DMZ Contract Job Trends in Durham

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Durham requiring DMZ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DMZ 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 1.72% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £500 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Durham

DMZ falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7 10 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 12.07% 23.26% 10.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 2
10th Percentile £372 - £318
25th Percentile £397 £153 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £225 £500
Median % change year-on-year +86.67% -55.00% -
75th Percentile £460 £307 £606
90th Percentile £514 £336 £663
North East median daily rate £488 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +50.00% -27.78% +60.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.33 - £40.00
Median hourly rate £22.81 - £43.00
75th Percentile £24.29 - £46.00
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £24.74 - £47.50

DMZ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler