The first table below looks at the demand for DMZ skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DMZ over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Rank 514 507 510
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +3
Contract jobs citing DMZ 18 38 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.042% 0.072% 0.122%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.288% 0.460% 0.929%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 32
Average daily rate £390 £360 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -17.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £246 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £563 £548
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £350 £450
% change year-on-year
+11.42% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 £25.75 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.21% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £25.75 -
% change year-on-year
-26.21% -
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6247 8269 7531
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.44% 15.61% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3225 3820 3506
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £210 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £499 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 564 756
Average hourly rate £24.00 £24.38 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
DMZ
UK

DMZ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

England DMZ Daily Rate Trend

DMZ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DMZ across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England DMZ Daily Rate Histogram

DMZ
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
South East +25 7 £393 +57.00% 4
London +23 5 £375 +1.35% 2
North West +18 3 - -
East of England +18 2 £200 -65.21% 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
East Midlands - - - -
South West - - - -
West Midlands - - - - 1
DMZ
UK

DMZ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 30 (55.56%) Firewall
2 25 (46.30%) Windows
3 24 (44.44%) F5
4 18 (33.33%) DNS
5 17 (31.48%) Wireless
5 17 (31.48%) Cisco
5 17 (31.48%) LAN
6 16 (29.63%) VPN
6 16 (29.63%) SAN
7 15 (27.78%) Internet
8 13 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (24.07%) DHCP
9 12 (22.22%) WAN
9 12 (22.22%) Active Directory
9 12 (22.22%) Network Security
9 12 (22.22%) Network Load Balancing
10 11 (20.37%) NLBS
10 11 (20.37%) Wireless Security
10 11 (20.37%) Windows Server 2008
10 11 (20.37%) Windows Server 2003
10 11 (20.37%) MS Exchange
11 10 (18.52%) VMware
11 10 (18.52%) IIS
11 10 (18.52%) HP
11 10 (18.52%) Technical Architecture
12 9 (16.67%) Citrix
12 9 (16.67%) TCP/IP
13 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
13 8 (14.81%) SQL
13 8 (14.81%) UNIX

DMZ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 4 (7.407%) Middleware
2 1 (1.852%) SAML
2 1 (1.852%) HTML
2 1 (1.852%) Web Services
2 1 (1.852%) XML
2 1 (1.852%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.852%) JSON
2 1 (1.852%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 11 (20.37%) MS Exchange
2 10 (18.52%) IIS
3 7 (12.96%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (7.407%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (5.556%) Apache
5 3 (5.556%) Tomcat
5 3 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (3.704%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.852%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (1.852%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (1.852%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.852%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (5.556%) MS Excel
1 3 (5.556%) MS Office
2 1 (1.852%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 30 (55.56%) Firewall
2 18 (33.33%) DNS
3 17 (31.48%) Wireless
3 17 (31.48%) LAN
4 16 (29.63%) VPN
4 16 (29.63%) SAN
5 15 (27.78%) Internet
6 13 (24.07%) DHCP
7 12 (22.22%) WAN
7 12 (22.22%) Network Security
8 11 (20.37%) Wireless Security
9 9 (16.67%) TCP/IP
10 7 (12.96%) BGP
11 6 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
11 6 (11.11%) BIG-IP
12 5 (9.259%) VoIP
12 5 (9.259%) EIGRP
12 5 (9.259%) OSPF
12 5 (9.259%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (5.556%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.852%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.852%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (1.852%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (11.11%) Back Office
2 2 (3.704%) Finance
2 2 (3.704%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.852%) Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Analyst
2 11 (20.37%) Technical Analyst
2 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 6 (11.11%) Network Analyst
3 6 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 5 (9.259%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (9.259%) Senior Technical Analyst
4 5 (9.259%) Security Engineer
4 5 (9.259%) Firewall Engineer
4 5 (9.259%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (9.259%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (9.259%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 5 (9.259%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (7.407%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (5.556%) Lead Designer
6 3 (5.556%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 3 (5.556%) Technical Engineer
6 3 (5.556%) Designer
6 3 (5.556%) Senior Technical Engineer
7 2 (3.704%) Help Desk Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.556%) Clustering
2 1 (1.852%) Firmware
2 1 (1.852%) PMI
2 1 (1.852%) Blackberry
2 1 (1.852%) Computer Science
2 1 (1.852%) CMDB
2 1 (1.852%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 25 (46.30%) Windows
2 11 (20.37%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (20.37%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (14.81%) UNIX
4 4 (7.407%) Linux
5 3 (5.556%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.704%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.852%) AIX
7 1 (1.852%) Solaris
7 1 (1.852%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.852%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.852%) Android
7 1 (1.852%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (1.852%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.852%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.852%) Windows 8
7 1 (1.852%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (22.22%) Network Load Balancing
3 10 (18.52%) Technical Architecture
4 7 (12.96%) Migration
5 6 (11.11%) Project Management
6 5 (9.259%) Change Management
6 5 (9.259%) Risk Management
6 5 (9.259%) Supplier Management
7 4 (7.407%) Data Protection
7 4 (7.407%) Business Analysis
8 3 (5.556%) E-Commerce
8 3 (5.556%) ITIL
9 2 (3.704%) Data Security
9 2 (3.704%) DRM
9 2 (3.704%) PRINCE2
10 1 (1.852%) PRINCE
10 1 (1.852%) Service Delivery
10 1 (1.852%) Identity Management
10 1 (1.852%) Workflow
10 1 (1.852%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) SQL
2 3 (5.556%) C
3 2 (3.704%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.704%) C++
3 2 (3.704%) Java
3 2 (3.704%) VBScript
4 1 (1.852%) Python
4 1 (1.852%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.852%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (5.556%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.852%) PMP
2 1 (1.852%) PMI Certification
2 1 (1.852%) CCNA
2 1 (1.852%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.852%) MCSE
2 1 (1.852%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.704%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.704%) BS7799
System Software
1 12 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 11 (20.37%) NLBS
3 7 (12.96%) Forefront TMG
4 6 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (5.556%) ISA Server
6 1 (1.852%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.852%) VMware ESX
6 1 (1.852%) ProxySG
6 1 (1.852%) VMware Server
6 1 (1.852%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.852%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
2 5 (9.259%) NetBackup
3 4 (7.407%) WhatsUp Gold
3 4 (7.407%) SCCM
4 2 (3.704%) SCOM
4 2 (3.704%) Backup Exec
4 2 (3.704%) MIMEsweeper
5 1 (1.852%) CA SiteMinder
5 1 (1.852%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.852%) MOM
5 1 (1.852%) WMI
5 1 (1.852%) WSUS
5 1 (1.852%) ServiceCenter
5 1 (1.852%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.852%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 24 (44.44%) F5
2 17 (31.48%) Cisco
3 10 (18.52%) VMware
3 10 (18.52%) HP
4 9 (16.67%) Citrix
5 8 (14.81%) Microsoft
5 8 (14.81%) Symantec
6 6 (11.11%) McAfee
6 6 (11.11%) CheckPoint
7 5 (9.259%) Dell
8 4 (7.407%) BT
8 4 (7.407%) Business Objects
8 4 (7.407%) Juniper
9 3 (5.556%) IBM
9 3 (5.556%) FatWire
9 3 (5.556%) Fortinet
9 3 (5.556%) Sourcefire
9 3 (5.556%) MobileIron
10 2 (3.704%) Bomgar
10 2 (3.704%) SolarWinds
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