DHCP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 236 228 301
Rank change year-on-year -8 +73 +42
Contract jobs citing DHCP 106 248 374
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.72% 1.04% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.92% 8.85% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 167 259
10th Percentile £300 £325 £310
25th Percentile £356 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £608 £650 £539
90th Percentile - £700 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £435
% change year-on-year -5.00% +14.94% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate - - £21.50
75th Percentile - - £57.29
90th Percentile - - £66.90
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
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,531 2,803 4,434
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.38% 11.74% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,872 3,040
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.70% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 99 105
10th Percentile £12.53 £19.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.07 £42.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.13 £63.25
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

DHCP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DHCP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DHCP trend for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DHCP.

DHCP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DHCP over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

DHCP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DHCP.

DHCP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DHCP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 40 (37.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (8.49%) Confluence
3 3 (2.83%) IIS
4 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 40 (37.74%) Azure
2 33 (31.13%) Microsoft 365
3 26 (24.53%) Entra ID
4 21 (19.81%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (19.81%) Azure Storage
5 18 (16.98%) AWS
6 9 (8.49%) GCP
6 9 (8.49%) IaaS
7 7 (6.60%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (5.66%) PaaS
9 5 (4.72%) Nutanix
9 5 (4.72%) Rubrik
9 5 (4.72%) SaaS
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.83%) Route 53
10 3 (2.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 101 (95.28%) DNS
2 48 (45.28%) Firewall
3 27 (25.47%) TCP/IP
4 17 (16.04%) VLAN
5 14 (13.21%) VPN
6 13 (12.26%) LAN
7 12 (11.32%) BGP
7 12 (11.32%) WAN
8 11 (10.38%) SAN
9 10 (9.43%) Network Security
10 9 (8.49%) OSPF
11 7 (6.60%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (6.60%) HTTP
11 7 (6.60%) NAS
11 7 (6.60%) SD-WAN
12 6 (5.66%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (5.66%) MPLS
12 6 (5.66%) Wireless
13 5 (4.72%) Kerberos
13 5 (4.72%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (0.94%) CouchDB
3 1 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.94%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.94%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.94%) MySQL
3 1 (0.94%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.94%) Power BI
3 1 (0.94%) Redis
3 1 (0.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (9.43%) JIRA
2 8 (7.55%) Git
2 8 (7.55%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.72%) TeamCity
4 3 (2.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.94%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.94%) Darcs
5 1 (0.94%) Gradle
5 1 (0.94%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.94%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.94%) Subversion
5 1 (0.94%) Travis CI
General
1 38 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (7.55%) Finance
4 4 (3.77%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.83%) Banking
5 3 (2.83%) Military
6 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.89%) Front Office
6 2 (1.89%) Local Government
6 2 (1.89%) Retail
7 1 (0.94%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (23.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 21 (19.81%) Active Directory Support
3 19 (17.92%) Network Engineer
4 14 (13.21%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (13.21%) Azure Specialist
4 14 (13.21%) Support Specialist
5 9 (8.49%) Active Directory Engineer
5 9 (8.49%) Senior
5 9 (8.49%) Support Engineer
6 8 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Active Directory Support Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Analyst
7 7 (6.60%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) IT Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (3.77%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 4 (3.77%) Security Analyst
9 4 (3.77%) Server Engineer
10 3 (2.83%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.81%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.72%) LDAP
3 4 (3.77%) .NET
4 2 (1.89%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.89%) ADSI
4 2 (1.89%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.89%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.89%) React
