DMZ Contracts in England

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 464 599 693
Rank change year-on-year +135 +94 -96
Contract jobs citing DMZ 76 56 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.56% 0.94% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 25 58
10th Percentile £391 £273 £390
25th Percentile £432 £500 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £630 £526
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% +19.71% +9.07%
75th Percentile £519 £725 £626
90th Percentile £582 £743 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £625 £519
% change year-on-year -18.00% +20.48% +8.07%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,862 5,986 7,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.21% 12.20% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,936 3,911 5,113
10th Percentile £207 £235 £223
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 431 301
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.86 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -22.63% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.90 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

DMZ
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DMZ in England

DMZ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DMZ in England

DMZ
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DMZ in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DMZ in England

DMZ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DMZ in England

DMZ
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DMZ within the England 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
South East +54 35 £513 -
North of England +35 20 £433 +33.08%
London +77 19 £566 -16.11% 9
North West +19 18 £433 +33.08%
North East - 2 £423 -
Midlands +29 1 - - 1
West Midlands +16 1 - -
DMZ
UK

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (17.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.95%) GitHub
2 2 (2.63%) Azure
2 2 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (34.21%) Firewall
2 24 (31.58%) Cisco Nexus
3 21 (27.63%) VPN
4 18 (23.68%) SD-WAN
5 17 (22.37%) Cisco IOS
6 14 (18.42%) Wireless
7 8 (10.53%) BGP
8 7 (9.21%) IPsec
8 7 (9.21%) MPLS
9 5 (6.58%) DNS
9 5 (6.58%) OSPF
9 5 (6.58%) Wireshark
10 4 (5.26%) Ethernet
10 4 (5.26%) HSRP
10 4 (5.26%) NX-OS
10 4 (5.26%) Spanning Tree
11 3 (3.95%) Multicast
11 3 (3.95%) Network Security
12 2 (2.63%) AMQP
12 2 (2.63%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.63%) Tableau
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
1 3 (3.95%) JIRA
General
1 48 (63.16%) Banking
2 47 (61.84%) Finance
3 14 (18.42%) Investment Banking
4 7 (9.21%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.32%) Local Government
6 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (86.84%) Network Engineer
2 30 (39.47%) Senior
2 30 (39.47%) Senior Network Engineer
3 19 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 19 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 11 (14.47%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 11 (14.47%) Juniper Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Wireless Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Wireless Network Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
6 4 (5.26%) Data Network Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Security Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Analyst
8 2 (2.63%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Security Analyst
8 2 (2.63%) Server Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (2.63%) JSON
1 2 (2.63%) Web Services
1 2 (2.63%) XML
1 2 (2.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 25 (32.89%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.95%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.63%) IoT
3 2 (2.63%) PKI
3 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.63%) Linux
1 2 (2.63%) Unix
1 2 (2.63%) Windows
1 2 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.53%) Migration
2 25 (32.89%) B2B
3 24 (31.58%) ITSM
4 13 (17.11%) Design Patterns
5 11 (14.47%) Architectural Patterns
5 11 (14.47%) Change Control
5 11 (14.47%) High Availability
6 5 (6.58%) Agile
6 5 (6.58%) Load Balancing
6 5 (6.58%) Use Case
7 4 (5.26%) Change Management
8 3 (3.95%) Build Automation
8 3 (3.95%) DevOps
8 3 (3.95%) Privileged Access Management
8 3 (3.95%) Roadmaps
8 3 (3.95%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (3.95%) Scrum
8 3 (3.95%) Secrets Management
9 2 (2.63%) CRUD
9 2 (2.63%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.63%) JavaScript
1 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
1 2 (2.63%) Python
1 2 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (32.89%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (2.63%) Degree
3 1 (1.32%) CISM
3 1 (1.32%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.63%) NIST
2 1 (1.32%) GDPR
2 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.95%) Ansible
1 3 (3.95%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.95%) Puppet
1 3 (3.95%) Terraform
2 2 (2.63%) Grafana
Vendors
1 63 (82.89%) Cisco
2 36 (47.37%) CheckPoint
3 32 (42.11%) Arista
4 21 (27.63%) F5
5 17 (22.37%) Fortinet
5 17 (22.37%) Palo Alto
6 15 (19.74%) Blue Coat
7 11 (14.47%) Juniper
8 3 (3.95%) Centrify
8 3 (3.95%) CyberArk
8 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
8 3 (3.95%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.63%) McAfee
9 2 (2.63%) Symantec
10 1 (1.32%) Meraki
10 1 (1.32%) Radianz