The first table below looks at the demand for DMZ skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 London 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 370 404 409
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +5
Contract jobs citing DMZ 7 11 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.032% 0.041% 0.106%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.249% 0.298% 0.976%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 17
Average daily rate £375 £398 £451
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £288 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £438 £535
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £400 £450
% change year-on-year
-2.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2816 3693 3382
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.00% 13.71% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1707 2249 1938
Average daily rate £400 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 145 221
Average hourly rate £21.34 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.27 £14.90 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London 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
City of London +14 4 £350 -17.64%
DMZ
England

DMZ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Firewall
3 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (33.33%) VPN
4 5 (33.33%) DNS
5 4 (26.67%) Symantec
5 4 (26.67%) Cisco
5 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (26.67%) HP
5 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (20.00%) MobileIron
6 3 (20.00%) SCCM
6 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
6 3 (20.00%) VMware
6 3 (20.00%) Dell
6 3 (20.00%) MS Exchange
6 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (20.00%) Apache
6 3 (20.00%) Tomcat
6 3 (20.00%) C
6 3 (20.00%) IIS
6 3 (20.00%) MS Office
6 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 3 (20.00%) McAfee
6 3 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 2 (13.33%) BS7799
7 2 (13.33%) MIMEsweeper
7 2 (13.33%) Norton AntiVirus
7 2 (13.33%) Adobe
7 2 (13.33%) Apple

DMZ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 (6.667%) WebSphere
1 1 (6.667%) JSON
1 1 (6.667%) HTML
1 1 (6.667%) XML
1 1 (6.667%) Middleware
1 1 (6.667%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) Tomcat
1 3 (20.00%) IIS
1 3 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (6.667%) Lync
2 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (6.667%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Office
2 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) Firewall
2 5 (33.33%) VPN
2 5 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (13.33%) Intranet
4 2 (13.33%) LDAP
4 2 (13.33%) DHCP
4 2 (13.33%) Wireless
5 1 (6.667%) Network Security
5 1 (6.667%) BIG-IP
5 1 (6.667%) VLAN
5 1 (6.667%) HTTP
5 1 (6.667%) Kerberos
5 1 (6.667%) SNMP
5 1 (6.667%) VoIP
5 1 (6.667%) SAN
5 1 (6.667%) Internet
5 1 (6.667%) SSL
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Help Desk Support
1 2 (13.33%) Help Desk Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Deployment Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Help Desk Support Engineer
2 1 (6.667%) Web Engineer
2 1 (6.667%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (6.667%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server Engineer
2 1 (6.667%) Senior Security Consultant
2 1 (6.667%) Web Administrator
2 1 (6.667%) Network Manager
2 1 (6.667%) Server Engineer
2 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
2 1 (6.667%) Security Consultant
2 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (6.667%) Administrator
2 1 (6.667%) Project Manager
2 1 (6.667%) Analyst
2 1 (6.667%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
2 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
2 1 (6.667%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (13.33%) Windows XP
5 1 (6.667%) Windows 8
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (6.667%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.667%) Mac OS
5 1 (6.667%) Android
5 1 (6.667%) Apple iOS
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Vista
5 1 (6.667%) AIX
5 1 (6.667%) Solaris
5 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (13.33%) Migration
1 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (6.667%) Capacity Management
2 1 (6.667%) Performance Management
2 1 (6.667%) Security Architecture
2 1 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (6.667%) Data Management
2 1 (6.667%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (6.667%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (6.667%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
2 1 (6.667%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (6.667%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (6.667%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C
2 2 (13.33%) VBScript
2 2 (13.33%) C++
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.667%) Python
3 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.667%) SQL
3 1 (6.667%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Degree
1 1 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.667%) MCSE
1 1 (6.667%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) BS7799
System Software
1 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.667%) XenApp
2 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.667%) vSphere
2 1 (6.667%) ProxySG
2 1 (6.667%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (6.667%) VMware ESX
2 1 (6.667%) ISA Server
2 1 (6.667%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) SCCM
2 2 (13.33%) MIMEsweeper
2 2 (13.33%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (13.33%) Backup Exec
3 1 (6.667%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (6.667%) HP SIM
3 1 (6.667%) WMI
3 1 (6.667%) WSUS
3 1 (6.667%) ServiceCenter
3 1 (6.667%) Tivoli
3 1 (6.667%) MOM
3 1 (6.667%) CA SiteMinder
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Symantec
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco
1 4 (26.67%) HP
2 3 (20.00%) MobileIron
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Dell
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) McAfee
3 2 (13.33%) Adobe
3 2 (13.33%) Apple
3 2 (13.33%) Bomgar
4 1 (6.667%) F5
4 1 (6.667%) Blue Coat
4 1 (6.667%) Citrix
4 1 (6.667%) CA
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle
4 1 (6.667%) CheckPoint