DMZ Contracts in the West Midlands

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 127 159
Rank change year-on-year +16 +32 -34
Contract jobs citing DMZ 1 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.052% 0.30% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.27% 1.95% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £536 £452
25th Percentile - £572 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £638 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +37.05% -
75th Percentile - £697 £480
90th Percentile - £729 £486
England median daily rate £513 £630 £526
% change year-on-year -18.65% +19.71% +9.07%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 374 359 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.52% 15.51% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 220 259
10th Percentile £200 £263 £164
25th Percentile £306 £361 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +18.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £502
90th Percentile £700 £700 £618
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 16
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £11.82
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £13.22
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% -1.47% +13.33%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DMZ in the West Midlands

DMZ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for DMZ in the West Midlands

DMZ
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Birmingham +10 1 - -
DMZ
England

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper