The first table below looks at the demand for DMZ skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DMZ over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the East of England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Rank 112 130 125
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -5
Contract jobs citing DMZ 2 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.094% 0.068% 0.076%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.526% 0.375% 0.464%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
Average daily rate £200 £575 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-65.21% +53.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £400 £450
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
380 533 431
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.77% 18.04% 16.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 171 127
Average daily rate £325 £325 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £217 £212 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £476
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 52 85
Average hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-36.66% +9.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £12.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £52.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
DMZ
England

DMZ
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DMZ across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

East of England DMZ Jobs Demand Trend

DMZ
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DMZ across the East of England region.

East of England DMZ Daily Rate Trend

DMZ
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DMZ across the East of England region.

East of England DMZ Hourly Rate Trend

DMZ
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DMZ within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridgeshire +12 2 £200 -65.21%
DMZ
England

DMZ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing DMZ also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited DMZ.

1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) DHCP
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
2 10 (76.92%) Firewall
3 7 (53.85%) Wireless
3 7 (53.85%) Cisco
3 7 (53.85%) TCP/IP
3 7 (53.85%) VPN
3 7 (53.85%) LAN
3 7 (53.85%) VoIP
3 7 (53.85%) WAN
4 6 (46.15%) SQL
4 6 (46.15%) IIS
4 6 (46.15%) SAN
4 6 (46.15%) Citrix
4 6 (46.15%) VMware
5 5 (38.46%) Back Office
5 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (38.46%) MS Exchange
5 5 (38.46%) VLAN
5 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (30.77%) NetBackup
6 4 (30.77%) Forefront TMG
6 4 (30.77%) ITIL
6 4 (30.77%) BT
6 4 (30.77%) HP
6 4 (30.77%) Project Management
7 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing

DMZ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing DMZ also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited DMZ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) IIS
2 5 (38.46%) MS Exchange
2 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) DHCP
1 13 (100.00%) DNS
2 10 (76.92%) Firewall
3 7 (53.85%) Wireless
3 7 (53.85%) TCP/IP
3 7 (53.85%) VPN
3 7 (53.85%) LAN
3 7 (53.85%) VoIP
3 7 (53.85%) WAN
4 6 (46.15%) SAN
5 5 (38.46%) VLAN
6 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
General
1 5 (38.46%) Back Office
2 3 (23.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Network Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
1 4 (30.77%) Project Management
2 3 (23.08%) Change Management
3 1 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Forefront TMG
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) NetBackup
2 3 (23.08%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (23.08%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (7.692%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) Citrix
2 6 (46.15%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) BT
3 4 (30.77%) HP
4 3 (23.08%) Symantec
5 2 (15.38%) Juniper
6 1 (7.692%) Microsoft