5 1 (0.94%) CSS
5 1 (0.94%) Django
5 1 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.94%) Flask
5 1 (0.94%) HTML
5 1 (0.94%) Node.js
5 1 (0.94%) REST
5 1 (0.94%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 35 (33.02%) PKI
2 23 (21.70%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (11.32%) Clustering
4 5 (4.72%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.72%) Replication
5 4 (3.77%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.89%) NHS
7 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.94%) CBDC
7 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.94%) Digital Currency
7 1 (0.94%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 62 (58.49%) Windows
2 50 (47.17%) Windows Server
3 36 (33.96%) Linux
4 27 (25.47%) Windows Server 2016
5 25 (23.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (10.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 7 (6.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (6.60%) Windows 10
8 6 (5.66%) Solaris
9 5 (4.72%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (4.72%) Windows 7
10 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (3.77%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (2.83%) Ubuntu
11 3 (2.83%) Unix
12 2 (1.89%) CentOS
12 2 (1.89%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (38.68%) Agile
2 31 (29.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (28.30%) ITIL
4 29 (27.36%) DevOps
5 28 (26.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (24.53%) Release Management
7 24 (22.64%) Service Management
8 23 (21.70%) CI/CD
8 23 (21.70%) RBAC
9 22 (20.75%) Analytics
9 22 (20.75%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 21 (19.81%) Identity Management
10 21 (19.81%) Log Analytics
10 21 (19.81%) Privileged Identity Management
11 20 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (12.26%) High Availability
13 10 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (8.49%) Computer Science
15 8 (7.55%) Load Balancing
15 8 (7.55%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 48 (45.28%) PowerShell
2 25 (23.58%) VBScript
3 22 (20.75%) C#
4 21 (19.81%) Bicep
4 21 (19.81%) VB
5 16 (15.09%) Python
6 11 (10.38%) Bash
7 5 (4.72%) SQL
8 3 (2.83%) C++
8 3 (2.83%) Java
8 3 (2.83%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.89%) Perl
9 2 (1.89%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.89%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.94%) C
10 1 (0.94%) Go
10 1 (0.94%) Rust
Qualifications
1 37 (34.91%) Degree
1 37 (34.91%) Security Cleared
2 32 (30.19%) SC Cleared
3 25 (23.58%) DV Cleared
4 21 (19.81%) Cisco Certification
4 21 (19.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 13 (12.26%) CCNA
5 13 (12.26%) CCNP
6 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (5.66%) MCSA
7 6 (5.66%) MCSE
8 5 (4.72%) CCDP
9 4 (3.77%) APMP
9 4 (3.77%) CEH
9 4 (3.77%) CISM
9 4 (3.77%) CISSP
9 4 (3.77%) PMP
10 3 (2.83%) JNCIA
10 3 (2.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.43%) GDPR
2 5 (4.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.83%) SLA
4 2 (1.89%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.94%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 72 (67.92%) Active Directory
2 30 (28.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (25.47%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (21.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (9.43%) Docker
6 9 (8.49%) Hyper-V
7 8 (7.55%) vSphere
7 8 (7.55%) XenApp
8 5 (4.72%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (3.77%) XenDesktop
10 2 (1.89%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (1.89%) Terminal Services
10 2 (1.89%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.94%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.94%) Firmware
11 1 (0.94%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.94%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 33 (31.13%) SCCM
2 29 (27.36%) Kubernetes
3 24 (22.64%) SCOM
3 24 (22.64%) WSUS
4 22 (20.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 22 (20.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (10.38%) Ansible
6 9 (8.49%) Terraform
7 5 (4.72%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (4.72%) Netcool
7 5 (4.72%) Tivoli
7 5 (4.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (3.77%) Kibana
9 3 (2.83%) vCenter Server
10 2 (1.89%) FortiGate
10 2 (1.89%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (1.89%) Nessus
10 2 (1.89%) Puppet
11 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.94%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 54 (50.94%) Microsoft
2 33 (31.13%) VMware
3 22 (20.75%) Cisco
4 10 (9.43%) Citrix
4 10 (9.43%) Dell
5 9 (8.49%) Splunk
6 8 (7.55%) Aruba
6 8 (7.55%) HP
6 8 (7.55%) Palo Alto
6 8 (7.55%) Qualys
7 7 (6.60%) ServiceNow
8 6 (5.66%) Arista
8 6 (5.66%) Infoblox
8 6 (5.66%) Oracle
9 5 (4.72%) CyberArk
9 5 (4.72%) EMC
9 5 (4.72%) IBM
9 5 (4.72%) Isilon
9 5 (4.72%) Serena
9 5 (4.72%) Zscaler