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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 - 382
Rank change year-on-year - - +139
Contract jobs citing DMZ 12 0 17
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.083% - 0.093%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.94% - 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 12
10th Percentile £394 - £406
25th Percentile £441 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.28%
75th Percentile £691 - £743
90th Percentile £700 - -
England median daily rate £575 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -16.67%

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 1,272 1,466 1,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.83% 9.95% 10.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 901 1,260
10th Percentile £300 £258 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £745
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 13 58
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £18.93
25th Percentile - £25.00 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +22.27% +14.50%
75th Percentile £29.31 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.55 £75.31 £76.63
England median hourly rate £34.50 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -1.43% -38.04% +50.64%

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 31 December 2025.

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 31 December 2025. 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 London - 3 £550 -
Central London - 2 £700 - 3
East London - 2 - -
West London - 1 £350 -
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 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
1 3 (25.00%) GCP
1 3 (25.00%) Google Workspace
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (16.67%) OCI
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Network Security
2 7 (58.33%) Firewall
3 3 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (25.00%) VPN
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (16.67%) Internet
4 2 (16.67%) IOS XR
4 2 (16.67%) Junos
4 2 (16.67%) NX-OS
4 2 (16.67%) SSL
5 1 (8.33%) BGP
5 1 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 1 (8.33%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (8.33%) VSAN
5 1 (8.33%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Redis
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (25.00%) Front Office
3 3 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Help Desk Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) IT Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Help Desk Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Help Desk Support
3 2 (16.67%) Help Desk Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Help Desk Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Network Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Network Security Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Security Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (8.33%) Fat Client
3 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) PKI
3 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Ubuntu
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 3 (25.00%) Change Management
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) B2B
3 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Security Hardening
3 2 (16.67%) Service Management
4 1 (8.33%) AI
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Load Balancing
4 1 (8.33%) Observability
4 1 (8.33%) Secrets Management
4 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) CCNP
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (16.67%) CISSP
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) CEH
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (8.33%) MCSA
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) GRC
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) ProxySG
1 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Firmware
2 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) SCCM
2 2 (16.67%) WSUS
3 1 (8.33%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (8.33%) Grafana
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 3 (25.00%) Citrix
1 3 (25.00%) F5
1 3 (25.00%) ION Trading
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
1 3 (25.00%) Reuters
2 2 (16.67%) Blue Coat
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Juniper
2 2 (16.67%) McAfee
2 2 (16.67%) Radware
2 2 (16.67%) Symantec
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) NVIDIA
3 1 (8.33%) Qualys
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Tenable
3 1 (8.33%) Veeam