DMZ Contracts in the North of England

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 199 217
Rank change year-on-year +35 +18 -
Contract jobs citing DMZ 20 14 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.43% 0.25% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.52% 2.12% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 7 15
10th Percentile £378 £263 £418
25th Percentile £393 £275 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £325 £540
Median % change year-on-year +33.08% -39.81% -
75th Percentile £433 £598 £631
90th Percentile £434 £653 £645
England median daily rate £513 £630 £513
% change year-on-year -18.65% +22.93% +6.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 568 660 876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.10% 11.56% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 450 608
10th Percentile £200 £205 £180
25th Percentile £313 £325 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £607 £574 £550
90th Percentile £750 £675 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 48 27
10th Percentile £13.31 - £11.01
25th Percentile £18.89 £9.80 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.87 £10.63 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.96% -40.94% +2.86%
75th Percentile £45.88 £15.15 £23.26
90th Percentile £48.75 £34.13 £48.82
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for DMZ in the North of England

DMZ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DMZ in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for DMZ in the North of England

DMZ
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DMZ in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DMZ in the North of England

DMZ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DMZ in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for DMZ in the North of England

DMZ
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DMZ within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +28 18 £433 +33.08%
North East - 2 £423 -
DMZ
England

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (85.00%) SD-WAN
2 14 (70.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 14 (70.00%) Wireless
3 13 (65.00%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (20.00%) Firewall
5 2 (10.00%) AMQP
5 2 (10.00%) Modbus
5 2 (10.00%) MQTT
5 2 (10.00%) VPN
6 1 (5.00%) MPLS
6 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 17 (85.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Wireless Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Build Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Linux Build Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Linux Server Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Server Build Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Server Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Build Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Design Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Juniper Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Network Design Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Presales Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Presales Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (10.00%) JSON
1 2 (10.00%) Web Services
1 2 (10.00%) XML
1 2 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) IoT
2 2 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) ITSM
2 2 (10.00%) CRUD
2 2 (10.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (10.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (10.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (10.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (10.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 2 (10.00%) Security Management
2 2 (10.00%) Server Building
2 2 (10.00%) Use Case
2 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (5.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (5.00%) Change Control
3 1 (5.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (5.00%) High Availability
3 1 (5.00%) Network Design
3 1 (5.00%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.00%) Python
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) F5
1 16 (80.00%) Palo Alto
2 15 (75.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.00%) Juniper
4 1 (5.00%) Radianz