DMZ Contracts with Work from Home Options

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 444 547
Rank change year-on-year +102 +103 -77
Contract jobs citing DMZ 6 32 75
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 1.09% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 54
10th Percentile £340 £565 £400
25th Percentile £363 £650 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £700 £519
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +34.94% +11.56%
75th Percentile £575 £743 £588
90th Percentile £680 - £675
UK median daily rate £513 £625 £519
% change year-on-year -18.00% +20.48% +8.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £66.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,565 2,949 4,334
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.33% 11.55% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,011 1,962 2,936
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £703 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 95 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.30 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +21.73% +13.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.63 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £27.50
% change year-on-year +112.54% -31.56% +3.77%

DMZ
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DMZ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DMZ trend for jobs with a WFH option

DMZ
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DMZ.

DMZ daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DMZ
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DMZ over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

DMZ daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
3 1 (16.67%) HSRP
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) NX-OS
3 1 (16.67%) OSPF
3 1 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Change Control
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Register
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Secrets Management
2 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CISM
1 1 (16.67%) CISSP
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Puppet
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Blue Coat
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Arista
2 1 (16.67%) Centrify
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) McAfee
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Symantec
2 1 (16.67%) Zscaler