DHCP Contracts in Scotland

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 90 139 159
Rank change year-on-year +49 +20 -26
Contract jobs citing DHCP 25 25 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.17% 0.94% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.36% 6.94% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 14
10th Percentile - £382 £323
25th Percentile £200 £426 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £239 £500 £405
Median % change year-on-year -52.20% +23.33% +8.00%
75th Percentile £240 £540 £519
90th Percentile £266 £550 £538
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £435
% change year-on-year -5.00% +14.94% +5.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 220 360 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 10.27% 13.47% 8.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 221 200
10th Percentile £179 £160 £224
25th Percentile £229 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £460 £470
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -2.13% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £633 £575 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 19
10th Percentile £12.88 - £20.80
25th Percentile £15.88 - £41.75
Median hourly rate £18.14 £10.63 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.60% -79.06% +40.06%
75th Percentile £29.56 £38.18 £56.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £59.18 £57.75
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for DHCP in Scotland

DHCP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DHCP within the Scotland 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
Edinburgh +50 21 £239 -36.67% 5
Renfrewshire 0 3 - -
Glasgow -1 1 - - 8
DHCP
UK

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (76.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
1 5 (20.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (100.00%) DNS
2 22 (88.00%) VPN
3 3 (12.00%) Firewall
3 3 (12.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) Desktop Support
3 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 6 (24.00%) Network Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Clustering
1 3 (12.00%) PKI
2 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 22 (88.00%) Windows
2 19 (76.00%) Windows 10
3 15 (60.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (12.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (4.00%) Linux
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) Break/Fix
1 17 (68.00%) Service Delivery
2 15 (60.00%) ITIL
3 9 (36.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (16.00%) High Availability
5 3 (12.00%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (12.00%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (12.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.00%) Data Protection
7 1 (4.00%) Agile
7 1 (4.00%) Investment Management
7 1 (4.00%) Open Source
7 1 (4.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.00%) Perl
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (88.00%) SC Cleared
1 22 (88.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (60.00%) A+ Certification
3 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 24 (96.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) BitLocker
2 3 (12.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 3 (12.00%) Terminal Services
2 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (76.00%) SCCM
2 3 (12.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (12.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 22 (88.00%) Microsoft
2 19 (76.00%) Cisco
3 3 (12.00%) Citrix
3 3 (12.00%) Infoblox
3 3 (12.00%) VMware