Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for DHCP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DHCP over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 212 239 330
Rank change year-on-year +27 +91 -74
Permanent jobs citing DHCP 1,383 1,567 1,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.40% 1.51% 1.22%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.15% 9.81% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,162 1,204 1,574
10th Percentile £26,043 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +2.41%
75th Percentile £53,750 £53,750 £55,875
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +6.67%

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,628 15,972 20,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.82% 15.39% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,500 8,150 11,820
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DHCP.

Salary trend for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DHCP over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DHCP in the UK

DHCP
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +45 1,308 £40,000 - 303
UK excluding London +6 1,075 £37,500 - 252
Work from Home +20 434 £47,500 +5.56% 80
London +34 286 £55,000 +15.79% 65
North of England +32 268 £40,000 +1.91% 70
South East -31 256 £38,000 +1.33% 58
Midlands +79 250 £36,000 -4.00% 57
South West +11 158 £31,000 -26.19% 20
West Midlands +58 143 £37,000 -1.33% 36
North West -3 142 £42,500 - 51
East Midlands +42 103 £36,000 -1.37% 21
East of England -39 85 £32,500 -18.75% 33
Yorkshire +55 84 £32,250 +0.16% 18
North East +9 42 £41,500 +10.67% 2
Wales +11 25 £34,000 +6.25% 4
Scotland -81 25 £34,500 -1.43% 16
Northern Ireland +18 5 £32,500 - 1
Isle of Man - 4 £43,000 -

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
1 380 (27.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 245 (17.72%) SharePoint
3 68 (4.92%) IIS
4 15 (1.08%) Exchange Server 2010
5 11 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2007
5 11 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (0.58%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.43%) Confluence
8 4 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2003
9 3 (0.22%) Apache
9 3 (0.22%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.14%) nginx
10 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.14%) WordPress
11 1 (0.072%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.072%) Gunicorn
11 1 (0.072%) uWSGI
Applications
1 196 (14.17%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (0.36%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.14%) CATIA
6 2 (0.14%) NASTRAN
Business Applications
1 15 (1.08%) Fidessa
2 7 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.29%) Epicor Tropos
3 4 (0.29%) Sage 200
4 3 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.14%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.072%) Eikon
6 1 (0.072%) Sage 300 ERP
6 1 (0.072%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.072%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.072%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 741 (53.58%) Microsoft 365
2 736 (53.22%) Azure
3 268 (19.38%) Entra ID
4 245 (17.72%) AWS
5 97 (7.01%) OneDrive
6 58 (4.19%) IaaS
7 52 (3.76%) SaaS
8 48 (3.47%) Mimecast
9 45 (3.25%) Power Platform
10 39 (2.82%) Nutanix
11 37 (2.68%) OpenShift
12 35 (2.53%) PaaS
13 29 (2.10%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (1.59%) GCP
15 20 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (1.30%) Azure Storage
17 15 (1.08%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (1.08%) WhatsApp
18 12 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
18 12 (0.87%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 1,327 (95.95%) DNS
2 584 (42.23%) Firewall
3 537 (38.83%) TCP/IP
4 364 (26.32%) WAN
5 335 (24.22%) LAN
6 334 (24.15%) VPN
7 235 (16.99%) Wi-Fi
8 230 (16.63%) VLAN
9 161 (11.64%) SAN
10 158 (11.42%) Wireless
11 85 (6.15%) HTTP
12 75 (5.42%) VoIP
13 74 (5.35%) MPLS
14 66 (4.77%) OSPF
