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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 134 162
Rank change year-on-year +23 +28 -39
Contract jobs citing DMZ 3 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.16% 0.33% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.76% 2.25% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £540 £452
25th Percentile - £581 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £465
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +39.74% -
75th Percentile - £700 £480
90th Percentile - £730 £486
England median daily rate £513 £625 £531
% change year-on-year -18.00% +17.81% +9.38%

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 394 355 392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.40% 14.79% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 220 274
10th Percentile £201 £263 £165
25th Percentile £313 £363 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £498 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +24.38% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £609 £506
90th Percentile £688 £700 £616
England median daily rate £488 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +5.00% +15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 19
10th Percentile £10.50 £12.50 £12.15
25th Percentile £13.50 £13.13 £12.94
Median hourly rate £19.95 £16.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +1.52% +10.00%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.58 £20.00
90th Percentile £28.75 £21.80 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £23.91
% change year-on-year +111.30% -20.83% -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 25 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
Coventry - 2 £500 -
Birmingham +7 1 - - 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Hardware Maintenance
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Change Control
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper