DMZ Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring DMZ skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 - 137
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DMZ 15 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.56% - 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.36% - 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £432 - -
25th Percentile £435 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 - £450
75th Percentile £521 - -
90th Percentile £568 - -
England median daily rate £435 £525 £720
% change year-on-year -17.09% -27.08% +16.13%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 344 358 546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.96% 13.09% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 200 302
10th Percentile £171 £203 £205
25th Percentile £300 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £538 £631 £575
90th Percentile £625 £725 £706
England median daily rate £490 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 27
10th Percentile £14.07 - £15.65
25th Percentile £19.67 £12.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.59 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% -21.49% +37.50%
75th Percentile £31.00 £24.74 £60.75
90th Percentile £42.10 £35.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -29.38% +1.52% +36.12%

DMZ
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for DMZ in the Midlands

DMZ
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DMZ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DMZ

DMZ
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DMZ in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DMZ in the Midlands

DMZ
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DMZ.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DMZ

DMZ
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DMZ within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
West Midlands - 13 £600 - 2
East Midlands - 2 £435 -
DMZ
England

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) DNS
1 11 (73.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 11 (73.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 7 (46.67%) Network Security
3 4 (26.67%) BIG-IP
3 4 (26.67%) HTTP
3 4 (26.67%) SSL
3 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (26.67%) Wireshark
4 3 (20.00%) Internet
5 2 (13.33%) Firewall
6 1 (6.67%) 3GPP
6 1 (6.67%) LAN
6 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
6 1 (6.67%) VLAN
6 1 (6.67%) VPN
6 1 (6.67%) WAN
6 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Fiddler
2 2 (13.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Gradle
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Maven
General
1 11 (73.33%) Banking
1 11 (73.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Operations Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Python Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Junior
3 3 (20.00%) Junior Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Network Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) RESTful
1 2 (13.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Load Balancing
2 8 (53.33%) Design Patterns
3 7 (46.67%) Business Strategy
4 6 (40.00%) Project Delivery
5 5 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
7 2 (13.33%) Adaptive Web Design
7 2 (13.33%) Architectural Design
7 2 (13.33%) CI/CD
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (13.33%) Data Architecture
7 2 (13.33%) ETL
7 2 (13.33%) Microservices
7 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
7 2 (13.33%) Software Delivery
8 1 (6.67%) Computer Science
8 1 (6.67%) Network Architecture
8 1 (6.67%) Project Management
8 1 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) CCNA
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (6.67%) CISSP
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) F5
2 7 (46.67%) VMware
3 4 (26.67%) Blue Coat
3 4 (26.67%) McAfee
3 4 (26.67%) NetApp
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.67%) Juniper
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto