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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 - 419
Rank change year-on-year - - +142
Contract jobs citing DMZ 4 0 16
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.030% - 0.076%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% - 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 14
10th Percentile £270 - £517
25th Percentile £300 - £684
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - £743
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.94%
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £620 - -
England median daily rate £435 £487 £720
% change year-on-year -10.57% -32.40% +15.20%

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 1,258 1,541 2,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.46% 9.65% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 945 1,502
10th Percentile £282 £256 £252
25th Percentile £404 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -1.36%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £711 £725 £750
England median daily rate £486 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.75% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 18 46
10th Percentile £18.69 £23.80 -
25th Percentile - £26.25 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% +41.90% +9.79%
75th Percentile £40.00 £61.69 £61.31
90th Percentile £62.65 £75.27 £78.75
England median hourly rate £33.39 £55.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -39.30% -2.64% +37.68%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 - - 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) SSH
3 2 (50.00%) Telnet
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
4 1 (25.00%) BGP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
4 1 (25.00%) SNMP
4 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (25.00%) VSAN
4 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) PKI
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CEH
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) OSCP
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
2 2 (50.00%) GRC
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (25.00%) NCSC
3 1 (25.00%) NIST 800
3 1 (25.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Firmware
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
1 1 (25.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Qualys
1 2 (50.00%) Tenable
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) NVIDIA
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Veeam