DMZ Job Trends in the North East

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring DMZ skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing DMZ 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.17% - 0.25%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.53% - 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £61,500
25th Percentile £42,500 - £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £70,000
75th Percentile £47,500 - £78,125
90th Percentile - - £78,500
England median annual salary £45,000 £88,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -48.86% +25.71% +37.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North East

DMZ falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 131 95 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 11.17% 10.82% 18.39%
Number of salaries quoted 113 48 201
10th Percentile £21,620 £32,850 £25,000
25th Percentile £25,087 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £48,750 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.44% +18.90% -
75th Percentile £34,000 £68,688 £61,250
90th Percentile £52,089 £75,901 £72,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -3.85%

DMZ
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DMZ relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

DMZ job vacancy trend in the North East

DMZ
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DMZ.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing DMZ

DMZ
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DMZ within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear - 2 £45,000 - 1
DMZ
England

DMZ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 2 (100.00%) STUN
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) FreeSWITCH
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Debian
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft