The first table below looks at the demand for DMZ skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DMZ over the 3 months to 23 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.

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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Rank 520 529 515
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -14
Contract jobs citing DMZ 21 36 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.045% 0.062% 0.114%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.311% 0.393% 0.884%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 32
Average daily rate £370 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £252 £350 £278
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £575 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £400 £450
% change year-on-year
-8.75% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 -
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6757 9155 8028
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.58% 15.68% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3308 4150 3638
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 527 612 810
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%

DMZ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

DMZ Daily Rate Trend

DMZ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DMZ within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

DMZ Hourly Rate Trend

DMZ
Top 16 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 UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +32 19 £370 -10.30%
South East +19 9 £395 -
London +29 7 £375 -5.66%
West Sussex - 7 £390 -
Crawley - 6 £390 -
City of London +19 4 £350 -17.64%
East of England +18 2 £200 -65.21%
Cambridgeshire +12 2 £200 -65.21%
Middlesex +11 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £340 -
Cambridge - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 £425 -
Derbyshire - 1 £340 -
Havant - 1 £425 -
Gatwick - 1 - -
Derby - 1 £340 -

DMZ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 37 (58.73%) Firewall
2 33 (52.38%) Windows
3 26 (41.27%) VPN
4 24 (38.10%) Cisco
5 23 (36.51%) LAN
6 22 (34.92%) DNS
7 19 (30.16%) F5
8 18 (28.57%) DHCP
8 18 (28.57%) WAN
8 18 (28.57%) Wireless
9 17 (26.98%) TCP/IP
10 16 (25.40%) Active Directory
11 13 (20.63%) Microsoft
11 13 (20.63%) SAN
11 13 (20.63%) Internet
11 13 (20.63%) Windows Server 2008
12 12 (19.05%) Network Security
12 12 (19.05%) Forefront TMG
12 12 (19.05%) Windows Server 2003
12 12 (19.05%) BGP
12 12 (19.05%) IIS
13 11 (17.46%) MS Exchange
13 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (17.46%) VMware
13 11 (17.46%) Network Load Balancing
14 10 (15.87%) BT
14 10 (15.87%) Citrix
15 9 (14.29%) HP
15 9 (14.29%) ISA Server
15 9 (14.29%) Wireless Security

