DMZ Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DMZ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DMZ over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 339 446
Rank change year-on-year +36 +107 +111
Contract jobs citing DMZ 1 6 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.039% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.096% 0.37% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - £340 £565
25th Percentile - £363 £629
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £722
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -44.56% +39.08%
75th Percentile - £575 £743
90th Percentile - £680 -
UK median daily rate £470 £513 £625
% change year-on-year -8.29% -18.00% +20.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
UK median hourly rate - - £66.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

DMZ
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DMZ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DMZ trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DMZ
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DMZ.

DMZ daily rate 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Multicast
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5