DMZ Contracts in the Midlands

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for DMZ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DMZ over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 155 188
Rank change year-on-year +23 +33 -39
Contract jobs citing DMZ 2 8 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.073% 0.23% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 1.56% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £540 -
25th Percentile - £581 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £425
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +52.94% +11.84%
75th Percentile - £700 £450
90th Percentile - £730 £474
England median daily rate £513 £628 £522
% change year-on-year -18.33% +20.33% +8.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

DMZ is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 489 512 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.89% 14.96% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 338 391
10th Percentile £200 £250 £164
25th Percentile £306 £314 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £450 £398
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +13.21% -0.63%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £600
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 32
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £16.25 £13.69
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.31% +16.67%
75th Percentile £24.35 £28.50 £20.88
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.20
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
% change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%

DMZ
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing DMZ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for DMZ in the Midlands

DMZ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DMZ in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for DMZ in the Midlands

DMZ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DMZ in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for DMZ in the Midlands

DMZ
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DMZ within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
West Midlands +17 2 £500 -23.08%
DMZ
England

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Hardware Maintenance
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto