Hyper-V
5 36 (9.21%) Virtual Machines
6 31 (7.93%) vSphere
7 28 (7.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 22 (5.63%) XenApp
9 21 (5.37%) Docker
10 17 (4.35%) VMware NSX
11 16 (4.09%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (2.81%) VMware Workstation
13 10 (2.56%) Terminal Services
14 9 (2.30%) BitLocker
15 6 (1.53%) XenDesktop
16 5 (1.28%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (1.28%) VMware Server
17 4 (1.02%) KVM
17 4 (1.02%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 3 (0.77%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 111 (28.39%) SCCM
2 52 (13.30%) vCenter Server
3 47 (12.02%) WSUS
4 46 (11.76%) SCOM
5 38 (9.72%) Kubernetes
6 34 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 30 (7.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 27 (6.91%) Ansible
9 24 (6.14%) Terraform
10 22 (5.63%) NetBackup
11 20 (5.12%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (3.07%) Microsoft Clustering
13 11 (2.81%) FortiGate
13 11 (2.81%) Nagios
14 7 (1.79%) Nessus
14 7 (1.79%) SolarWinds Orion
15 6 (1.53%) Puppet
15 6 (1.53%) Tivoli
15 6 (1.53%) Tivoli Storage Manager
15 6 (1.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 186 (47.57%) Microsoft
2 154 (39.39%) VMware
3 100 (25.58%) Cisco
4 43 (11.00%) Palo Alto
5 42 (10.74%) Citrix
5 42 (10.74%) Dell
6 34 (8.70%) Veeam
7 28 (7.16%) HP
8 27 (6.91%) Symantec
9 26 (6.65%) Oracle
10 25 (6.39%) SolarWinds
11 23 (5.88%) Infoblox
12 22 (5.63%) EMC
13 20 (5.12%) CheckPoint
13 20 (5.12%) Juniper
14 18 (4.60%) F5
15 16 (4.09%) Ivanti
16 15 (3.84%) Aruba
16 15 (3.84%) Extreme Networks
16 15 (3.84%) Google