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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 385 425
Rank change year-on-year +28 +40 +145
Contract jobs citing DMZ 5 3 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.037% 0.019% 0.091%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.20% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 15
10th Percentile £270 £570 £478
25th Percentile £300 £583 £659
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £611 £743
Median % change year-on-year -42.74% -17.73% +19.84%
75th Percentile £475 £633 -
90th Percentile £550 £643 -
England median daily rate £435 £525 £720
% change year-on-year -17.09% -27.08% +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 1,328 1,514 2,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.89% 9.38% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 846 963 1,595
10th Percentile £289 £250 £250
25th Percentile £404 £389 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £713 £721 £750
England median daily rate £490 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.45% +1.50% -1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 43
10th Percentile £18.56 £20.40 £18.93
25th Percentile - £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.37%
75th Percentile £44.75 £55.88 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.05 £66.38 £79.50
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.50%

DMZ
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for DMZ 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 - 1 £600 -
West London - 1 £350 -
DMZ
England

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
1 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (40.00%) SSH
2 2 (40.00%) Telnet
2 2 (40.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) L2TP
3 1 (20.00%) Multicast
3 1 (20.00%) SNMP
3 1 (20.00%) SSL
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) Application Security
2 2 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) B2B
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
2 1 (20.00%) CCIE
2 1 (20.00%) CEH
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) GRC
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
1 2 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Qualys
1 2 (40.00%) Tenable
2 1 (20.00%) Arista
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (20.00%) McAfee
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk