DHCP Contracts in the Midlands

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 14 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 96 147
Rank change year-on-year +9 +51 +14
Contract jobs citing DHCP 50 47 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.88% 1.69% 1.36%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 13.93% 8.66% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 42
10th Percentile £213 £158 £162
25th Percentile £363 £220 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £355
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.60% +18.42%
75th Percentile £450 £475 £475
90th Percentile £500 £543 £500
England median daily rate £425 £475 £438
% change year-on-year -10.53% +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £19.05
25th Percentile £23.10 £26.00 £25.88
Median hourly rate £24.20 £27.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% -28.00% +82.84%
75th Percentile £25.30 £28.00 £48.88
90th Percentile - - £55.55
England median hourly rate £38.75 £33.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +16.54% +51.14% -12.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 359 543 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.48% 19.53% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 302 398
10th Percentile £173 £213 £179
25th Percentile £291 £313 £282
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £409 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.32% -3.82% +6.25%
75th Percentile £616 £538 £538
90th Percentile £715 £664 £629
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 29 16
10th Percentile £20.30 £17.05 £15.38
25th Percentile £22.18 £23.00 £16.89
Median hourly rate £24.20 £27.50 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.40% +45.54%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.50 £26.91
90th Percentile - - £46.13
England median hourly rate £49.50 £56.49 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.37% +25.53% +117.39%

DHCP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in the Midlands

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in the Midlands

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DHCP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DHCP in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
West Midlands +5 32 £383 -4.38% 22
East Midlands +2 18 £375 -11.76% 12
DHCP
England

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) IIS
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (18.00%) BlazeMeter
3 7 (14.00%) Azure
4 4 (8.00%) AWS
5 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.00%) IaaS
6 2 (4.00%) Mimecast
7 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (2.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 50 (100.00%) DNS
2 15 (30.00%) WAN
3 14 (28.00%) LAN
4 11 (22.00%) MPLS
5 9 (18.00%) Firewall
5 9 (18.00%) RTP
5 9 (18.00%) TCP/IP
5 9 (18.00%) VoIP
5 9 (18.00%) Wireless
6 8 (16.00%) VLAN
7 6 (12.00%) BGP
7 6 (12.00%) INAP
7 6 (12.00%) Intelligent Network
7 6 (12.00%) Network Security
7 6 (12.00%) SD-WAN
8 5 (10.00%) EIGRP
8 5 (10.00%) Internet
8 5 (10.00%) Multicast
8 5 (10.00%) OSPF
8 5 (10.00%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (2.00%) MySQL
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) JMeter
1 9 (18.00%) Locust
1 9 (18.00%) Robot Framework
1 9 (18.00%) Selenium
1 9 (18.00%) TestCafe
2 2 (4.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Maven
2 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.00%) GitLab
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Telecoms
3 6 (12.00%) Finance
4 5 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.00%) Automotive
5 4 (8.00%) Marketing
6 3 (6.00%) Local Government
7 1 (2.00%) Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Analyst
4 7 (14.00%) Architect
5 6 (12.00%) IT Analyst
5 6 (12.00%) IT Support
5 6 (12.00%) IT Support Analyst
5 6 (12.00%) Support Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) Network Architect
7 4 (8.00%) Desktop Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Desktop Support
7 4 (8.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
7 4 (8.00%) Engineering Specialist
7 4 (8.00%) QA Specialist
7 4 (8.00%) Telecoms Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Telecoms Test Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Test Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) IT Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.00%) LDAP
2 9 (18.00%) Taurus
3 2 (4.00%) ADO
3 2 (4.00%) FIDO
3 2 (4.00%) OAuth
3 2 (4.00%) OpenID
3 2 (4.00%) SAML
3 2 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Replication
2 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (78.00%) Windows
2 30 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (26.00%) Linux
4 12 (24.00%) Windows 10
5 11 (22.00%) CentOS
6 10 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (8.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (4.00%) Debian
8 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
9 1 (2.00%) Unix
9 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) ITIL
2 9 (18.00%) Build Automation
2 9 (18.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (18.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (18.00%) Performance Testing
2 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (12.00%) Customer Service
3 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 5 (10.00%) Migration
4 5 (10.00%) Network Management
4 5 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (8.00%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (8.00%) Incident Management
5 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 3 (6.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (6.00%) High Availability
6 3 (6.00%) Microservices
6 3 (6.00%) Robotic Process Automation
6 3 (6.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) Python
2 8 (16.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (12.00%) CCNA
3 5 (10.00%) CCIE
3 5 (10.00%) Degree
4 4 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (6.00%) CCNP
5 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) SLA
3 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (8.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.00%) Docker
4 2 (4.00%) XenApp
4 2 (4.00%) XenDesktop
5 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (24.00%) Terraform
2 10 (20.00%) Ansible
3 6 (12.00%) FortiGate
4 5 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (8.00%) SCCM
5 4 (8.00%) SCOM
6 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (6.00%) OpenView
6 3 (6.00%) Puppet
6 3 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (4.00%) Nessus
8 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
8 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) VMware
2 17 (34.00%) Cisco
3 15 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (18.00%) Dialogic
5 6 (12.00%) Aerohive Networks
5 6 (12.00%) Avaya
5 6 (12.00%) Metaswitch
5 6 (12.00%) Mitel
5 6 (12.00%) NetApp
5 6 (12.00%) Nortel
5 6 (12.00%) Veeam
6 5 (10.00%) Citrix
6 5 (10.00%) SolarWinds
7 3 (6.00%) Fortinet
8 2 (4.00%) Ivanti
8 2 (4.00%) Sophos
8 2 (4.00%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.00%) Oracle
9 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.00%) Red Hat