DMZ Contracts in the North West

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 149 166
Rank change year-on-year +31 +17 -
Contract jobs citing DMZ 19 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.70% 0.44% 0.37%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.54% 3.26% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 8
10th Percentile - £263 £443
25th Percentile £378 £275 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £325 £600
Median % change year-on-year +33.08% -45.83% -
75th Percentile £433 £598 £631
90th Percentile £434 £653 £634
England median daily rate £513 £628 £522
% change year-on-year -18.33% +20.33% +8.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 343 430 530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.67% 13.56% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 299 352
10th Percentile £199 £288 £181
25th Percentile £313 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £663 £568 £588
90th Percentile £825 £650 £638
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 12
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.92 £11.71
25th Percentile £18.48 £19.17 £15.91
Median hourly rate £26.75 £31.25 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.40% +62.34% -59.41%
75th Percentile £45.88 £51.45 £46.34
90th Percentile £83.76 £52.13 £64.38
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for DMZ in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for DMZ in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for DMZ in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for DMZ in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Manchester +31 17 £433 -13.50%
Merseyside +7 1 - -
Cheshire 0 1 - -
DMZ
England

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (68.42%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) AWS
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 17 (89.47%) SD-WAN
2 14 (73.68%) Cisco Nexus
2 14 (73.68%) Wireless
3 13 (68.42%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (15.79%) Firewall
4 3 (15.79%) VPN
5 1 (5.26%) MPLS
5 1 (5.26%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 17 (89.47%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Banking
3 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Network Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Wireless Engineer
2 5 (26.32%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Design Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Lead
3 1 (5.26%) Lead Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Presales Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Presales Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (84.21%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) ITSM
2 2 (10.53%) High Availability
3 1 (5.26%) Agile
3 1 (5.26%) Change Control
3 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (5.26%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (5.26%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.26%) Information Governance
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
3 1 (5.26%) Network Design
3 1 (5.26%) Presales
3 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.26%) Process Improvement
3 1 (5.26%) Risk Management
3 1 (5.26%) Software Delivery
3 1 (5.26%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) F5
1 16 (84.21%) Palo Alto
2 15 (78.95%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Blue Coat
3 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.26%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.26%) Juniper
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Radianz