Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 512 648 740
Rank change year-on-year +136 +92 -105
Contract jobs citing DMZ 86 71 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.53% 0.96% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 36 71
10th Percentile £378 £300 £400
25th Percentile £432 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.33% +16.67% +8.81%
75th Percentile £519 £659 £621
90th Percentile £583 £743 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -11.96% +15.00% +9.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

DMZ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DMZ in the UK

DMZ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DMZ in the UK

DMZ
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DMZ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DMZ in the UK

DMZ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DMZ in the UK

DMZ
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DMZ within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +149 85 £513 -18.00% 15
UK excluding London +102 65 £506 -11.96% 8
South East +58 38 £513 - 1
North of England +39 23 £433 -20.71% 2
North West +20 21 £433 -20.71% 1
London +86 19 £566 -12.88% 8
Work from Home +105 6 £400 -44.83% 5
West Midlands +25 3 £500 -23.08% 1
Midlands +18 3 £500 -23.08% 2
South West +22 2 £500 -20.00% 2
North East - 2 £423 - 1

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 15 (17.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (13.95%) Azure
2 10 (11.63%) AWS
3 7 (8.14%) GitHub
4 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 33 (38.37%) Firewall
2 29 (33.72%) VPN
3 23 (26.74%) Cisco Nexus
4 18 (20.93%) SD-WAN
5 17 (19.77%) Cisco IOS
6 14 (16.28%) Wireless
7 8 (9.30%) Network Security
8 7 (8.14%) DNS
8 7 (8.14%) IPsec
8 7 (8.14%) MPLS
9 6 (6.98%) BGP
10 5 (5.81%) OSPF
10 5 (5.81%) Wireshark
11 4 (4.65%) Ethernet
11 4 (4.65%) HSRP
11 4 (4.65%) LAN
11 4 (4.65%) NX-OS
11 4 (4.65%) Spanning Tree
12 2 (2.33%) MQTT
12 2 (2.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.33%) Tableau
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 7 (8.14%) JIRA
2 4 (4.65%) Jenkins
General
1 46 (53.49%) Banking
1 46 (53.49%) Finance
2 13 (15.12%) Investment Banking
3 9 (10.47%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.16%) Local Government
7 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 69 (80.23%) Network Engineer
2 30 (34.88%) Senior
2 30 (34.88%) Senior Network Engineer
3 18 (20.93%) Cisco Engineer
3 18 (20.93%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 10 (11.63%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 10 (11.63%) Juniper Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Wireless Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Wireless Network Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Data Centre Engineer
8 2 (2.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (2.33%) Data Network Engineer
8 2 (2.33%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (2.33%) Linux Server Engineer
8 2 (2.33%) Windows Engineer
8 2 (2.33%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.33%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (2.33%) JSON
1 2 (2.33%) Web Services
1 2 (2.33%) XML
1 2 (2.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.07%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.14%) PKI
3 4 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.33%) IoT
4 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Windows
2 2 (2.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Unix
2 2 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.72%) Migration
2 25 (29.07%) B2B
3 23 (26.74%) ITSM
4 18 (20.93%) High Availability
5 11 (12.79%) Design Patterns
6 10 (11.63%) Architectural Patterns
6 10 (11.63%) Change Control
7 9 (10.47%) Agile
8 8 (9.30%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (8.14%) Scrum
10 6 (6.98%) Cloud Security
10 6 (6.98%) Use Case
11 5 (5.81%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (5.81%) Hardware Maintenance
11 5 (5.81%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (5.81%) Zero Trust
12 4 (4.65%) Build Automation
12 4 (4.65%) Information Security
12 4 (4.65%) Risk Management
12 4 (4.65%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (2.33%) Python
1 2 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (29.07%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (9.30%) SC Cleared
2 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.65%) Degree
4 2 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.16%) CISM
5 1 (1.16%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.33%) NIST
2 1 (1.16%) GDPR
2 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (6.98%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (10.47%) Ansible
1 9 (10.47%) Terraform
2 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.65%) Puppet
3 2 (2.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 60 (69.77%) Cisco
2 35 (40.70%) CheckPoint
3 32 (37.21%) Arista
4 24 (27.91%) F5
5 22 (25.58%) Palo Alto
6 21 (24.42%) Fortinet
7 14 (16.28%) Blue Coat
8 10 (11.63%) Juniper
8 10 (11.63%) Microsoft
9 4 (4.65%) Centrify
9 4 (4.65%) CyberArk
10 3 (3.49%) Zscaler
11 2 (2.33%) McAfee
11 2 (2.33%) SonicWALL
11 2 (2.33%) Symantec
12 1 (1.16%) Meraki
12 1 (1.16%) Radianz