Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DMZ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DMZ over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 711 860 947
Rank change year-on-year +149 +87 +207
Permanent jobs citing DMZ 7 24 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.024% 0.029%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.072% 0.18% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 21 23
10th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £36,050
25th Percentile £43,125 £47,128 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,043 £70,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.37% +32.08% -11.67%
75th Percentile £69,331 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,400 £75,500 £105,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,043 £62,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -11.93% +22.55% -11.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,751 13,475 15,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.45% 13.49% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,320 9,380 7,937
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £66,063 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,733 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -13.26% -3.33% -5.26%

DMZ
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DMZ in the UK

DMZ
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DMZ.

Salary trend for DMZ in the UK

DMZ
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DMZ over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DMZ in the UK

DMZ
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DMZ within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +168 7 £55,043 -11.93% 16
England +152 7 £55,043 -21.37% 22
South West - 3 £45,000 - 8
South East +83 2 £83,250 +25.66% 4
North of England +35 2 £55,043 -11.93%
North West -6 2 £55,043 -11.93%

DMZ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (28.57%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) LAN
1 5 (71.43%) WAN
2 4 (57.14%) VPN
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 3 (42.86%) VLAN
3 3 (42.86%) Wireshark
4 2 (28.57%) DWDM
4 2 (28.57%) Internet
4 2 (28.57%) MPLS
4 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
4 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (14.29%) Network Security
5 1 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Lead
1 2 (28.57%) Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) IT Architect
2 1 (14.29%) IT Security Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
2 3 (42.86%) Business Continuity
2 3 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Network Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) Server Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Break/Fix
3 2 (28.57%) Identity Management
3 2 (28.57%) Information Security
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 3 (42.86%) CCNA
2 3 (42.86%) MCP
2 3 (42.86%) MCSA
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 2 (28.57%) CISM
3 2 (28.57%) CISSP
3 2 (28.57%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (14.29%) CCIE
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) PCI DSS
2 2 (28.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (28.57%) NCSC
2 2 (28.57%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Iperf
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
3 3 (42.86%) Ruckus Wireless
3 3 (42.86%) SonicWALL