15 61 (4.41%) Network Security
15 61 (4.41%) SD-WAN
16 59 (4.27%) BGP
17 57 (4.12%) IPsec
18 56 (4.05%) Remote Desktop
19 55 (3.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 37 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (1.66%) Power BI
4 13 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (0.80%) MySQL
6 10 (0.72%) Oracle Database
7 7 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.36%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.36%) Redis
9 3 (0.22%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.14%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.14%) MongoDB
10 2 (0.14%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.072%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 29 (2.10%) JIRA
2 11 (0.80%) Git
3 10 (0.72%) Jenkins
3 10 (0.72%) Trac
4 2 (0.14%) GitLab
4 2 (0.14%) Hudson
4 2 (0.14%) MSBuild
4 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.072%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.072%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.072%) Selenium
5 1 (0.072%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 405 (29.28%) Social Skills
2 149 (10.77%) Finance
3 130 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 44 (3.18%) Telecoms
6 36 (2.60%) Banking
7 34 (2.46%) Law
8 31 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (1.95%) Legal
10 26 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
11 24 (1.74%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.23%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.16%) Retail
14 13 (0.94%) Public Sector
15 11 (0.80%) Publishing
16 9 (0.65%) Marketing
17 8 (0.58%) Automotive
18 6 (0.43%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.43%) French Language
18 6 (0.43%) German Language
Job Titles
1 281 (20.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 229 (16.56%) IT Support
3 207 (14.97%) Senior
4 203 (14.68%) IT Engineer
5 199 (14.39%) Support Engineer
6 153 (11.06%) Analyst
7 126 (9.11%) Network Engineer
8 99 (7.16%) IT Support Engineer
9 87 (6.29%) 2nd Line Support
10 80 (5.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 77 (5.57%) Support Analyst
12 69 (4.99%) IT Technician
13 67 (4.84%) 3rd Line Support
14 64 (4.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 58 (4.19%) Support Technician
16 52 (3.76%) Administrator
16 52 (3.76%) Systems Engineer
17 51 (3.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 49 (3.54%) IT Analyst
19 45 (3.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (2.60%) HTML
2 31 (2.24%) ARM Templates
3 30 (2.17%) SAML
4 29 (2.10%) OpenID
5 23 (1.66%) 802.1X
6 15 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
6 15 (1.08%) LDAP
7 9 (0.65%) .NET
8 7 (0.51%) ADSI
8 7 (0.51%) XML
9 6 (0.43%) Middleware
10 2 (0.14%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.14%) LAMP
10 2 (0.14%) TAPI
10 2 (0.14%) V-Ray
11 1 (0.072%) ADO
11 1 (0.072%) EDI
11 1 (0.072%) JSON
11 1 (0.072%) Keycloak
11 1 (0.072%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.98%) Data Centre
2 107 (7.74%) Driving Licence
3 67 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
4 66 (4.77%) PKI
5 54 (3.90%) Replication
6 39 (2.82%) Public Cloud
7 37 (2.68%) Cyberattack
8 36 (2.60%) Management Information System
9 35 (2.53%) Onboarding
10 29 (2.10%) Cloud Native
11 25 (1.81%) Clustering
12 23 (1.66%) Security Posture
13 18 (1.30%) Client/Server
13 18 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (1.23%) CCTV
15 15 (1.08%) Eurex
15 15 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
16 14 (1.01%) CMDB
17 12 (0.87%) PMI
18 10 (0.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1,001 (72.38%) Windows
2 697 (50.40%) Windows Server
3 271 (19.60%) Linux
4 223 (16.12%) Windows 10
5 198 (14.32%) Windows Server 2016
6 182 (13.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 142 (10.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 61 (4.41%) Apple iOS
9 59 (4.27%) Windows Server 2008
10 52 (3.76%) Android
11 49 (3.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 42 (3.04%) Unix
