DMZ Contracts in the UK excluding London

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for DMZ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DMZ over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 430 472
Rank change year-on-year +105 +42 -64
Contract jobs citing DMZ 65 29 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.12% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.87% 0.80% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 16 26
10th Percentile £378 £275 £275
25th Percentile £432 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +20.00% +9.53%
75th Percentile £519 £638 £586
90th Percentile - £669 £635
UK median daily rate £513 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -18.00% +19.05% +8.81%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

DMZ is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,471 3,620 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.71% 15.00% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,991 2,296 2,655
10th Percentile £203 £207 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +9.70% +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £540
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.72% +3.95% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 333 241
10th Percentile £13.50 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +1.85%

DMZ
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DMZ in the UK excluding London

DMZ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DMZ in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DMZ in the UK excluding London

DMZ
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DMZ in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DMZ in the UK excluding London

DMZ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DMZ in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DMZ in the UK excluding London

DMZ
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 East +57 38 £513 - 2
North of England +32 23 £433 -23.59% 2
North West +23 21 £433 -23.59% 1
West Midlands +26 3 £500 -23.08% 1
Midlands +23 3 £500 -23.08% 2
South West +23 2 £500 -20.00% 2
North East - 2 £423 - 1
DMZ
UK

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 15 (23.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.85%) AWS
1 9 (13.85%) Azure
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (3.08%) GitHub
3 2 (3.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (33.85%) Cisco Nexus
2 19 (29.23%) Firewall
2 19 (29.23%) VPN
3 17 (26.15%) SD-WAN
4 14 (21.54%) Wireless
5 13 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
6 7 (10.77%) Network Security
7 4 (6.15%) DNS
8 2 (3.08%) AMQP
8 2 (3.08%) DHCP
8 2 (3.08%) LAN
8 2 (3.08%) Modbus
8 2 (3.08%) MQTT
8 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.08%) VLAN
9 1 (1.54%) MPLS
9 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) Tableau
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 2 (3.08%) JIRA
General
1 43 (66.15%) Finance
2 39 (60.00%) Banking
3 10 (15.38%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.08%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (87.69%) Network Engineer
2 25 (38.46%) Senior
2 25 (38.46%) Senior Network Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Cisco Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Juniper Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Wireless Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Wireless Network Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Build Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Linux Build Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Linux Server Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Server Build Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Server Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Windows Build Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (3.08%) JSON
1 2 (3.08%) Web Services
1 2 (3.08%) XML
1 2 (3.08%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (26.15%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.77%) PKI
3 2 (3.08%) IoT
4 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Windows
2 2 (3.08%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (43.08%) Migration
2 25 (38.46%) B2B
3 22 (33.85%) ITSM
4 16 (24.62%) High Availability
5 9 (13.85%) Architectural Patterns
5 9 (13.85%) Change Control
5 9 (13.85%) Design Patterns
6 7 (10.77%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (7.69%) Cloud Security
7 5 (7.69%) Hardware Maintenance
7 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (7.69%) Zero Trust
8 2 (3.08%) CI/CD
8 2 (3.08%) Cloud Operations
8 2 (3.08%) Continuous Deployment
8 2 (3.08%) Cyber Resilience
8 2 (3.08%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (3.08%) Process Improvement
8 2 (3.08%) Risk Management
8 2 (3.08%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
1 2 (3.08%) PowerShell
1 2 (3.08%) Python
1 2 (3.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
2 7 (10.77%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) Degree
4 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Ansible
1 5 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (3.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 48 (73.85%) Cisco
2 34 (52.31%) CheckPoint
3 25 (38.46%) Arista
4 21 (32.31%) F5
4 21 (32.31%) Palo Alto
5 14 (21.54%) Fortinet
6 9 (13.85%) Blue Coat
6 9 (13.85%) Juniper
7 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
8 2 (3.08%) SonicWALL
9 1 (1.54%) Radianz