DMZ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 2 (3.175%) Middleware
2 1 (1.587%) .NET
2 1 (1.587%) HTML
2 1 (1.587%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.587%) COM
2 1 (1.587%) COM+
2 1 (1.587%) Web Services
2 1 (1.587%) XML
2 1 (1.587%) SAML
2 1 (1.587%) JSON
2 1 (1.587%) Application Packaging
2 1 (1.587%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 12 (19.05%) IIS
2 11 (17.46%) MS Exchange
3 6 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (4.762%) Apache
4 3 (4.762%) Tomcat
4 3 (4.762%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 3 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (3.175%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (3.175%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.587%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (1.587%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (1.587%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (4.762%) MS Office
2 2 (3.175%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.587%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 37 (58.73%) Firewall
2 26 (41.27%) VPN
3 23 (36.51%) LAN
4 22 (34.92%) DNS
5 18 (28.57%) DHCP
5 18 (28.57%) WAN
5 18 (28.57%) Wireless
6 17 (26.98%) TCP/IP
7 13 (20.63%) SAN
7 13 (20.63%) Internet
8 12 (19.05%) Network Security
8 12 (19.05%) BGP
9 9 (14.29%) Wireless Security
10 8 (12.70%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (12.70%) VoIP
11 6 (9.524%) VLAN
11 6 (9.524%) BIG-IP
11 6 (9.524%) MPLS
11 6 (9.524%) OSPF
12 5 (7.937%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.762%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.175%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.587%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (1.587%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 6 (9.524%) Back Office
2 3 (4.762%) Finance
2 3 (4.762%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.175%) Banking
4 1 (1.587%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.587%) Military
4 1 (1.587%) Dutch Language
4 1 (1.587%) French Language
4 1 (1.587%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 18 (28.57%) Analyst
2 11 (17.46%) Technical Analyst
3 10 (15.87%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (11.11%) Project Manager
4 7 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 5 (7.937%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (7.937%) Senior Analyst
5 5 (7.937%) Network Analyst
5 5 (7.937%) Senior Technical Analyst
5 5 (7.937%) Security Engineer
5 5 (7.937%) Firewall Engineer
5 5 (7.937%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 5 (7.937%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
6 4 (6.349%) Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (6.349%) Network Specialist
6 4 (6.349%) Server Engineer
7 3 (4.762%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 3 (4.762%) Support Engineer
7 3 (4.762%) Administrator
7 3 (4.762%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.349%) Clustering
2 2 (3.175%) Firmware
3 1 (1.587%) PMI
3 1 (1.587%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.587%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 33 (52.38%) Windows
2 13 (20.63%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (19.05%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (7.937%) UNIX
5 3 (4.762%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.175%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (3.175%) Windows 2000 Server
6 2 (3.175%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.587%) AIX
7 1 (1.587%) Solaris
7 1 (1.587%) Linux
7 1 (1.587%) VMS
7 1 (1.587%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.587%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.587%) Android
7 1 (1.587%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.587%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.587%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
1 11 (17.46%) Network Load Balancing
2 8 (12.70%) Technical Architecture
3 7 (11.11%) Project Management
3 7 (11.11%) Migration
4 5 (7.937%) Supplier Management
5 4 (6.349%) Data Protection
5 4 (6.349%) Change Management
5 4 (6.349%) ITIL
6 3 (4.762%) Business Analysis
7 2 (3.175%) Risk Management
7 2 (3.175%) Data Security
7 2 (3.175%) DRM
7 2 (3.175%) PRINCE2
8 1 (1.587%) PRINCE
8 1 (1.587%) Security Management
8 1 (1.587%) Identity Management
8 1 (1.587%) Network Security Management
8 1 (1.587%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.587%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.70%) SQL
2 3 (4.762%) C
2 3 (4.762%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.175%) C++
3 2 (3.175%) Java
3 2 (3.175%) VBScript
4 1 (1.587%) Python
4 1 (1.587%) VB
4 1 (1.587%) VB.NET
4 1 (1.587%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.587%) Perl
4 1 (1.587%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.587%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (7.937%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (3.175%) CCNA
3 1 (1.587%) MCSE
3 1 (1.587%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.587%) PMP
3 1 (1.587%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.587%) CCSP
3 1 (1.587%) CCNP
3 1 (1.587%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.175%) PCI DSS
1 2 (3.175%) BS7799
2 1 (1.587%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (25.40%) Active Directory
2 12 (19.05%) Forefront TMG
3 9 (14.29%) ISA Server
3 9 (14.29%) NLBS
4 5 (7.937%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (3.175%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.587%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.587%) VMware ESX
6 1 (1.587%) ProxySG
6 1 (1.587%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (1.587%) VMware Server
6 1 (1.587%) XenApp
6 1 (1.587%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (9.524%) Norton AntiVirus
2 5 (7.937%) NetBackup
3 4 (6.349%) WhatsUp Gold
3 4 (6.349%) SCCM
4 3 (4.762%) SCOM
5 2 (3.175%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (3.175%) Backup Exec
5 2 (3.175%) MIMEsweeper
6 1 (1.587%) CA SiteMinder
6 1 (1.587%) Tivoli
6 1 (1.587%) MOM
6 1 (1.587%) WSUS
6 1 (1.587%) WMI
6 1 (1.587%) SCVMM
6 1 (1.587%) ServiceCenter
6 1 (1.587%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (1.587%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 24 (38.10%) Cisco
2 19 (30.16%) F5
3 13 (20.63%) Microsoft
4 11 (17.46%) VMware
5 10 (15.87%) BT
5 10 (15.87%) Citrix
6 9 (14.29%) HP
7 8 (12.70%) Symantec
8 7 (11.11%) SolarWinds
9 6 (9.524%) Avaya
9 6 (9.524%) CheckPoint
9 6 (9.524%) Siemens
10 4 (6.349%) McAfee
10 4 (6.349%) Business Objects
11 3 (4.762%) Juniper
11 3 (4.762%) Dell
11 3 (4.762%) MobileIron
12 2 (3.175%) Bomgar
12 2 (3.175%) Adobe
12 2 (3.175%) Apple
Crawley, West Sussex
Requirements: Strong technical expertise covering a range of the following: - Network infrastructure (WAN, LAN, Wireless, voice, Remote Access Solutions) - Network Security (Firewalls, GTM's, LTM's, Proxies, DMZ,...
Connectus
Rate: £380 - £400 per hour
Posted: 20 May 2013