13 31 (2.24%) Mac OS
14 30 (2.17%) CentOS
15 28 (2.02%) Ubuntu
16 22 (1.59%) Windows 8
16 22 (1.59%) Windows XP
17 19 (1.37%) VyOS
18 17 (1.23%) Windows Server 2003
19 16 (1.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (25.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 341 (24.66%) ITIL
3 313 (22.63%) Problem-Solving
4 221 (15.98%) Customer Service
5 173 (12.51%) Cybersecurity
6 156 (11.28%) Disaster Recovery
7 139 (10.05%) Agile
8 94 (6.80%) DevOps
9 90 (6.51%) Migration
10 89 (6.44%) Project Management
11 78 (5.64%) Line Management
12 71 (5.13%) Server Management
13 69 (4.99%) Roadmaps
14 60 (4.34%) ITSM
14 60 (4.34%) Service Management
15 59 (4.27%) Mentoring
16 58 (4.19%) Infrastructure as Code
16 58 (4.19%) Service Delivery
17 56 (4.05%) Proactive Monitoring
18 55 (3.98%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 339 (24.51%) PowerShell
2 119 (8.60%) SQL
3 104 (7.52%) Python
4 71 (5.13%) Bash
5 46 (3.33%) Java
6 35 (2.53%) C#
7 32 (2.31%) JavaScript
8 30 (2.17%) VBScript
9 20 (1.45%) Perl
9 20 (1.45%) VB
10 15 (1.08%) Ruby
11 14 (1.01%) Bicep
12 10 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.72%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.36%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.29%) C++
15 3 (0.22%) R
16 2 (0.14%) PHP
16 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 184 (13.30%) Degree
2 163 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 149 (10.77%) Cisco Certification
4 137 (9.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 136 (9.83%) CCNA
6 120 (8.68%) DV Cleared
7 72 (5.21%) SC Cleared
8 57 (4.12%) MCSE
9 51 (3.69%) CCNP
10 45 (3.25%) DBS Check
10 45 (3.25%) MCSA
11 44 (3.18%) A+ Certification
12 43 (3.11%) AWS Certification
13 41 (2.96%) Computer Science Degree
14 37 (2.68%) Azure Certification
15 31 (2.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 30 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 28 (2.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 28 (2.02%) JNCIA
18 27 (1.95%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (8.24%) SLA
2 25 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.23%) GDPR
5 9 (0.65%) PMO
6 6 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.22%) JSP 440
8 3 (0.22%) QA
9 2 (0.14%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.14%) NCSC
10 1 (0.072%) GxP
System Software
1 1,002 (72.45%) Active Directory
2 426 (30.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 399 (28.85%) Hyper-V
4 90 (6.51%) VMware ESXi
5 60 (4.34%) Docker
6 52 (3.76%) vSphere
7 51 (3.69%) Virtual Machines
8 36 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
9 35 (2.53%) Virtual Servers
10 20 (1.45%) Terminal Services
11 18 (1.30%) pfSense
12 16 (1.16%) NFS
13 14 (1.01%) XenApp
14 11 (0.80%) DFS Replication
14 11 (0.80%) Firmware
15 8 (0.58%) XenDesktop
16 6 (0.43%) VMware NSX
17 5 (0.36%) VMware Server
18 4 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
18 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 223 (16.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 130 (9.40%) SCCM
3 88 (6.36%) WSUS
4 77 (5.57%) Ansible
5 75 (5.42%) SCOM
6 69 (4.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 65 (4.70%) Kubernetes
8 53 (3.83%) Puppet
9 48 (3.47%) Terraform
10 44 (3.18%) vCenter Server
11 28 (2.02%) FortiGate
12 26 (1.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 22 (1.59%) ZABBIX
14 20 (1.45%) NetBackup
15 17 (1.23%) Grafana
16 16 (1.16%) Jamf Pro
16 16 (1.16%) SCDPM
17 14 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
17 14 (1.01%) SmoothWall
18 13 (0.94%) VxRail
Vendors
1 846 (61.17%) Microsoft
2 560 (40.49%) VMware
3 277 (20.03%) Cisco
4 164 (11.86%) Veeam
5 143 (10.34%) Citrix
6 101 (7.30%) HP
7 95 (6.87%) Fortinet
8 92 (6.65%) Dell
9 90 (6.51%) Juniper
10 71 (5.13%) Red Hat
11 66 (4.77%) SolarWinds
12 62 (4.48%) Apple
12 62 (4.48%) Meraki
13 52 (3.76%) Oracle
14 50 (3.62%) Ruckus Wireless
15 48 (3.47%) Sophos
16 38 (2.75%) Bloomberg
17 36 (2.60%) Palo Alto
18 33 (2.39%) Aruba
19 29 (2.10%) WatchGuard