DMZ Contract Job Trends in London

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring DMZ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 350 363
Rank change year-on-year -33 +13 +127
Contract jobs citing DMZ 18 1 19
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.11% 0.008% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.33% 0.075% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 9
10th Percentile £446 - £400
25th Percentile £525 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +7.14% -13.85%
75th Percentile £700 - £650
90th Percentile - - £725
England median daily rate £675 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +43.62% -6.00% -20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,357 1,325 1,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.23% 10.38% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 841 1,179
10th Percentile £263 £263 £200
25th Percentile £406 £400 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +2.04% -10.91%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £617
90th Percentile £700 £738 £745
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 16 69
10th Percentile £20.31 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £22.21 £27.47 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £38.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.84% +75.00% -18.83%
75th Percentile £38.75 £49.06 £41.25
90th Percentile £94.75 £62.25 £60.35
England median hourly rate £36.00 £36.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -1.37% +12.31% +71.05%

DMZ
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DMZ relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

DMZ job vacancy trend in London

DMZ
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DMZ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DMZ

DMZ
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DMZ in London over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DMZ in London

DMZ
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DMZ.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing DMZ

DMZ
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DMZ within the London region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
Central London - 4 £700 -
South London -13 3 £550 -8.33%
East London - 2 - -
DMZ
England

DMZ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
1 5 (27.78%) GCP
2 4 (22.22%) Google Workspace
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.11%) OCI
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) Firewall
2 10 (55.56%) Network Security
3 6 (33.33%) VPN
4 5 (27.78%) BGP
4 5 (27.78%) VXLAN
5 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (16.67%) DNS
6 3 (16.67%) IGMP
6 3 (16.67%) Multicast
6 3 (16.67%) WAN
7 2 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (11.11%) Internet
7 2 (11.11%) IOS XR
7 2 (11.11%) Junos
7 2 (11.11%) NX-OS
7 2 (11.11%) SSL
7 2 (11.11%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Redis
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Front Office
3 4 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Network Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Help Desk Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Help Desk Support
4 3 (16.67%) IT Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) IT Support
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Data Network Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Help Desk Support Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Help Desk Support Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) IT Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Network Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Network Security Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Security Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Data Centre
2 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Client/Server
3 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.11%) PKI
3 2 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Fat Client
4 1 (5.56%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Agile
2 4 (22.22%) ITIL
2 4 (22.22%) Load Balancing
3 3 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 3 (16.67%) Change Management
3 3 (16.67%) Low Latency
3 3 (16.67%) Service Management
4 2 (11.11%) B2B
4 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Design Patterns
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) Investment Management
4 2 (11.11%) Operational Stability
4 2 (11.11%) Project Management
4 2 (11.11%) Security Hardening
4 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CCNP
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) CISSP
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (5.56%) MCSA
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) NCSC
1 2 (11.11%) NIST
1 2 (11.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
1 2 (11.11%) ProxySG
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Grafana
2 4 (22.22%) SCCM
3 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 3 (16.67%) WSUS
4 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (11.11%) VxRail
5 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Palo Alto
2 6 (33.33%) F5
3 5 (27.78%) Cisco
3 5 (27.78%) Juniper
4 4 (22.22%) Bloomberg
4 4 (22.22%) Citrix
4 4 (22.22%) ION Trading
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 4 (22.22%) Reuters
5 3 (16.67%) Arista
5 3 (16.67%) VMware
6 2 (11.11%) Blue Coat
6 2 (11.11%) Dell
6 2 (11.11%) McAfee
6 2 (11.11%) NVIDIA
6 2 (11.11%) Radware
6 2 (11.11%) Splunk
6 2 (11.11%) Symantec
7 1 (5.56%) Aruba
7 1 (5.56%) Veeam